Last night American Idol dispensed with the save immediately after news broke that Megan Joy was the country’s least favorite hopeful, with Simon saying that the judges had decided to not use their power of reversal even before the tattooed font designer gave her final performance. I guess it’s the judges’ prerogative, but the pre-emptive veto had to be kind of surprising to the viewers at home, even though Ryan mentioned at one point during the show that “someone might have to sing for their life.”
The final minutes:
Poor Megan. She needed better advisors. (And a better stylist—I mean, a romper? You only have to dress three ladies this season, Glam Squad! Step up your game!)
Also, can we just talk about how jerky Danny Gokey is? I know, I know, it’s a common theme around these parts, but the bit where contestants mimed each other brought it home once again. Watch; the other kids’ impersonations of their fellow contestants were at least done in kind jest, but then you have Danny taking on Matt Giraud’s (admittedly awful) “Viva La Vida” performance—and just being mean. (It’s at the -1:30 mark in the below clip.)
And then he asks Allison Iraheta to do another impersonation of him! “Oh, hey, can you keep talking about me? Me. Me. Mememememe.” He is the worst, the absolute worst. Gah.
[video via MJ]
BE NICE TO DANNY! He’s a widower and his grandfather is dead!
/Middle America
Danny Gokey should be skullfucked by an Applebee’s.
@King of Pants: WIN
even though i have no idea what that means, but i’m dying over here anyway
@raycummings: Ditto.
So how long has Megan wanted to go home? Do we think Rockin’ Robin was an attempt to get booted early?
Y’all caught the quick shot of Jason Castro and Alexis Glick side-by-side in the audience, no?
Word on Gokey, all the way — I actually had to reverse the TiVo make sure I wasn’t judging him too harshly compared with the other impressions, but yeah. He really pulled the dick move.
I’m now regretting I defended him for singing well a couple of weeks ago.
yeah rob, i saw that! they looked uncomfortable.
I was just looking at Allison’s wikipedia entry so I could make bad jokes about what song she might choose next week, and I see that she was the champion on Quinceañera three years ago. I had never heard of this show, but it appears to be (have been?) some sort of “Idol Jr.”-like Latina singing competition.
I believe this is new information to me.
@raycummings: Neither do I, but it totally makes sense in a weird way.
@Rob Murphy: Alexis Grace, not news-personality Glick.
Get a brain, moran!
@Rob Murphy: I just found that out yesterday afternoon. I wonder what she did with the $50K and the “record label contract.”
i wonder if “skullfucked by a tgi friday’s’ would be more accurate, given gokey’s resemblance to guy whatever-his-name-is…
guy fieri! that’s his name. that food network show winner or whatever.
actually “skullfucked by x” deserves to be a meme in its own right
I love all of you.
The impersonations were awkward, but what about the noise Danny made when he got sent back to safety? What the hell was THAT?
@Lampbane: Afterglow.
I haven’t watched any of this season but that girl’s fuckin attitute was terrible, I wanted someone to punch her every time she made some stupid face standing up there. Simon OTM
I finally signed up for a screen name here to say this:
THANK YOU for pointing out what a jerk Danny Gokey is. I can’t stand watching him look like a cocky mofo every time he’s “relieved” he’s not in the bottom three. Last night he kept smirking, knowing he wasn’t going to go home. He’s a good singer but his attitude is killing it for me. At least Adam seems humble enough, despite his creepiness.
@raycummings: Gokey totally is the Guy Fieri of AI contestants.
@Nicolars: He reminds me of a lost member of the barenaked ladies.
@brasstax: I have no idea where that money, which is not really a lot anyway, went, obvs, but I’ll personally pay Allison $5 if she performs any of these songs from 1992 next week:
“Achy Breaky Heart”
“Cop Killer”
“Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” (actually, she would probably *kill* that…)
“Sex Type Thing” (ditto)
“What’s Up”
Danny’s followers should just call themselves the Soulless Patrol – the guy is perhaps sounds like an even more watered down Michael McDonald than Taylor Hicks. Also, how many of his relatives have to die before he’s just handed the crown?
I may not have liked Megan Joy much, but that cawing as she headed to her stool was a thing of beauty…
@Thierry: Sorry for the mangled syntax in that comment. I had to re-write it a couple of times to tone down my disgust…
lol at “soulless patrol”
this post is the gift that keeps on giving!
Caw caw!
@Rob Murphy: Oh, sweet idea on the Sophie B. How could this possibly not happen?