'Nashville Star' recap: Sophie is our hero!

I was not a Pearl Heart fan so their dismissal was fine with me. Maybe they didn’t deserve to go this week, but they did not deserve to be in there until the end. They simply aren’t old enough or experienced enough to have a record contract at this point. Also, three-part harmony on guitar? Did they touch their guitars? I find it annoying when artists hold instruments but never play them. As for Sophie’s eye-rolling, that summed up a lot of the show for me. A lot of young, immature, amateur talent, none of whom are good enough or ready enough for such a big stage. I feel like I’m watching a high school talent show.

I find the approval of Pearl Heart here a little disturbing, too. The best since Dixie Chicks? Puh-lease! As mentioned, they barely touched those guitars. The Dixie Chicks are impeccable singers, talented songwriters, and multi-instrumentalists. Pearl Heart will be very lucky to get anywhere, unless Jeffrey Steele is going to personally champion and develop them. Then I might give them a chance, because he seems very dedicated. And some here like Laura and Sophie? They’ve barely pulled off a dozen good notes between all the shows. When they get to original songs (assuming they do, like past seasons), what are they going to sing about? Their Facebook accounts? Running out of cell phone minutes? How much they love/hate each other? Jewel being a be-otch? Come on now…

Jeffrey, I, too, can tell when someone sounds “more country” or “less country” or “not country at all.” I just think that in this competiton the constant bickering and bar-setting about what’s “country enough” is hurting the show, and I believe it’s time to stop the harping.

Okay – am I missing something here? They say they don’t sound country enough yet they make them sing POP songs. Why? So they have a reason to criticize them? Isn’t their lack of talent enough reason? There is not a single person in this competition who will “make it” because they don’t have the talent. I’m so sick of JR singing Taylor Swift’s praises because she is terrible – just has good marketing. I can almost guarantee Ashlee Hewitt will be there in the end because JR wants her to be (and he guaranteed her she will be on the show this week). He intends to market her as the next Taylor Swift. Good luck with that – eveyone I talk to is SICK of her style of talk/singing and her over the top stage performances so a cheap imitation of her will not fly. John Rich is a joke – talent – I think not. He got lucky with Gretchen Wilson and she tanked after one album. Rumor has it she even fired him as producer of her next album. Guess she knows when to abandon a sinking ship.

OK YEAH I DO THINK THE JUDGES ARE A LITTLE HARD SOMETIMES AND KINDA RE-NIGG ON WHAT THEY HAVE SD IN THE PAST BUT STILL WHAT SOPHIE DID WAS VERY DIRESPECTFUL AND SHE CANT EVEN SING GREAT LAURA CAN AND NOW SHE HAS TO PAY FOR WHAT A BAD PARTNER DID!! IF YOU ARE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE THAT YOU DONT DO THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE YOU THAT CHANCE LIKE THAT IF NONE OF THE JUDGES WOULD HAVE PICKED THEM EVERYONE WOULD BE LIKE WHO IS LAURA & SOPHIE SO I THINK SOPHIE IS IN THE WRONG TO BAD THEY COULDNT HAVE JUST SENT HER HOME!!

I think Laura and Sophie are showed their true colors and are very immature they should of never made it as far as they did. THEY SUCKED!!!