"Can't you understand why little girls vote for Sanjaya? I can.
"I don't know what the controversy is, to be frank. He has guts, this kid, and you have to applaud that. If half the people with more talent than him had his guts, we'd be getting better talent all-round. I don't think he's stupid."
The British Lythgoe, himself a star judge on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance and who tested the boundary of self-indulgence as subject of the crapulous Corkscrewed, insists that the American audience likes performers, and that as he proved last week, Sanjaya knows how to work a crowd. "I think we're going to have this thing called the Sanjaya effect, And I feel as though, myself, last week, I was 'Sanjaya-ed.'"
He scoffed at the notion that Sanjaya has made it to the Top 10 Idol because of websites that urge viewers to vote for the worst contestants. He compared the sites to "a fly buzzing around a cow.
"When you're getting 30 million votes, whatever that website can do is just not enough."
Tonight's Idol theme is pop music with mentor Gwen Stefani-- and thatshould lead to another big night for Sanjaya, since he, with his thin voice and winning look, fits right in with Stefani and other Disney Channel-Nickelodeon pop music stars.
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