April Lockhart sings 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' on Rising Star (VIDEO)

April Lockhart sang 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' on Rising Star Top 8 on Sunday, August 10, 2014.

In the pre-performance video, the other contestants and Josh Groban chat about April Lockhart, discussing her quirkiness and how she can get away with silly things that the rest of them can't, such as saying "cool beans." They feel she has the perfect makings of a pop star, while Ludacris adds she's been through more adversity than just about anyone else in the competition. Brad feels there's almost no song she doesn't sound cool doing. This is a cute little opening video package, and I feel as though, of all the contestants, April is the most vividly memorable in the personality department.

April sings "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," but she doesn't really modernize the arrangement. However, she's just quirky enough to make it work, with her impressive guitar work and her playful facial expressions. That said, this wasn't a blow-away by any means, and I think she could find herself in trouble, especially since Brad and Ludacris voted "no," leaving her with just 27% of the vote. OUCH. She wasn't that bad, America.

Brad is disappointed because he feels this is the one time where an April Lockhart performance didn't really work. And he hates that he didn't love it, since he loves April. However, he does feel she has a career. Ludacris, meanwhile, echoes Twitter once again by saying he didn't think this was a good song choice at all. Kesha wasn't sure about the song choice, but she feels it's such a fun song, and April is such a cute girl, that she enjoyed it. I kind of feel the way Brad does. I like April a lot, but this could have been so much better than it was.

Watch the performance video here: