American Idol Final 10, Results Show!

Thrills! Chills! Surprise Endings! And Romance! All on tonight’s exciting results show on Fox’s smash hit American Idol!

Ok, so it wasn’t all that exciting, but after a lot of manufactured tension and suspense, and a measly little 36 million votes, here are the results.

The finalists opened tonight’s show with a Medley of Motown songs which was followed up by a performance by American Idol Season 2 winner, Ruben Studdard. It’s been a while since I’d seen Ruben, but I know he’s been busy in “Ain’t Misbehavin’” with disqualified Idol, Frenchie Davis.

The first contestant declared safe was Adam Lambert (no surprise), but right away we learned that Matt Giraud was the first to be placed in the bottom 3. Shortly after that, Kris Allen and Lil Rounds were declared safe, but Michael Sarver wasn’t, he was also in the bottom 3.

Joss Stone and Smokey Robinson sang a duet of the song, “You’re the One For Me” which conveniently showed up on iTunes today.

Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey and surprisingly Megan Joy Corkrey were declared safe, while Scott MacIntyre was placed in the bottom 3. Shocker! Scott didn’t stick around with the 3 very long, though as he was quickly declared safe… psych!

To serenade us as we patiently waited for the final results, Motown legend Stevie Wonder came out and sang a few of the songs that terrible American Idol hopefuls have massacred over the years.

Ultimately, I wasn’t surprised at all that Matt Giraud was declared safe and Michael Sarver was the one who had to sing for his life. I also wasn’t surprised that the judges chose not to save him this week. There are only a couple of contestants that I think would be worth saving in that manner, and I don’t think Michael Sarver was one of them.


So what thrills and chills await us next week? Hmm... I'll betcha someone sings well, and someone sings bad, and that bad singer may actually go home! But I've been wrong before.

On another note, if you're at all inclined to purchase the contestant's performances from Apple's iTunes Music Store, you'd better do it before the finale, because if this season is anything like the last one, as soon as the final episode airs, the only songs that will be available will be the ones the two finalists sing. Last year all of the other performances were taken down immediately. Just a "head's up."