American Idol Recap: And Then There Were 16

An impressive 27 million people voted this week to decide which two guys and which two girls would be saying goodbye on the American Idol results show last night.  Whether they voted for the best voices, cutest faces or most sparkling personalities was the question. Thank God they weren’t voting on group performing ability, because, as usual, the requisite pre-recorded group performance at the start of the show was just as hideous and awkward as usual, maybe more so, this time a cheesy, embarrassing version of “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas. Contestants lip-synched and mugged for the camera as they performed their stiff, generic dance moves to the popular, overplayed song and you could even see the self-deprecation in many of their eyes.

But I digress.

Not many surprises, unless you count the fact that last year’s soulful contestant Danny Gokey sang a country song (huh?)  as the “real” performance of the evening. I was completely confused, since he was one of my favorites last year, but not as a country singer. So his performance didn’t impress me much. But his glasses did; they were pretty rad. So there’s that.

Tim Urban managed to squeak his way through again. The judges watched back the tape and realized how much Michelle Delamor actually blew and America realized it and voted her off. Jermaine opened his church-singing, loud-mouth pie-hole as usual when he was voted off, John Park’s lack of “spiciness” failed to get him through and America finally realized that Haeley Vaughn really can’t sing and is, well, just annoying. However, I think Jermaine found the rest of Michelle’s gloves, which is a relief because I hate to see good fabric go to waste.

So I was two for four, not too shabby. I think America pretty much got it right this week, aside from the fact that they keep on insisting on keeping Tim Urban strictly for the fact that he looks like a Glee cast member.  Well, we can’t keep him around FOREVER, can we?

Can we? Please tell me we can’t.

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