Missed Adam Lambert Perform "If I Can't Have You" on American Idol?

Adam Lambert- If I Can't Have You

http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_8/performances/

Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syiEwpcIPWI

In years past, disco night on American Idol was a bad night for karaoke.

But last night was drastically different.

For the exception of Lil Rounds, admirable, but undistinguished version of Chaka Kahn's "I'm Every Woman" and Matt Giraud's Justin Timberlake-ish rendition of "Staying Alive", the rest of Idols did a great a job in revamping disco classics and making it their own.

Leading the way of course was Adam Lambert.

I do not know if Lambert will turn his time on American Idol into a successful music career like Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood, but Lambert continues to solidify himself as one of the best American Idol contestants ever.

This time around, Lambert (along with a American Idol music arranger) deconstructed Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and made it into a slow burning R&B ballad.

It takes a special talent to take a recognizable Bee Gee's penned classic and change it way where it not only sounds completely different, but also gives it a new musical life..but he did it.

Adam Lambert has something that most music artists nowadays lack in the voice, emotion.

If you take the hottest songs by Keri Hilson or The Dream, the tunes might be good, but what about the vocals?

Are they simply singing a song for ring tone money or do you sense they are singing to someone specific? Last night, Lambert gave the appearance of seeing to someone specific; but even if he was not singing to anyone special, the feelings in his vocals easily flowed through the T.V.

Besides Lambert, other highlights include Danny Goeky's soulful version of Earth Wind and Fire's "September" as well as Kris Allen's Santana tinged version of Donna Summer's "She Works Hard For The Money".

The interesting thing is that even if something crazy happens and Adam Lambert is knocked out like Chris Daughtry a few years ago, the rest of this year's Idols (which also includes Anoop Desai and rocker Allison Iraheta) are so talented that any one of them they could beat a number of former Idol winners including Underwood and David Cook.

Ironically, this year is very reminiscent when talented big voiced divas Fantasia , Latoya London and Jennifer Hudson duked it out with Fantasia taking the crown.

The only difference is, this year might actually be a little bit better.

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