American Idol Season 6

 February 22nd, 2007

Ryan Seacrest mentioned some stars that would be on this season of American Idol. They are:

Diana Ross
Jon Bon Jovi
Jennifer Lopez
Gwen Stefani
Tony Benet
Martina McBride
Lulu and Peter Noone
Barry Gibb

For the first bit of the show, they just showed a recap of the previous two nights. Then the contestants sang a song medley together. I thought they chose a terrible song to do a group performance too. All of the singers sounded pretty decent, but the song was boring and it didn’t give them a chance to really shine. Some of the male-female harmonies sounded horrible. Usually I enjoy the group performance, but this was just border line embarrassing for the contestants.

Finally, they advanced to the elimination. This week, four people will leave in total, with two girls and two boys each. The first guy to be eliminated was Paul Kim. I was happy with this decision. There were quite a few guys that I thought deserved to go, and he was one of them. They let him sing for one last time on the stage. I felt a bit bad because I think that with the right song choice, he wouldn’t have gone first. He does have a good voice, but he just chose the complete wrong song to show America his talent.

The first girl to be voted off was Amy Krebs. I thought that was a fair decision because she didn’t give a memorable performance. I was fine with this decision too. I didn’t ever think she was going to make it very far.

In between the eliminations, Fanatsia Burrino, came out to perform. She was the American Idol winner of Season 3, but I haven’t really heard about her since she won. I didn’t even know she was still singing. She announced that she would be starring in the Broadway play “The Colour Purple.”

The final girl to go home was Nicole Tranquillo. I was very glad to see her go. She seems like a sweet girl, but I really didn’t like her singing voice. She sang again, just like the other eliminated singers. Everyone who has sang tonight has sounded terrible hence the reason they are going home.

The final male to be eliminated  was Rudy Cardenas. It was between him and Sinjaya, and they said that Sinjaya was in the top four male contestants. Rudy seemed very bitter that he was going home, especially when Simon insulted him for a final time. I was actually surprised that America chose him to go home, because to me, there were other guys that sang worse than him. He didn’t give his best performance on Tuesday, but it was certainly better than some of the others.