• pigduck
• Jul 30,2006
• In: Katharine McPhee

Katharine McPhee @ Washington DC Concert

Edit: Well, I fixed the videos. Realised they weren’t working. Decided to take out the Over the Rainbow performance. Hopefully, the video works now.

Well, we finally have some tour videos. I have scoured the internet but I did find these.

Good morning by the way! Had to send my dad off to the airport this morning at the ungodly hour of 7:15am! Let’s pray that he’ll have a good and safe trip.

Black Horse & the Cherry Tree

She looks absolutely stunning! This is the Katharine McPhee I have missed for the last few weeks! Her hair… OH MY GOODNESS!! It’s gorgeous! It’s flowy and it looks like she got her natural colour back… it’s beautiful…

Her white dress?!! OH MY!!!

And she cried at the end because of the overwhelming support… AWWwwww !!! Makes her more human! LOVE HER!

Just 1 concert review for this post:-

Oh my God. It’s time for Katharine. Jesus Christ. This isn’t just her first time to the stage tonight. It’s her first time to the stage the entire freaking Idol tour. We’re such lucky bastards. All I hear is the “2! 3! 4!” and I start freaking out. “It’s Katharine! AAAAHHH!” You could tell from the crowd reaction as she took the stage to sing KT Tunstall’s Black Horse and the Cherry Tree that her presence was greatly missed. You could also tell from her vocals on the song that her cords were still strained. She was noticeably holding back and at times it was hard to tell if she was even actually singing. But give the girl a break–she had laryngitis AND bronchitis. Despite the okay performance, Katharine finished the song to a crapload of applause and cheers. People just kept going. The cheering didn’t end.

She wiped away tears and thanked everyone for their support as well as apologized for her absence. She explained that this was her first appearance on the Idol tour and that she was actually supposed to be at the Pittsburgh one but her flight from New York (she, like Pickler, also did The View in NYC) got delayed. “We were in the airport for 9 hours!” she said. Katharine told us that the doctor’s orders are that she can only sing 2 songs, and that the second song will be Somewhere Over The Rainbow (surprise, surprise right?). This song went much, much better, and her rendition is as beautiful as ever.

Continuing to hold back a little, as she did on The View the earlier day, her a capella “When all the clouds…darken up the skyway, there’s a rainbow highway to be found” still took me out of the crowd and into McHeaven. Katharine’s return was clearly one of the events of the night, and I feel so, so bad for Kat fans that didn’t get to see her on the earlier tour dates.

This review was quite… blunt so if you have time.. check it out.

An article that tried to reason why there was an increase of hatred for Katharine McPhee. Oh well… what can be done…

On the night of the results show that featured the elimination of Kellie Pickler, I called Smores on the telephone.  I said to him “If Kellie Pickler goes home tonight, you watch how quickly the fans turn on Katharine McPhee.” When I made that statement, I assumed they would wait until the next time she performed. I was wrong.  The backlash occurred almost immediately.

The transformation of the idol fans was as dramatic as it was quick.  Overnight, she went from a charming lady to a “bitch”.  Overnight she went a classy dresser to a “whore”. Overnight she went from a woman with a beautiful voice, to a talentless bimbo who was using her body to get votes.  Before Kellie Pickler was eliminated, there was not one mention of the now infamous yellow dress that Katharine McPhee wore the night before.  Afterwards, it was all the trash-talkers could talk about.  If Katharine McPhee smiled, she was a “bitch” for showing off.  If Katharine McPhee was expressionless, she was a “bitch” for being heartless.  I even witnessed one person have the audacity to use still photos to try to pin fraudulent emotions that Katharine may have had at any given time.

History suddenly became rewritten as well.  Katharine detractors amazingly couldn’t remember a sing great performance by Katharine McPhee.  Meanwhile, Katharine had an outstanding audition, was strong throughout the Hollywood round, and had arguably the single best performance of the Semi-Finals with her performance of “Since I fell for you!”

The deeper that Katharine went into the competition, the uglier the comments got.  On the night that Chris Daughtry was eliminated, her detractors would have had you believe that it was solely her fault.  True, Katharine deserved to go home that night, but I find it difficult to put the blame for Chris’ elimination on Katharine’s shoulders, unless she was up all night dialing her own phone number all night.  Even her glorious rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, undoubtedly the best performance on American Idol for over a calendar year, got no accolades from the detractors.  When McPhee lost into the finals to Taylor Hicks, these detractors cheered lustfully, hitting new lows with their vulgar, crude insults.

Never in my life have I been more ashamed to be a fan of this show as I was when reading those crude comments.  To this day I have no idea what Katharine McPhee did to deserve one bit of the verbal assault she was forced to endure.  While I never agreed with any of the crude comments directed at Kellie Pickler, at least I understood why someone would dislike her because of her outgoing personality.  Katharine McPhee never conducted herself with anything but class, grace, and dignity and I am absolutely ashamed to be a fan of the same show as the people who treated her with such crudity and crassness.

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It is one thing if a contestant is hurt by a bad song choice.  It is another thing if it happens two shows in a row.  It is yet another thing if those two shows are the top three and Championship rounds of the finals.  It is still yet another thing if the two bad song choices were made by someone other than the contestant on his or her behalf.  That is exactly what happened to Katharine McPhee.

The Top Three Episode maintained the same format it had last year: Three performances per contestant. One is chosen by the contestant, one by the judges, and one by Clive “The Suit” Davis.  This year, The Suit chose “I Believe I Can Fly”.  It was an absolutely horrific song choice that was completely out of Katharine’s zone of strength: The middle tier vocals.  Needless to say that the performance was an absolute disaster, so much that Randy Jackson went as far as to defy “The Suit”, and say that the song choice was not the best for Katharine.  Katharine’s only defense: “I didn’t pick it!”

The Championship round also maintained the same format it had one year ago: Two songs by the contestant and one “Original Song”, which is going to be the first song released on each contestant’s albums.  By my assessments, Katharine went into the “Original Song” portion of the competition tied with Taylor Hicks.  That’s when Katharine was forced to sing “My Destiny”, which is without a doubt the single biggest piece of garbage ever written for an American Idol’s first release.  The song was so bad, that all three judges admitted that the did not like the song at all.  Yet, because the song was garbage, Katharine’s performance was garbage.

i’ll post later. I have to head off to church now. ENJOY! YEAY~ GOOOO KATHARINE MCPHEE AND WELCOME BACK !! (Sigh, why am I in MALAYSIA?!)