Welp … we finally got to see the results of the Judge’s Save ruling this evening on American Idol.
And while it was a bit of a surprise Matt Giraud was the contestant with the least amount of votes, it wasn’t any surprise Anoop Desai and Lil Rounds were in the bottom three. Anoop might best be served by saving time by simply walking over to the bottom three seats rather than whiling away with the others stage left.
What this goes to show is you never know on Idol. The twists and turns are many and varied. And you rarely know when or where they’re going to hit.
The silliness, on the other hand, well … it runs rampant through the show week after week after week.
Said silliness was evident in Tuesday’s telecast with the exaggerated hand waving of Quentin Tarantino. And in the bonehead decision to curb every other pair of judges from passing along their thoughts at the contestants’ performances. (Not that they had much to pass along with those “movie making” offerings, y’unnerstan….) And with Rickey Minor’s band being brought on stage as of Tuesday. More silliness.
One of my favorite silliest things about Idol is the group song during Elimination Night, something I was not deprived of by the Idol Powers That Be this week. Because, finally, they did away with the canned performances and hideous lip-syncing. Real singing this week; what a concept.
Silliest of all, however, was the addition of Kara DioGuardi at the beginning of the season. There’s something that really gets under the skin about that girl. Oh … she’s had her moments in the sun on the show, but they’ve been few and far between. The gaffs she’s made have been highlightish, but they’re nowhere near the blinding blunders our dear “Pauler” has committed. (You gotta love Pauler and her seal-clapping, incoherent, Simon-snarking, get-off’n-yer-booty-and-dance-like-there’s-no-tomorrow exuberance.)
But wait, folks. There’s further silliness to come.
You see, next week ….. next week we get the pleasure of seeing how the hoopla surrounding the Judge’s Save pans out. I predict it will be a complete and total non-moment in Idol time. It’s the stirring of a pot with nothing in it. You can’t burn anything, you can’t get anything nutritious or delicious out of it. It’s all just pretend.
Just like Matt’s been pretending all along he’s Justin Timberlake.
And Lil? She best realize she’s been granted a reprieve. And a silly one at that.
The “Magnificent” Seven. They do indeed ride once more. Right into next week …..
Clacked by Michael Noble 
on Apr 16, 2009 @ 14:00 EST5EDT
