'Idol' results: Down to three
Who stays? Who goes? Two guesses
‘Idol’ results: Down to three
David Hiltbrand, Inquirer TV Critic
Hard to drum up much suspense about last night. The only American Idol contestants left were Jessica “Charice” Sanchez, Phillip Phillips IV, Joshua “I Can Sing a Rainbow” Ledet and Plain Old Hollie Cavangh.
I love these end of season installments of Idol. As the options narrow, the necessity for padding goes up, up, up, always leading to the more surreal episodes. As in: Where is former Idol David Cook getting his hair done – Extreme Poodle?
But these long stall sessions are precisely why Ryan Seacrest earns the big money. He is a state of the art time killer. A recent poll named him the person most Americans would want to be stuck in an elevator with. But only if they could bring a mace in with them.
So round and round we go. Jimmy Iovine makes his comments (obviously equipped with the results beforehand). And then Jessica is declared safe. Then Joshua. It’s down to Flip and Hollie.
Don’t bother with the drumroll. This is a foregone conclusion. Idol typically rid itself of the only singer in the final four. Sanchez and Ledet have incredible voices, but they’re not singers. I’m not sure what Phillips is. A parodist?
Don’t feel bad, Hollie. Just before your departure, Jennifer Lopez, whom Seacrest introduced as “the matriarch of the show” (ouch!) lip synched her new song, “Dance Again”.
Jennifer Lopez "Dance Again" live on American... by HumanSlinky
This is what it takes to succeed in pop music (right down to the scripted intimacy with the fake boyfriend). See, Hollie? They may have done you a favor.
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Jennifer Lopez "Dance Again" live on American... by HumanSlinky
Here we go again a horrible singer ( Philipps ) being pushed on us by the 3 stooges judges, what do they see in philipps he sings like he is consipated can't hold note, no personality, they picked on Hollie consatantly. The vote is a joke it is a FOX show so I feel it is fixed.— angrywhtguy- Phillip Phillips? Ha! His parents should be publicly flogged.— cxd207
- Having a hard time making any sense whatsoever of the line, "Sanchez and Ledet have incredible voices, but they’re not singers."
— RhondaBillings - This show has jumped the shark five times over. The judges are inane. You would never believe any of them is a professional musician. In fact, their lack of insight and true music criticism (in the analytical sense, good or bad) has diminished the credibility of pop musicians in general. J Lo is particularly bad. Everyone is "great". She just wings it out there, talking in circles. She has no idea where she's starting, where she's going or where she ends up with her silly rambling monologues. The meaning of the word "great" is completely lost on all three of these people AND the American public in general. Randy Jackson has gone from being a decent critic to a rubber stamp of approval. Or maybe that's what the producers of the show want from him. For him to sit there and tell us that Philip Philipps is "great, dude" is beyond me. Steven Tyler, on the other hand, has permanently damaged his reputation. He comes off as shallower than the other two (a stellar achievement if ever there was one). He would have been better off remaining somewhat mysterious to his adoring fans and the general public. His presence on that panel is just "too much information". So Idol will inevitably give us another singer who gets a lucrative record deal to start with, leading to a shallow career. Anyone know or care where the last four or five winners are right now? In the words of The Beatles, "Nowhere, man".— JT123
