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  • Still love this years later. She needs to try out for The Voice....

  • She's very beautiful. And a fantastic singer. Wish I could see her original auditions.

  • She's amazing. She goes to my church and I love seeing her live! AMAZING!

  • She sings at my church, she is AMAZING live! Gives me goosebumps!

  • Part of what makes this so FRIGGIN BRILLIANT, as well as the sheer power behind her voice, is the brilliance of the song selection. It was so perfect for her voice.

  • I hate how she was the only good singer in the worst AI group ever and she still wasn't put through

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  • Honestly, shes good, but theres people that are better.

  • Weird because Randy said she had the strongest voice in the competition then they didn't put her through.

  • top 32 - 8 people of 4 groups / per week - 2 slots for top 8 final contestants - plus 4 wild cards from wild card round

    check out american idol season 3 in wikipedia for information

    it's still a big mystery why Lisa was not given chance to perform in the wildcard round the fact that she ended up 3rd in the semi-finals week performance. 

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  • She was in a weak group but I think Camille had half of Hawaii voteing for her. Matt Rogers had all the young girls voteiing for him and consequently she ended up coming third. Its unfortunate that demographics had played a role in her not progressing. As for her not performing in the Wildcard category oh don't get me started..... Shame she did not advance I think with a couple of weeks under her built she could of held her own against Fantasia Barino and Latoya London but will never know.

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  • Great Performance ... really hard song to sing too ...!!

  • this was an amazing performance and the biggest robbery ever on idol except perhaps pia toscano or tamyra gray. also, lisa was the bright spot in perhaps the worst semi-final group american idol ever had. i just remember hating them all except her and marisa joy.

  • has a mariah carey vibe. beautiful!!!!!!!!

  • this is great. i just discovered this through some taped episodes on vhs.

  • Ok, does everyone agree that she is better than Haley, better than Lauren ,better than Crystal , better than just about everyone they have had on there in years ????

    And Randy acts like he is so thrilled with her - then why the heck did they screw her over ?? I'll never forget it !

  • @doogleandalix So she was good but can you say she is better than Haley?! Scarnato for sure... better than CRYSTAL?! No way at all, overall Crystal was more consistent than even Adam Lambert. The thing is, you can't say Lisa is better than everybody else based on one performance alone, sadly people didn't see more of her. What you can say is that she got totally robbed and screwed over, a pretty bad case actually.

  • @chuggggggy

    Lisa has two cds out - a truly beautiful Xmas CD ( Sing me HOme ) and another " Reality "- clips avail on Amazon and maybe still on cdbaby - there are also some live youtube performances of Lisa ( best was at the Apollo and an older one from there that is no longer on youtube - Body and Soul ) , Based on that and watching all seasons of AI and being a huge fan , I definitely can say she beats Haley hands down and ,though I like Crystal and have her cd , Lisa is much better ,IMO

  • @doogleandalix that doesn't mean she is better, it means you like her better. Which is fine because she is talented, you might have a good taste ;)

  • @chuggggggy

    Of course, it is all subjective . Some people love Bob Dylan , others hate his voice .Same with any musician , I guess. I do agree there is just so much untapped musical talent out there , that there is always someone " better " than another but I think most would agree that Lisa has a lot of talent . It is all a matter of personal taste , I guess . I do tend to get overly zealous about " defending " those I consider real talent : )

  • @doogleandalix Better then lauren? nooo Better then crystal? NO! Better then Haley? You are out of your minddd haley is the most amazing thing to ever hit that stageee!! on another notee, she is really good, idk what happened? she should be famousss :D

  • @alwaysdancin123

    Lauren can be off key and has been more than once - Crystal is good , but not as good as Lisa , IMO anyway .I like Haley but I still say Lisa can outsing her any day . Some people love Fantasia - enough for her to win but I always thought she sucked. Don't get Fantasia as a good voice at all. I'll always be Lisa's biggest defender

    so guess we will have to agree to disagree .

  • You look somehow like Kelly and you have a voice quite similar to Kelly. For me, Kelly has an outstanding vocal calisthenics but nasal and Kelly has no natural groove like yours especially when you sang Sweet Thing. I think Kelly can't do fast songs or fast beat and soulful although vocally she has an outstanding style in her voice.

    Vonzell Solomon and Suzy Vulaca - they were pitchy

  • Leah LaBelle, Camille Velasco, John Peter Lewis, Matt Rogers. Nice work.

    So much for Lisa Leuschner and Suzy Vulaca.

  • It's been years since this performance but I still come back to hear it because it IS fantastic. Lisa has one of the best voices and styles of anyone. If there's one thing that shows like American Idol have proved over and over it's that lots of people can carry a tune or even have powerful voices but that doesn't mean I want to hear them sing. Clay Aiken for instance. After the first time I would have been happy to never hear another note. Lisa could sing the phone book and be great.

  • "it was good but it wasn't fantastic", hope she had given her all. Vocally speaking, Kelly is better than Lisa watching her top 30 performance RESPECT. And I think they don't like another Kelly for season 3 because she already had an album going that year. They saw many great singers in this batch like Simon's early favorite Latoya London then Fantasia...

  • what season was this? i don't remember her

  • @lindsaykeen13

    I also said " This isn't America's Top Model , but you know what , Lisa can not only sing amazingly, she is gorgeous and would make a good model - a plus sized model but beauty comes in all sizes , right ?

    I HATE that they criticized her weight - she was just not stick thin - if you really are a friend and in touch ,please try to get her to audition for The Voice next season - that would be so cool!

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  • 0 dislikes. That says it all. One of the most robbed contestants in the 10 years Idol has been running. Simon complained about her weight, but she's not even that heavy. Also, it never seems to bother him when a male or even an African American female is overweight. It's like he has a bizarre standard that only Caucasian women have to look skinny enough for him.

  • i thought american idol was about breaking the molds......

    so they should have amazing singers who don't have the typical "entertainer look" like Lisa....

    Unless American Idol is trying to break the mold by having singers that look good and can't sing.....haiz

  • I go to UC Santa Cruz and i think LISA NEEDS TO COME VISIT US!!!

  • She is really pretty in a really unique way and an INCREDIBLE singer.

    ROBBED is a colossal understatement

  • Lisa's my choir leader! She is fantastic!!!!!!!!

  • still one of my favorite idol performances to this day. I was so amazed that she did not go further. Amazingly talented and i loved watcher her perform.

  • @blueskiesnmyhead Same here,thank God for YT,even if AI didn't want her,she can still be seen and recognized for this AWESOME performance.

  • This was one of the finest performances ever on AI. I'll never forget how this girl was robbed. She was called back for a wildcard show and then not allowed to perform.

  • PS... Lisa, this song will always be on my iPod. Thank you

  • Santa Cruz loc

  • I still don't understand how Randy could say "She potentially might have the best voice this season." then tells her that she's not singing for the wildcard, while Leah LaBelle makes it after SImon says "Impression? EXTREMELY disappointed."

  • is that white thin in the middle her belly sticking out?

  • These judges are fucking stupid. A blonde bimbo with fake tits could sing out of tune and they'd say, "Oh, you're so great." Lame!

  • She's awesome!

  • Awesomely pretentious. She should try out again! After she listens to Simon.

    She'll win this thing! Put the other cookie cutters to shame!

  • @HOGEFAN she can't audition again... after making the Top 36 you can no longer audition...

  • @HOGEFAN she was brilliant.... my favorite by far.

  • wonderful - and no, she wasn't allowed to sing at Wild card, a big scandal. The Idol "twist" that year was to invite 12 singers back, but only let 8 of them sing to compete. Lisa was the first one up. Randy Jackson said she had one of the best voices in the competition, reminded people of Kelly, but it was over - she was being sent home without singing. She had a great version of Through The Fire ready to go (her concert version is on YouTube) but was told NO. So IS it a singing competition or ?

  • did she sing in the wildcard?

  • she's totally robbed. she has very powerful, soulful voice!

  • definitely catch the Joss Stone vibe...amazing

  • she is the best female singer on american idol except for carrie underwood and i dont know about carrie but lisa is realy really nice

  • she is really nice she sings at my church so i hear her ever sunday and my mom is trying for me to get singing lessions with her=)

  • attractive.. and great voice..

  • Damn, that chick is bangin'! Real fine. And a great voice, too.

  • if she auditioned post Amy Winehouse she would obviously have been in the top 10. this performance was one of the few that blew me away on American Idol.

  • so soulful

  • robbed and still gutted.

  • Simon did not like her for some odd reason - he criticized her weight . I remember she tried out another year too and in the audition , weight was mentioned again ! Funny, I did not realize this was America's Top Model , I thought it was a singing competition. Lisa can blow - she is SO much better than any female in any year except for Kelly .

  • Yeah...uhm and...what's the point anyway...Jennifer Hudson, Gina Glocksen (Kelly gained a lot recently) etc. etc. never had a model body...but who cares! It's about personality, talent and charisma. Weight really shouldn't matter at all.

  • @doogleandalix Look at the top artists in America today and they'll have one thing in common: They're hot.

    Lisa is attractive and would be more attractive with some lost weight. He was trying to help her, not insult her. He was offering constructive criticism. Considering there was call-in voting involved, perhaps he knew what he was talking about. It's like a coach in football telling a LB they have to increase upper body strength. Either they do it, or they're cut.

  • @HOGEFAN that's great and all, but I have a problem with the statement that top artists are all hot.. besides the fact that I don't think that's true, it's also ridiculous... Everyone I know who are real fans of music do not buy albums based on whether someone is hot or not. I would listen to a good record without even knowing.

    Anyway, I don't and have never believed America really votes for who wins or makes it on A.I... they would never leave it in their hands. :)

  • @helleuw Same here. You and I buy and enjoy music for the music. Many others enjoy it for other reason. For some reason, Lindsey Lohan has an album.

  • @doogleandalix Is she fat!? Because I don't see it! I see a voluptuous curvy beautiful woman but definitely not a fat one! People like Simon need to learn the difference between slightly overweight and fat because he can make a lot of girls feel insecure about their non fat bodies because of comments like that..

  • @TheRaspberryHoney Exactly ! You are preaching to the choir :) I NEVER said she was fat, that was that ass Simon.

    I so agree that she is not stick thin but who decided that was the benchmark for female beauty? in the 60's , girls aspired to look like the anorexic Twiggy - a decade earlier , the curvy voluptuousness of Marilyn Monroe defined the perfect female form . From what I have seen and heard of Lisa,she is quite content with exactly who she as - as it should be .

  • @doogleandalix I know you didn't, I said it because of Simon. And she should feel content with herself because she has one of the prettiest smiles I've ever seen and she's beautiful in general.

  • One of the biggest robberies EVER on American Idol. She belonged in the Top 10 for sure. She's a better singer than any of the girls in The Top !0 2009.

  • @playwithnina very agreed....she def was underated

  • @playwithnina

    I so agree - she was totally robbed - it still gets me to this day how she got such a raw deal .

    Well, it is a tribute to Lisa and her talent that over 11,000 people have watched this , there are zero dislikes and people are still watching her .

    I wish her all the success in the world .

    As for Simon's comment - I thought this WAS a fantastic performance . AI is so fake - they let Casey Abrams stay and let 11 Idols go on tour -it is all for ratings.

  • @playwithnina , i completely agree, and they didnt even let her sing that time for the wildcard, such BS..althought biggest robbery ever is Vonzell Solomon, though she did get her share of tv time ha

  • lisa is amzing! I have bth of her cds and they dont comapre to hardly any of the winners. Shes up there with kelly Clarkson! Love her! I hate idol for the reason she didnt even get to sing again and they let stupid people who cants sing and they let her go..please she rocks!

  • Honestly I don't remember her but she good!

  • fuck!!! why she sisnt make it??? i think shell be better if leah is not in the top 12 !! i wish she was in th 12

  • American IDOL wishes someone of her calibre wishes they had her in this season.

  • love the ending vocal run @ 1:14 !!

  • this was super soulful, very much like a Kelly Clarkson performance......This was almost flawless!!!! she def didnt get her chance

  • it's like the judges didn't even want her to be successful. all three: "she sang on key, made them pay attention, etc".. excuse me?? her tone is incredible, she had a soulful almost R&B type vibe... it was technically flawless... in the worst group of Season 3... and they just tell her she sang in tune? ugh.

  • SHE WAS ROBBED!

  • Wow how the hell did they let her go =O

  • Plus she looks beautiful here.

  • I was livid when she didn't make top 12. Especually that absolutely RETARDED wild card episode where they didn't even let her and 2 other of the best singers even sing!

    THis semifinal group was absolute garbage. She was the only one even remotely good.

  • yes, yes, and yes. couldn't agree more. i wanted to mutilate Randy Jackson with a soup spoon after that happened. Lisa had pipes

  • Cannot believe she didn't make it.

    Hate the voters. lol

  • So amazing, proves how stupid this show is. She recorded this song on her new album, which is on iTunes, so get it!

  • I was shocked when she didn't make the top 12. Especially over Matt Rogers lol.

  • SOOOOOO GOOOD!

  • Ugg, I'm still amazed at the fact that she did not make the Top 12. Especially since she had the worst group ever :)

  • that was awesome!

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