American Disinterested Idol?
Okay, so last night, Carly Smithson was voted off American Idol in a “shocker,” a word that I think only begins to sum it up. I don’t see exactly how she missed the mark in her “Jesus Christ Superstar” performance, especially when you compare it up to the disastrous performance that Jason Castro threw down with “Memory.”
This brings to light - again - the fact that voting on this show definitely throws people for a loop. People seem to vote HARD for people they LOVE and those that they LOVE TO KEEP ON THE SHOW, not the ones that actually do the best job, consistently. I wouldn’t even know where to start in saying who’s to “blame” for something like this, but I’ll say that unless it’s David Cook that ultimately wins this show, it wouldn’t surprise me if any album that Carly Smithson got to do after being thrown off the show outsold anything that the eventual winner did over the haul. Of course, this is my opinion, but if you listen to a lot of music (I do), I just don’t see how she was the weakest performer - at all - especially when she was put in a bottom two with Syesha Mercado, whom I am not the hugest fan of as an “Idol” in the long term, but who did a killer job on Tuesday night.
The voting is just so seemingly random. One week you seem to be based on the work you did that week, even if you were perfect eight weeks in a row prior. The next week you’re voted on how you might actually rank in the overall grand scheme (and Syesha in the bottom rung isn’t too off-base when you look at it that way). But seriously, folks, how could Carly Smithson be a lesser performer than ANYONE except maybe David Cook in the long haul? And what, Brooke White gets the sympathy vote because people like her in general and she had a disastrous performance? I just don’t get it.
/stupid rant
No Comments Yet