Top 5 Performance Show: James Makes Things VERY Interesting

James Durbin, “Without You”: 18

I wasn’t sure he was going to make it, but he pulled it together. And the vocal was pretty good, but I think the arrangement should have gone to the high part sooner. His lower register is not good enough to do a whole verse. Points for the choice. It was a good one.

I said in my column yesterday that James could upset the two-horse race between Lauren and Scotty. I think he just did. Randy might be right about it being his to lose…