VOTE FOR TYLER GRADY EVERYBODY NOW!!!!!!!!

“American Idol” contestant Tyler Grady, of Lower Nazareth Township, had his first shot at singing live for the nation Wednesday night as he performed among the show’s top 12 male finalists.

Grady, a drummer and singer with the Lehigh Valley band Wailing Waters, showed off his 1970s, classic-rock chops with a version of The Guess Who's "American Woman."

Sporting a lavender button-down shirt, scarf and tight, black bell-bottoms, it was his fashion rather than his vocals that had the judges talking.

“It was style over substance,” Randy Jackson told Grady. Kara DioGuardi, who along with guest judge Victoria Beckham, was smitten with Grady at his first audition in Boston, was less impressed. “It’s like you have Jim Morrison up in your room, all over your walls. You’ve got to do something more than the shtick.”

Ellen DeGeneres basically called Grady a poser.
“The people you’re attracted to had stage presence,” she said of Grady’s self-proclaimed influences, including the front men of The Doors, The Who and Led Zeppelin. “You’ve got the poses, but you’ve got to work on being the singer.”

Grady took the song more in the modern, Lenny Kravitz remake direction, but let the mic move too far away from him and lose his vocals as he swaggered.


Host Ryan Seacrest asked Grady after the judges' comments, “What will you wear next week?”

“I guess I have to go to the mall,” Grady answered with a smile.

Viewers previously saw him in taped clips sing Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” in his first-round Boston audition and “I’m Going Home” by former “Idol” finalist Chris Daughtry during Hollywood week.

I still don't think Grady will be going home yet. His was by far not among the night's bottom two performances. It seemed to be more his nerves that kept him from pulling it all together and nailing it.

A Nazareth Area High School graduate and Temple University sophomore, Grady is the first Lehigh Valley and northwestern New Jersey contestant to crack the show’s top 24.

His fate will now rest in the hands of the show’s fans, who dial in votes for their favorite singers.Voting will be open for two hours after the show ends at 10 o'clock. Grady's toll-free number is 866-436-5706.

Source: Express Times