The thing is Blizzie, there has been a lot of talk about this being a music competiton not a personality competition, However I do not think you can have one without the other.
What Rebecca lacks ( IMO
) is depth and soul. She just sings -there is nothing else there.
And for that reason I do not think she could ever be compared to Nina Simone or Billie Holiday - she is a "Stars in their Eyes" poor imitation.
She has been packaged to be that. I have no doubt that she will be successful but she has nothing truly original.
As for Matt - I absolutely am not getting the Matt love - he just has a mediocre voice at the best and the last few weeks has been truly dreadful - IMO.
Those clips I have posted, just showed to me how low the standard has become this year.