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American Idol Top 10 Results Show – Season 7, March 26 2008
By PopSavant | March 26, 2008 | 
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Hello everybody, and welcome to the American Idol Top Ten results show. We’ll skip the preliminaries tonight and start the liveblog:
Ryan, who seems to be wearing the same suit every night this season, opens the show by telling us there were over 30 million votes cast – the highest this season – and we’ll be hearing from Kim Locke tonight. Simon is wearing a pirate shirt. A subdued pirate shirt, but a pirate shirt none the less.
The group number tonight is the old Maxine Nightingale song Right Back Where We Started From. It’s boring and repetitive, sort of an end-of-season everyone-has-a-part summer camp type song.
American Idol takes time out to plug iTunes, just in case you haven’t heard of it. The partnership is working, I’ve bought one song this season myself. (Any guesses, loyal readers?)
Ryan introduces Chikezie… who says he’s doing all right, but doesn’t look it. He points to the stools himself, and Ryan confirms he’s right.
Brooke comes out and says nothing interesting at all (”I liked it with the band, I liked it without. Both ways were nice.”) and is sent to the sofa.
Carly is next out and denies that she’s pregnant, which is apparently a rumor going around out here on the intertubes. She doesn’t waste time stating the obvious (which is that she can’t be pregnant because she’s saving herself for me) and quickly moves over to the couch where she belongs.
The commercial break comes and goes and we get tonight’s Ford video, Cheap Trick’s I Want You To Want Me, which I hear more now on nostalgia radio than I ever did in the 1980s. The video seems short and is unremarkable. The only interesting part was the way they did the graphics, which featured the Idols coming to life on T-shirts and CD covers, that was cool.
David Archuleta comes out and admits that he got a little carried away last night, but his fanbase carries him through and he walks over to the couch.
David Cook is next up, but there’s not really any doubt about his fate, and he quickly heads to the sofa.
Syesha is next up, and almost immediately goes to the stools. Ryan couldn’t even find very much witty banter to exchange with her.
Michael Johns, Ryan’s “mate” comes out and also goes to the sofa without much drama.
Ryan tells us that it’s Dolly Parton week next week.
After the commercial, they do the call-in segment again. I can’t imagine that it comes back next season. Chikezie answers a caller who wonders that he’s single (yes). David Archuleta nervously giggles his way through his answer, apologetically explaining that he picked the his song last night because it’s one of his all-time favorite songs. The next caller fulfills Simon’s dream and asks how she can take Ryan’s job (Simon: “You don’t need a lot of talent.”) Brooke says she would like to do a duet with John Mayer. Simon thinks he’s the most attractive person on the show, though he blames the general public for the opinion.
Kim Locke comes back to the show (claim to fame: I once knew someone who went to high school with her.) She’s apparently opened a restaurant in Manhattan, and has lost 40 pounds. That’s nice, but I thought she was plenty attractive before. She promises to get on the stage and give a “performance of a lifetime,” by singing Fall. It’s another big, heartfelt ballad, which is Kim’s sweet spot. I would have preferred to hear the dance tune they were using as background music during the video interview, but oh well. It’s pleasant enough, but when you come right down to it, it’s a throwaway song, which is too bad. Kim deserves better material than this.
Ramiele comes out with her cute/stupid act again, telling us she “pushed out what she could” for the performance last night. She’s safe, and slouches her way over to the sofa.
Kristy Lee Cook and Jason Castro come out together. Kristy is safe, proving once again that song choice can kill or save you.
So we have the bottom three: Syesha, Chikezie, and Jason. Paula says that at this stage, “someone has to go.” Jason rambles on about how prepared to be at the bottom, and Ryan cuts him off by telling him he’s safe. We’re down to Syesha and Chikezie as the bottom two. Chikezie should be there, but I though Syesha was pretty good last night.
“America Voted, ” as Ryan says… and Syesha is safe. Chikezie is voted off.
Summary/Comments:
My predictions did pretty well: I had both Jason and Chikezie in the bottom two, and correctly predicted that Chikezie would be going home. The odd one out was Syesha; I had picked Ramiele instead, and still think I was right. It was Syesha’s only really good night of the year so far, and it’s a shame the effort landed her in the bottom three.
Chikezie is actually not bad, but he kept repeatedly shooting himself in the foot with his song choices/arrangements. America could only take it for so long. I suspect he may turn up someplace else before long.
We’ll see if America wakes up to Ramiele next week and sends her packing. See you then!
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