Now for this year’s action.

Interesting…not a whole lot of drama this year. The drama they’re trying to create is kinda lame. They’re really making Mary Powers (the rocker chick) out to be the villain. The biggest drama was the Big Mike baby thing. Which still makes me kinda mad. He should have been there.

Okay…on to the groups!

Faith (Charity Vance, Ashley Rodriguez, and Michelle Delamor) – Not a fan of Charity, who forgot her lyrics. Ashley’s just okay. Michelle wasn’t really highlighted, so I don’t have an opinion on her.
Verdict: Everyone is in.

Team Awesome (Mike Lynche, Seth Rollins, Tim Urban, and Michael Castro) – They were all decent. Not outstanding, but definitely not bad. And Michael Castro didn’t even get a solo or a lower third. Guess he’s not going through.
Verdict: Mike and Tim through, Seth and Michael out.

Neapolitan (Liz Rooney, Thaddeus Johnson, Jessica Cunningham, and some girl named Paige) – They’re all pretty terrible. And there’s some stupid drama between them and “Destiny’s Wild” because they stole their a cappella idea. Uh oh.
Verdict: All through. Maybe I just hated the song.

Destiny’s Wild (Todrick Hall, Theri, Jareb Liewer, and Siobhan Magnus) – They’re slightly better (although the ending was absolutely awful). I agree with Ellen though that they were very weird. I think it’s the song. Such a terrible song.

The Mighty Rangers (Tori Kelly, Maddie Penrose, Mark Labriola, Kimberly Kerbow, and some guy named Danny) – Tory is boring. Maddie is awful. Mark forgot his words and wasn’t good anyway. Kimberly also forgot words and was bad.
Verdict: Tori and Maddie are through, the others are out. Mark cried.

The Phoenix (Ben Honeycutt, Jeff Goldford, Moorea Masa, Jermaine Sellers) – Ben and Jermaine were fantastic. Jeff was okay. Moorea wasn’t good. As a group, they were pretty darn good. The judges were pretty tough on them. Interesting.
Verdict: Jermaine and Jeff are through, Ben and Moorea are out. Wow…I liked Ben. But of course, I love Jermaine, so I’m very happy to finally see him again.

Big Dreams (Matt Lawrence, Amanda Shechtman, and two other guys) – Matt wasn’t awful. Everyone else was. Matt wasn’t good either.
Verdict: All out.

Middle C (Janell Wheeler, Jermaine Purifoy, and Casey James) – They were all pretty good. I like the other Jermaine better.
Verdict: All through.

Three Men and a Baby (Andrew Garcia, Katie Stevens, J.B. Ahfua, and some other guy) – Andrew was great again, J.B. (a new face) was VERY good. I still don’t like Katie.
Verdict: All through.

The Dreamers (Mary Powers, Hope Johnson, Margo May, Alex Lambert, and some other girl) – That was probably the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Margo was particularly awful.
Verdict: Mary, Hope, and Alex are through. Margo and the other girl are out. Yuck, I thought Hope and Alex were terrible too.

That’s it…71 made it through. No group stood out, and there was no funny drama. I will officially dub this the worst Group Round ever. And I had to stay up until 10 for it too. Gross.

Next week that 71 becomes 24. Tuesday will be the last performances and the whole splitting everyone into rooms thing. Wednesday will be the complete waste of an hour episode where we hear no singing and instead have to watch people walk up to a chair and hear whether or not they made it. BUT THEN…the real show starts. And my game starts! Hooray!

Until then…

Seth Rollins – Katharine sang this song. I don’t really like this guy. He’s pretty boring. And when he tried to get less boring at the end, he sounded warble-y.

Jermaine Purifoy – He reminds me of Charles Grigsby. Very cute. I like him. I think this is the second Jermaine I’ve liked (I think that was the guy’s name from Boston).

Shelby Dressel – I like how they keep zooming in on her face. Way to make her feel comfortable, guys. That said…I don’t like her at all. She’s got about 5 pounds of makeup on and she sounds gross. And she forgot the words. And she swore.

18 people made it through from Day 1. We saw 3. And a stupid montage to a Disney song.

Jay Stone – Ooo…this guy could have a beatbox-off with Blake. And it would be AWESOME. I can’t believe you, Randy. “Wait, there was a guy a couple years ago, wasn’t there? A beatboxer?” HE CAME IN SECOND PLACE. I hate you, Randy Jackson.

Janell Wheeler – Don’t like her.

Brittany Starr James – Don’t hate her.

Kasi Bedford – Somewhere in between, but closer to not liking her. She does have the K-Lo cracking sound in her voice though.

Cornelius Edwards – It’s a bad sign when I have to rewind the Tivo to get his name because I didn’t think he had ANY chance. Not good.

Bernadette & Amanda Desimone – Fantasic…more moronic girls with pounds of makeup. Just what this show needs. They’re gross.

Matt Lawrence – Great…a child felon. I generally have a soft spot for country guys. But I don’t like this guy. I wasn’t a fan of the voice.

31 total get through from Orlando. I liked Jermaine and Jay.

Next week they go to LA (where the contestants can say, “I’M GOING TO…here…”). Hey, only a month til the live shows start!

Until then…