AI 9 4-7-10 And there are nine again

One could lose it all tonight. Prepare yourself for a surprise or two. This is AMERICAN IDOL!

I have much to say about last night’s results show but I will wait to let loose the wrath of Ronald.

American Idol producers hear my plea – “All group numbers must be eliminated”. We are looking for an Idol not a group. Given the performers are not singing live but lip-syncing why is the number necessary? Oh yes, we are trying to fill up an hour of airtime. Give it a rest. The numbers are boring, poorly choreographed, and for a singing competition, most are unable to lip sync to themselves. What is wrong with this picture?

The Ford commercial while better than last week was still uninspired with the potential Idols still unable to lip sync.

Time for elimination build up with all the remaining female contestants sent center stage. This moment reminded me of an evening during Season 3 as I sat in a hotel room in Atlanta while Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson and LeToya London ended up in the bottom 3 (i.e. the best singers from that season) with Jennifer going home. I threw such a fit yelling and screaming at the television set while also talking on my cell, hotel speakerphone my neighbors were concerned violence was happening, and hotel security arrived at my door. A most surreal moment and trust me it was happening last night as well.

Luckily, the women are safe tonight which means a male contestant is finally going home.

Jason Derulo is performing tonight. Interesting he is signed with Kara. Is this nepotism? I will give Jason some due he was actually singing live but the performance was over the top and all that fire and crap, give me a break. Wait did I miss something? Is Jason competing now because we are getting critics from the judges? Kara pimps her find saying she is so proud of him because he put this together in four days and he is such a great songwriter singer. Excuse me, running around the stage singing your name does not scream great songwriter to me. Even Simon says it was absolutely great.

David Archuleta is here to reprise “Imagine”. David has improved and this beautiful haunting version of the song put Jason and even Rhianna to shame. Wow what a novel concept having a performer who sings both flawlessly and live. I will forgive the pimping of the new songs because David can really sing.

We now have more elimination drama and the remaining contestants are broken out into two groups. The groups are Casey, Lee, Tim and “Big Mike”, Aaron, and Andrew. Shocking surprise indeed given our bottom three are “Big Mike”, Aaron and Andrew. Who will be going home?

The announcement will wait because it is time for Rhianna to take the stage in order to promote her upcoming tour. First of all what was she wearing and second is she even singing because with all that echoing all I heard was nothing! I am giving Rhianna the big thumbs down for this performance.

We are finally ready to eliminate a contestant. Aaron is safe and finally Andrew returning to the comfortable seats leaving “Big Mike” up for elimination. WTF?

“Big Mike” has to sing for his life and he freaking delivers an unrestrained performance of “This Woman’s Work” and nails it better than when he originally performed the number. “Big Mike” deserves to be in this competition because he can sing for heaven sakes.

Will the judges use their one and only save? Simon tells Mike they all wish he had done something like that yesterday otherwise he would not be in this position. We only have one save and the decision is unanimous we will see you next week. Ronald finally breathes.

“Big Mike” returns to the competition but the downside is there are no more saves and two contestants go home next week.

America seriously you are freaking whacked. Do you have wax in your ears? You are voting for cute and smiley over awesome talent – that is just crazy! I can understand popularity playing a part but when you have to listen to someone’s music, it is very important the music is excellent. The 9.5 earthquake last night centering in Portland Oregon was because Ronald was jumping up and down screaming at the television and using just about every combination of swear words at his arsenal. Did everyone dial the wrong number because it can be the only reason for such a travesty of a result? Get it together before next week or a certain someone may go postal on your asses!

Next week Adam Lambert takes the stage as mentor for a special theme week and the producers have only 90 minutes to fill thankfully so the show should move quickly. Glee returns as well. It does not get any better than that.

Until next week…

P.S. How many of you are going to be rushing out to bid on donated clothes from Simon? Just wondering.