The last of the talented leaves American Idol 10

I am outraged but on second thought I should feel light about it.

Haley Rheinhart the last of the most talented top 13 in American Idol Season 10 is eliminated leaving two average singers Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina for the finale.

It is such a shame. Watching Lauren and Scotty bat against each other in the finals is not just boring as most would say but it is an insult to one’s musical ability. Any musician and singer and artist know the limitation of both. And any objective viewer with a musical ear can attest the two cannot hold the line against the ones who were previously eliminated.

So I guess it is true that American Idol’s tradition of picking out the least strongest singers has triumphed over excellence. So it is official American Idol is now called, American Teen Country Idol.  Lame show!

This season’s AI started with a pack of talented contestants. But each one of them were eliminated one by one very unpredictably. Let’s start with Pia Toscano, then Casey Abrams then James Durbin and now Haley Rheinhart. And I am not even saying that Naima, Stefano, Paul and Jacob and Thia are not. Now we are left with two contestants who would not have even made the top 12. There were so many talents robbed, Brett Lowenstein, Clint Jun Gamboa, Kendra Chantelle and namesake of the chosen one, Lauren Turner.

The judges who were obviously rooting for the two from the very start robbed the talents who would have stayed in the finale. The judges would later in the long-run be faulted for giving the two kids, Scotty and Lauren bloated egos and unwarranted self-confidence out of their over appreciation of their mediocre performances. And it came out, those who were eliminated should be thankful because they were bigger than a rigged show and cheap judging of judges who cannot even sing better than the contestants.

So Haley, the jazz pianist, song writer and versatile singer is huge, so is metal rock star James Durbin, musical genius Casey Abrams, diva Pia Toscano, singer/songwriter Paul Mc Donald and bring in singer/pianist/songwriter Stefano Langone, then Naima and Thia and the rest of those who never made it to top 13.

These guys are sure to perform on the finale and I would watch them while I doze off like I do everytime the “chosen ones’ in the name of S and L sing in their average and unphenomenal performances. Did they even get any standing Os?

Yawn! Screw  you AI.

American Idol Season 10 Top 8

Pia Toscano’s premature ejection from the contest leaves us with 8 idolteers.  She could have stayed a little longer at the top 3 inspite of her lack of versatility and frigidness on stage. But the fact that American voters are unpredictable and rather illogical, it is impractical to even give my own prophesy. So I throw caution to the wind.

So here are the eight. Humpty-Dumpty Jacob Lusk who’s weight in AI makes him look like a wriggling fat papaya, Charlatan Country Singer Scotty Mc Creery who’s deep voice makes my skin crawl, Crazy and Cocky Casey Abrams and I need not say more, Perennially Bottom 3 Stefano Langone who can’t seem to connect with the audience, Screaming and Eye Twitching James Durbin who may at any time fall into fits of Tourette’s Syndrome, Boring and Unstable Lauren Alaina , Freaky Paul Mc Donald and his $4,000.00 flowery white suit, and a growling over-the-top Haley Reinhart.

America booted out Casey Abrams, Well Almost

I was appalled and frustrated by this week’s American Idol’s voting results which almost dropped Casey Abrams over the other not-so impressive Idol hopefuls. First and foremost, what is Scotty Mc Creery doing on top 10 with his deep voice and nothing else or was it his nine-point shoot from the mansion’s window over to the basketball ring outside? While Thia Megia who long deserved to be on the bottom three, made up for the judges flaks a couple of weeks by singing an upbeat song and polishing her pitch, she forgot the one important thing, which is to understand what she is singing. She is still an amateur by the fair standards of anyone watching American Idol. She has to go. Lauran Alaina’s performance was a drab too and so was Stefano Langone’s but since I am admittedly a fan of Langone, I don’t want him to go this early yet. DUI or DUI, connect or no connect, he has a beautiful voice with a wide vocal range and a passion for singing.

The judges did the right thing to do which is use their one save for the season and I was so relieved. I wish to see America vote intelligently next week. Otherwise, this season is just another catastrophe. If that happens, bye bye American Idol 10.