Didi Done Did It This TimeI’ve done pretty well at calling the first two eliminations and soon, they will be harder and harder to call. But I’ll call it here again. I don’t think Miss Didi Benami is going to make it to next week. When contestants don’t look happy performing and it seems as if they aren’t having fun, it doesn’t necessarily inspire people to vote for them. I think that’s what happens to Didi.
They pulled Ruben Studdard out of the closet they were hiding him in and he performed what seems like a new single. You can tell how much a crowd enjoys a performance by how many times the artist has to ask the crowd to get into it. Studdard must’ve asked the crowd at least three times to clap along with him. Maybe next time he should get on his knees and beg. “Come on y’all!”
Ryno Seacrest just said that Ruben and Clay Aiken were going on tour together. It’s like if Luther Vandross and Elton John impostors were touring together.
Onto the contestants …
Ryno asks Lee Dewyze to stand up. Lee goes on and on about his performance last night, but still looks constipated. How can the guy look constipated every week? Give the brother some fiber. He’s safe.
Ryno asks Casey to stand up and asks him how he can challenge himself. The first words out of Casey’s mouth were, “I mean …” No Case, we have no idea what you mean because you didn’t say anything yet. He’s safe.
Aaron Kelly is up and Ryno asks him if he’s ever really been in love. Aaron says that his nether regions were aflutter when he saw Miley Cyrus last week. Ok, he didn’t say that. Ryno told him he was safe anyway.
Creepy girl and Katie stand up together. Creepy girl isn’t living down her nickname with her wardrobe. Katie is in the bottom three. Simon says that he wishes Katie would’ve taken his advice as if to say that if she did, she wouldn’t be in the bottom three. Don’t worry Simon, she’s not going home.
Usher’s performing OMG, his newest single. It’s only the worst song on his new album. The girl might make Usher say, “Oh my God”, but the song makes me roll my eyes. The guy is simply too talented to put out crap like this. And to make things worse, will.i.am shows up to throw his terrible rhymes into the ether.
By the time this thing was over, I was hoping that Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas were going to save him.
Back to the evicting – it’s Didi’s turn. I have a bad feeling about this. I think Ryno could’ve told her to sit down and she would’ve just walked to the other side of the stage to join Katie anyway. Didi is in the bottom three, and all of you participating in the Sonic Spring Singing Contest were all right on the money in picking her, just like George wrote today.
Ryno tricked Big Mike into thinking he was in the bottom three and in turn, Big Mike picked Ryno up and nearly threw him into the air. Ryno better check his shorts during the next commercial.
Crystal is also safe. Timothy and Andrew stand up together. Timothy is the smartest person in this competition. He just told America that the reason he smiles is because he’s the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Or something like that. But he’s genuinely likable no matter how badly he sucks the big sloppy dunky one. Andrew is safe and Teflon Timothy is in the bottom three.
Ryno sends Katie back to safety. It’s Didi vs. Timothy in a “Who is more terrible?” competition.
Diddy and his group “Dirty Money” are performing tonight for whatever reason. This performance was actually not half bad. But in the 13 years that Diddy has been a recording artist, he still can’t rap worth a damn. And just to think, he was friends with one of the greatest rappers of all time. Just goes to show you that rapping is just as much of a talent as singing is. You can fake it to make it, but skills are skills.
I just thought about this. We have a Didi and a Diddy on the same show.
Teflon Timothy does it again. Didi Benami is on her way out, but she’s trying to sing her way back on the show hoping that the judges will save her from doom. It’s actually a really solid performance, but it also shows that her range is pretty weak. If Simon and company bring her back, I’ll eat my hat.
Simon says he’s not going to save her, saving Didi for another week of unhappy singing and saving me from having to eat my hat. It’s time for Didi to leave right now.
If Sonic Clashers got this one right, look for Tim Urban and Didi Benami to be swiveling in stools after Ryan Seacrest announces they’re in the bottom three.
And look for the teary contestant (who evokes the name or memory of her freshman college roommate Rebecca Lear more than Danny mentioned his recently deceased wife last year) to go home tonight.
The Sonic Clash Spring Singing Contest entries are in (but you still have until the results show begins airing on the East Coast tonight to enter this week’s contest).
Every vote put Didi Benami in the bottom two. More than half of the voters selected her to go home tonight. Benami butchered Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes of the Brokenhearted last night and may have saved moptopped Tim Urban. The boy who has nine lives was called out as tonight’s loser on all of the ballots that did not select Benami.
This week’s biggest surprise? As the competition tightens, the buzz around marginal contests is beginning to evaporate. Aaron Kelly and Siobhan Magnus both received “bottom two” votes. Magnus has all fallen from favor as the winning singer after front-runner Crystal Bowersox played against type last night by dressing up, playing the piano and singing Midnight Train to Georgia.
Mamasox now has been selected as the contest winner by 50% of Sonic Clash voters.
Last night on American Idol, the judges and Ryno Seacrest kept mentioning how important it was to make it into the top 10. Only those who make the top 10 are allowed on the tour, yet I’m not sure why they don’t take the entire top 12. I don’t think that’s ever been explained.
If you’re Paige Miles or Timothy Urban, you’re probably expecting to not get any tour money. Crazier things have happened in American Idol voting though. If I’m picking, I think Paige goes home. Even when she was good, she wasn’t popular for whatever reason.
If you fast forward through the group song like I usually do, you would’ve missed the top 11 singing Wham’s Wake Me Up and you would’ve missed Didi slipping and nearly wiping out on stage. She wasn’t doing a jitterbug. She was just walking.
Siobhan’s boss Brooks is in the audience and Ryno pointed out that he isn’t going to shave until Siobhan wins. And her friends are next to him caked in fake blood. And people were telling me Siobhan isn’t a creepy girl.
Ryno tells creepy girl to pack her bags because she’s going on tour. Siobhan is safe.
He tells Lee and Casey to stand up together. He then tells Timothy and Paige to stand up together. I have a feeling we’re seeing the two top vote getters and two of the bottom vote getters. Paige and Timothy are in the bottom three. At least America is voting correctly so far.
Miley Cyrus is singing When I Look At You and is having quite a hard time of doing it live. Her voice is definitely straining. You know how rappers have hype men who also help layer their raps live? Miley needs a Melinda Doolittle to help her layer her vocals live. This is also why I think she’s going to be a much better actress when it’s all said and done.
I wonder if Andrew Garcia joins Timothy and Paige?
Ryno tells Aaron Kelly to stand up. I still thinks Aaron is going to Hogwarts in the fall. Aaron can sit down. He’s through to the next round.
Didi is safe. She should be very thankful. Big Mike is safe. He deserves it. Crystal is safe too.
And it’s down to Katie and Andrew for the last person in the bottom three. And in a bit of a surprise, Katie is in the bottom three. I’d be very surprised if she goes home.
Ryno sends Katie back to safety. She’s on the Idol tour. And Timothy Urban can’t hide his disappointment.
Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas are finishing off Disney week on Idol with Make A Wave. Wait, it wasn’t Disney week. It was Billboard week. Whatever.
First Hannah Montana, now Sonny With A Chance and little Joey Jonas. Where’s Selena Gomez? What’s funny is that Simon would probably kill all three singers if he were to judge them honestly after these performances.
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And, the person who is eliminated is Paige Miles. Simon says that even if she performed well, they weren’t using the save on her. I hope they don’t make her sing Against All Odds again.
Thankfully for our ears, she didn’t have to sing the song again. She’s singing All Right Now.
I’m two for two on my picks. I’m shooting for three for three next week. Be afraid of me. Very afraid.
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Miley Cyrus is singing When I Look At You and is having quite a hard time of doing it live. Her voice is definitely straining. You know how rappers have hype men who also help layer their raps live? Miley needs a Melinda Doolittle to help her layer her vocals live. This is also why I think she’s going to be a much better actress when it’s all said and done. 
