American Idol 7: The Elite Eight
(Or, The Most Uninspired Night of Inspiration in Idol History)
Last night's theme on American Idol was "Inspirational Songs", a theme chosen to coincide with the Idol Gives Back charity event airing tonight.
To help me get through this week's recap, I needed to search deep for some inspiration.
In between the updates on Twitter, informing me about the latest twists and turns the Olympic torch relay was taking in San Francisco, it came to me: I would limit my thoughts to 140 characters or less for each contestant.
So, here are my short, but sweet tweets...
Michael Johns sings "Dream On". New rule: Wear a cravat, get the boot. What is that awful noise?! Oh, it's his falsetto. Chihuahuas cringe.
Syesha sings Fantasia's "I Believe". Choir drowns out the worst of it. More chihuahuas cringe at the end. A Bottom 3 performance.
Jason Castro attempts Brother Iz's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Song suits him and he nails it with the ukulele. Best of the night, sadly.
Kristy Lee Cook sings an unoriginal cover of Martina McBride's "Anyway". It's the perfect farewell song. @KLC Sing it well. Go home anyway.
David Cook's "Innocent" is an inspired choice. The choir intrudes and ruins another performance. His weakest in weeks, but he'll be safe.
Carly Smithson sings "The Show Must Go On". Agonizing and painful. I can only hope this show will go on without her after this week. Please.
David Archuleta blows everybody away with "Angels", but I'm too distracted by the grand piano stuck between his teeth to appreciate it.
Brooke "Water Works" White's mellow rendition of "You've Got a Friend" wins me over, but it won't be enough to keep her out of the B3 again.
Prediction for tomorrow's results show? Kristy Lee, Carly, and Brooke will be in the Bottom 3. Kristy Lee will finally go home. Seriously.
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David, a cool hike I heard about from the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, I'm going May 17, 2008, cost $15 for non-members. Deadline to sign up 5/9/08, though there's other Sat hikes.
http://ridgetrail.org/about/news_detail.cfm?id=104
thanks for the Flickr pics, are u gonna blog about the concert? I want to know how it was.
Thanks for the info about the hike. I just wrote a post about the concert. The gist: It was very cool.