Elite 8: Elimination Results (SPOILER ALERT!)

After a less than stellar week from the majority of our Idol hopefuls, Wednesday night went down almost how I predicted it would. Here are some thoughts from the Results portion this week.


1. Where in the world is the dramatic recap?! I like to get a little refresher of the performance night before Seacrest starts chopping up people's hopes and dreams. Not really sure why they didn't include it in this episode.

2. "Don't Stop Believing" was the group song this week. However, the contestants did nothing to make us stop believing that they lip-sync the mess out of these songs. The vocals were pretty solid, but there was no choreography at all to pick on. Dang it. I'll say it again, Adam can sing high! I bet he would have sang this song as his pick this week had the producers not already chose it for the group number. But at least they gave him the glory note (even though he is the only person, man or woman, on the show who could hit them).

3. The Ford commercial sorta freaked me out, but was sorta cool. I dunno, it was weird but it made me kind of happy.

4. This group of contestants seem like they genuinely like each other. Their impersonations of their fellow competitors were hilarious. Anoop trumped them all with his impression of Kris lol. Llama jaw!!

5. Ryan introduces yet ANOTHER way to suspensefully deduce who is in the bottom 3 by separating them into 3 groups of 3. One of each group is in the bottom three. The groups are 1. Kris, Megan, and Matt, 2. Adam, Lil', and Allison, and 3. Scott, Danny, and Anoop. When they first showed this, I was POSITIVE that it was Megan, Lil', and Anoop. The shocker was that Lil' is safe AGAIN, and Allison is in the bottom 3, also again. This is getting borderline ridiculous. Allison is a much more consistent performer than Lil' is and I'm not sure that she has earned the right to be in the bottom 3 TWICE!

So the bottom 3 consists of Megan (who "flew" over to her stool, cawing again. I love this girls weirdness), Allison, and Anoop. Finally, they use all of the stools!

6. David Cook sounded no where near as good as he did when he was on Idol. I guess that is the curse of winning AI. You get a nice fancy record contract, but the songs that they make you sing are fodder and not at all a representation of your talent. Wait til he can break away from 19 Records and start doing his own thing. Then you'll see him shine.

7. Lady Gaga is crazy. Why in the world does she have a zipper over her eye and what is she wearing?! I just don't understand. I mean, yea, the song is catchy and all, but she is just out of her mind. I guess that's part of her gig though.

8. Once the show comes back to the reason we are watching, Ryan asks the judges if any are worth saving. "One is" says Simon. He obviously means Allison. Ryan informs us that Allison is safe (DUR) and that it's between Megan and Anoop. After leaving Anoop in suspense again for the 18,000th time this season, it is revealed that he is safe and Megan is going home. Simon said there was no shot at her being saved so this was her "Swan Song." She sang (and I use that term loosely) her song for the judges and proceeded to watch her farewell video. As cool as she's played it so far in the episode, knowing that she was probably going to be the one to go, she breaks down once they start showing her baby and all of her quirky moments in the house. You can tell that she was one of the ones who drew this group of contestants together and I think that she will really be missed by them.

For the most part, what happened is what was supposed to have happened. It's giving me a little more faith in the voters (besides the whole Allison debacle). Next week is "Songs from the Year they were Born" week. I have NO earthly idea how I'm going to pull off my predictions. :-\

You know the deal. Until next week...

Your American Idol Junkie,

Billy