God, country week always blows...

I think it's going to be Chris or maybe even Lakisha that gets booted this week. For some reason, I remember country week was the week when Mandisa got voted off, so Lakisha could have the same problem.

Sanjaya was especially bad and he hasn't done the campy factor in a couple weeks, so it could be him too I suppose.

I think Powder bought himself another week.

Last night wasn't as bad as I'd feared, and was actually better than Latin night. Here's my rankings, from best to worst:

1. Jordin - great voice, along with great personality and smile. This girl will be able to sell CD's.

2. Melinda - great song choice. Loved her going with a younger look, and she sang well. Could almost see her neck with the bare shoulders. However, could this girl sell CD's? Who is her audience? I don't see the myspace crowd getting into her. Her only hope is if they tried to market her as adult contemporary.

3. Phil - Like everyone else, including Simon, I was surprised. He sang well and didn't look like a corpse onstage. May have just bought himself another week. I actually picked up the phone to vote for him just because at this point a vote for Phil is a vote against Suckjaya.

4. Lakisha - that song made me gag when Carrie Underwood sang it, and she sang it a helluva lot better than kiki did. She's another good singer who I don't think is commercially viable. In her defense, they really threw her two tough theme weeks, but other singers have been able to adjust and pick songs that they could do good things with anyway. Tonight could be this year's "good black female singer gets voted out way too early shocker" episode.

5. Blake - the judges liked this performance a lot more than I did. I thought a lot of it was out of tune.

6. Chris - This kid just doesn't have a very good voice. Simon was dead on. I do feel for the kid, because I think he planned to say something about the VT killings, then got caught up trying, very awkwardly and poorly, to defend himself with Simon, and then had to rush to throw in what he wanted to say before he got cut off. He is from VA and said he's got a got of friends at the school, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't a shameless ploy for votes or to deflect Simon's harsh criticism.

7. Sanjaya - Just terrible. This kid is actually starting to believe the hype, and I'm seeing an arrogance in him that really makes him insufferable.

Should go home: Sanjaya
Will go home: Chris, or Lakisha in a shocker

Country music is sooo bad, and this show sucked even more. What's with Blakes' mouth when he sings? They all stunk, Jordin & Melinda the least. I think we should send Paula home. She add's the least to this show.
Fast recap, flipit. Way too funny screencaps. Love you.

I completely agree with your rankings Jason R. I don't get the Blake-love at all. The guy is fairly attractive when he's not singing but when he is, his teeth seem to disappear somehow. What is up with that? The whole pouty face, puppy dog eyes thing when he performs doesn't do it for me. So I can't understand it based on looks. His voice is pretty technically awful as well. It's watery, thin, he seems to have absolutely no vocal range or power. And he was way off-key a number of times last night. I thought the judges were just going to slaughter him in their critiques. I just don't get it at all.

Love you Flipit! I'm so glad you got the screencap of when Sanjaya tried to groove with the backup singers and the one on the end looked at him like "Say, WHAT?" I laughed out loud, rewound the tape (yes I said TAPE) and laughed again.

Flipit, your recaps rock my world.

I think the bottom three will be Phil, Chris and Lakisha. I really want Sanjaya to get the boot, but I don't think he will tonight. I do think, though, that the people who vote for him will get sick of him soon and he'll be gone within the next few weeks.

I have to agree with JasonR about Sanjaya'a arrogance. He thinks he doesn't even need to try anymore. Last night it was like he was doing a sound check for the technicians and saving all his energy and emotion for the real performance later on. I really felt insulted watching him last night - he doesn't respect the audience enough to do anything more than just phone it in.

WOW FLipit, this is probably the funniest AI review I have ever read. I literally could not stop laughing for a good part of it... Thanks. I wish my AI blog was as freakin funny as yours! Check it out at http://blog.scenemaker.net

I like Blake, but there's only one thing about him that makes me think twice, and no, it's not his singing - it's his LACK OF AN UPPER LIP!! It's the thinnest (or most non-existent) upper lip I've ever seen on a person. Scary...

YouWannaBMe,
Funny, I was just talking to a coworker about Blake. She said she likes him, but something's weird about his singing... she chalked it up to his lack of lips.

FLIPIT: totally off topic, but are you going to be recapping "Shear Genius" now that Top Design is over?? You are the greatest recapper, love you!

Oh, FlipIt! How you almost make me want to actually WATCH American Idol. Almost . . .

hahahaha lipless. you know when i go to bed after finish writing these i wonder how i can sleep after being such a jerk, and thankfully by afternoon, you have all topped me. thanks for the giggles.

and i hope you are wrong about a surprise lakisha cut, although i thought the same thing and refused to write it, because i don't want it to be true. get rid of all the boys first.

heart

oh and ps, ai's my only show til may, but thanks for the shout out, justine! :)

This is America! And (whisper) this. (beat.) Is Amercian Idol. :(

Where is Amercia?

At least we didn't have to look at that diseased lard ass this week. No idea who Martina is, but its better than J-whore.

I can't believe Chris has lasted this long. His voice is horrible. Blake is fading too, all the songs sound the same. At least Sanjaya was bad, but memorable.

I really want Sanjaya to win, which would say a big F-You to this show!

KH
Go Sanjaya!

Overall - another great and funny recap, but I have to say it is not witty to call Sanjaya "she" for almost a full page. Okay, you made the comment, we get it. No need to make the same lame homophobic joke 8 times in a row. Haha - Sanjaya is effeminine. We know.
(But aside from that, you are one of my favorite recappers and I love reading your stuff.)

Jason, I agree with most of your rankings too. I think Melinda would be successful on the adult contemporary charts, definitely. Sanjaya is usually mediocre, but last night he sucked hardcore. Jordin is great, and to be honest, I don't think Kelly Clarkson has anything on her. I would be a little surprised if she won though, because it seems like the little girls like Chris and Sanjaya and the more sophisticated music fans like Melinda. And someone seems to like Phil altho I'll admit he was surprisingly good last night. The thing is like Flipit said, he has a great voice. He's just boring. Maybe he could be one of those artists that doesn't tour but has a successful radio career...

So, what to make of Simon's eyeroll? Personally, I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now it's been blown into front-page entertainment news.

Although, it is clear that he rolled his eyes in response to the "intentionally nasally" thing. But if he was rolling his eyes in response to Chris VT comments, I'd be okay with that too. It did seem like pandering, especially coming on the heels of a failed indignant defense of his singing.

The way he delivered his comment wasn't exactly tactful. One moment he was being snotty with Simon, then all of the sudden, he throws in something about VT. If his intention was to say something about it, he shouldn't have started sparring with Simon.

First off, to dagnytaggart, Flipit can make as many gay jokes as his little heart can muster because he's gay, so theres. Just like I can make mexican jokes all I want, Haley Skankarto can make herpes jokes all she wants, and Blake can make harelip jokes all he wants.

I didn't watch the show last night because I was having dinner with the BF and I forgot to reset my DVR to record AI, but it doesn't seem like I missed much. I saw the clip online of Simon's eyeroll, and it was totally not in regards to what happened at VT, come on, American Media, come on. He was rolling his eyes at Chris's lame attempt to redeem what I'm told to be was a shit ass performance and then garner sympathy votes by reminding everyone where he's from. Bullfuckinshit on Chris, that was low, Timby Cakes. I'm sick of your tiny head, go away.

I'm from Phoenix, which is basically where Jordin is from (Glendale), so there's always a big news story on Tuesday nights talking about how awesome she is. It's the same thing every week. A clip of her getting her judges' critiques, then cut to the reporter at the arena where they hold a giant viewing party every week, then cut to some little girls gushing about how awesome she is and how Simon's a big meanie cacadoodie. But last night, the little girls changed their tunes, one said, if I remember correctly, "I want to marry Simon now." And I puked a little bit in my mouth.

"Ouch. She called her a boy" You KILL me, Flipit. Keep up the great work. I am very sad you will not be recapping Shear Genius. =(

I thought it was kind of funny that Mandisa got booted last year during country week after singing a religious song, and then Lakisha did the same thing. Of course, she's still around, but whatever.

I don't know why you call Blake Dead Eyes, Flipit. I think it's Lakisha that always looks like she's bored as hell no matter what she's singing. I feel like I'm the only one who notices.

actually Beth, Mandisa sang "Any Man of Mine" not a religious song. Well not unless you're worshipping Shania Twain.

BethW- You are NOT the only one who notices... I totally agree!!

Hi-larious screencaps!! :)