Track Listing

1. Independence Day - Carrie Underwood
2. I Don't Want To Be - Bo Bice
3. Best Of My Love - Vonzell Solomon
4. A House Is Not A Home - Anwar Robinson
5. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Nadia Turner
6. Part-Time Lover - Nikko Smith
7. My Funny Valentine - Constantine Maroulis
8. Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Jessica Sierra
9. Everytime You Go Away - Anthony Fedorov
10. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) - Scott Savol
11. Knock on Wood - Lindsey Cardinale
12. God Bless The Child - Mikalah Gordon
13. When You Tell Me That You Love Me - American Idol Finalists - Season 4

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26165 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Content/Copy-Protected CD

Amazon.com
Few would risk making guarantees when it comes to a hodgepodge of a disc like Showstoppers, but one thing is for sure: it's bound to become the only CD in your collection you bought knowing full well you would have to hold your nose through certain tracks. That, of course, is the fun of the American Idol franchise: You may love Carrie Underwood's rootin'-tootin' version of Martina McBride's "Independence Day" but loathe Anthony Federov's syrup-soaked rendition of the '80s chestnut "Everytime You Go Away"; you may swoon over Bo Bice's Grass Roots-style vocal on the Gavin DeGraw hit "I Don't Want to Be" but find yourself making the gag-me gesture when Mikalah Gordon steps up to the mike for a Streisand-aping take on "God Bless the Child." Call it a lowbrow musical twist on the famous theatrical formula "You will laugh! You will cry!", but instead of laughing and crying you will love and hate (then again, laughter and tears could enter into the equation after a close listen to Constantine Maroulis's "My Funny Valentine"). The final cut, an ensemble number, puts this amateurs' jumble into perspective: given the right producer, anybody can sing, even those Simon Cowell would sooner see at a cut-rate karaoke bar. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Big fan of Vonzell Solomon
Since I'm a big fan of Vonzell, I've bought every Cd she's put out, and I found this great Christmas song she covered, it's possibly the best thing she's done, it's called "Breaking For the Holidays" and she sings "It's gonna be a Cold Christmas" and it's the sweetest christmas song ever!Breaking For the Holidays

Good Group
I remember this group being a good group. This was a good CD and most of the songs were good. The stand out songs were "Independence Day", Part Time Lover, Total Eclipse of the heart" by Carrie Underwood, Nikko Smith and Jessica Sierra respectively. "Best of my Love" was weak considering that Vonzell Solomom was one of the better singers this season. Constatine's arrangement of My Funny Valentine was hidious especially if you've heard Stevie Wonder's version and Chaka Khan's version.

3 3/4 stars, actually
By Far the best-sounding group song from any season, When You Tell Me That You Love Me, is enough reason for me to give this album a good review. You also have Carrie Underwood in her element, and the 2 runners-up Bo Bice and Vonzell Solomon are very good as well. Nadia, Jessica and Scott are also good. I really wish that they would have done away with Mikalah and Lindsey, but oh well. Not too terrible. :)