For months, I’ve been grading performances on American Idol Season 12. With the season finale later this week, it’s time to grade the judges. Yep, that Season 12 panel that included three new faces and turned out to be every bit as dysfunctional as the rumor mill suggested it might be last summer.
Teams no longer matter on The Voice. Judges’ saves are no longer available. Beginning Monday night, the 12 remaining singers go head to head, and the only thing that matters are fan votes.
Was Angie Miller shocked by being voted off American Idol Thursday night? Oh, yeah. “I did feel confident in my performances (from Wednesday night,” she said in a conference call with the media Friday. “I wanted it so badly/”
Unless a former contestant has returned, I have this bad habit of paying only half attention to the TV during American Idol results shows. After all, they amount to 55 minutes of filler, leading up to five minutes of suspense.
Well, we won’t have The Dawg to complain about anymore. No more “in it to win it?” No more he/she “can sing the phone book?” Oh, what will we do?
So it’s Kree Harrison versus Candice Glover for the American Idol title after a somewhat shocking Thursday night elimination show. First off, congrats to Candice, the gal from St. Helena Island, S.C., who had tried out for Idol twice before and failed to make it even to the semifinals.
Phillip Phillips tweeted Thursday night that he’s been able to reschedule all the tour dates postponed earlier this week because of medical reasons. And, yes, that includes the previously sold-out concert at the Pullo Center in York that had been scheduled for next Wednesday,
Who goes home tonight on American Idol? That’s a heck of a good question.
So, today’s American Idol chatter revolves around a report from The Wrap that FOX plans to fire all four judges at the end of the season. My response: “Don’t stop there.” If heads are going to roll over declining ratings in Season 12, take the producers, too. Please. Very please.
American Idol Season 4 runner-up Bo Bice will perform at the Sunoco Performance Theater at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg. The center announced the 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, show today.
