American Idol Judgement April 8

Tonight’s American Idol looks again at who’s going and who’s staying.

American Idol started off with a humorous reference by Ryan Seacrest of Simon Cowell as Darth Vader. Simon, it’s the hair-don’t. You are so rich and famous, so get a nice haircut. It’s time.

Randy Jackson stated that the recent performances by some of the contestants had left him disappointed and had been “flat” and “off”. Kara DioGuardi talked of the “early front runners” who now had an identity crisis, kinda late in the schedule of the show for that. Paula Abdul, mother of the team presented another childhood photo of her and Darth, I mean, Simon as children. Nice collage.

The group song of the night was a hit from 2002 – American Idol’s first season – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”. I noticed the pairing up of Allison Iraheta and Adam Lambert – could this be a sign?

Later we got a view of the shooting of a Ford commercial. Again, amid the glitter, I see Adam and Allison together again. A fleeting image of the future…

Ryan then presented the hit playing in the year Simon Cowell was born. Frankie Avalon’s hit “Venus” was hot, way back then. A vintage film of Frankie Avalon morphed into Frankie Avalon in the flesh singing “Venus”. Frankie said it was a hit in 1959. Simon swore he was born in 1969. Wikipedia states his birthdate as October 7, 1959. Truth tells on the internet.

Other performers during tonight’s American Idol show included Flo Rida and Kelly Pickler singing their new hit songs.

The bottom three of the night ended up with Lil, Anoop Desai and Scott MacIntyre seated in the three feared chairs on center stage. Judges said they would use the judges’ save tonight. Moi, I don’t have a clue whom they were referring to in this line-up. However, time ran out tonight for Scott MacIntyre. There was a debate among the judge, two against two as to whether or not to use the judge’s save. However, Darth, I mean, Simon finally ended the debate by saying that although they really liked Scott, there were more talented singers sitting on the benches. Sadly, we must say goodbye to Scott. Lil and Anoop are safe, but it’s probably too late baby.

Adam Lambert is as safe as he should be. Allison is safe as she should be. It’s down to Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Anoop Desai, Matt Girard and Chris Allen. Tick, Tock, time is running on American Idol. And as I keep reminding, there is the American Idol tour coming up in the summer. Can't be that bad a summer job to have?