The Post Where We Free Associate The Voice

“Don’t put your heart out on your sleeve

When your remarks are off the cuff”

                --Elvis Costello

Looking over my notes for Thanksgiving week I realize I’ve forgotten the context, so in my ongoing effort to share the TSAVFL recap process I am basically just going to put down my notes pretty much verbatim as the show went along.  This could be a big mistake.  I will follow up tonight or tomorrow morning with a recap for this week, plus rankings, standings and all that good stuff.  So!  Thanksgiving week on the fly starts right now:

Thanksgiving week!!!

Deb:  Oh, Shelby Brown is going first!

She brings her dad.  Why?? He’s a cop in a one street town, it can’t be THAT much of a hardship.  I don’t know the song but it sounds sassy.  Three men gonna serve in my life, Daddy, Alabama and Jesus Christ?  Oh my.  Alabama isn't even a man!  My feeling about the song aside I liked her again though it wasn’t perfect by a stretch.

So Pharrell got in a fight?  I can’t imagine him throwing an effective punch but I guess if he is the one wearing the sunglasses I could be right.

Holy crap I just saw Korin Bukowski walking backstage and thought it was Gwen.  I am pretty high tonight.

Oh I thought it was a commercial but it is Evan McKeel and Pharrell has the glasses on even during the rehearsal.  This is hilarious.  I don’t think he sounds very good in the first solo part and I don’t much like silhouetted dancers.  Man, we hated that.  He was as blah as water-flavored pudding.

Barrett Baber has his wife with him.  Delta Dawn by Tanya Tucker.  Wasn’t it Helen Reddy first?  I couldn’t tell if I liked his wife or not.  My buddy Doc used to sing Delta Dawn at karaoke at that bar I can’t think of the name of right now.  Debbie was indignently not impressed, I didn’t care enough to care that much.  Really thought Barrett was going to be good but instead I’m tired of him already and you know he’s gonna be around awhile.

Adam has watched Storage Wars.  That may be the first thing we’ve found in common.

Deb:  Man, Gwen sure has made Korin in her image.  That’s a little single white female-y for me.  She has her dad with her.  She is singing a Mandy Moore song and is excited about it.  This whole thing is odd.  Her dad seemed sad to me.  I think Korin has gone as far as she should and she did good!  But man her insecurity is uncomfortable.

Amy is up next.  She brought her dad and he KNOWS he looks like Walter White!  She is singing Blank Space and Deb said THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!!  Who doesn’t like a chanteuse?  She is on top of her game tonight, that was up there with the best things I’ve seen this year.

Pharrell wrote a Paris song.  That was nice of him.  NBC wrote a Paris hashtag.  Eh.  Anyway, I don’t think he sings live very well.

Deb likes Zach’s sisters.  Are we gonna kiss or something like that.  He has his mom with him.  She didn’t like the grind.  Blake is gonna make this kid a heartthrob/winner.  He wants to sex your daughters up, America, but wholesomely.  He’s at least partly in this for the teen girls which is awesome because I have him in my bonus picks and there are few things more determined than a horny 17 year old boy.

I think these VW commercials are really more about kidnapping than car selling.

Passionate side of Team Pharrell and Madi Davis and Wendy Walker-Davis.  She is singing a U2 song that I don’t know.  Love is Blindness.  Boy that was dramatic.  I didn’t love it but that might be me more than her?  Overly dramatic and kind of weird.

Braiden fing Sunshine and he truly odd looking dad that looks like Mark Davis.  True by Spandau Ballet.  Huh.  Did you like that song?  I was just OK with it.  That was a good long note he hit towards the end.  Some of the other notes weren’t as good.  Again, performance he has straightish hair and no glasses.  HE’S A FAKE!

Jordan Smith pretends to be embarrassed by mom’s stories but he wasn’t.  He’s singing Jessie J, I’ve heard of Jessie J but I haven’t heard anything Jessie J has sung.  Well now I have but you know what I mean….he’s his usual excellent self but it’s always so earnest that my mind wanders.  Oh, and he cries at the end.  I feel bad after the song because my mind wandered and clearly it moved most of the audience as well as my wife and I just sat there waiting for the next segment.  I’m a bad recapper.

Deb:  Jeffery Austin got the pimp spot.  Hmmmmm.

Emily Ann Roberts brought her dad Tommy.  Singing a Judds song.  Why not me.  I wonder if Russell Wilson knows that one.  She hasn’t gotten less adorable since last week.

Jeffery Austin is up and brought his mom.  Singing a song by Robyn that I don’t know.  He is very sincere as well.  Gwen cried.  I don’t get him but acknowledge that he sings well.

Yours in straight mainlined TSAVFL,

Brother Pat