Idol Update: Double Elimination and Songs Inspired by the Rat Pack

Let's say goodbye to Lil and Anoop.

Well, Lil was finally put out of her misery and Anoop failed to dodge this latest bullet (his fifth appearance in the bottom not including his initial loss and additional into the wild card). Anoop was so-so and pretty forgettable last week, and Lil was just awful, doing yet another karaoke performance and once again fighting the judge’s criticism. Lil is in my opinion one of the most disappointing contestants ever, never coming into her own and taking what looked like a chance to win the whole show and instead becoming one of the worst parts of the show each week. (I think Lil was so bad that she probably damaged any chance at a real recording career she may have. She’s completely uninteresting and unlikable.)

The rest of the week followed a similar pattern; Adam was great with his ballad version of IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU (which is absolutely destroyed by a rearrangement in the ITunes version for some reason), Danny slightly less original and thus less great, and Kris strumming his guitar and being boring and Matt singing, yet being equally boring. Kris seems to be very hit or miss with most people, each week there are people who swear that Kris was just fantastic but to be honest, I can’t see it. Allison is always solid but seems to lack something that would make her a stronger contender, be it her lack of personality or just the fact that her song arrangements aren’t that original / interesting.

I really think at this point its Adam’s competition to lose. Danny was neck and neck with him at one point. He’ll need a real moment to reach a point where he is a front runner once more. That’s not impossible, but feels more and more unlikely with each passing week.

Next week I will set up something so you can do some scenarios on your own to see what it would take for each of you near the top to win the competition (who’d need to get knocked out, etc.)

The theme this week is songs inspired by the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, etc.). I don’t know exactly what that entails but is sounds more like a jazz theme than necessarily a classics theme but we will see.

JUAN