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This week on American Idol is Disco night as the Final 4 Idols meet with Bee Gees Singer Barry Gibb.

USA Today was on the scene Saturday and reported the following:

Gathered around a piano, the quartet harmonizes on How Deep Is Your Love, complete with a funkier a cappella turn and some Blake beatboxing, winning Gibb’s approval. On his suggestion, they slow it down a bit to catch what he explains is the song’s sensual side.

The singers then come in, one by one, performing their interpretations and getting tips from Gibb. He’s surprised but eventually impressed by Jordin’s choice of To Love Somebody, which he thinks of as a masculine song, and wonders why Blake chose You Should Be Dancing over Jive Talkin’, which he thinks is a great fit.

As Melinda performs, LaKisha and Blake wait in a suite on the other side of the building. Blake sings This Is Where I Came In to himself on the patio as he reviews notes and listens to music on his computer, which he considers a portable studio. LaKisha quietly sings Stayin’ Alive to Orland. She’s holding to her practice of not revealing her songs to the other singers until the Monday sound check.

LaKisha brings a notebook and music to her on-camera meeting with Gibb, hoping for useful suggestions. He offers one after her rousing second-chorus finish to Run to Me. “I was hoping you were going to do that in the first chorus. Hit it as hard and as early as you can,” he says. “This is where you’re going to suck everybody in.”

With pianist Rohde, the three then figure out how to transition from a big first chorus back to the softer verse. “I’m writing everything down,” LaKisha says.

“I really appreciate his music more now that I’ve gotten a chance to meet him, because at first I didn’t really know too much about him,” she says later. “He knew where to get me that oomph” in Run to Me.

Her soulful Stayin’ Alive is message as much as music, much like her semifinal performance of And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going. “In my mind, I’m thinking of staying alive in this competition. There is a method to my madness.”

Blake, 25, an aficionado of dance music, is excited after his session with Gibb. “He’s one of the pioneers,” Blake says. The most experimental of this year’s finalists, Blake was happy to show off his new arrangements, too. And he’s happy with his choice of You Should Be Dancing. “I go with my instinct. Jive Talkin’ was in my top five, but You Should Be Dancing is so anthem-like and driven and just super fast, great dance music,” he says. “And I didn’t want to do two of those.”

So for song choices for tonights May8, 2007 performaces we know who is singing what.
Blake Lewis :
- You Should Be Dancing
- This Is Where I Came In

Jordin Sparks :
- Woman In Love
- To Love Somebody

Melinda Doolittle:
- Loves You Inside Out
- How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

Lakisha Jones :
- Run To Me
- Stayin’ Alive

We also know that on the 5-9-07 May 9, 2007 voted off Show the Ford Commerical Song will be from The Beatles Hard Days Night “You Really Got Me”, and that the Final Four Idols will sing a a group Bee Gee’s “How Deep is Your Love” with Blake adding the Beat Box.

You may remember that Blake did this song in the Hollywood Audition Phase along with Chris Sligh, Rudy Cardenas and Tom Lowe. See Post and Video Here

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