by Ruth Anne Boulet
I’ll start with the cheesy group number. Trouble! Yeah! The guys start the cheesiness off. I do not believe for one second that they are singing live on stage. The girls are behind the judges for some reason. I do not believe they’re singing either. Apparently Idol has decided to cut these kids a break & pre-record all of the cheesy group numberness. Either that, or I’ve just never noticed the lip-syncing until now.
For some reason, Ryan has a water balloon. Apparently Ford is advocating using water balloons as a cleaning tool when washing one’s car. During the commercial viewing, Ryan beans an audience member. Oh, you wacky American Idol kids.
Part of this week’s filler is contestant reaction to the people getting booted last week. Don’t cry for them. They got a party at Buca diBeppo. Sorry, Idol, you didn’t blur that out of every shot.
Then we get contestant discussion of how hard everything is — seeing people go home. Kids saying ‘daddy, why don’t you want to be with me anymore.’ Idol is apparently trying to split the Danny Gokey sympathy vote.
Danny, safe. Lil Rounds, safe. Anoop, safe. Allison, not safe. Michael, not safe. One more for the bottom three. I’ll skip the Brad Paisley performance. Scott, safe. Megan, safe. Matt, safe. Kris, safe. Alexis, not safe and Adam, safe (yay!). Ryan saves Allison right off the bat.
Skipping Carrie Underwood tribute and Randy Travis duet. Sorry, country fans. Kathy notes that Randy’s coat makes him look like Frankenstein or a football. I say Frankenstein, since the coat is gray.
Back to booting — after the nationwide vote, Michael is safe. Alexis is going home, unless the judges make the save. But first, she has to sing for her life. If she were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, she’d have to lip-sync for her life. But on Idol, she has to actually sing. She would totally get the save on Drag Race if she whipped her wig & falsies off. Alexis does not have such accoutrements at her disposal.
It wasn’t good enough. Simon calls the judges ‘kinda’ unanimous in their decision to let her go. Next week’s theme: Motown. Meh.
