Michael Lynche sings This Woman’s Work by Maxwell on the American Idol Top 16
Rickey: Wow, he had a good falsetto! This was great. WOW.
Randy Jackson: Really??? It was unbelievable.
Ellen DeGeneres: One of my favorite. OMG, that was so beautiful. You are the one to beat now.
Kara DioGuardi: (Crying!)
Simon Cowell: This was so needed tonight.
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107 Comments for Michael Lynche – This Woman’s Work – HD Video MP3 American Idol Top 16 Performance
The only REAL good performance of the whole night. The only guy who really deserves to be here, honestly.
I disagree, the only REAL performance was by Kara! WTH is she on? She is doing a great job of impersonating Paula if that was her intention….
I agree with you. Mike, Todrick and Casey dererve to be there. The rest of the guys are HORRIBLE.
totally there with you, SM. the wanna-be-paula bit is mind boggling.
If you have ever lost a child, especially in child birth, you would understand why it brought tears to Kara. If you ever watched the movie the Kate Bush wrote the song for “She’s Having a Baby”, you would understand why it brought tears to her. And if you could appreciate Mike longing to be there with his wife when she was in delivery having their baby, you would really appreciate Mike singing this song with the passion that he did.
Amazing performance Mike! I am cheering for you and praying for you, your wife and child. May God bless you indeed!
Okay, last night was not a good batch of performances. Like I’ve said previously, the guys just aren’t great this year. I stand by my comment I made, because in my opinion, none of these guys have star quality. None of them really bring anything new to the table. At least Mike gave a good, solid performance last night, that was touching, even if it wasn’t something edgy and new.
I honestly feel that once the Top 12 gets here, the guys will be dropping like flies. The girls are just stronger this year.
didnt he already have pimp spot a few weeks ago? Most overrated performance of the night if u ask me…….they clearly want their most over hyped background story of the season in top 12
We already have Ruben, did we need this? I wasn’t impressed by his falsetto. He worked the stage though. I liked him much more in a prior week. He should be in the Top 12 but this wasn’t his best performance.
BIG MIKE has Great stage presence!! I enjoyed that performance by him!
Ellen and Randy said that He’s the FRONTRUNNER now.
Ruben could NEVER hit notes like that! He sang well, but falsetto? Ruben? Are you even listening, or just judging the book by the cover?
I just do not like Big Mike
me too but i have to agree that he sings the best with the best performance among the guys.i will say he will not win.mark my word,he will be like danny gokey.he has no chance in today’s music industry with his look and his voice.all his performance sound dated and doesnt sound contemporary to me.
Kara has officially taken on PAULA ABDUL role as the Emotional one. I love that Emotion which came from Kara tonight!!
Me too! I love Kara.
Oh my GAWD, Big Mike…that was awesome. Crystal and Siohban…look out…there’s a big guy closing in on ya…fast! Can’t blame Kara for choking up. I almost choked up myself. If he doesn’t win American Idol, he will go far anyway. Some one will pick him up soon. But Big Mike was my fav of the night, followed by Todrick, Casey and Aaron. The others were “just OK for me” but these 4 guys stole the show…especialy Tod and Mike.
Absolutely beautiful. I have always loved this song. He did a fantastic job!
SO overrated… Better than This Love, but not as good as Man’s World. The falsetto notes sounded really odd and out of place, his dancing was really cheesy, and his vocals simply weren’t THAT great. Good, and that last run was nice, but I don’t know why the judges were so crazy about it. It was a nice song choice for him though. I just think there were a lot of rough patches.
Agreed. I thought it was good, but certainly not the jaw dropping performance they made it out to be – could they have been basing this off the dress rehearsal perhaps? (MJ said he was amazing in rehearsals) I’ve liked him from the start, but there were definitely some awkward moments in there that made it a bit weird for me.. certainly not a performance that would bring me to tears.
Have you ever heard Maxwell? Going on these comments, I’d guess NO.
BIG MIKE IS “THE OFFICIAL FRONT RUNNER OF SEASON 9 NOW!!”
Watch out Bow-er-sox!!! lol
I wouldn’t say the “official frontrunner” no, no. Bowersox is the main-frontrunner. Mike has just proven he’s the guys biggest threat. He’s the male equivalent to Danny/Adam from last year (this week).
Meh…. I mean it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t all great like the judges were making it out to be either.
It is interesting to note on official Idol boards he also has the smallest forum group….less hits then some of the contestants already voted off……I really think they r determined to keep him on the show …I just dont find him very interesting….he’d be another mistake like Rueben was
That does not matter. Big Mike is still in theme competition. People are voting
Ruben is not a mistake, at least not to some of us R&B listeners. Mike’s good, but I prefer Ruben better!
Mike and Ruben are just something a pop/rock listener wouldn’t get if they are not into R&B!
Just not feelin’ it.
You don’t know Maxwell music, do you? That’s why you weren’t feeling it.
How can you not feel the emotion from that song. BIG MIKE is a force on Season 9.
I find it interesting that people are comparing him to Reuben but Reuben had no falsetto nor could he play an instrument. If you listen to his stuff he has a soon like Robert Randolph if any of you know who that is. He was great. The judges overhyped him a little, but he delivered, he attacked and delivered instead of sitting back playing his guitar and singing a ditty, which he clearly could have.
I was comparing him to Ruben on this song only. I was influenced by Ruben’s performance on Wendy Williams.
but DRU – that’s the point. Ruben couldn’t in his wildest dreams sing MAXWELL. Ruben has skills, but NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS could he sing MAXWELL.
Ruben was Awesome on The Wendy Williams Show.
Mike’s performance was really good.
Kara’s performance was horribly weak…what a phoney baloney!
That was real emotion coming from Kara. He nailed that song!
I’ve seen more ‘real emotion’ in Geico commercials.
Big Mike has mucho charisma! He even gave Simon a glory note at the end.
He and Crystal both do a great job of grabbing everyone’s attention and telling a story with their songs.
Rickey, is there a streaming setting on your videos? I’m getting about 10 seconds worth, followed by more downloading…
Was good, but nowhere as good as the judges claimed. And Kara just seemed loopy and weird to react that way — if she was trying to be Paula-ish, it was a major fail.
Kara was atrocious but I finally woke up when he sang. Everyone else I feel like I could have done that.
Ugh don’t get it ,What he means by best performance of live shows!
To me it seems like they are trying to promote the show because lack of talent this year.
Not saying it was worst performance but come on ..
Oh they are more def pimping him big time. They need at least one black person in the top 12 or all of the little too eager race card holders will be out in full force calling AI a racist show and blahblahblah.
They also have to make sure that he lasts a little while in the top 12 to keep those people at bay.
You sound like the only one speaking about race. African Americans have been here for 400 years, and built the country with the free labor of our ancestors… get over it. Fought and died in many wars… hell I served in the Air force. YOU played the race card.
SO OVERRATED AND MELODRAMATIC
Do you know what melodramatic means?
Good one.
He sounds nice when he sings the high notes, but his regular voice? Too nasally for me, especially when I think about Ruben’s beautiful, soulful sound.
Am I missing something? That was average. Andrew was better and they bashed him but praised this like it was unbelievable.
your smoking crack.
Andrew??? The Genie in a bottle song? lol You’ve got to be kidding me? That was embarrassing.
Good performance, but HELLO, can you say OVERPIMPED and OVERRATED? Good grief. It wasn’t THAT mindblowing, for pete’s sake
Allow me to preface that I’m not a fan; I’ve always felt him to be kind of awkward to watch and just a B singer. I also feel the judges were exaggerating quite a bit… however, I do have to admit it was pretty stellar for a performance at this stage, and easily the best of the night.
I would be a fan if he can continue to perform at that caliber, but I don’t think he has the voice to win, at all.
“Shollia: Oh they are more def pimping him big time. They need at least one black person in the top 12 or all of the little too eager race card holders will be out in full force calling AI a racist show and blahblahblah.
They also have to make sure that he lasts a little while in the top 12 to keep those people at bay.”
wow… your dumb… i know its freedom of speech but wow…
i gotta admit the judges hyped mike up a bit too much but if you have ears and eyes anyone would be able to tell that this guy is a good performer… not the best, but he gets the job done very well.
“Wow…. ‘your’ dumb…. ”
huh….. anyone else see the irony here.
If he makes the top 12 I dont expect him to last very long……..especially when u see his fanbase on main idol boards is so so small
hmm…..
I wouldn’t call him a frontrunner by any means. But he is the only guy that is where he should be in this stage of the competition. Honestly the whole night was a disaster until Mike sang. Omg i can’t effin stand Lee Dewyze. The guy is friggin terrible. If he makes it to the top 12 im gonna shoot my tv.
This guy is legit! He is versatile and that’s what it takes to win. He can play the guitar but he can also just drop the instrument, take the mic and SING and that’s what I see lacking from guys like Andrew Garcia, Casey James, and even everyone’s favorite Lee Dewyze. I feel like sometimes, the instrument masks a contestant’s singing…they could be very pitchy and not have a very impressive vocal performance but it gets hidden behind their instrument-playing.
It’s good to play an instrument on Idol every now and then to show your overall artistry but to rely on it every week gets tiring. Even Kris Allen mixed it up with some different types of performances. I feel like this season, we have too many Jason Castros and it gets boring.
Even if he’s voted out, he’s got the ear and the eye of the recording studios and producers. There are people watching and he will be snatched up.
He’s the onlyHOPE for the males this year on Season 9.
my kingdom for ONE jason castro this season! none of them come close. sigh.
He can step into Luther’s footsteps….we’ve been needing a soul brother singer on the scene and with Maxwell coming back and Anthony Hamilton and Neyo, Mike can join the team!
Sorry, Mike’s good but there is no way he can step into Luther’s shoes. The only one that comes close from AI would be Ruben!
Ah, love me some Anthony Hamilton!
Good job Michael. I dont like him, but that was good. I HATE Randy Jackson!
That was really good! Good enough to make me post.