Idol Cares / Cops Out

Let’s say goodbye to….NO ONE! This week’s votes will be added to next week’s votes, and given that this week’s turnout was so high, should register about 60-70% of the total for the two weeks. And next week TWO people will be eliminated. So those given a stay of execution (I’m looking at you Lakisha and Chris), bring your A Game next week because you are not long for the show. The thing that bothered me the most about this was that they left Jordin last. Leave Lakisha last, or Phil, or someone who’s not 17 and expects to possible leave. Making Jordin cry in order to facilitate the surprise wasn’t very nice. The order of next week’s elimination in terms of the pool does not matter, both contestants are considered TIED and leaving at the same time unless Ryan says explicitly what the order was. (As in YOU had the lowest and YOU had the second lowest.) Which he won’t….

This week my favorites were Chris (shocking!), Blake and Melinda (as per usual) and Jordin. Jordin was actually really good and I think her performance would have stood out more if it wasn’t overshadowed by Randy proclaiming it the greatest thing EVER!!! (which it was not.) Chris and Blake both sang nice, if understated versions of their songs. And Melinda is Melinda! Phil was just as good as last week, although I’d be lying if I said he resonated with me even a little. It’s “Phil’s on, switch over to the Bulls game.” And Lakisha…very disappointing. Awful song choice, its not a very good song, and there’s no way she was beating Fantasia in the minds of the judges. And then she screamed it all the way through.

The Idol Cares show itself was very good. Almost all the performances were good, and even the cameo’s were funny. Carrie is really good and it’s hard to take anything away now from her victory. She’s almost always good every time she sings. Kelly Clarkson was also very good. The actual Idol Charity song was awful! But the cause was so good I’ll accept it! I’ll go download later as a donation. It really felt like the finale save for the clips. They were all really moving. I have to hand it to them, they took their usual hard sell and applied it to a great cause, and there is not one thing bad about that. Hopefully they raised a ton of money.

Did you see Sanjaya’s sister in the audience with the Simon “I’m watching Sanjaya sing” face? Probably due to the news coming about Momjaya (I’m not sure if it’s her prior arrest or a new one) and the fields of marijuana plants she was cultivating. (She was growing 210 plants.) Explains a lot about her son I’m thinking…