American Idol 3/29/12 Live Blog: Top 9 Eliminations
Top 9 Idols face elimination today after making the judges give them FIVE standing ovations in their awesome performances last night. Today’s episode opens with a surprise as Eric Benet walks-in the Idol set to meet-and-greet Deandre, who sang Benet’s Sometimes I Cry, and other members of the top 9. I swear I thought Deandre burst into tears, but who wouldn’t if you met an icon like Benet? We also get a glimpse of idols’ Hollywood life in the Idol Mansion until Ryan starts to pump the heat by calling in Elise, Phillip, and Hollie into the spotlight. Elise and Phillip…
American Idol 3/28/12 Live Blog: Top 9
The top 9 contenders perform their own song choice this episode, and Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) joins the mentoring on Idol. Colton goes first with Lifehouse’s Everything. I’m not sure if it is my bias for Lifehouse at work of it Colton just did an amazing job, but man did he sound swell! The three judges agree that the sincerity of his performance was outstanding. Jennifer is most agreeable when she says that the simplicity of Colton’s voice is his true edge and that it didn’t need any vocal acrobatics to impress. Skylar goes for Miranda Lambert’s Gundpowder and Lead…
American Idol 3/22/12 Live Blog: Billy Joel Eliminations
After taking on Billy Joel this week, the Idols face elimination night and it’s into to the Idol Hollywood Mansion or a ticket out of the competition. The Top 10 Idols open today’s episode with an a cappella of Billy Joel’s For the Longest Time (which I think is a high irony for the brief Idol episode this is going to be). Hollie, Skylar and Elise takes center stage first. Hollie gets to be called ‘a sweet Diva caught in the headlights’ who may have lost her style in the material. Jimmy conferred that Skylar needed to be more creative…
American Idol 3/1/12: First Elimination Night, Top 13 Finalists Selected!
After our top 24 (25) perform on stage for the last two episodes, tonight’s show offers a grim day for 12 of our contestants as the top 10 is selected based on America’s votes and the other three wildcard contestants will be selected by the judges themselves. 12 goes home, 13 stays in the competition. Who gets eliminated? Who gets lucky? Find out as we give you the freshest updates only here on Nerdles! 33 million votes came in after only two nights of voting time. These votes will determine the five girls and five guys who will get into…
American Idol 2/29/12 Live Blog: Top 12 Gals Perform
After that episode yesterday where our top 12 (13) guys performed, tonight’s episode is all about the girls. Also, our Nerdle bug is getting frisky for another spoiler alert: a wildcard performer on tonight’s show selected from the set of eliminated contestants. Who do you think it is? Find out who and find out what kind of surprises await viewers on the latest episode of American Idol only here on Nerdles. Remember that episode where the judges found a contestant whose voice is similar to Carrie Underwood? Well, it was definitely Chelsea Sorell who sang Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova.” Did the…
