I’ve been wrong all season about who will stay and who will leave American Idol, so I’ll just climb out on a limb and flat out state that Syesha Mercado will get the axe this week.
I was thinking that I had gleaned the intentions of America’s voters last week. Syesha has been a weekly low vote getter and now she’s isolated in the final four, where there are three high vote getters. (Very scientifically precise terminology, I know.) She should have no problem being eliminated this week no matter how well she does on the stage.
This week is Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame week, which means the producers couldn’t find a “guest mentor” who was cheap enough or who wanted to promote a new album. So, there will be performances tomorrow night by a couple of fill-in acts: former Idol Bo Bice and Maroon 5. Otherwise, contestants will get to choose songs from the most overplayed famous songs in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, which means that we’ll probably get to see some “scenery” from The Mistake by the Lake. Big whoop!
This should be David Cook‘s night, being the premier rocker in the bunch. Look for another weak performance by Jason Castro. Those have come to be the norm for college dorm sing-along boy. David Archuleta, who can do no wrong by the pre-nubiles, will sing a couple of songs that will sound like every other song he has sung, and he’ll forget to obey Lord Lloyd-Weber about keeping his eyes open, yet he’ll get the most votes. Bringing up the rear (and it’s a mighty fine one), Syesha will sing her guts out but to no avail—her fan contingent is just too small, the demographic being males over 25, of which I think I’m the only one left. Alas, she’s gone before the first note is sung.
Sadly, Jason, who should have been gone weeks ago, threatens to become the Sanjaya of this year’s competition, and we’ll have to put up with him for yet another week. Then it will be down to the final two, which I hope will be Archuleta and Cook. But stranger things have happened. The folks who gave you Taylor Hicks might conspire to put Jason in the final.
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.



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Actually, the words are better enunciated—even the ones he forgot—than the way Bobby sang it.
Bye bye Jason. As Paula said, “it is what it is.”
So long!
I think it’s even money whether he or Syesha goes home—STILL!
I’m not risin’ to the Dylan bashing bait
Pre-teen girls are warming up their fingers.
I don’t need to bash Dylan. He never could sing; thus, he bashes himself.
Have you ever voted, Turkey?
But do you deny his songwriting gifts?
He’s like a poor man’s Willie Nelson.
Oh, I love some of his lines, like especially from The Times Are A-Changin.
And, of course, “the pump don’t work ’cause the vandal stole the handle.”
Yeah, b.s. you do.
Vandal TOOK the handle.
No, I actually do. “The loser now will be later to win…”
Dull David is back.
Uh-oh. The girls are going to be swooning.
This is actually a smart choice for him.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Love Me Tender.
How the hell is he not going to evoke memories of Elvis and die in comparison? It’ll be like a poor Pat Boone version.
The retching is not needed in this song.
Yeah, that particular lyric is a favorite of mine, too. I think the took it from the bible.
Singing it like Whitney Houston, if you ask me!
The vandal took the handle in the bible?
Yeah, he’s not singing this with Presley’s tenderness or subtle passion.
Thumbs down.
Archuleta gets an IS rating for that, by the way.
Yeah, from the Sermon on the Mount.
Randy is looking for some junior ass.
David’s got these judges brainwashed.
That’s in “Y’all’s part of the bible.”
I liked Hungry like the Wolf. I guess I have no taste.
I thought Cook did the best.
Then Archuleta, then Syesha…..and Jason sucked far hind tit.
Yeah, but remember when he became “born again?” He pissed audiences off as he preached to them from the stage.
I shall be writing unkind words about Mr. Castro tonight.
Talk about “artifically sweetened!” That’s David A.
Gotta love Syesha’s latest outfits.
He’s an artificial weenie.
I’m hoping Jason gets the boot tomorrow…but I’m probably wrong based on what’s happened so far this season.
I’ll be here, Turkey!
So, like tomorrow night…be here!
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