Ranking the 'Idol' Top 6: Out with the KLC, in with the ALW
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“American Idol’s” most attractive male and female contestants—Michael Johns and Kristy Lee Cook—left in consecutive weeks. Then again, we’re told this is a singing compeition.
Although KLC sensed her demise in previous weeks, she did a solid enough job last Tuesday that she told Entertainment Weekly she thought she was safe this time around. In what felt like a predictable Bottom 3, I actually thought (and perhaps wished) that Brooke White would be heading home instead.
It’s not just that Kristy Lee Cook is hot. (She is.) She might be the most talented blonde girl not named Carrie Underwood to make it this far in the competition (yes, better than Kellie Pickler).
She rivaled David Cook as this season’s best song-picker, choosing tunes that she knew would appeal to her voting country fans (the brilliant and/or pandering “God Bless the U.S.A.”). She showed steady improvement and a sense of humor in recent weeks, enabling her to relax and exhibit a confidence that appeared to be lacking in the horrifyingly countrified “8 Days a Week” and other performances.
There are only two things that bugged me about the all-American kickboxing beauty.
One, I know she loved the horse that she sold, allegedly to pay for her trip to “Idol” auditions (I’m not buying that story for a second). But please stop pestering the owner, whom she admits is a good person, to return the horse. She should buy it back if she wants it that badly, and soon she might have the means to do so.
Two, it’s interesting that “Idol” only referenced her boyfriend very recently—and that they’ve evidently been engaged since March 15—but kept it quiet, she said, so she could focus on the show. Never mind the idea that she did this to retain the votes from guys who thought she was hot and/or attainable.
A decent Top 6 contestants remain. Just three hours before they perform Andrew Lloyd Webber songs tonight, find out how I rank them after the break.
1. David Cook—Just because the judges didn’t realize how terribly off-key his “Always Be My Baby” was doesn’t mean I’ll knock him off his pedestal. I just want the judges to, y’know, listen to the performance that they’re judging.
2. Carly Smithson—Who wants to see Carly rock an upbeat number? Meeee! Better yet, who wants a David Cook-Carly Smithson finale? Me me me me me me!
3. David Archuleta—Yawn. The kid needs to do something fun. Perhaps to make people forget that Naomi Judd recently called his father Jeff the “worst stage dad,” as Rickey.org reports.
4. Syesha Mercado—EW.com’s Idolatry segment today nailed it: We need Ms. Mercado, who chooses more sleepy ballads than your local adult contemporary radio station, to bust out something fun.
5. Jason Castro—He sings an awful lot of songs about some dude named Hugh. Oh, wait, he’s singing the word “you”? Well, I don’t care what he’s singing with a voice that has been sounding thin and whiny and testing my patience.
6. Brooke White—Needs to lock up the piano forever and stick to guitar, and refrain from responding to every single comment from the judges. She also needs to sing a lot better than she has in recent weeks.
(Photo of Kristy Lee Cook by Frank Micelotta/FOX; photo of the remaining contestants with Andrew Lloyd Webber by Michael Becker/FOX)
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David Cook, Syesha, Carly or Archuleta should be the final 3 and Cook should win. Kristy is a decent singer however she's not as good of a singer and performer as Kellie Pickler or Carrie Underwood. Most weeks Kristy was one of the worst at picking songs, singing, and performing, and she was almost always in the bottom 3. Carrie and Kellie were never in the bottom 3 because most weeks they did the best job of picking songs, singing, and performing, and both lasted longer. Season 5 was the best and most competitive with the most screwed up voting, and Kellie and Daughtry would have made top 3 any other season.