American Idol

She's a Woman

So much for typecasting! Chikezie, who had been solidly R&B so far, comes on stage in an argyle vest, sings the first verse with a jugband-like arrangement that turns into a blaring country-rock performance—am I leaving out a genre? was there a lute in there somewhere?—but the stylistic pileup doesn't just work, it kills. He knocks the cover off this cover.