A year ago, Alexis Grace sounded crestfallen. Other people seem oddly cheerful when they're bounced from "American Idol," but not her: She had finished one short of the top 10 and the tour; her dreams had been dashed.
And today, Paige Miles seemed only mildly better off. A self-described cheerful person, she'd been wracked by laryngitis and had fallen just short of the top 10. Her speaking voice sounded awful; her emotions sounded marginally better. Here's the story I sent to papers.
Hey, I'm starting to like this no-surprises thing.
For the second straight week, "American Idol" voters have followed my instructions. Last week, they dumped Lacey Brown; tonight, it was Paige Miles. Their only error was putting Katie Stevens alongside Tim Urban in the bottom three; I'm quite sure I specified that Andrew Garcia should be there.
Anyway, here are a few of my comments; please add yours:
Lots of times, no-surprise is a really good thing. That was the case tonight, when "American Idol" voters sent Lacey Brown home.
I was still recovering from last week -- (see a couple blogs back) -- when Lilly Scott and Katelyn Epperly were wrongly ousted. This time, there was no such shock. Lacey seems like a nice kid with a great hair stylist, but that still doesn't make her tour-worthy or top-10-worthy. Here are a few of my other comments; please add yours:
Some "American Idol" choices make an ouster seem inevitable.
Flash back to 2007, when the final nine were suppose to each choose a classic American song. Gina Glocksen chose "Smile." It wasn't until after she'd been ousted, she said, that she realized the emotions involved with saying farewell while singing: "Smile, though your heart is breaking, smile even though it's aching ..."
It's getting easy to tell men from women: On "American Idol," the women are the ones who can sing.
In each of the first two weeks, the guys have managed only one memorable singer -- Casey James last week, Michael Lynche this week. The women, by comparison, bring great cascades of talent.
There was Crystal Bowersox, the day after she'd been hospitalized; she gave a wonderful, gospel kind of feel.
