Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Only one artist heads home tonight on The Vice.

Which means it should be a relatively stress-free results show for Monday’s top performers, including Girl Named Tom, Hailey Mia, Paris Winningham and Jershika Maple.

All of them cracked the Top 200 on the Apple Music charts after Monday’s show, which means they should be safe tonight.

So who’s in danger?

The list begins with Gymani, who needed a save from Kelly to make the Top 13 and an instant save last week to make the Top 11.

But someone will join her in the bottom two. And I have a hunch it won’t be Jim and Sasha Allen, who appear to have enough fan support to survive another so-so performance.

See also …
Chart results for the Top 11
Song by song grades for the Top 11

Advancing to the Top 10 area …

* Joshua Vacanti (Team Legend): Hmm, that takes one potential bottom two finisher out of danger. I thought his performance last night was his weakest since the lives began.

* Hailey Mia (Team Kelly): The youngest singer on the show put herself on the Season 21 map with last night’s show-closing performance. I expect to see her in the semifinals at least.

* Paris Winningham (Team Blake): I’ve had ranked second the past two weeks and he’s certainly not dropping after last night’s stellar performance.

* Holly Forbes (Team Ariana): Holly remains the member of Team Ariana who should go deepest in the competition.

* Wendy Moten (Team Blake): No surprise there. Wendy hasn’t wowed me lately, but she’s still one of the best singers on the show.

* Girl Named Tom (Team Kelly): You didn’t think they’d be in danger, did you? Not after leading the show on Apple Music — by a huge margin — two straight weeks.

* Lana Scott (Team Blake): Wasn’t sure about Lana because I wasn’t a fan of last night’s performance. But that means all of Team Blake has advanced, again.

Okay, and Wendy Moten took a tumble on stage following the Team Blake group performance. Not sure in this case, but those are often pre-recorded.

* Jeremy Rosado: I have trouble gauging the level of support for Jeremy, but he’ll be singing again next Monday night.

* Jershika Maple: So far, she’s been the most impressive female R&B singer in a season filled with great female R&B singes.

That leaves Gymani and Jim and Sasha Allen to battle it out for the instant save.

Gymani (Team Kelly), “Tell Me Something Good”: Gymani turned in another fiery, soulful performance, this time of the Rufus and Chaka Khan hit. As has become her trademark, she stalked the stage ab libbing once the background singers joined in, showing off those always powerful vocals with a hint of growl mixed in. Grade: B

Jim and Sasha Allen (Team Ariana), “I Won’t Give Up” by Jason Mraz: Nice song choice with dad and song singing “I won’t give up on us.” And though the harmonies weren’t on point, they started the song pretty well. Unfortunately, when the music swelled, the vocals went off course and never recovered. Grade: C

Jim and Sasha Allen got the save.

Gymani clearly deserved it. But in the long run, it probably wouldn’t have made much difference because she would have had a very difficult time surviving next week’s double elimination.

That means Gymani is the first member of Team Kelly to leave the competition.

And The Voice has a Top 10 for Season 21.