I'm climbing up on my American Idol soapbox for a moment, so bare with me. I am very unhappy with the results from last night's show! Not one of my top picks made it through! I like Jorge, I think he is a great singer and he seems to have a really cute personality. But I thought Ju'not was better. I was sadly disappointed to hear he didn't make it into the top 12. Lil has a great voice. Incredible, really! But she has never been a favorite of mine. I think she has an incredible voice, but there is nothing about her that sets her apart. She has a very stereotypical "black" voice and I don't think she's any better than every other female R&B singer they've ever had on the show. I really thought Felicia and Kristen both deserved to be in the top 12 over Lil! I would have been happy with either of them, although Felicia was my favorite female from group 3. As for Scott...well...its really quite ridiculous that he made it to the top 36 let alone the top 12. I know, those of you who follow the show and have any idea who I'm talking about will probably think I'm a horrible person for saying this. But its true. Scott is the first blind contestant to ever make it this far. I think he is absolutely adorable! He has a sweet personality and an awesome story, but that's where it ends. The judges (I'm sure with coaxing from the producers) have been promoting Scott since day one. Why? Because he's blind. The show's ratings are dropping and they need some contestants with good stories to help promote the show. Now Scott doesn't have a bad voice, by any means. But when he is up there singing, my thoughts always turn to "He would give a nice solo performance in church." His voice is not even close to being on par with the rest of the people in the competition! It's nice, but I don't think he has a good enough voice to make a career out of it. Scott also plays the piano, and the judges kept saying "I hope people vote for you so they can see you perform with your piano". The time in Hollywood week it showed Scott perform with his piano, he wasn't much better. He feels the music, which is awesome! And when he sings, he does have a way of connecting to the song better than most of the other contestants, but that still doesn't give him an incredible voice. I knew Scott would be in the top 12. With the judges pushing people to vote for him, as well as all the pity votes and the "oh, he's blind, how courageous of him to be doing this" people, there wasn't much of a chance that he wouldn't make it. But it still bothers me. This is a SINGING competition. Not a "who has the best personality or who has the best story or who is the cutest" competition. But American Idol continues to have people every year who are voted into the top 12 who shouldn't be, robbing those who actually have talent of their chances.I really hope they choose two, if not three girls to be added to the top 12 on tonight's wild card show. The girls have been robbed this year! Out of each group, two guys and one girl have been picked. My little brother, Brent, pointed out that this is probably because the majority of persistent voters are teenage girls. So of course they will vote for more guys than girls. But there are so many talented girls this year, its a shame so many of them have been passed over! I hope they bring Felicia Barton back. The judges all seemed to like her and I think she has the possibility of doing really well! I've also heard much talk of them bringing back Megan Joy Corkrey (the girl from Utah I wrote about earlier). I kind of hope they do bring her back. Because like I said in my post, she does have a unique voice and style, which I really like! I just hope if they do bring her back, she gets over her serious twitching problem on stage. As well as the few pitch problems she was having onstage the last time. I don't know who I want the third person to be, but I really want to see more of the girls come back who should have made it in the first place! Okay, I'm stepping down now.
ADDENDUM:
I didn't actually see last night's episode. Jill wasn't home so I only found out who made it into the top 12 via texts from my brother. I didn't find out until just now that they also determined last night who was coming back for the wild card show. I just have one word to describe how I feel about the choices....LAME!
