WATCH: Malaya Watson sings ‘When I Was Your Man’ for ‘American Idol’

Talk about interesting song choices.

Our Fil-Am bet for the talent search sang the Bruno Mars hit song, and didn’t bother to change the pronouns, which is perfectly fine.

How can we bothered by such when her performance was superb?

Full of feelings.

Had some high notes that she nailed.

Goosebumps-inducing.

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No standing ovation, but undoubtedly amazing.

Amazing enough she made it to the next round! 

Judge Jennifer Lopez admitted she was ready to hate on her but that she had goosies. “When you hit the middle of that song, it was sung so beautifully, so tenderly, with so much feeling and love. It was awesome. Beautiful,” she said. 




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