As we’ve been hearing for months, this season of American Idol brings with it the most solid top 24 in years - if not ever. Their performances this week do not reflect that. If they were outstanding, it was only in their ability to not completely suck. Mediocrity is nothing to strive for, […]

American Idol has come to be one of the most necessary evils in my life. I loath it because it wastes countless hours of my time with the same manufactured content, and regardless of how much I swoon for one or two contestants each season, none of them ever go on to produce […]

At the risk of sounding like a bandwagoner, Jennifer Hudson really was my all time favorite American Idol contestant (pre-BShorty, naturally). Her rendition of the Manilow’s “Weekend in New England”? The tears never seemed to stop. Though my deep-seated fear of musicals kept me from ever seeing Dreamgirls, I’m sure she rocked it out, […]

Something is rotten in the state of American Idol. And it’s not the results. As much as my devotion to Team Blake made me want to think otherwise, we all know going into last night’s finale that it was Jordin’s coronation. But given the song the two were being judged on, was this year’s final […]

It just doesn’t get more exciting than this. In a moment I really didn’t see coming, vocal juggernaut Melinda Doolittle was ousted on last night’s Idol - just one week shy of the final. Despite the fact that she’s better suited for a touring musical adaptation of one of the more mediocre Disney […]

Singing ain’t everything, folks. Jordin and Melinda might be the most vocally talented Idol contestants, but they’re also some kind of crazy boring. Not only did Blake bless us with actual movement last night, he was also the only one to perform something new during the “contestant’s choice” category. Back before he […]

There is no greater feeling in life than seeing your American Idol contestant of choice make it this far. It is a pleasure that has eluded me year after year - once under shady circumstance but mostly because the people I like aren’t often very good. But all that changed this year when […]

Sanjaya lived every moment like it was his last… until around the top ten when he become completely deluded. Not that he really had any choice in the matter. Sanjaya’s big head was ceremoniously placed on his shoulders by a media who’d reached their saturation point with Anna Nicole Smith. Sanjaya sucks, […]

Are the problems with America so deep that this is what we’ve come to regard as a sex symbol? At first I was convinced that Haley Scarnato’s endurance on American Idol could be attributed to a large Italian family with an good wireless plan. But now that her stay on Idol lingers and […]

Oh American Idol, you sneaky son of a bitch. You made us watch almost three months of filler, knowing we’d eat it up, under the false pretense that people would stop sucking once we got to the top 12. That has been the precedent, but for season six, such is just not the […]