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American Idol Top 12 Results Show – Season 7, March 12, 2008
By PopSavant | March 12, 2008 | 
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Hello all, and welcome to the American Idol Season 7 top 12 results show. We had two awesome performances last night (Carly and David Cook,) two horrible ones (Ramiele and Syesha) and a bunch in between. We also had Ryan acting more like a dick than ever, and Simon trying ineffectually to respond through innuendo and raised eyebrows. We’ll see if Ryan cools it or if Simon thought of any witty rejoinders overnight.
And here’s the show. Lame Dr. Seuss opening… I hope the movie is better than that. I’d figure Jim Carrey would steer away from Seuss after Grinch, but hey. And there’s Carrey in the audience, back at Fox after all these years. He was great on In Living Color.
Ryan tells us they’re going to do more Lennon/McCartney songs next week… I’m sure David Archuleta punched a wall when he found out. But at least that explains why the show last night wasn’t wall-to-wall Beatles hits, they had to save some for next week.
The twelve Idols do their traditional medley … first up are Carly and Michael Johns…Michael looks downright confused trying to sing with Carley. Again, David Cook tears it up compared to everyone else. Chikezie does well, too. Nice boots on Brooke, who looks like she’s in some kind of tribute to Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
We have a Sanjaya sighting. They’ll have to do some stretching to run this show to an hour; we’ll see if Ryan heads over there with the microphone.
There’s a Hell’s Kitchen promo during the first commercial break. I love that show, I just wish they ever had contestants I cared about. Coming out of the break, we get a recap of last night… no point going into that, you already have all the quality comments you need from my blog post last night. 
All Right… Ryan starts the countdown, looking for the bottom three…
Carly, Michael, Jason, and Syesha stand up. Carly is safe, as is Michael. Jason has a seat as well. Syesha is left standing alone, rarely a good position. Sure enough, she’s in the bottom three. Randy and Paula both say her leaving would be the wrong choice; Ryan changes the question up and asks Simon if Syesha belongs in the bottom three; his answer is a terse “Yeah.” Ryan asks Syesha to sing, and it becomes clear how they will stretch the show to an hour, by having each person that nobody enjoyed perform another song. Great idea. Syesha takes the mic and reminds us exactly why she’s in the bottom three; her performance is even worse than last night. Nerves explain part of it, but it really is bad.Coming out of the commercial is the Ford commercial, with an election year theme set to Cake’s The Distance. Not a remarkable video clip at all.
There’s a shot of David Archuleta at the Horton Hears A Who premiere; he does a very good Ed-Grimly-meeting-Pat-Sajak impression when he talks about meeting Jim Carrey. For her part, Amanda talks about how cool it was to meet Kevin Cronin from REO Speedwagon. Insert your own joke here.
Next up: Chikezie, Amanda, David Cook, and Kristy. Ryan cruelly makes Chikezie walk down to the stage and then back to his seat. Amanda also sits. David Cook, wearing an old hat of Bear Bryant’s, also returns to his chair; that leaves Kristy, who gets another shot at America. She does her Hee Haw version of Eight Days A Week. This one’s not fair; Kristy’s performance isn’t bad, but the arrangement is so supremely awful I’m not surprised America didn’t see past it. Ryan asks Simon if the performance was any better, Simon responds: “Not really… no.” We’ll see if she makes it back.
Fox is really pushing their Jezebel James show… maybe it’ll find its feet long term, but the promos make it look like utter crap.
They’re doing a new phone-in segment. It’s pretty rough… why would Fox want to reduce the premier reality TV show to local drive-time radio? (And why didn’t they have a sponsor for the segment? Weird.)
Katherine McPhee returns to Idol to do a merely competent version of an otherwise great song, namely Something by George Harrison. Why she would choose the hair-pulled-back-look is beyond me when the rest of her look is going for elegance, but she’s still a knockout.
And there’s Jim Carrey mocking REO Speedwagon. Told ya.
And here are the last four on the line: David Archuleta, Brooke, David Hernandez, and Ramiele. Archuleta “gets a chance to redeem himself” and takes a seat. A radiant Brooke is also safe. Ramiele is the next to sit down, leaving us with David Hernandez. He gives us a second dose of I Saw Her Standing There, and it’s no better. When a performance makes you nostalgic for a Tiffany version of anything, you know the performer is in trouble.
The bottom three: Syesha, Kristy, and David Hernandez.
Ryan welcomes us back to “the toughest part of the hour” … apparently ignoring Syesha’s performance. Randy allows that America “probably” got the bottom three right. Paula has never seen a “more stronger” bottom three, but America “pretty much got it right.” Simon believes America got it absolutely “spot on.”
Ryan quickly pronounces Syesha safe.
And after 29 million votes… Kristy is also safe, leaving David Hernandez as the odd one out. He’s gone. Ryan gives him a chance to speak to his fans and rather than make the announcement we all hope he’ll make, he justs says to hang on, we’ll see him at the top because it’s not over for him.
This year’s going-home song is by Reuben… remember Reuben? The title is Celebrate Me Home, which puts me a bit in mind of “tally me banana.”
And there you have it.
My Predictions: Close, but no cigar. I had Syesha, Ramiele, David Hernandez, and Kristy as the four worst, so in some sense I correctly picked all three. I figured Kristy would survive, but also thought David would make it through based on his strong performance the previous week plus the fact that America loves a contestant under fire. I still maintain Ramiele was deserving of a spot down at the bottom. I had Syesha leaving. Still, not too bad.
See you all next week. In the mean time, feel free to share your thoughts about the remaining 11!
Bill
Topics: American Idol, TV | 3 Comments »
March 13th, 2008 at 5:33 am
it’s Ramiele, not Ramilie. that’s all
March 13th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Thanks Lance… I typed and retyped her name looking for the spelling that looked right, even compared it (I thought) against the AI site, but I guess I missed it. Looks like I’d better get used to the spelling since she’ll be around another week.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Another week of mousey Ramiele. I can hardly wait to here what song she whispers next week. I’m sure she’ll sail through with the hidden and presumably tone deaf fan base she’s developed.