American Idol Final 9, Results Show

Let me start by sharing my opinion about something that I’ve heard people say over the years about American Idol and how more people vote for this show than people vote for the President. Well, let me just throw my 2¢ in the ring by saying that you can only vote for President of the United States once, but I know there are many people who gang up and vote multiple times for their favorites.

Well, tonight there were 36 million votes for contestants I think that Ryan Seacrest was looking for new and creative ways to reveal the results by breaking the 9 contestants into groups of three. The groups were Scott MacIntyre, Danny Gokey and Anoop Desai; Kris Allen, Megan Joy Corkrey and Matt Giraud; and Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta and Lil Rounds. Right off the bat I would have guessed that the group that was in the bottom three would be Kris, Megan and Matt, but whenever Ryan does something like this it’s because the results go against what would be usual reasonable instinct. At the beginning of the show when Ryan referenced the Judge’s Save and said, “based on last night’s show, the judges might have a tough task ahead of them.” I know Ryan knows who is being eliminated so it made me think that we would be surprised at tonight’s result.

Before we got any further with the results last year’s winner, David Cook, visited the show and sang his new song, “Come Back to Me.” Of all the years of American Idol, last year was my favorite so far and hearing David Cook tonight reminded me why I liked him last year. I may just have to pick up his new album. Good song!

Back to the contestants, it turns out that they weren’t going to eliminate them by the groups that they were divided into and the first contestant declared safe was Kris. Next up was Matt who was not in the bottom three either. But confirming that they weren’t going to eliminate by group, they put Megan in the bottom three.

In the next group they visited, Lil and Adam were safe, but Allison was in the bottom three.

The most obvious safe contestant in the next group was Danny Gokey. I honestly think that either Scott or Anoop could have been in jeopardy, because I don’t think either of them were outstanding last night. And sure enough, Anoop Desai was in the bottom three. I got two of the three of them right.

In order to keep us in suspense a little longer, they brought out Lady Gaga to sing her song, “Poker Face.” I must admit, I’ve never heard of her or this song before. I guess I’m probably the wrong person to be reviewing American Idol if I’m not up to speed on our current idols. All of these piano-playing women like Alicia Keys, Nellie McKay and Norah Jones are really interesting to me, but Lady Gaga was truly a sight to behold—kind of a cross between the Eurythmics, Cyndi Lauper and Joni Mitchell.

Back from the break, they quickly revealed that Megan Joy Corkrey was the bottom contestant and was ultimately eliminated. From the beginning she was one of my favorites, but she was also terribly unpolished and seemed like she was just winging it most of the time. In some ways that might not have been bad, but she was consistently going down in quality. I’m hoping that we can see more of her in the future but I’m sure it’ll be in smaller more cultish venues.