Singer: Shioban Magnus
Song: "Any Man of Mine"
Monkeys As Critics' Take: Shioban's being a little sassy tonight. I like it. She's clapping to the music, flirting with the band and high-fiving the audience. What Shioban lacks is the necessarily levity to actually sell this kind of a performance. She gets breathless running into the audience, which causes her to drop the rhythm of the song completely for several phrases. But after several weeks of downplaying her bellowing instincts, the "American Idol" Munch-kin works in a full-on scream into the end. It grinds the up-tempo song to a halt and, to my mind, feels like pretty clear and indicated desperation.
Randy, Ellen, Kara and Simon Say: Randy loved it. Ellen kills another "Shania Train" joke. "Guess who's back," says Kara, who has been particularly annoying. Simon liked the song, but not the screaming at the end, comparing it to giving birth. "If you heard that note in isolation, you'd think something else was happening," Simon says.