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   Randy did NOT make Sayesha cry.
   Her tears began only after Paula
   stood and clapped and hit a nerve
   when she recognized a change in
   Sayesha. And there was a change.
   A big one.

   For the first time ever, she was
   able to belt and not go sharp. In
   every other performance until now,
   she’s been pitchy (and that’s being
   magnanamous on balance).

   The fact is, her confidence has been
   coming on during the last 2-3 shows,
   no question about it, and she finally
   sang a whole song on key last night,
   thanks to that emerging confidence.
   She and Archuamaging will be the 2
   finalists.

   But this is not about Sayesha or Paula,
   it’s about Randy, who was positively
   dead right in calling her performance
   as he did. Paula made a good point
   about a change (total confidence to
   the point of maintaining pitch) and
   Simon (agreeing with Paula) were both
   wrong IN RELATION TO WHAT RANDY WAS
   SAYING.

   The song was a mess. The performance
   was terrific.

   And that’s a wrap.

   Jim Lacey

   Comment by Jim Lacey — May 7, 2008 #

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   Randy didn’t make Syesha cry, and she made a point of seeing Randy after the show to tell him that. She was a black woman singing “A Change Is Gonna Come”, a Sam Cooke song about civil rights. The song spoke to her on a couple of different levels, as a black woman, and as a young woman going through changes herself, and when Paula brought up the changes in her and said “welcome to your dream, Syesha”, she just lost it. Randy was just in the middle of it, but didn’t cause the tears.

   Comment by Gerry — May 10, 2008 #

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