Love/Hate Sensation

HATE! HATE! HATE!

"While Blake's take on the song certainly was "a risk," the mashing-together of beatboxing/drum dueling and the song's huge, anthemic chorus sounded like a bad club DJ smooshing together Incubus and Bon Jovi while not knowing anything at all about beat-matching--or the concept of rhythm, period. It was terrible." [IDOLATOR]

"...the worst performance of the show was probably also the most memorable, as Blake Lewis, the beatboxing fool mentioned above, took "You Give Love a Bad Name" and gave it into a complete mindfuck of a wicky-wicky fake-DJ-scratched Euroclub remix, even staging a duel with an onstage percussionist...it was just the most deliriously weird two minutes in recent TV history."[STATUS AIN'T HOOD]

I need love, love, love to ease my mind!

"I'd place my wager on Blake Lewis, whose electrifying retooling of ''You Give Love a Bad Name'' has likely surpassed Mindy Doo's ''My Funny Valentine'' as the season's watercooler performance...The ''you give love-lllll-love-love-lll-love a bad, bad name'' breakdown had me clapping like baby-seal Paula, and while the judges seemed a little tentative in their praise, this was the performance that — whether or not it secured Blake a spot in the final two — pretty much guaranteed him a record deal."[EW]

"Fuck. He is so hot. So. Hot. And this rendition rocks. He looks awesome, he looks grown up. Oooh, here comes the beat boxing!!!! And the dancing!!!! He plays off the drummer, who’s standing next to him. He pulls up the mic stand and leans into the audience, Bon Jovi style. This is awesome."[THE EVIL BEET]

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