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  • American Idol All-Stars

    As Lee DeWyze or Crystal Bowersox are revealed as the next American Idol during the next 36 hours, we’ll also reveal the winner of our Sonic Spring Singing competition.

    Here’s what I can tell you.  If Lee wins, then our winner and top finishers are a trio of folks.  If Crystal wins, then two of the three people get swapped out.  I want to give a special shout-out though to two people who predicted the Top 3 based solely on the Top 12.

    WTG, Michelle and Shantel!   Each predicted a Top 3 of Lee, Crystal and Casey James.

    Most people went a safer route and chose Siobhan or Michael over Casey.  One person went for the Duke-like upset and picked Aaron, but these two ladies showed they know their stuff!

    Your Task Now Is Important

    GG came up with the idea of American Idol All-Stars in honor of  the show’s 10th season next year and to hopefully allow a Simon-less panel to find its way.   In the interest of that notion since Idol will never do this, we’re going to pick our own All-Stars and have Idol Madness.  For every Kelly or Carrie, there was a Taylor Hicks.  And speaking of Taylor Hicks, anyone still amazed that he beat Daughtry and Yamin in the same year?

    Here are the rules:  anyone who didn’t win (that means you, Bo Bice) and also didn’t become popular later on.  Just answer in comments and tell us as many names as you want in the Idol All-Stars.

    We’re not going to pick obvious people:   Adam Lambert, Chris Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken, Elliott Yamin–artists who have had hits don’t count.

  • American Idol Season 9 – Who Makes The Final 2?

    To summarize last night’s show, Casey sucked, Crystal was good, and Lee was money. Now let’s get to business.

    (By the way, if anything I write from here on out is goofy, I blame the medicine the doctor prescribed for me for what she described as whooping cough. If you ever want to know what whooping cough feels like, cough 100 times in a row without stopping. Take a breath. And then do it again.)

    Ryno just asked Casey if he ever thought he’d be this far and if he thought that he’d win. He said no. Well, at least he agrees with the rest of us. Crystal said she envisioned herself winning. Lee said he wants to win. At least I think that’s what he said. He has a way with words. The only way I can describe how he answers a question is to pretend that answering a question directly is like walking in a straight line. Lee walks around in a circle, a squiggly line, does it backwards, and with his eyes closed.

    The first video package is of Casey James and his trip back home to Texas. He signed a guitar for the hospital that helped him heal after an accident. You got to see Casey’s mom who has hair like Reba McIntyre from 1990.

    Perez Hilton is on this show which has to be a sign of the apocalypse. He’s supporting a kid named Travis Garland who is another YouTube sensation like Justin Bieber. Perez just said he’s better than Justin Timberlake. I’ll go out on a limb and say that he’s not better than Justin Timberlake, nor Justin Bieber, or any of your friends named Justin who sing drunken karaoke.

    Next we see Crystal in Ohio. She was a guest at her own parade and performed at her own concert called Bowerstock.

    A friend asked me why she does the LeAnn Rimes eye squint and I think it’s a combination of being very tired and having heavy eye lids.

    Lee was able to throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field for a Cubs game. Now that was cool. Lee went back to the paint store that he used to work at and cried. I think he cried tears of joy because he’ll more than likely never have to work there again.

    Those were some long video packages.

    Bieber-Mania Is Runnin’ Wild!
    And now, it’s Justin Bieber time! Woohoo! I mean, um, hey, Justin Bieber’s on stage.

    He reminds me a lot of Joe McIntyre from the New Kids On The Block. He just has to be able to get over the upcoming voice crack that will happen sometime this year. I will admit to buying Baby on iTunes for the kids. At the end of his performance, he grabbed some sticks and did a drum solo to show that he’s not your average pop idol. That was pretty cool.

    And finally, it’s time for someone to go home.

    Lee DeWyze is the first person to move on so it’s between Crystal and Casey. If Casey wins, we riot.

    Crystal Bowersox is going to the finals. We get Lee vs. Crystal for all the marbles next week.

    Don’t feel badly for Casey. Casey James is about to run rough shot through American Idol groupies like no one has done since Constantine. Fathers, be good to your daughters, and keep them away from Casey James for the next three months.

    So who is it going to be? Lee or Crystal?

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  • American Idol Season 9 – Who Makes The Top 3?

    Last night was a pitiful show for the top four contestants. Jamie Foxx was dying to give away his ARTIST shirts, but they all looked like CONTESTANTS, except for Crystal Bowersox. I know, I know, the duets were good, but those don’t really count. They don’t even get graded on those.

    And what’s with Simon telling Crystal that she’s back in the running? Hasn’t she been the wire-to-wire leader all season long?

    Do you remember that old Sesame Street song that went, “One of these things is not like the other?” Someone needs to sing that song to Casey James. Talk about overstaying your welcome.

    My favorite American Idol winner ever, Fantasia is on stage singing Bittersweet. They shouldn’t have let her on the stage. She sings with more emotion in her fake eyelashes than any current season 9 contestant sings with in their entire body.

    It’s time to dim the lights. Ryno has the parents sitting to his left and the contestants on center stage.

    In the “Somebody Up There Likes Me” category, Casey James is in the top three. I feel so badly for Big Mike. In no universe is Casey James a better singer than Mike, and he’s going further in the competition. Well, Daughtry was kicked out several years ago this week too.

    Speaking of Daughtry (how’d you like that segue?), they’re on stage now performing September. I think this performance is foreshadowing for Big Mike’s exit after this show is over.

    Daughtry has the worst goatee I’ve ever seen in my life. He’s bald and has his beard growing from where his sideburns would be all the way to the other side of his face. Then, he has the normal goatee running over and on the side of his lips, but it’s not as thick. He must’ve been bored and figured that he’s so famous now, he can wear his facial hair in any ridiculous manner and people would think it’s a fashion statement.

    Back to dimming the lights, Lee is safe. I’m telling you, Big Mike is a big goner.

    Bon Jovi is on stage and if I ever have to feather my hair like that to look cool, someone just please shoot me. That’s not to say dude’s not cool, because he’s one of the few guys going today who can feather his hair and get away with it, but if I were him, I’d go Daughtry style and shave it all off. Be a maverick Jon!

    Lee tried to explain why it’s good to be safe and bad to not be safe and he almost swallowed his own face by talking so fast.

    And the person who is in the top three is Crystal Bowersox. My man, Big Mike is going home and he’s going to have to leave right now.

    But they told me
    A man should be faithful
    And walk when not able
    And fight till the end
    But I’m only human