Comments on: Top 20 ‘Idol’ Contestants of All Time – 20: Lisa Leuschner

By: maryann

maryann — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:52:26 +0000

oh and did you notice they got rid of the wildcard round after they screwed her over?

By: maryann

maryann — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:50:37 +0000

Lisa Leuschner was robbed big time..anyone who knows anything knows that the votes don’t count..it’s in the contract that the producers can change anything they want..and they wanted less competition for Fantasia..the fact that they called her back for the wildcard round and then didn’t let her sing speaks volumes about their agenda..they knew that people were outraged at the results of round 2 and they also knew that the claymates were planning on mass voting for her so they couldn’t let her sing..when Randy said she had one of the best voices in the competition but sorry you can’t sing that was the most unjust thing this show ever did..sorry if you don’t appreciate her talent ,Heath, but she is one of the best voices to come out of A.I…and Jessa…i feel bad for you ..you missed out on a great talent

By: Chris Serico

Chris Serico — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:31:36 +0000

Your loss, Jessa.

By: Jessa

Jessa — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:06:37 +0000

I’m sorry, but I’ve watched Idol from day one…and I don’t even remember her.

By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:13:47 +0000

BTW, Joseph, you clearly can’t read because I had said, “had she been allowed to perform in the wildcard round,” which obviously means I know she didn’t. I just find it besides the point.

By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:05:12 +0000

You’re all missing my point.

Viewers were given the chance to vote for Lisa in her original group of eight and did not even vote enough to advance her into the Top 12. So the idea that she was the only one who stood a chance of beating Fantasia had she only been voted into the Top 12 is a huge leap. COULD she have beat Fantasia? Sure. Might she have made the Top 12 if she would have been allowed to perform in the Wildcard round? Quite possibly. Would she have had a BETTER chance than anyone who actually made the Top 12 of beating Fantasia? The answer is obviously no because if she had a better chance of beating Fantasia than the likes of Diana, Jasmine and LaToya, she would have been voted into the Top 12 the first time.

Sure, Clay was the wildcard pick in S2 and made it to second place, but the competition in his group included eventual winner Ruben and third-place Kimberley Locke. Matt and Camille placed 11th and 9th, respectively. Regardless of Lisa’s talent, the fact that she couldn’t even make it to the Top 12 against competition like that says she simply didn’t have a lot of public support, whether or not one feels she deserved it. How can anyone assume, then, that she would have suddenly had enough public support to rival Fantasia given one more performance? It’s possible, but to take it for granted that such a thing would have happened is absurd.

Furthermore, the argument that she was “robbed” simply because we heard one good performance is flawed when you consider how inconsistent most of the contestants are. I think Lisa should have advanced based on her performance, but I don’t think a person can say one way or the other whether a semifinalists was “robbed” based on one performance. For all we know that could have been her peak. On the flipside, someone who performed badly during the semifinals could have had their one rare off-performance and we’d never know it. It takes more than one week of performances to judge who really deserved to win.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:30:19 +0000

Does anyone remember Elizabeth LeTendre from this season?? I really enjoyed her a lot as well!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:23:17 +0000

And – you said it yourself. We only saw ONE real performance of hers. But people like Camile Velasco and Matt Rogers – American Idol was showing them all the time, shoving them down our throats. They figured a big loud personality like Rogers was better for the show for a few weeks, and then would be voted off, than a sassy girl who could actually SING, who could make it far, and they wouldn’t know how to market if she won. Just part of the AI machine. (See: Sanjaya.)

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:39:37 +0000

Uh, no. Lisa was not given a fair chance. If you remember correctly, and you don’t, she was told to sit on the site with Tiara and Eric. The judges decided to not let them continue. This article is 100% correct.

By: Heath

Heath — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:09:07 +0000

Uh, Lisa was given a fair chance. Voters, for whatever reason, decided they liked hacks such as Camile Velasco and Matt Rogers more. To assume she WOULD have made the Top 2 had she been allowed to perform in the Wildcard round when she couldn’t even make one of the two Top 12 slots available to her group of eight is quite a leap.

The uproar over Lisa was absurd at the time, and the fact that some people are still harping about it is unbelievable. Yes, based on her audition and semifinals performance, she appeared to be a much better vocalist than the majority of the finalists that season. But we saw one real performance of hers. Even Sanjaya gave one good performance. For all we know, she could have sucked in the finals. Time to get over the Lisa thing already.