Top 8 Girls, More 80’s
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Asia’h Epperson — Jesus Christ that apostrophe is annoying me more and more every week. Seriously. Although seeing the text “ASIA’H'S FATHER” was pretty funny. She sings very well. Good job. Naturally DialIdol had her in second to last place for much of the night. Way to go, America! You want endless KKKristy, instead of someone who can actually sing, you’ll get what you deserve.
Luckily Asia’h’s (ha!) moved up in the rankings a bit since then, but it’s all still disturbingly close. And, in usual DialIdol fashion, he’s predicting that every one of the girls will finish somewhere between 1st and 8th place. Really? No shit? And then whoever gets voted off, he’ll be able to put the thumbs up indicating he predicted right, and use that next year with “we correctly predicted the outcome 95% of the time!” Yeah, I think I could get a better percentage if I was doing predictions that vague.
Kady Malloy — Kady starts off talking to Ryan and agreeing with everyone else who watches this show that she should have gone home last week instead of Alaina. But she didn’t, so we have to listen to her again. It’s bad. Not as bad as Amanda-last-week-bad, but still very bad. Bad bad bad Kady. I mean, better than some of her other performances, but so out of her league here (much like Luke and the rest of the guys.)
Amanda Overmyer — Her “most embarrassing” story was the time she accidentally burned down her deck, pool, and the side of her house. Wow. Combine that with the DUI arrests and car crashes and this girl is just an all-around mess, huh? She’s not as terrible as usual this week, but it’s not really a performance that does anything for me. The judges inexplicably like it. It was ok, but just kind of boring, if you ask me. Her pitch was much improved over her last drunk driving car crash of a performance, but that shouldn’t be enough to praise the hell out of her. At least she looked her age last night (instead of her usual 35-year-old look.)
Carly Smithson — I have a hard time believing that getting your leg stuck in a railing is more embarrassing than having your multi-million dollar record only sell 300-some copies. Anyway, she sings. She’s still a good singer, but I still just find her boring. I keep forgetting about her, and this performance just doesn’t do anything to change that.
Kristy Lee Cook — But at least Carly’s not Kristy. Poor Kristy. All blonde and pretty and full of horse-selling lies, and without the vocal chops to force us to like her. She sings “Faithfully” by Journey, and kind of destroys the poor little song with her non-Steve Perry voice and her country crap. And then she reveals that she’s aiming for 10th place. I think that just about says it all, doesn’t it?
Ramiele Malubay — Ramiele is apparently Danny Noriega’s secret girlfriend, what with the gang signs and glasses sharing and TMTH code and all that. She does well, as usual, but doesn’t blow anybody away. But she’s still very good, and it’s too bad DialIdol has her placing so low and relatively likely to go home.
Brooke White — Brooke’s most embarrassing moment is something about a wrong Dad at church. I guess the hidden message there is that Brooke goes to church, and, naturally, finds that incredibly embarrassing. I’d be embarrassed also if people found out that I believed in an invisible man living in the sky who tells me that science is a lie. Oops, this is American Idol. I mean, Go Jesus!!!!1111 Despite her religiousness, Brooke does surprisingly well with “Love Is a Battlefield.” Even if Paula thinks it should have been more cheesy and full-bandy. Wrong, Paula.
Syesha Mercado — Poor Syesha. She gets the last-song-of-the-night pimp spot, but because they all wasted so much time earlier in the show, there isn’t enough time for the judges to say anything about her performance. And now DialIdol has her in second-to-last place, just above Kady. Poor Syesha. How much would that suck if she gets voted out because they screwed around too much earlier in the show? That would suck a lot.
Alexandrea Lushington would have been a huge addition to this episode. Bah. I still can’t get over that KKKristy and Kady are still around, and Alaina and Alexandrea aren’t. That’s messed up right there.