An Idol Shocker

Okay enough already with the hokey and poorly lip-synched performances.  Granted that tonight was one of the best lip-synched performances in years, this is a singing competition...either let them show how good they really are or simply drop the Brady Bunch medleys.  Do you think America will really care?  Of course, Idol would then struggle with how to fill the five minutes of an already overproduced and too-long results show.

Tonight's former Idol(s) returning to the stage included a "dueling" piano version of "Tell Her About It" by an awful mohawk'd Matt Giraud and Scott MacIntyre.  For someone who used to work in a dueling piano bar, I am now unsure if I would even pay to see Giraud perform in that environment.  As for MacIntyre, I can only say that he is quite talented on the piano for someone legally blind.  Perhaps the dueling piano concept could have worked with a more exciting song, but for me, I simply felt like I was watching a performance from Vegas's New York New York casino.

Tonight Idol tried to make it dramatic by going through the contestants one by one (simply another ploy to make the show run long).  We said goodbye to Brooke White Katelyn Epperly (a girl who didn't have the spark to make it any further than she already did), Todrick Hall (someone who simply wasn't consistent enough week over week), Alex Lambert (sorry, you're name is not Adam), and in the most shocking exit of Idol and perhaps the worst decision by the Idol voters since knocking out Jennifer Hudson, Lilly Scott.  Mark my words that Scott will be the first singer from Idol who didn't make the top 12 but who will still find a record deal...very possibly with the Idol producers.

The crown is Bowersox's to lose with the loss of Scott.  And tonight, Idol officially jumped the shark.  Simon, I can't wait for your show.