American Idol
Title: "Top 7 Contestants Compete"
First Aired: 4/17/07
The wiener, of course, is Sanjaya Malakar! He and his stupid doo-rag. He and his idiot hair. He and his poopy-doopy face! Yep, this is the level of discourse that his continued existence on American Idol has brought us to.
Even Simon Cowell doesn't know what to say. "Ghastly." "Cabaret." These phrases lose their power when the contestant knows he sucks, and when the contestant doesn't care. So, you have to wonder how much impact Simon's tirade against Sanjaya on last night's episode will actually have, no matter how freaking mean it was.
In his most blatant anti-Sanjaya statement in weeks, Simon called Malakar's performance, "Utterly horrendous," and, "Just as bad as anything we see in the auditions." When Ryan Seacrest then stepped in and asked Simon to be nice, Cowell said, "Shut up, Ryan," and continued to address what has been the White Elephant in the room for weeks, the fact that Sanjaya is destroying the credibility of the show. "Look," Cowell said, "this has all been fun for a while, but if we are supposed to be trying to find the next American Idol... well, you were horrific."
This was a pretty gutsy power play on Simon's part, I think. Can the Big Brit out-muscle the Little Twit? We'll see! Whose fans will step up to the plate? I wonder if this debacle might lead to a different type of voting system next year, one where viewers can vote against someone as well as voting for them. If that doesn't work, perhaps the producers could simply provide Simon with a crossbow.
Unfortunately, though, all of this bad blood obscured what may have been one of the best weeks of actual competition in a long time. In an absolutely amazing performance of guest coach Martina McBride's song "Broken Wing," Jordin Sparks put her Amazon-sized body right into the thick of this year's race. In fact, her performance was so good that it led Simon to say, "This is the first time I've ever actually believed that you could win American Idol."
I believe it ,too.
After all, Lakisha Jones is starting to look a bit tired, cross-eyed, and homesick. Phil Stacey looks like he's late for his own funeral. Blake Lewis has to be running out of sweater vests. And Melinda Doolittle... well, she just has no neck!
All of these folks are far more deserving of the top six than Chris Richardson, though. He looks about as comfortable singing a country song as Sanjaya does when he sings about liking girls. To use Simon's words, "It's like eating a hamburger for breakfast. It just doesn't fit!"
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