- Fantasia, "Summertime"
- Kelly Clarkson, "Stuff Like That There"
- Bo Bice, "Whipping Post"
- Jennifer Hudson, "Circle of Life"
- Ruben Studdard, "Superstar"
- Tamyra Gray, "A House Is Not A Home"
- Clay Aiken, "Unchained Melody"
- John Stevens, "Crocodile Rock" ("brilliant in its awfulness")
- Constantine Maroulis, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- Trenyce, "Proud Mary"
My take: if you want to pick a perfectly awful performance, I'll still go for Corey Clark's "Against All Odds" or Josh Gracin's angry "Pie-Yannah Man".
As for the rest, I prefered Trenyce's "I Have Nothing" to "Proud Mary", Clay's Immigrant Mouse Song to "Unchained Melody", and Connie's "I Think I Love You" to his Queen.
And even sticking within the one-per-singer (otherwise, Ruben's "Kiss And Say Goodbye" and Fantasia's "I Believe" make the cut), I'll trade out Bo and Hudson for Frenchie's "And I Am Tellling You I Am Not Going" from the auditions and Kimberly Caldwell's "Come To My Window". Finally, there's no room for a bad song here, so axe that slot for George Huff's "Lean On Me" from the wildcards.
(You know who I miss from season three? Briana Ramirez-Rial. I thought she had real promise. You know who no one misses? Dunkleman.)
Overall, not a bad list, actually.
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