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  • American Idol Season 10 – Who Makes The Final 5?

    Jimmy Iovine wants us to believe that Jacob Lusk is close to elimination. Randall Jackson said the same thing last night. Think about this for a second. In a singing competition, Haley could outlast Jacob. In any other examination of singing as an artform, people would be up in arms. But on this show? Nope, no one cares. They’re fine with it. American Idol has warped our brains.

    Of course, it’s much more than just voice. It’s presentation and charisma and look. But let’s not be vague about this. The reason why people are ok with Jacob Lusk leaving a singing competition before someone like Haley is because he has a feminine personality, and for whatever reason, that’s offensive to viewers. The fact that Steven Tyler was insinuating that Haley and Casey were knocking boots on last night’s show wasn’t offensive. But Jacob sings in a dramatic fashion and it’s offensive. I’m calling you out America. It’s flat out wrong.

    J. Lo Booty alert
    I turned on the show and J. Lo was immediately seated. Fail.

    Bruno Mars is on the show tonight. My twitter friend, Raphael is a dead ringer for him.

    The Idol crew sings a medley of Carole King’s hits. After seeing each contestant sing once and then seing three duets last night, I’m fine with fast forwarding through this. But Scotty was signing amidst 6 young girls. I would’ve never let my daughter be looked at as Scotty groupie food like that.

    Hey, Crystal Bowersox is singing live tonight. You know how Haley has big teeth? Crystal just has bad teeth. But she sings well. Ryan didn’t even ask her to give the contestants any advice. They just went straight to commercial. Bad hosting Seacrest.

    Ryno is taking email questions and the first one is for Casey. Casey was asked who he would want to sing a duet with, living or dead. Casey said Oscar Peterson and the crowd clapped as if they knew who Oscar Peterson was. Someone asked Jacob when he found his range. He said singing in choir when he could sing all the parts. Lauren is asked what the hardest part about being a finalist is. She said missing friends and family. Someone asked Scotty what his pre-Idol job was. He worked at a grocery store and a tanning salon. Someone asked James if he played with a band before Idol. Of course he has. Haley’s teeth was asked who her all-time favorite Idol contestant was and she answered Adam Lambert and then answered about 5 more. Yes, that was as painful to watch and write as it was painful to read.

    Ryno brings Haley’s teeth to the stage. Haley’s teeth is safe tonight.

    Scotty is in the center of the stage. Ryno just tells him to sit down, but doesn’t tell him if he’s safe or not. He brings Lauren to the stage. Then he tells her to sit down too. And he does the same to Casey. He’s also trying to sell that it’s going to be a surprise. At this point, who going home would be a surprise? They’re all pretty even. Well, except for Haley’s teeth, but she’s already safe.

    Big Game James is safe. So it’s between Jacob, Casey, Lauren, and Scotty. Jimmy Iovine thinks that Jacob is on banana peel status because of his clothing choice from last night.

    Lauren is safe. So it’s down to three dudes.

    Bruno Mars is onstage singing The Lazy Song. It’s exactly what it’s titled. It’s one of the worst singles on the album and is the underachiever’s anthem. He sings about P90X, doing the Dougie, and just not combing his hair. Yes, and he put it on his album. And yes, I hear it on the radio. Stoner’s are ruling the world people.

    Jacob is safe which has to mean Casey’s a goner. Pia is going to cackle if Casey goes home. She’s cackling and cackling hard. Casey is going home.

    He went home in fashion. He nearly made out with Steven Tyler on his way out. He had J. Lo in tears and decided to kiss a bunch of women on the cheek and high five a bunch of dudes as the show went to credits. Seacrest out!

    (I guess my entire intro wasn’t necessary since Jacob didn’t go home eh?)

    Photo of Bruno Mars is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

  • American Idol Season 10 – Who Makes The Final 6?

    I write two American Idol blogs per week. On Wednesday’s contest portion of the show, I blog for Popblerd! which is run by the guy who used to run this blog, Money Mike. And on the elimination show, I blog here, which I’ve been doing for the last couple of years. This year, I’ve been incorporating tweets into my Wednesday blog to give it more of a “live” feel, even though I generally write it five hours after the show has already been broadcasted live on the East Coast.

    I missed one tweet last night that pretty much described my feeling on who is going to go home tonight. My homegirl Michelle was a little bothered that I decided to omit her fantastic tweet, but I had to let her know that I simply missed it. The show goes fast when you’re searching through Twitter to find good tweets. However, she let me know what she said in a comment today.

    I had to work late last night and watched the show from Stefano’s performance on. During his performance I kept thinking, I know Stefano “just can’t stop” but I wish he would! It’s a bummer becuase I’ve liked him from the beginning but now he’s getting annoying. He’s trying way too hard. J. Lo will definitely shed tears when he leaves the show.

    Stefano was singing Ne-Yo’s Closer and he continuously sang the lyric, “I just can’t stop.” Michelle, and others, wished he would’ve.

    J. Lo Booty Alert
    As usual, J to the LO (hello) looks hot to deaf. But there wasn’t even a glimpse of the backside action.

    Stefano and Jacob start out singing Hey Soul Sister. Haley and Lauren chime in. It was not good.

    I have finally figured out where I’ve seen Jacob’s dance moves.

    Scotty, James, and Casey are singing Viva La Vida. This was much better. However, what I don’t get is why aren’t they having the kids harmonize like they were in groups if they want them to sing as a group?

    Ryno asked Jacob about being called a diva by his fellow contestants. He said that it wasn’t in a bad way while James was shaking his head. Scotty said there was a cupcake named after him in his hometown. And Casey held up a painting someone made of him. They surely needed to fill two minutes or something.

    Ryno tells Casey and Jacob to stand up. Casey is safe because of the J. Lo kiss and Jacob is in the bottom three for his diva-ness.

    David Cook is on stage singing The Last Goodbye. It’s a nice little ditty, but I’m not running over anyone to buy it on iTunes. Cook brought his mom up to the stage so she could meet Steven Tyler. I think Tyler snuck in a lip lock there like usual. Daddy Cook may get some action tonight now that his wife is all hot and bothered.

    Ryno has Stefano, James, and Lauren on the stage. Stefano is in the bottom three, as predicted. Lauren and Big Game James are safe. Haley and Scotty are up and I would put big money on Scotty being safe here. Of course, Scotty was safe. But soon thereafter, Ryno also told Haley that she was safe, so she wasn’t in the bottom three for long.

    Katy Perry is singing E.T., which would’ve been pretty cool if Kanye West was there, but unfortunately, we only got young Katherine. I think it would’ve been cool if she came out with some Reeces Pieces, but alas, she wasn’t creative enough. I get why this song is popular, but it’s pretty drab and boring until Kanye’s verses. Ok! Kanye is there! I should’ve expected it. He rarely misses an opportunity to be seen on camera in front of large audiences. Go Yeezy.

    Yep, Stefano is going home. Both Michelle and I called it. Actually, I don’t think it was that hard of a choice. I bet many people figured he was going home. He should be ok with going home. When he gets home, it will be groupie central time. He sings Lately as his goodbye song which was one of his better performances. If he sang like this last night, he wouldn’t have gone home.

    It reminded me of maybe the greatest performance of Lately ever. Wait until about the 1:10 moment.

    Seacrest out!

    Photo of David Cook by Wikipedia and was released into the public domain

  • American Idol Season 10 – Who Makes The Final 8?

    Last night was a fairly boring night for American Idol. No one really stood out and the judges reaped everyone with praise. Well, except for Pia. J. Lo was very positive in her critique, but if you break down what she was really telling Pia, it was that she needed to step up her entertainment game and that it wasn’t only about her voice. If you think about it, J. Lo knows that. J. Lo can’t hold a tune herself, yet she’s survived in the music business because she entertains.

    Jacob led off the show and had some odd, preachy statement which said something to the extent of, if you vote me off, it’s your fault, not mine. It really came out of left field. As if he’s not already polarizing enough. It just gave the people who can’t stand him more ammunition.

    After the show was over, I thought Pia, Paul and Haley could be in trouble. However, for whatever reason, the judges want Haley to stick around. But at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised who leaves. Everyone, with the exception of Lauren and Jacob are all on the same playing field. Those two are the only ones who stand out, though, when Jacob decides he needs more enemies, it scares me.

    J. Lo Booty Alert
    J. Lo is wearing some hip hugging, but baggy, shiny pants, but again, no view of the badonkadonk.

    The group did a bunch of songs that weren’t all that impressive or that fun.

    Ryno said that the crew was visited by a “charisma coach”, which was just a way to get Russell Brand on TV to hype his movie Arthur. He did absolutely nothing and it was a waste of a few minutes of the show.

    Casey, Stefano, and Lauren are asked to join Ryno. One of the three are in the bottom three and that person is Stefano.

    Ryno ruins my evening and says that Constantine is singing live tonight. And he’s singing Unchained Melody. The second he’s shown on stage, I feel molested.

    (I actually saw Constantine in person several years ago. My friend was trying out for American Idol and in order to be able to try out, you had to get your credentials super early in the morning the day before. While waiting in line to get the credentials, Constantine was there. And if he doesn’t already look strung out normally, imagine him at 6AM. He looked like he’d been on quite the bender. The photo above was taken on that morning.)

    Yes, he’s also terribly oversinging the song and looks eerily like Russell Brand.

    Gwen Stefani dressed the girls this week. It’s more wasteful TV, but Gwen is secretly super tall. She also desperately needs a tan.

    Ryno calls up Paul, Scotty, and Pia. Paul looks quite unkempt tonight. Scotty is safe, Paul is safe, and Pia is in the bottom three. This is very interesting. It’s also interesting when the contestants are surprised that someone is in the bottom three. When Paul came back to safety, the contestants were astonished to see him. Jacob mouthed, “Wow” right as Paul walked by him.

    There’s a TMZ segment where the contestants get grilled by TMZ “reporters”. This was more wasteful than Gwen and Russell Brand put together. Just horrendous television.

    Ryno calles up James, Haley, and Jacob to the stage. If Haley is safe, we riot. James is safe. And Haley is safe. Jacob is in the bottom three. Damnit Jacob! You can’t preach on American Idol unless your name is Simon.

    Iggy Pop is on stage. Yep, perfect for the American Idol demographic here. He’s shirtless with an old skinny man’s body. He also looks like he smells really badly, though I’m not sure how I can tell that. And I think he was just bleeped from saying the “F” word. He then got right up in J. Lo’s face and I’m not sure that she liked it.

    Ryno brought up the dumb thing Jacob said yesterday, but it didn’t matter because he’s safe. We’re down to Stefano and Pia, who are rumored to be dating, by the way. Stefano is safe and Pia is going home. Randall looks shocked. Ryno kind of gave away the finish when he said the vote could be shocking tonight.

    J. Lo is crying. Randall is in shock because Pia is one of the best singers. Well guess what judges, that’s what you get for saving Casey so early. Pia is just as savable as Casey was and possibly more so when it comes down to what kind of music they want to promote.

    This kind of sucks for Stefano because the judges keep saying that America got it wrong, which means they think he should’ve gone home. This is the first time this season where someone who could’ve actually won this show has gone home. I now fear big time for big Jacob. If Pia can go home, he can too.

    Seacrest out!