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American Idol Season 8 Top 4 Results Show

Jeanne — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:58:23 +0000

The show started with a group performance of “School’s Out” which is one of my favorite songs to play on Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock. It was pretty cool to see the contestants rock out like that.

Danny Gokey had me cracking up as he talked about how funny it was to watch his performance from last night. Judge Simon Cowell had said his last note sounded like something from a horror movie and Danny had to agree. He said that his own aunt had muted it and he heard that people were making ringtones. Too funny!

We were treated with a little montage of Paula Abdul’s career before she performed her new single “I’m Just Here for the Music.” The lip-synching is unacceptable, can I just say? A lot of celebrities bomb majorly because they try to perform LIVE on the Idol stage and I think it’s sort of a right of passage. There’s no flipping way she was moving like that and singing. BUT I do have to give her major kudos for those amazing moves. She really blew me away by jumping off the stage and being flipped around like that. Fierce!

On the flipside, I kinda wish that Gwen Stefani from No Doubt had lip-synched as she warbled her way through “Just a Girl.” No further comment needed. Moving on…

Over 64 million votes were cast which is the highest number outside of a finale. Go America!

Kris Allen was the first to be sent to safety! I’m pretty happy with it because he’s humble, inventive and cute.

Daughtry performed their new song “No Surprise” from their upcoming album Leave This Town. What do you think of the song? I’m not a huge fan of it, to be honest.

Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey joined Kris on the couch but Allison Iraheta was sent home. I can’t say that I’m too surprised but it’s too bad. She’s got a great voice but she really needs to come out of her shell and connect more with her audience.

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American Idol 8 Top 9 Results Show

Jeanne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:02:35 +0000

The American Idol contestants showed us a bit about their lives and things have changed since they’ve been on the show. They spend a lot of time doing interviews, photo shoots and walking the red carpet (wow, I feel so sorry for them – ha ha!). They also revealed that they have a private chef (Scott requested a triple chocolate cake!).

Reigning Idol winner, David Cook, sang his song “Come Back to Me” and I was really happy to see him considering he had to cancel some shows due to some family issues. He was presented with a platinum record for his debut album (over a million copies sold).

Lady Gaga also took the stage and sang a very interesting version of her mega-hit, “Poker Face.” I am so sorry but I cannot stand her. I know she’s popular but she just seems to try too hard to be unique for me.

The bottom three consisted of Megan Joy, Allison Iraheta and Anoop Desai. When she was being put into the bottom, Ryan asked about how Megan felt about Simon’s harsh words following her performance last night. She said that she didn’t care about what Simon had to say (yikes!).

When it was announced that Megan had the fewest number of votes, Ryan asked whether the judges would consider saving her. Simon brought up what she had said about him and then said that the judges were now the ones do “don’t care” and that they would not be considering using the “save” on her. ROUGH!

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The Votes Are In: Alexis, Michael and Danny Advance To American Idol Top 12

Jeanne — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:54:48 +0000

Tonight, they announced the first three contestants to make it to the Top 12 on the eighth season of American Idol. America voted and the following people made it:

Alexis Grace sang “Never Loved a Man”

Michael Sarver sang “I Don’t Wanna Be”

Danny Gokey sang “Hero”

What do you think of the results? Are you surprised? Happy? Mad? I was so upset when I saw Michael Sarver and Anoop Desai standing there together. I wanted them both to make it.

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Who Won American Idol 2007?

Jeanne — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:23 +0000

JORDIN SPARKS WINS AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!

Wow. Congratulations, Jordin!!!! This was a tough season and it is great to have it come to an end. We’ll be looking for your single on the charts!

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American Idol Results Show – May 16, 2007

Jeanne — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:09:00 +0000

Melinda Doolittle went home last night. I am beginning to wonder about some of the theories circulating out there. One of the most popular is that they want Jordin to win, so in order to do that, they had to remove the biggest threat – Melinda. I love Blake and that is not meant as an insult, nor is it a suggestion that Jordin is not talented, but I can kinda see the logic. This is a sad day. To tell the truth, any one of the three going home is tragic. They were all so different and so talented in their own way. I think the absolute saddest part was Simon Cowell’s reaction. He was visibly upset by the news. I don’t know if I have ever seen him react like this:

Goodbye, Melinda. You are a class-act, amazingly talented and have grown so much as a performer. I hope to see your name in lights someday soon!

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Results Show – April 11, 2007

Jeanne — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:02:13 +0000

Since it is latin week, I will stick with the theme and say “Hasta la vista, baby!”

Her Ho Patrol has obviously become the “No” Patrol. Haley Scarnato is going home. I think making the contestants sing after their elimination is cruel and in this case, I feel like I’ve been punished as well.

I must say that I agree with the bottom three. I think Jordin was a bit worse than Chris but Phil is getting on my last nerve. He is talented but I don’t know what happened to him over the last few weeks. If you listen to him tonight during the opening song, “Bailamos,” he sounds good. Too bad he can’t bring that back to the stage. Tick tock goes the clock… who will be next?

Tomorrow’s Sanjaya Report

Come back tomorrow for Thursday’s edition of the Sanjaya Report. What could he possibly have in common with J.Lo and Madonna??? Did Ryan Seacrest’s street interviews on tonight’s show give insight into this contestant’s staying power? You’ll have to come back to find out!

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My First Tears – This Season’s First Shocker (not including Sanjaya)

Jeanne — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:00:36 +0000

I wasn’t a fan of most of the performances last night and I thought Gina did okay, (not great, but okay) but there is NO WAY that I thought she should go home tonight!!!! This is the first real shocker of the season for me and my throat is tender from screaming. Haley stayed, so the Ho Patrol must be alive and well (and voting…yuck). I hope to see her again.

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Week 1 Results Show

Jason — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:19:01 +0000

I’m watching the results show now. I love this show, but this is the epitome of taking the most time to say nothing. There’s nothing new shared at all on this show, just the best clips.

The only thing interesting is seeing all of them perform the group songs. The hardest workers in all of this though are the sound guys that are managing the mix for 24 different vocalists with very different volume and power.

HEY! Paul Kim has shoes on!

24 is just a huge group. I like it, but it just seems odd.

— Commercial Break —

Surprisingly they are jumping right into the eliminations. I like it. Interesting that they have the parents in the green room.

Safe: Brandon Rogers, Sundance Head, Chris Richardson, Nick, Blake

Paul Kim is going home. I liked him, I liked his personality, but he just didn’t deliver when it really counted.

I hate it when they ask them to sing after they’ve been voted off. Not sure what else they’d do, but man that’s got to be the hardest thing ever. Then again, maybe it’s not, no pressure, let it all out and go out with a bang.

— Commercial Break —

Next up are the girls.

Safe: Jordin, Stephanie, Sabrina, Leslie (BIG SURPRISE FOR ME!), Melinda, Antonella (ANOTHER BIG SURPRISE!)

Antonella isn’t gone and that surprises me. She’s going on looks so far, her singing wasn’t there. They called up Amy Krebs and she’s going home. My wife called that one since the opening of the show. Good job.

— Commercial Break —

New game called the American Idol challenge using your cell phone. $10,000 prize up for grabs and you can enter at www.americanidol.com

Fantasia comes out and confirms a big change in her career. She’s going to be staring in the Broadway play of “The Color Purple”. She’s singing “I’m Right Here” and is doing an amazing job! She’s got so much strength and power in her voice it’s great to hear her sing like this. I’ve not been a big fan of her hip-hop work, although I appreciate that it’s good. I just don’t think it highlights her true strengths and abilities as a great singer.

— Commercial Break —

Next round of eliminations for the girls.

Safe: Haley, Lakisha, Gina, Alaina

Nicole goes home! That’s another shocker for me. I don’t think she did a good job singing, but I don’t think she was close to the worst performance either. I don’t think she connected with the audience and the viewers like she needed to in this performance. I believe this one could really be blamed completely on the song choice.

— Commercial Break —

2nd round of eliminations for the guys.

Safe: Chris, Phil, Jared, AJ, Sanjaya!

UPDATE: I seemingly forgot to let everyone know that Rudy Cardenas was eliminated. I was so surprised it wasn’t Sanjaya that it really threw me off.

Okay, I’m doing a horrible job on my picks for elimination. I can’t believe Sanjaya is in the top four guys. Paula really likes Rudy and said his vocals were great, falsetto was amazing and his pitch was perfect.

The recap of the four contestants journey and the song “Home” by Chris Daughtry is being played. It reminds me that “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter was the huge, surprise hit last year because of it’s playtime on American Idol in my opinion.

That’s it for the evening. We’ll see you next week as we eliminate another four contestants.

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Forget the Phone and Text – VOTE NOW!

Jason — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:40:50 +0000

There’s a new poll available. Who’s going to be the winner? Let us know

Taylor Hicks
Katharine McPhee
Elliott Yamin

Share your vote with everyone over there to the right!

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My Guess for 3rd Place

Jason — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:32:04 +0000

I’m putting it out there and will almost guarantee that tonight is the end of the road for Katharine McPhee. Elliott outsang her last night, and her only shining moment was really “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. I’ll put her performance last night on that song up there with Fantasia’s performance of “Summertime” and Clay Aiken’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Katharine has amazing talent and beauty. Her biggest challenge will be deciding between the offers to take advantage of in her career now.

I think Taylor’s got this contest in the bag at this point. I just don’t believe that Elliott has the performance quality or charisma to really compete with Taylor anymore. Taylor just keeps firing on all cylinders and nailing almost every single performance. I just wish he’d be given the opportunity to work a little bit of his magic on the harmonica into a performance.

There, that’s my $.02 for now. Let’s see how it plays out.

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