American Idol Top 9 Results Recap!

Another Wednesday, another night packed with filler, action, laughs, drama, singing, and of course, promotional tie-ins! Tonight was very tense for me because I was so scared we were going to lose another lady! And as things turned out...I had nothing to worry about..at all.

The results started out with the usual over-dramatic monologue from Ryan followed by a recap of what happened last night, then Ryan said the producers told him the results were "shocking". Uh oh. The recap was followed by a lovely lip synced group performance that I paid absolutely no attention to, then on the Ford music video of the week. Blah Blah Blah. Next, Jason Derulo performed his latest hit "In My Head" then we got down to some results.

All three ladies were sent to the center of the stage and for a minute I was so sure Ryan was going to crush my spirit, my soul, and my heart and say that all three ladies were in the bottom three. Instead, he gave me a joygasm and a smile and announced they were all safe! YES! Maybe Tim will be leaving! Or Andrew! (Remember the "shocking" statement.)


After the 14th commercial break, we came back to David Archuleta singing "Imagine", it was as good as the last time he sang it on the Idol stage back in 2008. After his performance we got more results! The guys were directed by Ryan to form 2 groups on the left and right sides of the stage. Lee, Casey, and ... Tim were put together on the right, Michael, Aaron, and Andrew were put on the left. It's easy to see the shocker now, Big Mike was gonna be in the bottom three. And....yes the left side is your bottom three America.



Aaron was sent to safety first, then we got a commercial, then we got some Rihanna! I was looking forward to Rihanna, I thought she was going to sing "Rude Boy" or "Te Amo"...but no...she "debuted" her new single that I never heard of called "Rockstar 101". It was alright I guess...I think it's going to do about as well as "Russian Roulette" did but whatever, she rocked it out at least. Next was yet another commercial then finally "Dim the lights!" Who's it gonna be? Big Mike or Andrew? The choice is an obvious one, Andrew has delivered more mediocre performances than I care to reminisce about. But of course! The shocker! Big Mike is leaving the competition. Seriously? I was mad about this, Big Mike is so much better than Andrew, Tim, and even Aaron, he actually has a really velvety R&B toned voice and he sings in-tune. Why America?? WHY?! Oh but wait! The judge's save.


Big Mike got the least amount of votes and he had to sing for his life, he had the Idol contestants crying to his left and his wife was bawling like 20 feet in front of from him and he had to win over the judges to get to stay in the competition. My dilemma with this situation is that...if Mike gets saved, that means 2 people will be going home next week, which could either be wonderous or a disaster. What if Crystal and Lee get the lowest votes next week?? But then the other part of me is saying, Big Mike is a good singer, one of the best males, his wife is in tears, he has a newborn, Andrew deserved to go, save Mike! Mike sang "This Woman's Work" while the judges deliberated and I feel it was a fantastic and moving performance and it probably is what really sealed the deal on the judge's decision. They decided to save him, of course!

So to recap my recap! Lots of filler, lots of tears, Kara's discovery, Archie, Rihanna, a shocking result, a judge's save used, 2 people going home next week. How do you feel about this? I'm hoping this is all for the best and any combination of Andrew/Tim/Aaron/Katie go next week. Anyway, I'm out for the night, have a good week and be sure to come back here for any breaking Idol updates and tune in next week another 9 performances with mentor Adam Lambert!

American Idol Top 9: Bagpipes + Didgeridoos = Awesomeness

It was an interesting night on the Idol stage tonight. The Top 9 performed songs from the Lennon/McCartney songbook, yielding mixed results, but I have to say I really enjoyed watching tonight, and I loved that we got to learn a little more about the contestants...from the other contestants since there was no mentor. Overall tonight had many interesting and beautiful performances, of course there were some stinkers as usual , but overall, good show! Lets recap the performances shall we?

Aaron Kelly, “The Long and Winding Road”
Aaron did another slow, kind of boring, typical-Aaron performance. I was hoping he would do something different, something uptempo, like Kara suggested, but alas, it didn't happen. Sure, Aaron is cute and has this kinda David Archuleta vibe thing going on, but he just seems to do the same kind of performance week after week. Yawn. The last time I found him interesting was when he sang "Angie" during Rolling Stones week. I think Aaron could be bottom 3 material tomorrow night.

Katie Stevens, “Let It Be”
Next up was Katie Stevens and believe it or not...she stayed in tune! I thought she gave a beautiful performance tonight and it was the first time I didn't cringe or want to fast forward the TV. She gave us some emotion and stayed in tune and I really liked it, I'm glad too because I don't want another woman to go home yet! 3 in a row is too much, it is already a sausage fest, please just take a week off and send Tim home.

Andrew Garcia, “Can’t Buy Me Love”
Going third tonight was Andrew Garcia. Andrew really changed around this song and I thought it was kind of corny like Randy and Simon said. It was all "boppy" and kind of a mess. I did enjoy it more than all of his other big stage performances though, besides "Forever", but that isn't saying much.

Michael Lynche, “Eleanor Rigby”
Big Mike did "Eleanor Rigby" which is a song that I have always loved. It tells a haunting story. Big Mike rearranged it and I thought he did a great job making it sound contemporary, while keeping the haunting story vibe to it. He rocked it out and showed a different side tonight and I really liked it. And again, I agreed with Kara over Simon, Kara said it was contemporary and "you could hear this on the radio", while Simon said he was "confused." Wasn't anything confusing about it to me Simon, it was my favorite performance by Michael so far, he dropped the cheese, dropped the R&B crooner-ness, and he rocked it out.

Crystal Bowersox, “Come Together”
Crystal really rocked it out too! She got on stage with her trusty ole guitar this week and a special guest: a guy with a tribal looking instrument called a didgeridoo. At first I thought the didgeridoo was distracting and weird, but as Crystal sang and strummed her guitar, the two really worked well together. She showed more spirit and looks like she had fun and it was another awesome performance from Mamasox. By the way, I love how it showed the contestants call her Mamasox too!

Tim Urban, “All My Loving”
Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh UGH. I'm sick of Tim Urban, I loathe him more than Sanjaya! Sure he has a good attitude and he takes the bad critiques like a man...good for him, he is still a bad, boring singer. He sucks the soul out of everything he sings and I am just sick of him. In the video before his performance the contestants mainly talked about him smiling a lot and his wide grin, which is kind of creepy to me. I loved how Randy felt the need to judge him based on a "Tim Scale" like he's a kindergartner or something. I was appalled that Simon actually had positive feedback for him. Please go home tomorrow. Please.

Casey James, “Jealous Guy”
Casey finally shaked things up tonight and did something that didn't resemble a Karaoke bar performance. He slowed things down and got all emotional, and it kind of worked. It was an emotional performance, you could see it in his face and hear it in his voice, and it was nice to hear something new from him. However, I still think that Big Mike and Lee Dewyze have him beat, so I don't think that he will make it any further than the top 5.

Siobhan Magnus, “Across the Universe”
Siobhan also slowed things down this week and gave an emotional performance as well. I thought it was really pretty and the song really fit her. Also, she finally did not do a screeching high note at the end, which was a welcome change, and pleased the judges. I hope she can make it to the top 5 as well, but I could see her being in the bottom 3 tomorrow, I hope not though because she is interesting and quirky and I like seeing her on the show, she's someone to look forward to, like Crystal and Lee.

Lee Dewyze, “Hey Jude”
At the start of his song tonight, I thought it was kind of a mess. It was all over the place and kind of weird and I expected more...and I got more about 1 minute into the song. Towards the middle and the end of the song Lee really got into it, especially the "Na na na na" part. He got the audience singing along with him and he even lured a giant bagpipe played onto the Idol stage somehow. I thought it was unintentionally funny when the bagpipe man showed up, but Lee's performance more than made up for the weird bagpipe choice. In the pre-performance video the Idol contestants said how much of a worrier Lee is and how he is always down on himself and saying he is going to go home. Lee has that sexy rocker tone to his voice, and it sounds so radio-ready, he just needs a big self-confidence boost.

Well that's a wrap for Lennon/McCartney songbook night! What did you think? Did you overall enjoy yourself like I did? I think it was one of this season's better live shows and I hope they can keep this going into next week and the rest of the season. My predictions for the bottom 3 tomorrow night are Tim, Andrew, and Aaron, but judging on America's decisions so far this season it will probably be Tim, Katie and Siobhan and Katie will go home. I really hope that doesn't happen! Anyways, I'm out for the night, leave comments and be sure to watch Idol tomorrow for the results and to see Rihanna, Jason Derulo, and David Archuleta perform!

Sorry! PC Troubles :(

I didn't post about R&B week because my computer crashed...and I had to reformat it...and I lost everything. It took me awhile to get everything back in proper order and redownload everything I lost and upload all my data I had on my backup hard drive. So yeah, sorry for no posts! I'll start posting again regularly this week.



As for what I missed...R&B week was kind of blah, I thought Usher was a good mentor though. Tim Urban did horrible and didn't go home...again. Didi Benami did bad and she went home, making it the 3rd female in a row to go home. Wasn't this supposed to be the girl's season? Now we are left with Katie Stevens as one of the "Top 3 remaining females" ... I just shuddered. Anyways, Didi will be making many public appearances throughout the week, she recently visited the "If I Can Dream" House, you know the place Alex Lambert just moved into. Here's the video of that and be sure to check back here tomorrow for the Lennon/McCartney songbook night recap!

Idol News & Notes

I'm finally back from the beach! It was a fun trip, I probably gained 10 pounds despite walking everywhere and swimming everyday, but anyways I'm back and ready for some Idol action.


This week's theme is R&B Classics with Usher, in case you haven't heard. It could be interesting, I think Usher will be a good mentor and I'm interested in what Crystal, Siobhan, Didi, Lee, and even what Aaron will choose to sing. Anyways, I decided to post today to share some of the Idol blogs and news I read and videos I watch during the week.

- My favorite Idol video blog is Idol Soul on youtube. It is made by Mollie Evans and I find her to be entertaining and honest and I usually agree with her opinions. She usually posts 2 videos a week, one after each episode of Idol. The video's are something to subside your 'Idol' craving during the 5 days it isn't on TV. Here's one of her videos:



- Next up is a very informative blog all about American Idol and it's contestants. It is called MJ's Big Blog. I follow this guy on Twitter(@mjsbigblog) for constant updates, it is a very informative site for all things "Idol" so check it out if you're interested!

- Finally, my favorite weekly Idol fix comes from EW.com and their head American Idol critic/writer/reviewer, Michael Slezak and the weekly "Idolatry" videos. Slezak's recaps are always brutally honest and hilarious, and he's a guy that really knows what he is talking about. And as for the "Idolatry" videos, they are sometimes better than the actual American Idol performance shows. Click on this link for this week's Idolatry: Awesomeness (embedding is disabled btw.)

Oh and one last thing, I read this article in USA Today:
The doomsday scenario: How Tim Urban wins 'American Idol'
It horrified me by detailing how Tim Urban could be the eventual Idol Champion of 2010. It makes some scarily realistic points, we need to make sure that this does not happen. Anyways, that's it for today, leave any comments or suggestions below and see you back here tomorrow or early Wednesday for the recap!

American Idol Top 10 Revealed

Another Wednesday, another Idol results show. We had a couple of performances from the Disney All-Stars, a top 11 group performance of a Wham! song, and we had another awesome bottom 3: Paige, Tim, and Katie. I think Andrew probably should have took Katie's place but whatever, at least she was sent to safety first, leaving Paige and Tim to stand awkwardly and bask in their awfulness. And the loser was...


Paige Miles

Unsurprisingly, Paige "I love to color" Miles was eliminated from the competition last night, leaving one of the least exciting Top 10's ever. At least we have Mamasox to justify purchasing tickets for the tour. The top 10, who will be singing "R&B Classics" with Usher next week are:

Lee Dewyze
Casey James
Siobhan Magnus
Katie Stevens
Aaron Kelly
Michael Lynche
Tim Urban
Didi Benami
Andrew Garcia
Crystal Bowersox

The list of the songs they have to choose from is up on iTunes if you'd like to view it! Do you like this top 10? Do you think 2 girls would have went first if Katelyn and Lilly made it through? Post any thoughts and comments below and check back here for any Idol updates!

American Idol Recap: Soul Sucking with Miley Cyrus

The top 11 American Idol contestants performed tonight, and boy was it a trainwreck. It was Billboard No.1 Hits this week and some of the worst, overused, boring, cheesy songs were picked. From "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" to "Against All Odds", what were these people thinking??


The show started off with the usual judge's chatter, with Randy reminding us that this week is very important because whoever leaves won't get to be on the tour. That sounds more like a prize to me, the tour is going to be a pitchy mess of cliche, cheese, and horror, I would be dreading it. Anyway, after that information we were introduced to contestants and then showed video of some music chart guru, Fred Bronson, explaining a little about the theme this week. Next we got to see the contestants waiting for their surprise mentor, I bet more than a few had to suppress a laugh when they saw Miley walk into the room. Miley mumbled her way through something, I wasn't really listening. Now we get to the performances, first up was Lee Dewyze.


Lee Dewyze – “The Letter” by the Boxtops
Lee seemed like he tried to change it up tonight, he at least had some stage presence, but it was a little weird for me though. He was still rocking, but I don't know, I just wasn't feeling it and I have never heard of the song before. I still like the rocker tone and vibe to his voice, really reminds me of a 90's rock band lead singer. I agreed with Simon when he said "I’m really surprised you chose that song, that was you doing something quite corny. that doesn’t define you as a contemporary recording artist."

Paige Miles – “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins
Paige, Paige, Paige! This was worse than her "Smile" cover I think. I really liked parts of her performance last week, but this week was just awful, everything was off. Randy said, “Yo WOW. Really honestly? That was honestly terrible. There was nothing about it that was great.” I think she will probably go home tomorrow since I'm sure Tim won't, even though he definitely deserves to.

Tim Urban – “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by Queen
Tim covering Queen should be like against Idol Law or something, it was completely a Karaoke-level performance. The only interesting part was when he did a little slide on stage, but that is really no redeeming quality, at least he is kind of pretty? Ellen said "It was corny, it was pushed too hard…I didn’t get it.”

Aaron Kelly – “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith
Aaron was up next with another overexposed Idol song. He apparently has laryngitis and tonsillitis this week, so he might sound bad. His performance was alright, he seems to be getting more confident, the vocals were a little week but I guess that can be blamed on the sickness. I think it's cute that my little 9 year old sister LOVES Aaron, I'm sure a lot of kids do, Ryan hit the nail on the head when he jokingly said “If you want to vote for David Archleta here”.

Crystal Bowersox – “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin
Mamasox was next! She surprisingly let Miley sign her guitar, which I thought was nice of her(nice of Crystal not Miley). I feel Crystal is truly the best in this competition, I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise, especially judging on tonight. I got goosebumps during her performance tonight, during the last half of the song, she is just so authentic and professional and in tune! She could change it up a bit though, stop standing behind the mic stand and a guitar every week, which she probably will not do next week since she said she has some "big plans for next week".

Michael Lynche – “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge
Mike did a good job tonight, albeit an old-fashioned job. He really has some pretty and soft vocals, he used his falsetto well tonight. I think he is a cool guy who can sing well and does cheesy performances, but he never really excites me or has me wanting more. I agreed with Kara when she said “Technically it was really good, it was a bit boring and loungy at times, indulgent, too many riffs."

Andrew Garcia – “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye
Andrew has just totally crashed and burned since Hollywood week. Week after week he is just mediocre and terrible and sometimes creepy. Simon was 100% correct when he said “Maybe we just overrated that moment at that time.”(Referring to "Straight Up") “The arrangement was horrific, you sucked the soul out of that song. You made yourself really really corny."

Katie Stevens – “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by Fergie
Katie did a young, new song this week...and she still sucked. It wasn't her worst week, I guess better than last week, but I don't know, she is just really pitchy and boring, I'm positive she will make the tour though.

Casey James – “Power of Love” by Huey Lewis
Casey picked an unexpected and odd song choice, the song from Back to the Future. He sounded good though and he is probably the best guitar player this year. I liked this performance, didn't love it, but overall it was entertaining. Simon said, “That song was old fashioned, he didn’t make it current, it was like listening to an 80’s cover band." I don't think it was old fashioned but the 80's cover band comment made sense, either way I think Casey sounds current and could be on the radio.

Didi Benami – “You’re No Good” by Linda Ronstadt
Didi took a risk tonight, she changed the arrangement of the song, she was trying to be all sexy and slinky on stage. I thought it was a nice performance, some pitch problems, but not bad. The judge's didn't seem to like it, Ellen said, “I don’t get the song choices tonight. I do love your voice, I didn’t get that.” And Kara said “It felt like you were playing a character, it didn’t feel like it was you, it left me confused.”

Siobhan Magnus – “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder
Siobhan, rocking the Sanjaya faux-hawk, was as entertaining as usual. She has powerful vocals and a unique yet soulful voice. She did her usual end-song yell/screech/Adam Lambert mating call, it wasn't as good as last week, but I admit I was looking forward to hearing it. Simon said "Those big notes are indulgent. I didn’t like it tonight.” Maybe he's right, I still like them though.

Well that's a wrap for the recap! What did you think of this week? I felt it was pretty average and boring and just bad. I think many of the contestants in the top 11 don't deserve to be there. Anyway, leave comments, I'll post a recap of the results tomorrow night!

American Idol Results Show: Blah Blah Blah

{SPOILERS!} Be warned.

Tonight was the Idol results show and it played out exactly as it seemed every Idol blogger, including me, expected it to. Let's start from the top.

To start the show, we had this overlong, overdramatic, time filler listing all the contestants and Ryan telling us someone is going home...duh. After that, Idol alum and previous winner David Cook took the stage to do a solid rockin cover of the Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" followed by commercial #1. After the break we got to hear about the "Judge's Save" and then see the surprisingly not-too-corny Idol Ford music video sans Casey James(because he had the flu) followed by even more Ford promotional push with the contestants being forced to design their own custom Ford Fiestas. After being force fed all the Ford nonsense we finally got to some results.

One side of the stage there was contestants, the other side of the stage held Dr. Doom's three silver stools of um doom. Paige Miles was the first to be sent over, which was kind of surprising, I thought she did alright last night, especially considering her laryngitis, but she was in the bottom 3. Next we had safe Lee, safe Siobhan, safe Aaron, then Andrew and Tim, both deserved to be in the bottom 3, but only one got sent over, and it was... Tim Urban! Yes! Please go away.


After the first part of the results we had commercial #7 followed by a performance by Michael Jackson's "This Is It" tour's singer/guitarist, Orianthi. She didn't sound bad, she played the guitar quite well, I have never heard the song before though. After her performance we got to view commercial #13.

After the break was more results: Didi, safe, Crystal, safe, Mike Lynche, safe, Katie...safe(really?), which left Casey and Lacey to stand up and it is obvious Casey isn't going anywhere... and Lacey Brown gets sent to death row along with Tim and Paige. They are all standing in the middle of the room when Ryan tells them that one of them is safe, and it's....Tim Urban!? Ugh. A shocked Tim goes and sits back down, looking like a stoner who realized he forgot to put on his pants, leaving poor Lacey and Paige left standing. Commercial #23.


After the commercial we got to hear from Ms. Blah Blah Blah herself, Ke$ha. To my total surprise she DID NOT lip sync. She sounded dreadful but at least she knows how to have (trashy)fun on stage. Oh and there was a cameo by 3!OH3! or whatever. Commercial #37.


Finally, the results we've been waiting all night for... Lacey Brown will be going home tonight, but first she must perform and the judge's must pretend that they are seriously deliberating whether or not to use the save. Lacey performed a sad, quivery version of "The Story" while the judges huddled and discussed what they ate today. Simon says they unanimously decided not to use the save, shocker. Enter video montage and tears.

Well that's what happened tonight, thoughts? I am personally a little sad for Lacey, I think she deserved to make the top 10 and Tim and Katie should have went first. I think Lacey just got lost in the crowd, she performed in the middle of the show, an average performance, nothing to talk about, she was forgotten. They didn't tell us what the theme will be for next week, I think I read it will be revealed on iTunes, so I'll make a post when I see it! In the mean time, have a good rest of the week and leave comments!