Dead man walking, Andrew Garcia, performed the Elvis classic – Hound Dog on this week’s American Idol show. Former runner up Adam Lambert didn’t pull his punches when mentoring Andrew – he straight out called it a boring performance.

We though it was pure lounge music, right down to the handkerchief pinned to his jacket pocket. Are you supposed to pin those things on the outside? It should be obvious to anyone with working ears that American Idol is not the place for Andrew Garcia to be singing. He’s out of his comfort zone and floundering terribly.

Judges Comments:

Randy Jackson: I hate to say this, but Simon Cowell kind of predicted it earlier. That was not good karaoke. I didn’t like it, I didn’t get it at all. This is Elvis, one of the greatest ever.

Ellen DeGeneres: I have your back too, because I wish you had put a little bit more swagger into it, you put a little bit into it and I liked how much your changed it. And I think you needed to do something like this, and I thought you pulled it off.

Kara DioGuardi: It’s Elvis. You gotta own it. He owned the stage. And I felt like the mic was your crutch almost – you were dragging it around as opposed to opening up and owning the performance. There were some nice places where you changed up the melody, but I wanted to feel more from that performance. Swagger like you’re really up there to be a star, it really is your last performance, and I didn’t get that from you.

Simon Cowell: It was lazy, unpredictable (surely Simon meant predictable?????) and like when you see one of these musicals. There’s always one part in it which nobody really wants to see and hear. And that was the part. It didn’t feel like the star performance. It feels like all of your coolness has been sucked out of you now. I really didn’t get it.