Oh, American Idol, here we are again…this is the ninth time and clearly we have learned sooooooo little in these past eight seasons. I didn't say much about the top 24 (or anything at all, even though I promised our editor I would cover Idol…oops? Sorry), because to be honest it was a huge mess and I tried to watch all four hours in one evening and by hour three, I was basically just a corpse with bleeding ears and a look of disappointment on my tired little face. But let's not dwell on the past, this is the top 20 and everyone knows that 20 is way better than 24. Right? Sure.
The American Idol stage was soaked, like sopping wet, with drama this week. Simon is maybe engaged and the boys switched their performance to Tuesday night instead of Wednesday, due to Crystal "Dreadlocks" Bowersox going all sickly on us. Anyone else assuming that the patchouli finally overwhelmed her lungs and caused some sort of dirtiness-induced trauma? Maybe that's just me. Anyways, the switch didn't seem to affect the singers too much, as no one was really making me wish I had no ears, but at the same time the standouts were few and far between. Altogether, this is feeling a little reminiscent of that season when Fantasia won. You know, the one nobody remembers, but there is a Lost character moonlighting on the show and I am fairly confident that three blondes (Not Three Non-Blondes, hahahahaha, get it? It was lame, I know) will be duking it out at some point…
After the jump… recaps or Tuesday and Wednesday night's performances and the results!
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2010.