{"id":3945,"date":"2010-03-30T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2010-03-30T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:29:00","slug":"trouble-and-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/trouble-and-crystal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble (and Crystal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the high points of this year&#8217;s American Idol, for me, have been the performances of Ray LaMontagne&#8217;s &#8220;Trouble&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2FQb4hIGwY\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" title=\"Matt Lawrence sings Trouble\">Matt Lawrence<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gpcnEvzlxk\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-1\" title=\" Alex Lambert sings Trouble\"> Alex Lambert<\/a>. What a great song it is; here&#8217;s the original:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KrZkaj37kA0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" ><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yeah, that song&#8217;s no lucky omen, and Lawrence and Lambert have both been eliminated long ago. Lawrence went out in the group stage of the Hollywood rounds&#8212;a stage I absolutely hate and don&#8217;t get the point of. Lambert was one of three shock omissions when the field was cut from 16 to 12. I felt like giving up on the show then, but the amazing Crystal Bowersox is still there, and I&#8217;m still watching. If she doesn&#8217;t win the show, though, I will kill someone. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t follow <i>AI<\/i>, here are some performances by Crystal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t1Kb-O2fKls\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-2\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- As Long As I Can See The Light\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=DFr7ONasrN8&amp;feature=related\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- Natural Woman\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=xTI3ubZeLuU&amp;feature=related\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- Me and Bobby McGee\">3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an original: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=eICsQLPgI2k&amp;feature=related\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- Farmer's Daughter\">&#8220;Farmer&#8217;s Daughter.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t she amazing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the high points of this year&#8217;s American Idol, for me, have been the performances of Ray LaMontagne&#8217;s &#8220;Trouble&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2FQb4hIGwY\" title=\"Matt Lawrence sings Trouble\">Matt Lawrence<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gpcnEvzlxk\" title=\" Alex Lambert sings Trouble\"> Alex Lambert<\/a>. What a great song it is; here&#8217;s the original:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded video]<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that song&#8217;s no lucky omen, and Lawrence and Lambert have both been eliminated long ago. Lawrence went out in the group stage of the Hollywood rounds&#8212;a stage I absolutely hate and don&#8217;t get the point of. Lambert was one of three shock omissions when the field was cut from 16 to 12. I felt like giving up on the show then, but the amazing Crystal Bowersox is still there, and I&#8217;m still watching. If she doesn&#8217;t win the show, though, I will kill someone. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t follow <i>AI<\/i>, here are some performances by Crystal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t1Kb-O2fKls\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- As Long As I Can See The Light\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=DFr7ONasrN8&amp;feature=related\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- Natural Woman\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=xTI3ubZeLuU&amp;feature=related\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- Me and Bobby McGee\">3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an original: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch#!v=eICsQLPgI2k&amp;feature=related\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox -- Farmer's Daughter\">&#8220;Farmer&#8217;s Daughter.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t she amazing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trouble (and Crystal) - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/trouble-and-crystal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trouble (and Crystal) - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two of the high points of this year&#8217;s American Idol, for me, have been the performances of Ray LaMontagne&#8217;s &#8220;Trouble&#8221; by Matt Lawrence and Alex Lambert. 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