The eliminations continued in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 12. Tonight Vegas week concludes. 20 spots remain for the standby acts.
Magicians go first. Hawley Magic float on air. Giani is fixin to read minds. Jarrett & Raja make an orchestra appear.
What would the night be without 3 or 4 or 12 music categories? We start with bands. The All Ways rock out to a Christina Aguilera song. Wordspit, the Illest! mix rapping with Sinatra. The HillBenders are a bluegrass band. Dillon Havins and Friends are a string band featuring a 12 year old lead singer. The Emily Anne Band is a girl plus one guy group with a throwback sound. The Distinguished Men of Brass are a marching band. I hope Howard doesn’t have his heart set on a great band because he’s not finding one in this lot.
The danger category goes next. LionDanceMe combine dancing with lion costumes. Cliff’s Demo Team are a group of child martial artists. Kota Sports ride scooters. Serengeti Steve greets Howie but can’t speak because he has a mouthful of cockroaches, which he follows by playing with a deadly cobra.
Now it’s time for more kids, all with musical talents. Lil Babywockee wants Howard to know she’s ready because she’s been dancing since she was a toddler (2 years ago). Lil Starr adds a bit of attitude to her tapping. Danielle Stallings (singer), The Cos Fam (dancers), Tevin McGuire (singer), and Unity in Motion (dancers) get lumped into a montage. Cos kids look good, but Unity in Motion make some mistakes. The Williams Bruthuz are dancers who say they’ve redone their act based on their competition, which may not have paid off since they seem to have forgotten half of it.
The acrobats take the stage. Summer Lacy does the aerial hoop. Benn Mendoza Circus perform Alice in Wonderland in the air with perhaps too much dancing. Donovan and Rebecca didn’t win Britain’s Got Talent, so now it’s time to try it in America instead.
There’s an entire category of rappers? Rob Hayes doesn’t like any of his competition, either the grandma (Granny G) or the really white guy (The Rhymatist). Svet is a rapping violinist. Not content with just rapping, Granny does some stripping. Burton Crane has been a rapper since 1972. So he pretty much invented rap music. Too bad after 40 years all his songs only have one tune.
Now for the dance groups. Battle Born is a breaking crew. Old Shoes, New Shoes is a tapping duo far apart in years. LCD – Lisa Clark Dancers, Scott Brothers, and Inspire the Fire (who also sing reasonably well) join the fun.
The novelty acts don’t quite fit anywhere else, even if half of them have music acts. David Garibaldi and his CMYK’s paint while dancing. I don’t get the point of the bad dancing, but the art’s good. Ventriloquist John Pizzi does some marriage counseling that leaves the judges thinking how hot the girl in his act is. Michael Nejad plays a shovel with strings. Mike Pierce juggles with lighted props. The Two Bits are retired dancers. Big Barry barely survived the audition round, but he lived to sing hopefully for a last time.
Next dance category, solo dancers. Turf and Stepz know each other from dance battles, and they’re looking forward to another battle and some contortionism. Unlike her competition, Lindsey Norton is as much an acrobat as she is a dancer. Elusive started dancing because he was born half deaf and needed an outlet.
With all of the acts having performed, it’s time for the judges to make their decisions.
Cos Fam, Williams Bruthuz, and Lil Babywockee have been cut, but the rest of the kids acts make it through. Elusive and Lindsey advance, as do the CYMK’s. Old Shoes, New Shoes are out. Hawley Magic and Jarrett & Raja make four magic acts in the top 48. Distinguished Men of Brass and The All Ways are the bands that make it. Inspire the Fire are going to New York, but John and The Two Bits are going home. Cliff’s Demo Team and Serengeti Steve are eliminated, but LionDanceMe somehow aren’t. Scott Brothers and Lisa Clark Dancers make it. Every rapper has been eliminated. Donovan & Rebecca are the only ones in their category to advance. Big Barry has not yet been put out of his misery, while actually talented acts get dismissed. With one spot remaining, who won the dance battle? Turf.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 14, which airs Monday at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.
The Vegas episodes were harsh and I think some of the talent cracked under the pressure. I’m surprised that Andrew De Leon was axed and the battle between Stepz and Turf was hard to make a decision. In the end Turf won and he’s now going to the big apple to do his thing and continue to impress.