"It's so hard to find a song that defines me as an artist," says Casey Abrams, who wants to sing Nat King Cole's Nature Boy (from 2001's Moulin Rouge). Jimmy Iovine tells him the song makes him small and almost talks him into doing Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight. Ultimately, he goes with Cole. And Jimmy's not happy. "He chose not to take the help," Jimmy says. "He better be right."
It's an intimate performance, at the start much more restrained than the previous performances. But then Casey starts hamming it up, throwing in a little growl, telling the pianist, "Hey, Ray, let's show 'em what we can do," before giving him a few bars of a solo then doing some scatting. The Casey fans'll love it, and it might have been just counter-intuitive enough to work.
The judges, having wasted all their superlatives on the previous contestants, just give him a standing ovation.
"At the beginning, I was nervous," Jennifer says. Casey doesn't have to be Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson. He can be Norah Jones. "Good job."
"We have real, true artists on this show," Randy says. "I don't think we've had anybody exactly like you, ever." He compares him not to Norah Jones but to Herbie Hancock and -- Lord, help us -- Charles Mingus.
Mingus? Really? Come on.
"You are an artist in the truest sense of the world," says Steven, before quoting an entire Nat King Cole scat. He's impressed that Casey would risk the wrath of Jimmy Iovine.
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