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Did the Judge's Like Angie's 'Diamonds' and 'Someone to Watch Over Me'?

See what American Idol judges had to say to Angie Miller after her two performances on Wednesday night.

 

Angie Miller, former Falmouth resident, performed Rihanna's "Diamonds" and "Someone to Watch Over Me" by George Gershwin on Wednesday night during the Top 4 performances on American Idol.

"Over Me" has been performed by various artists over the years, including Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Read what the show's four judges had to say to Miller after her two performances.

"Diamonds"

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Keith Urban

He said he always liked the "percussive, muscular weight that the song's got." He commended Miller for doing an original arrangement but it was not the song to do it to.

"It was waiting to happen and I kept waiting for it to happen...I could see you melodically waiting to go to places," he said. "You would go for a moment and come back down."

"Melodically I felt you waiting to go to places," he said.

Micki Minaj

It was different than any of her earlier piano performances. In the past "we were a fly on the wall in Angie's room" but this time she was making a lot of contact with the audience to boost up the performance "more with your body and less with your heart."

"You can do better, much better."

Randy Jackson

Jackson agreed with Urban that it does not support Miller changing the arrangement.

"It just didn't go anywhere," he said. "Once you hit the chorus, that was it."

He liked Miller's shorts.

"I didn't love it."

Mariah Carey

Miller chose a "major hit" that is "ear candy" where people want to hear the original arrangement or elements of the original arrangement.

She was also playing more to the camera more than usual where she is "lost in the moment of playing."

"Someone to Watch Over Me"

Keith Urban

"You sang it so beautifully," the clarity and presence in her voice was beautiful.

Nicki Minaj

Miller's voice and disposition reminded her of Disney's "Beauty and the Best."

Minaj likes it when Miller gets to the higher notes. "Your face and your body transforms," she said.

Randy Jackson

Jackson lost Miller in the middle.

"If you can sing you can sing anything and this girl can sing," he said. "And this was an amazing vocal."

Miller breezed through the difficult parts, Jackson said.

Mariah Carey

Carey also grew up listening to her mom singing the song and it has a special significance for her.

"We love you with the piano, we just can't get past the piano situation," Carey said.

She will continue to shine regardless of "the dirt that get splattered around."

The results of Wednesday night's voting will be announced during a one-hour show tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox.


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