Jacob Lusk seemed the obvious choice to go home on American Idol this week. He got a lukewarm response from Idol’s easy-to-please judges when he tried singing both parts of the “No Air” Jordin Sparks/Chris Brown duet. His Wednesday night efforts got a rating of 6 — on a scale of 10 — from Idol…
This week, Haley Reinhart performed an unreleased song by Lady Gaga. At the urging of Jimmy Iovine. After getting the star’s blessing to sing it. Next week, Lady Gaga will be mentoring the Idols. Hold it? Another mentor in the year without mentors? Guess so. And I guess Gaga quickly forgave the show for that…
Well, what do you know? American Idol found itself a judge. He’ll praise when it’s merited. He’ll criticize when it’s merited. And he’ll do the latter without being mean. He just delivered on-point critiques for all 10 top five performances. He even rated one performer as a 6, which isn’t real good, on a scale…
