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Who sang soul so poorly they just have to get the boot? Or, better yet, who did America just decide they didn't want to see for another week on American Idol no matter how they sang? The results come in the 9 o'clock hour tonight. Follow for commentary on Twitter and here.
Ruben Studdard returns to the Idol stage seven years after winning the title to sing a forgettable, tuneless song. Michael Lynche, I hope you were paying attention. If you win, this could be you. Find better material than Ruben has and you won't have to suffer the indignity of winning Idol only to find yourself having to go back on the road with Clay Aiken.
Best line: "Ryan, this is not the Oprah Winfrey Show," as Simon puts that nattering little pest in his place. Ryan Seacrest continues to overstep his bounds on this program. He is the host, not a judge. He needs to stop challenging Simon and getting in his face. Simon's next best line of the night soon followed when he said, "Ryan, you're getting on my nerves tonight."
Simon, he's getting on ALL of our nerves.
Meantime, in a predictable moment, Katie Stevens finds herself in the bottom three.
Wondering why radio is turning a mostly deaf ear to the latest Usher singles, despite his high profile? Listen to the tuneless and hookless mess he just left on the stage with Wil.I.Am. That OMG song is a total nonentity, autotuned to within an inch of its life.
The two photogenic Idols, Tim Urban and Didi Benami, find themselves bottom two. Katie sent back to stands in safety for another week. Gotta say this much about Tim, he might not be Sinatra, but compared to the verbally challenged Lee Dewyze and the others, he can at least offer a lucid answer to a host's question. He was the only one who answered Ryan's question with any intellect.
Diddy returns from wherever he was to rap a song with three words, Hello. Good morning, amid strobe lights to disguise the fact there's nothing really there. Diddy's on the Idol stage but will Didi still be next week...
Alas, no. Even the good Welsh witch Rhiannon couldn't save her... sweet Didi doesn't net a judge's save. She's going home. Teflon Tim lives to sing another week.
Americans got the bottom two wrong again. The correct bottom two would have seen Andrew and Katie standing there and Andrew would have received the bad news. Didi was off last night but not as off.
Next week, Lennon-McCartney Songbook. Let it be? What do you think, Idol Watchers?
I say after last night's show send them all home tonight and find a mid-season replacement show to air instead of this pathetic crapola. I am still failing to see what is so great about Lee!
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:05 PM
Ruben looks like he lost an ounce!
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:05 PM
Is Ruben still relevant? Does anyone care about him at all?
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:07 PM
MrsE---hello and happy pesacccchhh. our seder involved watching this dreck last night. sort of combining yom kippur w/ passover. anyway, I liked Crystal, thought Lee was very good albeit boring, Green Mile, Casey (*swoon*) and I forget the rest....
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:07 PM
I met him down here in October and he was the Velvet Sloth. Wouldn't get up off the couch. Nice enough, though, but relevant? As relevant as Clay Aiken< I guess.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:08 PM
Happy matzo week to you as well! We watched the show after seder and I wanted to lose my gefilte fish all over the floor afterwards. It was truly one of the worst I have ever seen. Why would they all pick songs from the 60's when the current charts are filled with talented R & B artists like Alicia Keys, Mary J, Keith Sweat, ect... Casey did look adorable though...
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:11 PM
Green Mile's tail is ridiculous. He is getting cocky and starting to bug me
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:14 PM
He is so eloquent.
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:17 PM
Lee I mean..ugh... he is mediocre.
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:18 PM
I wasn't listening. He has sparkly eyes, though.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:19 PM
Amen Simon. "This is not the Oprah Winfrey Show"
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:20 PM
Shibonbon was horrid last night. I hope she goes home more than any of the others.
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:22 PM
she was the WORST.com.
and OMG she's safe.
Ryan is turning this into a pageant.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:23 PM
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:24 PM
Hello all.
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:25 PM
Lane will be happy - the Beatles...
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:29 PM
Lennon/ McCartney? Really? Speaking of relevance....this season officially sux!
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:29 PM
Usher's using auto-tune. Perhaps the contestants can use it next week as well.
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:32 PM
Usher sucks.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:32 PM
i think usher thinks he inherited the jacko throne. that was heinous.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:35 PM
Do you get how bad we think you are?
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Who goes home? I say Didi.
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:43 PM
andrew's wife (?) looks like the lead singer of technotronic. pump up the jam...
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:43 PM
TUrban AND Didi should go home.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Tim Urban should do Old Navy commercials.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Is he now known as "Diddy Dirty Money"? What's next, Old Dirty Diddy?
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:50 PM
I see a number of similarities between the Diddy and Lennon/McCartney songbooks...
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:52 PM
I take back my earlier comments. If this is the current "sound", I would rather sing oldies music too.
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:52 PM
i'm still baffled by the general existence of 'diddy' or, as i call him, 'doody'
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 09:57 PM
I actually like Didi. She was awful last night but still...
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 09:58 PM
Ri-AHHHHH-non...
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM
didi needs to go
Posted by: Anne | March 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM
hubby says Didi sounds like Goat Boy. G'night y'all
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2010 at 10:01 PM
night
Posted by: MrsEvans | March 31, 2010 at 10:03 PM
night all... see you next tuesday! LOL
Posted by: MrEvans | March 31, 2010 at 10:03 PM
i think they should have sent HOME Mr. WEST an not DIDI he should of not be on the idol stage he is a disgrace to the music buisness. For diong what he did to Taylor Swift at the awards
posted by Pat
Posted by: pat | March 31, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Pat, that wasn't Kanye West on Idol stage. That was Diddy.
But you can send Diddy home with Didi, too.
Posted by: HoCo | March 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Usher is doing the same formulaic and predictable R&B music. There is nothing memorable about what he is doing now. I really prefer his earlier stuff.
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Posted by: Annie | April 06, 2010 at 02:59 PM