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After weeks of expectedly performing ballads, the soaring 22-year-old songstress from Howard Beach, N.Y., earned praise from the Fox talent competition's judges for strutting around the stage while powering through Tina Turner's up-tempo tune "River Deep — Mountain High" on Wednesday's rock `n' roll edition. Toscano previously promised to sing that tune.
"Murderer! Murderer!" screamed "Idol" judge Steven Tyler. "Pia, you killed it."
Other singers who switched it up included 17-year-old high school student Scotty McCreery of Garner, N.C., and 22-year-old rocker James Durbin of Santa Cruz, Calif. Randy Jackson said he'd seen "a new Scotty" after McCreery jazzed up Elvis Presley's "That's All Right," while an emotional Durbin slowed down on George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
"It's good to see that not only did your guitar gently weep, but so did you," said Tyler.
Jacob Lusk, the 23-year-old spa concierge of Compton, Calif., stayed true to his gospel roots, replacing his planned performance of Marvin Gaye's sexually charged "Let's Get It On" to Michael Jackson's inspirational "Man in the Mirror." The judges commended his decision to stay true to his moral conviction. Jennifer Lopez called Lusk's performance "perfect."
Lauren Alaina seemed to impress with Aretha Franklin's "Natural Woman," but Jackson noted that the 16-year-old high school student of Rossville, Ga., "only took a very difficult song and did a good job." He also proclaimed that 21-year-old singer Stefano Langone of Kent, Wash., got off to "a jerky start" with Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman."
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