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  • Eh...Mary, it was supposed to be HIS performance, but ummm..ok. #NOTCOOL

  • @KattOOshi she was featured as a guest...he let a legend sing. nothing wrong with that.

  • Agree with the top comments...this guy was a pro up there even then

  • She over sang this.

  • THAT BITCH!!! MARY, YOU STOLE HIS SPOTLIGHT!!!

  • I love Elliot Yamin; he was always my favorite on AI when I used to watch it. And Mary J. Blige--what can you say? She is awesome. Great performance by the two of them.

  • damn he looks good

  • I actually think Elliott did a better job on this performance than MJB.

  • he shud have woooooon he is famous then hicks

  • Saw this performance for the first time 5 years ago, commented on this video 2 years ago and STILL it gives me chills. Wow!

  • one of the best performances... during the best finale show... of the best season of idol. it's been downhill ever since.

  • it look like mary couldnt wait to get off the stage

  • love, love, LOVE Elliott Yamin!! :)

  • Wow, this would have been something to see if Mary J wasn't constantly trying to out-sing Elliot. This reminded me of someone trying to talk to a person, while that person turns up the volume of music on the radio so as not to hear what you are saying. I saw 2 people on stage here which gave the illusion of a duet, but I only saw one person trying to over-shadow the other.

  • This was so amazing until Mary J Blige started singing

  • @helmut4lyfe I agree. Elliot is such a great singing partner. He made an effort to blend in with her, but she just oversang it and was out of control - and believe it or not, I am a HUGE Mary J Blige fan.

  • Elliott is actually in better voice than Mary in this...

  • He is the mean guy... he smashed Donnies song too. Donnie still the best but.

  • can't believe he didnt win :(

    taylor wasnt as good as him

  • Loved the low tone of Elliott on the last part of the song as he sung the word "ONE" loved all those notes going up and down----and so haunting.. great ..

  • Too bad there will never be a season like this ever!

  • i think this is the best celebrity and finalist duet ever on idol :) 

  • I love Elliot but no one can sing Bono's part unless they have a similar voice to his. His voice fits better than any ever would.

  • May oversang him, but he's a great singer.

  • Beautiful, amazing!!!!

  • Mary has by far not a perfect voice tho

    but she doesnt need to, she rocks ;)

  • Mary outstaged him. And not in a good way. Good performance nonetheless.

  • @elyfer08 Mary was singing her parts on the new version of the song she has most of the parts .

  • should of won taylor hicks winning was a f)(*& joke

  • beautifullllllllllllllllllllll­llllllllllllllll duo!!!

  • I love you Elliot...you're still my favourite contestant! Keep singing!

  • This man has the pipes he really held his own with MJB!!!!

  • I want him!!

  • This was my favorite season of American Idol, and Elliot was my favorite! It often takes me a while to remember who were first and second.

  • This white boy can sang. For him to be a amateure and have the pipes to hold his own with. Mary....WOW. GREAT PERFORMANCE.

  • @specialjr11 hes not amateur anymore! hes got a hit record!

  • @specialjr11

    That reminds me of Paula's comment. She told him: you are one funky white boy!

  • Mary did the damn thing! Stole the spotlight from him!

  • He disappeared when Mary hit that stage lol.... But it was a good performance

  • Well done

  • she sucks.

  • Still to this day, one of the best contestant/celeb performance of AI!!!! This performance of Elliot and MJB along with Adam Lambert's performance with KISS are my top two favorites!!!!

  • this deserves way more than ~180k views

  • Mary killed it! She's THE QUEEN!

  • She looks like a UFO with those "sista'" glasses.

  • Elliott has that nice tone when singing the word One... it is hauntingly wonderful.

  • I love Elliot's vocal in this song.  And while I love Mary as well, I would've actually liked to hear Elliot singing the song alone.

  • Mary=Church!

  • RIP

  • Less is more. Bloody terrible.

  • Sometimes more is more...

  • ELLIOT SHOULDVE WOOOOOOONNN! >:)

  • @Sereh182 him and daughtry are the most successful of that season and they placed 3 and 4.

  • @Sereh182 its better to come in in 3rd or 4th bc you have more freedom on your record the people who come in first lose alot of their freedom to do what they want

  • love the haunting notes of Elliott singing the word ONE at the end with many notes . then Mary J had to scream and wreck the song.

  • well said mjb is the queen for sure,nobody better

  • em...try ARetha!

  • whats this song called?

  • one love

  • @goobersnattch not one love. just "one" by U2 ;)

  • actually the name of the song is called one by U2

  • @TwiggyArcher09 One-U2

  • @TwiggyArcher09 ONE by U2

  • @TwiggyArcher09 One, originally done by U2

  • Mary and Elliot killed it!!!!

  • elliots amazing :D this season is my second favorite, season 6 was the best

  • she just has a loud voice i cant really hear his voice poor thing.....

  • LOVED Elliot's runs at the end, sounded great with Mary.

  • Mary J Blige is not a strong singer,but she has a beautiful voice and energy=)Elliot Yamin a very talented and positive person!!!!!!

  • Mary looks as though she doesn't like to share te stage, but Elliott just stepped right in and made her sound even better-in fact, HE stole the show!!!!

  • mmmmmmmmmmm no mary shares the stage alot she cant help that she is a powerful singer she has sang on stage with some of the best in the business Whitney Houston Aretha Franklin Chaka Chaka Monica Elton John Jamie Foxx just 2 name a few and as far as Elliott stealin the show....mmmm.... no but he did very well

  • God bless you Elliott-we know you're struggling with the loss of your dear mom and we're all praying for you! Know she lived to help you through life to become the great man you are!!

  • love her soprano voice

  • Elliot will always be the best thing to come out of idol. And you could just tell how geeked he was to be singing with Mary. This was a great episode.

  • ELLIOT is one of the best contestants idol has ever had

  • HOW DID HE NOT WIN.......?????in all fairness he is huge in america and in europe......america you made a BIG MISTAKE!!!! he is the real winner!!!

  • omg i kwo rite

    he is my favorite singer he is FRIKIN AMAZING!

  • I loved him season 5, it was so all about him & Daughtry

  • I loved this performance....MARY J ROCKS!!!!

  • Oh shut the fuck up faggot, she is one of the GREATEST SINGERS OF ALL TIME and she WILL go down in history as that, your opinion doesn't matter, her voice did nothing but MOVE the crowd and thats what it is all about, she nailed every note and sounded AMAZING! You could NEVER EVER do it you piece of shit.

  • DeadLiyah, I agree with you that Mary J is amazing and talented but was it necessary to use the FAGGOT word? I mean, I am gay and love Mary too, but don't disrespect us by using that to insult someone who you disagree with. I never use the N word or any other words to insult those who I disagree with but find a lot of people on Youtube using that Faggot word so casually when they are pissed. Totally unnecessary.

  • She was out of tune cloth ears! LOL!

  • No she wasn't dumb fuck.

  • I LOVE this Video!!!! Elliot ROCKS!!!!!!! I love his voice on this song! You go Elliot!!!!

    I love Mary too but...just sayin. ;-D

  • stupid jerjuant this is a brilliant version of the song according to people like simon cowell and other critics wow just the dumbest comment ever

  • please get your ears clean cause you obviously can't spot pure talent. Mary enhanced that performance

  • are you kidding me!!! my ears are fine. hence the reason why i am able to say that mary is far from pure talent and closer to pure messy. she has no technique at all. her riffs and runs are far from natural. this song is for a wide range built vocalsit. something mary will never be. when she attempts a high note she resorts to screaming and ALWAYS cracks. not to mention her pitch is always off. maybe you should clean your ears sweetie.

  • She KILLED it faggot, u broke live.

  • LMAO right now.... Elliott is the best AI contestant EVER !!!!!!

  • Mary J. wasn't hitting the notes at the start.

  • mary is tall compared to elliot and she just sang the song for him i barely heard him lol i thougt it was marys song or performance she is to hood

  • Elliott has a killer voice for this song - I love his tone in this - I think he let Mary J. " overshadow? him in deference to her star status . Elliott is a gentleman and a star !

  • Elliott and Mary J were amazing. My most favorite duet on American Idol of all time.

  • Indeed! Then again Elliott is my fav Idol of all time!

  • Mary fucking sucked fucking ass. Holy shit!

  • This is hands down the best AI moment!! His voice is AMAZING!!!

  • Elliott has that haunting tone to his voice. Mary was taken aback by the beautiful way Elliott was singing the One in a beautiful melodic way, she had to shout because she knew Elliott was outsinging her.

  • LOL... Elliot Yamin outsinging Mary.. Not a chance, sweetheart ...Mary's a real performer and that is the way she sings .. Elliot's vocals were very rehearsed and he had to adhere to that or he wouldn't have made it ..

  • out sing mary now come on dont make me laugh

  • Sorry ... Mary ain't hit a bad note and she sang circles around Elliot Yamin who is very limited vocally because...a) he ain't paid 5% of the dues , as a singer, that Mary has.. His tone is poor I think a 5 yr old could drown out his voice and he has very limited knowledge of his notes and , something a TRUE singer spends years studying .. Like a Mary a Whitney a Chaka or Mariah... Elliot's got a good voice but I don't think he should be singing professionally.

  • This performance is yet another example as to why he deserved season 5. He is without a doubt the greatest voice to ever come out of AI.

  • Amazing performance...

  • Hes still the best singer every on this show. My no#1 idol. and i havent herd another voice like his.

  • Love this! Elliott is all kinds of awesome and he looks like he's on cloud 9!

  • oh wow its the shouting queen.

    elliot sounded better singing this song, maybe she was trying to outshine him, well she DID outSHOUTED him. stupid bitch.

  • it has nothing to do with Elliot either having a weak voice or Mary j blidge being a powerhouse/ singing too loud.

    It's typical acoustic and hearing. Your ear can't pick up guys voices as much as they can girls. theres no need for these name calling. It's YouTube guys. who cares lol

  • oh the mom died..i love her

  • mary j was singing too loud... u can hardly hear elliot

  • who u calling a bitch....... i like mary j and i like elliot...

    in my opinion she was singing too loud... in a duet u're suppose to sing together... thats why its call a DUet...

  • grow up for real.... one of these days someone will put u in ur place... if not a person, then god almighty will!

  • I think Elliott is just being polite to Mary... Mary is a star...and Elliott is a newbie...He doesn't want to over power her..He wants to show that Mary is more senior than him...but overall, I think they're both great..

  • Elliot does not have anywhere near the kind of voice Mary has.. Mary is PROJECTING plain and simple.. One of the first things a TRUE singer learns to do.. That means you sing from your diaphragm LOUD.. In the days before microphones and PA systems and all the audio we have now this is what TRUE singers had to do... Its a lost art. Elliot needs to work on his tone and breathing or he won't have a voice to sing with in 5 years.

  • HaHa look at him now as you havent noticed you get better and he has and he will always be the best make vocalist to come out of american idol. Mary was all over the place but you cant even compare him to mary so why do it.

  • Mary was on point bitch, u could NEVER do it.

  • elliott with mary jay is still one of my favorite duos during a finale in the history of idol....wow they really sing well together....

  • uneheer laitai yum bna

  • Mary ... of course killed it! Elliot is my favourite AI from all the seasons.

  • Mary J Blige is simply th ebest..hes a good singer as well

  • Claudette was such a sweetheart!

    and the season finale from Season 5 was so unbelievable. idol has been dying a slow death from season 6 onward.

  • Didnt ms,blige sing the heck out this. Song!!!

    Ah,So muck Soul.Tell you.

  • i love this guy.

    when mary came on it looked like she left her weave at home...

  • I love Elliott Yamin!

    He is such an amazing singer

  • What a bunch of whiny haters here. This vid is about singers getting to sing together, paying tribute to each other - not a boxing match -and all I see in the text posts here is a race war.

    Jesus.

    You idiots think the singers themselves would care about what crap you regurgitate here?

    From now on, I'm just watching the vids, and not even looking at the posts, 'cause I know what I'm going to find...

    A fetid bunch of squabbling rabid racists and morons who can't think of anything meaningful.

  • i know why do people feel that you tube is a forum for their ignorant racist rants

  • he reminds me of AJ in BSB...voice and style

  • love this preformance :)

  • Mary J does NOT disappoint!

  • you got that right.

    (U CAN SAY THAT AGAIN)+

    You can say That again!!!

    I don't know how she does it.But I love

    S.0.U.L.~F.U.L

  • AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

  • was watching this with my late aunt.she enjoyed this performance very much.she died 2 years ago.god bless her soul.

  • i miss these so much.such good times.

  • gosh ummmm wph1138 you need 2 calm da hell down already sittin down and quick tryin 2 speed typin usless comment b4 you give your self a hernia iight yes mary j. might be black and ghetto but she is good and if you dont like her so much why did you watch this video ?? was it just 2 randomly comment on this and say " Mary j is a whore and a black ghetto nigger ...Rawr Raw Rawr". look dude everybody might agree with you on 1 point i havent heard a new song from mary j but she is the best iight ?

  • haha, baby if she wasn't famous,

    ya wouldn't even know her, and ya wouldn't be jelouse,

    ya know i'm damn straight. ya whole face and body's fucked up.

  • haha, haters get a fucking life

    mjb is the best, and wph our whateva, you're just jealouse of other races , we can't help it that we're prettyer,and i don't get your fucking opinion, she's not getto, she's fucking rich , and she got talent.

    saying that she's ugly and that kinda crap, i would like to see your fucked up face.

    haters & lovers make her famouse, (L)

  • People can hate on mary but she is not going anywhere... dont be mad!!! Lol

  • i love elliott! =)

  • Elliott is just so awesome!!

  • IF she was a racist she wouldn't even sing with him! you dumb people are just making eccuses for why she's just a powerfull voice , i mean she nailed it. It was Elliots job to took the spotlights, i mean no one'' ll give it to him like that , you gotta deserfe it! that has nothing to do with race our ghetto behaviour, wth are all those racist doing here? i mean get a fucking life , you people are just jealouse off the black, asians and latino's so sad. OMG! mjb haters are jealouse!!!

  • you're so sick,

    i saw ya picture,

    damn you're fat.

    your dumb racist , for god's happiness get a damn life.

    ya're just jealouse.

    mjb is the best (L)

  • Love this!! I love MJB and Elliott, they both offer up something special during this performance. Mary: queen of Hip hop soul and Elliott: blue-eyed soul at its finest!

  • Love this!! I love MJB and Elliott, they both offer up something special during this performance. Mary: queen of Hip hop soul and Elliott: blue-eyed soul at its finest!

  • Love this!! I love MJB and Elliott, they both offer up something special during this performance. Mary: queen of Hip hop soul and Elliott: blue-eyed soul at its finest!

  • elliot has improved over the years... but at the time this was performed Mary outclassed him.. haha..

  • Elliot got lost with Mary there. Pussy wins over cock. Go Ateneo!!!

  • normally i like the way ms. mary dresses, but what the p diddy bitch assed ness is going on with that top?!!!

  • Elliott always makes the song better somehow!

  • elliot deserves this! ILOVEHIM

    he is a good person.

  • just what im trying to say. she showboated and acted like he wasnt even there as if it was her show. she didnt need the spotlight, it was his day not hers. thats ghetto..

  • wph,It's HER version of the song, idiot!!! what was she supposed to do, just stand there and sing nothing?! Elliot could have sung it solo, but clearly the AI powers that be wanted the true major grammy winning star to perform it w/him! Would you be actin' a fool like this if they asked Bono & U2 to sing w/him?! I doubt it! I'm sure Elliot would not be pleased that something like you pretends to be his fan to cover your racism.