Another One Bites the Dust. . .

Why is it that every year they adopt ONE format for the “boot” show and stick to it all season? Isn’t there a way to mix it up a little? Really, if I wanted to I could take what I wrote for the last show and just edit the names because the shows are all so similar.

Group song. . . show clips of each performance from the night before. . . bring out a few contestants and pronounce their sentence (sofa or bottom three). . . Ford commercial. . . bring out a few more contestants. . . announce the theme or guest for next week. . . take some questions from viewers. . . talk about Idol Gives Back and watch some clips of that. . . guest performer/former contestant. . . bring out the last three contestants. . . gather the bottom three and announce who goes home.

Group song always sucks --- I’ve never been to one of the tour concerts, but imagine that they don’t get any better and the only parts I’d enjoy would be when each contestant (except for the sucky one who always gets to go on tour) sings solo.

Chikizie - in the bottom three
Brooke - safe
Carly - safe

Ford commercial --- which I thought was the best and most creative yet. I remember a time when I hated these!!

Little David - safe
David - safe
Syesha - bottom three
Michael - safe

Announcement that Dolly Parton will be next week’s guest --- which makes me think that Kristy Lee will be sticking around for another week at least.

Questions from the viewers (go Danville, CA) --- the questions are mostly ridiculous (Chikizie are you single? Little David, why did you choose the song you sang last night? Simon, what do I need to do to take Ryan’s place? Brooke, if you could sing a duet with anyone, who would it be? Simon, do you consider yourself to be the most attractive person on the show?) BTW: Chikizie is single, Little David already explained (twice) why he chose his song, Simon commented that you “don’t need a lot of talent”, Brooke would sing with John Mayer, Simon states that “it’s not what I say, it’s what other people say”. Touché Simon!!

Video clips of Kimberly Locke, what she’s been doing, etc., then a performance by the former contestant. Great performance, but unfortunate choice of wardrobe, especially for someone who’s just lost 40 lbs.

Ramiele - safe (this is where the Earth starts spinning off it’s axis for me)
Jason and Kristy Lee come out together --- Kristy Lee is declared safe and Jason is declared in the bottom three.

Before Jason has a chance to sit in the “bottom three” tractor seat, Ryan calls Chikizie and Syesha over to join Jason.

Ryan asks Jason if he’s surprised and Jason starts a mumbling ramble that Ryan interrupts by letting him know he’s safe.

Syesha and Chikizie are left holding each other --- you can see in Syesha’s eyes that she can’t imagine that it’s her time to go, but Chikizie has a resigned look.

Ryan tells Chikizie that he’s going home.

Chikizie ends the show by singing a repeat of the night before, this time even better.

This may be a tip-off to whether a guy or girl is leaving --- if one of the bottom two is a girl and both are asked to sing BEFORE they say who’s going home, then it’s the girl going home (because the girls always cry so much it makes it hard for them to sing after hearing the bad news), but if they wait, then it’s a guy going home.

Let’s see if that theory pans out!!

Anyway, just because I predicted correctly this doesn’t mean I’ve become a better judge of musical talent. It may mean that I’ve become a better judge of how the public will vote.

I’m already predicting that Kristy Lee won’t go home next week because Dolly will help her along. I do know that, from now on, it’s going to be very difficult to choose who should stay and who should go UNLESS David Cook keeps hitting those grand slams!! That guy rocks!!