Murray, Taylor Mathews, Prince Poppycock, and ArcAttack advanced in America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 20. Tonight the Youtube acts perform. Apparently this year they realized that Myspace is passe.
PLUtonic is a group of student a cappella singers from Tacoma, Washington. Dressed in bow ties and sweater vests, they realize they’re geeks. Piers found that to be like being hit over the head with a big slab of cheddar, but he liked it. Sharon thought their performance was very good and confident, although she hates a cappella groups.
Dylan Plummer jumps rope, which is actually a sport and does not involve any singing in rhymes. Howie believes that was really good, but it needs time to be perfected. Piers was surprised that was entertaining.
Pup is an accordian playing dog. I hope this goes over better than Laika, the dog from Britain’s Got Talent who “played” the guitar, although that was amusing to watch. No. It doesn’t. It’s also not as funny without Simon. Piers buzzes. Howie gives a standing ovation. Piers claims that he saw Pup playing at a high level for about 10 seconds. Really? Sharon blames technical hitches.
Cam Hodges is a guitar playing singer who initially wanted to hide his talent. Piers was reminded, in parts, of James Blunt (from his home country). Howie thinks he made that unique, and he’s got a real shot considering how well he did on his first time out.
Ryan Rodriguez is a dancing plumber. Tonight he will opt to do the dance, rather than to install a tub. Piers buzzes. I don’t get it. There’s probably some talent in there somewhere, but it’s all quite chaotic. After telling Piers to shut up, Sharon tells Ryan he needs to get a group of others to put together an act. Howie doesn’t know what that was. Piers doesn’t get it either. He just knows that wasn’t dancing.
Austin Anderson is an auto mechanic comedian. Piers quickly buzzes him. He becomes mildly funny after a rough start. Howie wanted something more relateable than jokes about Facebook, which only has half a billion users (albeit mostly there to play Farmville).
Booker Forte is a hip hop dancer. Piers buzzes again because it was just nice, and his backing dancers were better than he is. Sharon’s seen it all before.
Pizza Patt tosses pizzas whereever he goes. Piers hates him just based on the video, and he buzzes. This hapens before Patt takes some flaming pizza dough. Sharon enjoyed the new form of juggling. Howie sees this all the time in pizzeria windows.
Kristina Young is a singer from South Dakota. She sings Carrie Underwood’s Before He Cheats, which for some reason requires dancers to be on stage with her. Howie thought that was good, although he doesn’t know if it was good enough. Piers goes one step further: it was not good enough, although it was not bad. At least he didn’t buzz her.
Maestro Alexander Bui is a 16 year old piano player, who practices 6-8 hours a day. Any time left to be a kid? We hear an X, and for a change it comes from Sharon. Magnificent… but boring. Piers says he’s the most naturally talented person all year. He tells him to ignore Sharon, but she’s not wrong. Something more relateable than classical music would give him a better shot.
Dan Sperry wants to show us the dark side of magic. He says he’s against things that are mainstream, which we can tell by the piercings/tattoos/assorted gothicness. He takes a mint and chews it. Hopefully there’s a point to all this. Then he gets out some floss. Wait. What? The floss is for his neck, and he pulls out a full mint. Howie runs away in terror, causing Sharon to laugh uncontrollably.
Jackie Evancho is the final contestant of the night. This 10 year old singer was chosen by Youtube audience votes. Wow. Is that voice really coming from that little girl? The rest of the night may have been a bust, but here’s someone who came out of nowhere to potentially give everybody else a run for their money. Howie says this is the moment they were hoping for with this show. Piers calls that one of the most extraordinary performances ever on this show.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 22, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.