American Idol Jessica Sanchez bares her soul out--but is it enough to save her the next time?

Her voice is soo good, you get goosebumps every single time she does those runs and those vocal curls. Jessica Sanchez is a rare gem, that's right. Watching Jessica Sanchez performs on the American Idol stage makes one's senses so sharp, the audience swoons when she swoons and ahhs when she ahhs. It's always magical. Jessica Sanchez is like a nymph baring her soul before the world.


Where in the world did she got that delicious angst? I mean, she's sixteen years old. But when she sings, she feels every syllable, every word as if she owns them and tops that with a melody that is sooo sweet, it's a delectable moment hearing her sing.


I just can't wait for her to wax that album. 


Jessica Sanchez is groove, and soul and all that sweet. She's a legend in the making, and Randy Jackson is right when he said that Jessica probably does not know how great she is or she will become. 


She tempts you to accompany her to her world whenever she sings. She coaxes you to come, be with her, as she bares her soul before the universe. She weeps, and the world weeps with her. 


Where did she get that delicious angsts, I ask? Every time she sings a song, that song becomes no 1 in i-Tunes and people go to Youtube.com to research the original singer and compare it with her rendition. And whenever people do that, they come to the conclusion that Jessica sang it better than the original.


However, I notice something terribly wrong and Team Jessica must correct this as soon as possible---Jessica's performance is taking  a dip. Yep, compared with her first performances, the last ones are okey but she's becoming or sounding like or appearing like more of a lounge singer than an American Idol. It's getting to be boring.


Yep, the vocals are still great. Jessica still sounds better even if she's becoming a bore. I would not be surprised if America votes her off again, this time for good.


Oh, never mind. America probably do not love her enough to make her their idol. But, the world waits for her. What American Idol rejected, the world will love many times over.

Jessica Sanchez saved by American Idol judges--wrong move. America is right when it voted Sanchez out

It came as a shocker---the best singer in the competition was voted off by the American public. It happened before in the case of Jennifer Hudson, who, after the competition, went on to win a Grammy and an academy award for both her singing and thespian skills.

Let me be frank and say that we should not blame America for what happened. America did not really vote along racial lines. 

I blame Filipinos for alienating Jessica Sanchez from the rest of America. I blame Filipinos for being "racists".

Before you hit me, let me explain why I think we, Filipinos, are to blame for what happened to Jessica today.

Jessica Sanchez was born and raised in America by a hard-working father, a Mexican who works in the US military and a Filipina. The two countries where Jessica's parents came from, are formerly US colonies. These two countries have strong relationships with America since the early years of US imperialism. 

When the American republic was being formed, these two races were already in America. Mexicans and Filipinos, along with Chinese, Indians, Japanese and other Asians have been in America since the very first time the Federal government was being formed. Hence, like Negros, these races have already been infused or synthesized so to speak with the American public. They are as Americans, as the "whites" or the Anglo-Saxons.

America has accepted this as "fact"--hence, the social harmony now being enjoyed there. What was then a "white supremacist" America of the past has been transformed into a tolerant America of today.

Meaning, in the eyes of America, Jessica is as American as Hollie Cavanagh. 

Now, here's the thing.

Every single time Jessica performs and every video uploaded in the internet, there is always some Filipino out there, claiming to "own" Jessica and trying to "pronounce to the world" her being Filipino and of how, she must "represent her race."

This confuses Jessica and even America. For Jessica, she is American. She was born in America and is a legitimate American citizen. She knows her mother is Filipino and her father, Mexican but deep down inside of her, she's pure American. Why would she represent Filipino, when Jessica is really not purely Pinoy, nor purely Mexican. Her blood is American.

If a particular race is claiming Jessica and trying to tell America that Jessica is not American, but Asian Filipino, why will America vote for a non-American as the top "American idol"? The contest is about looking for an AMERICAN IDOL, not an Filipino-American IDOL or a Latino Americano as AMERICAN IDOL".

I asked Filipinos in my earlier posts to refrain from claiming Jessica as our own. Jessica is not just for Filipinos, but for everybody. Fact is, Jessica is soooo good, she belongs to the world! Jessica Sanchez, ladies and gentlemen, is the property of the world, not by Filipinos.

Whenever Filipinos rant about "Pinoy power" and Pinoy this and that, we are exposing our racism. Remember that Jessica is running in a competition in America, and not Miss Universe. She's running to become the idol of the Americans in terms of singing and not Miss World. 

In a very surprising move, the American Idol judges saved Jessica Sanchez from total elimination. The judges thought that America decided wrong when a majority voted Sanchez out of the competition.

What judges did was admirable but, actually, was totally wrong. It was unfair to the other contestants. It exposed their prejudgments very early in the game.

Really now, when that Korean-American crooner was ousted, I had a feeling that the same thing will happen with Jessica. For one, minority groups in America have a weaker voice than the rest. In America right now, the minority are really Asians, and not Negros. Since the early 1980's, Negros have been integrated successfully into the American society. They are considered mainstream already, not minority.

What consist of the minority groups are Asians, such as Filipinos, Chinese, Koreans and Latinos. They are the new minority groups.

Now, many people think that America is still "white America". The pattern of voting, many people say, depends on color lines. 

In Sanchez's case, America did not vote along racial lines. America just did what it is supposed to do--vote for their idol. Of course, Americans will never vote for someone who claims to be of a totally different race as their "idol"--it is unfair and beneath them to do just that.

Again, let me emphasize this, and this is a lesson for Team Jessica.

Jessica Sanchez is AMERICAN, not Mexipilipino or FilMexican. She must act the way she was born and raised.

Jessica Sanchez American Idol Sweetheart

Jessica Sanchez is now one of ten contestants vying for the bragging rights in American Idol. Her last performance was "so-so"but you know what's so good about this girl? She's so humble and she wants to improve herself that when the judges, led by Jennifer Lopez told her some of things which they don't like about the song, Jessica was intently listening and she was not trying to fight the judges off---she was collaborating with them. That shows you character.

And when you have character, you have strength of will. When you exercise that will, anything is possible, including, winning the title. 

She's also humble. Humility comes from an understanding heart. These traits are supposed to have been developed later on, but for Jessica, her development as an artist and as a person is really fast. I hope that Team Jessica has a group of well-meaning friends who will take a look at things from the distance and tell Jessica what they observed, without having to fear anything. Jessica, right now, needs all the constructive criticisms she needs so that she'll fully develop herself as an artist. Most of the times, because of so many "ohs, ahs, and wows", we tend to forget those boos in the backside. 

Those boos are more important than those ahs, because when we improve, we'll always hear them sans the boos. The boos motivate us to become better each time.