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Let me expand a bit on my Trenyce comparisons. I think there's some important similarities between Lil and Trenyce in many areas: singing, looks, and personality. Without overstating things (though I can't resist pointing out there's a good chance Lil may ALSO finish in 5th place), I do think that Lil resembles Trenyce more than any other previous contestant.

I didn't exactly dislike Trenyce, but she was definitely one of my least favorite black female singers from the finals (I've liked most of them a lot). I thought Trenyce's voice and song selections were just okay--not bad, just very generic R&B. Her voice lacked any distinctive style--I'd have to rewatch my tapes to say much about it aside from her infamous problems with diction ("like murder, like breasts, like Wayne.") She wasn't bad looking, but there was a scary intensity about her that I found off-putting. She'd obviously had a hard life (yes, I know about the shoplifting) and she seemed to have a hard time relaxing when she was on the show. Basically, she was a run of the mill contestant who seemed like she had a chip on her shoulder.

Lil is a lot like this, albeit with a shakier voice and worse taste in music. She is okay looking but not pretty, can sing but falls way short of having a great voice, and it's hard to like or care about her. Her tastes in music seem limited to black singers and her song selections have been generic. She has professional level volume and can reach and hold high notes, but has trouble keeping her tone consistent. She also has a lot of trouble with low notes and low volume--it's obvious that she has no interest or skill in doing ballads. She seems a bit nicer than Trenyce, but she lacks any real charm. Like so many other contestants this year she has no use for the judges, talks back to them, and ignores their advice. Her chief advantages are being the only black left and her cute kids. Her chief disadvantages are: 1) she was pimped like crazy until the last two weeks. When sucksters are force-fed a relatively mediocre singer, they WILL get pissed; 2) she likes hip-hoppish contemporary R&B singers like Mary J Blige, who I can't stand; and 3) to a greater extent than Trenyce, she lacks any kind of personal style. She's just doing Karaoke versions of whoever she covers.