‘America’s Got Talent’ results: Did Mat Franco, Acte II, Mara Justine, Jaycob Curlee advance?
Tonight was the second “America’s Got Talent” results show of the season, and we were just as curious to see if our pre-show predictions turned out to be true. It was a pretty predictable night by most accounts, given that the majority of the acts who looked good beforehand were the same ones that came out and impressed.
The following acts have advanced so far on the night, and we’ll have more as we get near the big finish!
Andrey Moraru – The only surprise that comes from him being safe is that he went pretty early in the show. He is brilliant for what he does, though, which is using his craft to tell stories and create art. He’s also one of the few acts this season who we feel hasn’t completely hit his ceiling yet.
Jaycob Curlee – Anyone could have seen this one coming a million miles away. He’s a young male singer with a good voice. He didn’t even have to give the best performance of his life, and it was still enough to see him go through to the next round.
Aerial Animation – Basically, we still feel like this is the closest thing to Kenichi Ebina on the show this year, and while she needs to pull some more tricks out of her sleeve, so far she has everything going for her to be a frontrunner and go very far.
Mat Franco – A very good magic act, and we’re thrilled that two of the top ten are in this category right now. It’s long been a favorite, but very few magicians have come even remotely close to the finish line.
Mara Justine – Not sure if we love the judges move here over Acte II. The latter probably has more potential right now, but we understand that Mara seems to want this very badly. (Still, watching children cry on TV is never very fun at all.)
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Mockingird
August 7, 2014 @ 2:48 am
Man America’s Got (Really White and Whiny!) Talent…
Going to vent now after the judges’ decision…
And before anyone says this doesn’t have anything to do with race, I agree. It’s a joke. Sadly, all the other melodrama brought to this show by the producers and the often clueless judges is a reality. This show should be about talent and not about kiddie sob stories and cute boys who sing average at best or completely besides the point social commentary about a guy dancing with a guy or overly long features centered on a once upon a time orphan who clearly is far, far more fortunate than a great many children still “blessed” with their alcoholic, violent biological parents…but I, like the judges, digress…
Quite honestly there have been students at my school who easily sing as well as Mara Justine or Jaycob Curlee, but I doubt anyone at my school could come close to hitting the notes that either member of Acte II can. Bad song choice, sure. But much worst judge’s choice. Put it another way: are there already other (and frankly much better) female and male pop singers in the semifinals? Yes, their names are Emily West and Miguel Dakota, respectively. There is no other act remotely like Acte II on the show now, though, and that saddens me. And not one judge even thought about that evidently? It’s not a coincidence that NO pop singer on this show, no matter how far they have gone, has ever made a real dent after the show and none will this year either. That’s because none of these singers would even make it to the live shows on American Idol or The Voice, despite the over the top praise heaped upon them by four judges who know little to nothing about singing. When the most accomplished musical performer on the panel is a Spice Girl, it’s far from being a musically savvy panel. (And I love the Spice Girls, but not because they were fantastic singers!) The only truly successful singer to emerge from this show was Jackie Evancho – and she’s neither a pop singer nor someone who got through via the wisdom of judges. (She was the YouTube viewers’ contestant and then one of America as a whole’s choices.) And maybe Butterscotch, but she’s a beatboxer/jazz singer/multi-instrumentalist. Again, not a pop singer with skills that are meh when compared to pop singers currently on the charts. Anyway, maybe Acte II can take heart from Stirling and parlay this gig into something better than playing bad nightclubs.Lord knows, none of the pop singers on this show have ever been able to.
ro2012
August 8, 2014 @ 1:24 am
Well said! Acts II was robbed by a kid crying!
Isaac2399
August 7, 2014 @ 1:59 am
As upsetting as Jaycob Curlee’s life was, he should not have went through. His performance last night was just not strong enough in my opinion. He completely abandoned the guitar and probably lip synced through half the song. If he wins the million with more performances like this, they’d be wasting the big check.