American Idol Season 8 – Top 7 Redux – Results – VIDEO
Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai are eliminated tonight. Joining them in the bottom 3 was Allison Iraheta. Matt Giraud avoided elimination last week after the Judges’ Save. This week, he secured his spot in the Top 5 by avoiding the bottom 3 altogether.
Anoop Desai is the first contestant to be eliminated after performing in the pimp spot in a single-song episode of Idol. Melinda Doolittle was eliminated Season 6 in 3rd place after performing last and Anthony Federov in 4th place Season 4. Both the Top 3 and 4 feature the Idols performing multiple songs.
Season 8 is the first season the Top 5 is without an African American female R&B singer.
I just saw a LIVE promo for tonight’s Idol, with Ryan Seacrest backstage flashing the elimination card…
Tonight: Get ready for a double elimination!
Videos and Live Blog after the JUMP…
David Archuleta sings “Touch My Hand” and a Disco Extravaganza featuring Freda Payne, KC and The Sunshine Band and Thelma Houston.
- Cold Open – VIDEO
- Group Performance choreographed by Paula Abdul – “Shake Your Body Down to the Ground” by Michael Jackson -Â Performance Video – Performance – Both
- Ford Commercial – “I’m Good, I’m Gone” – VIDEO
- Lil Rounds is Eliminated – VIDEO
- Freda Payne, Thelma Houston and KC Disco! Medley! – VIDEO
- Allison Iraheta and Anoop Desai are in the Bottom 3 – VIDEO
- David Archuleta performs “Touch My Hand” – VIDEO
- Anoop Desai is eliminated – VIDEO
Over 45 million peeps voted last night…best week EVAH!
Paula Abdul mentors tonight, as she puts the kids through the paces in this week’s video package. She choreographed tonight’s giant Disco group number!
Oh, this is just awesome! The kids are doing full-on dance moves to Michael Jackson’s “Shake Your Body Down to the Ground” Pointy poses galore, peeps. Best. Group. Number. Ever! And just like Britney and Madonna, the kids are lip syncing. Afterward, Paula gets flowers from the kids. Ha ha, she’s doing the pageant wave. She says she’s never seen anyone work harder. She’s so proud of them!
Ford Video: I’m Good I’m Gone – That’s 2 of tonight’s contestants! Ha.
The elimination begins: Lil Rounds stands up…after reciting her deets…Ryan tortures her a bit. “You really want this a lot…we need someone like you.” he says. Ryan asks her to walk to the far side of the stage. Playing games! Ryan mentions her 3 kids and calls her courageous because she’s never afraid to mouth off speak her mind.
“Unfortunately…” says Ryan, “The journey ends for Lil Rounds tonight.”
OMG Ryan just eliminated her! Just like that! No Bottom 3 for Lil! Bet she didn’t see that coming.
Lil sings out, she gives it her all, though she’s still as unremarkable as ever. Paula is up dancing! She calls Lil “classy.” “Lil baby, you’re just on your way…just the beginning baby,” says Randy. Simon says, “I’m a fan but you made some bad decisions, I’m going to miss your family screaming.” Kara says, “I think you learned something from this competition.”
It’s time for the big Disco Medley! Nobody under 40 has a clue who these people are. Freda Payne takes the stage first, singing “Band of Gold.” Whoa. She looks good, but her voice is shot. Yikes. She introduces Thelma Houston who sings “Don’t Leave me This Way” LOL. I bet Simon was hanging out at the discos back in the day. Thelma is slightly better than Freda. But still, NO. You gotta give these peeps credit for singing live, even if the singing is sh*teous. KC from KC and the Sunshine Band is next. This is hilarious. What the eff is up with these danceer? KC barely moves. I remember him back in the day behind the keyboards, singing and dancing. Check out the photo. How times have changed.
There are two more seats left in the bottom three.
Kris Allen stands up…Ryan runs his deets. Kris and Paula is like THIS. And Kris is SAFE. Adam Lambert stands up…he says he hoped people would recognize the song after he arranged it, but after he read the lyrics, he realized as long as they were song honestly, it wouldn’t matter. And of course, he is SAFE. Danny Gokey stands up. He’s not wearing glasses tonight. Ryan says some of the bloggers thought Simon’s “clumsy” remark was “harsh.” Uh, not this blogger. Danny says he thinks he knows what Simon means by “clumsy” and will be able to fix it if he sticks around. Ryan tries to badger Simon into explaining “clumsy.” Simon tells him to STFU. Naturally, Danny is sticking around. He is SAFE.
Anoop Desai stands up…He says he thought he could have done better last night, but overall he was happy with his performance. This week, Ryan gets right to it. Anoop is in the Bottom 3. Allison Iraheta and Matt Giraud stand up… Allison says she changed her song because she was afraid of being karaoke. Matt says he arranged “Stayin’ Alive” himself, trying to make it original. He watched it back, was pleased with it and had a good time. One is in danger of leaving American Idol. And it’s not Matt Giraud. This week America decided to save him. Matt does a double take when he hears he is SAFE.
That means, OH NOES Allison Iraheta is in the Bottom 3!!! “Here it come, here it comes, here it comes again,” Allison sings on her way to the stools.
David Archuleta performs “Touch My Hand” – Not Archie’s best vocal. Plus the song is lame. But he is adorable. Archie walks down to greet Anoop and Allison in the Bottom 3. He gives them words of encouragement. Very sweet.
Back from break, and it’s down to Anoop and Allison in the bottom 3…The second person going home tonight is Anoop Desai. Allison Iraheta is safe. Anoop’s singout is better than last night–he’s got some lovely moments in there. I’m going to miss Anoop. If it wasn’t for the stupid save, he’d be Top 5, but no use whining about now.
They don’t even get separate video packages!
Anoop says, “I’m so disappointed, but I look at the bright side, I’m going back to Chapel Hill.”
“My babies and my husband…I’m coming home!” shouts Lil. Anoop thanks the band, the vocal coaches and the crew, as Lil shouts “Yes, yes!” They even thank the judges…
And what the hell was that “thing that’s never been done on the Idol stage before” deal John Jay and Rich were yammering about earlier today? Eh, they were just shilling for friend-of-the show, Paula Abul’s, turn as choreographer tonight. FAIL.
SAFE:
Kris Allen
Adam Lambert
Danny Gokey
Matt Giraud
Allison Iraheta
Bottom 3
Anoop Desai
Allison Iraheta
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575 Responses to “American Idol Season 8 – Top 7 Redux – Results – VIDEO”
He co-wrote both of those songs, as well as several others that were bonus songs. Fans would have loved having him sing Zero Gravity (the jumping song), but since it wasn’t even a bonus song, it wouldn’t have made sense, unless they released it as a single.
Here is the “jumping song”, Zero Gravity In Columbus, Ohio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ila-GjzyXbo
I didn’t watch this last night, so thanks so much MJ for always coming through with the videos. I heart you!
I’m ok with who left. I was never in either Lil’s or Anoop’s camp. I don’t spend time before the season checking out their history so Anoop’s days with his a capella group meant absolutely nothing to me. I always found him hit or miss on Idol. Lil, on the other hand, never did one thing I even remotely liked. I’m not actually a huge Matt fan either although I do think his recorded voice is amazing and I find him more current than the other two.
I thought Archie did ok with a less than amazing (read velveeta) song. He has upped the stage presence ante but then there was only one way to go. I think there were numerous mitigating circumstances with both Davids’ performances. They were both sick, they were both tired, it was their first time back to the scary stage, their arrangements were changed from how they typically perform the song (well I know this to be the case with Cook, but I honestly don’t watch any Archuleta performances). Ultimately, they are both great guys and America doesn’t obsess over their every note. Archie will be fine.
Loved the group number except for the Gokey dancing. It could have been cheese whiz on a stick if not for that damper.
I’m still hoping for a Adam/Kris/Allison final 3. I would be delighted with any of the 3 winning. I’m just not that invested this year.
ETA: Thanks for the Mini Sirloin Burgers commercial, Terri. We don’t have Jack in the Crack in Chicago. I almost miss it….almost.
I hated everyting about last night’s show except seeing David Archuleta back on stage. Even if it wasn’t his best performance, it towered over the the other performers. Someone called me and left a funny message about AI scraping the bottom of the barrel. That was such a terrible show last night. It was uncomfortable watching the seasoned, but well past their prime entertainers. The show just seems to have taken a nose dive in terms of good production and being able to get top notch entertainers as either mentors or guest performers. Ultimately the producers themselves are going to kill their own show. The fact that they are allowing lip synching, and bad lipsynching at that has really turned many viewers off. The show was a trainwreck last night.
I was sooooo happy with the outcome of last nights results show, I could have switched out Matt for Anoop but after the dance last night, wow, the boy can move and oh my can Adam dance. They all were very good – Archie was just adorable but what happened with his singing, he was reaching for those high notes, oh it was a cringe worthy performance but I still like him, ha – wrong song choice most definitely.
How entertaining this result show was! One of the best they have had! Thoroughly enjoyed that!
It was great watching the older “disco stars”do their thing. You can see why Disco was so popular and fun.
The older gals, I thought at first,
“Oh no,this is hard to watch”.
But as I watched them just completely immerse themselves in the performance and just let go, it was entertaining. They didn’t seem to give a care how they looked or what anyone thought. They just danced unashamedly and sang even if out of breath. KC was cool too!
Archie is so cute! He has really grown in performance ability and communicating. I enjoyed his song. He still excels so many others with his voice, even if he was having voice problems. Great falsetto!
Yay! Glad to see Taylor (the forgotten stepchild) next week!
The group number was really good! They ALL had some good dance moves.
I think Danny is a better dancer than he gets credit for. I’m not crazy about “pelvic thrusts” either, but in fairness, they all did some of that,including Adam. Also Adam has some great dance moves, but some of his dance moves were kinda funny looking on the parts where he was lumbering across the stage in the long strides. But then again, these dance moves are not so easy.
They all deserve props for this performance. You know they all worked hard on it in the short time they have for practice. Paula is really great at this! I was impressed!
Lil and Anoop did better on the farewell performance than their live performances. I think we have the right top 5.
Late to the party…
Finally watching Anoop’s final farewell song, it hit me. He’s this year’s Archie. Smooth, clear sounds, struggles when upbeat, awkwardly moving about at times, great slow sweet ballads, but risks being boring. Archie had the so young, just an adorkable kid thing going for him. Anoop did not. So it was odd to me to hear them within minutes of each other on that stage. And I’m sure I’m the only one that sees a resemblance between those two.
Not an Archie here, but I thought his performance was good. Didn’t like the song at all, but whatev.
And, yeah, I’ve watched that fabulous group number more times than can be considered healthy. LOL Very well done!
Guilty. :thumbup_tb:
MJ, could you give us a link from the front page to that video for the rest of the season?
Um, wait. That might not be good…
HEY, JohnM
Your bottom 3 proposition never crossed my mind. BUT, let me add this hopeful thought: the production wants Allison in the final so they place her B3 to garner the sympathy vote and to get her base out furiously banging their phones.
I haven’t read any of the posts yet, but just want to say:
1/ Best group dance. I knew they would get better once Scott was gone, and Paula did a good job. Adam is by far the best dancer in the group.
2/ What graveyard did they dig up those disco stars from? The first woman – gotta give her credit for the moves, but who did her face lift? Why isn’t she wearing a slip? What was big bird wearing? You don’t wear a dress to show off your legs if you don’t have legs worth showing off. What happened to KC? He looked like his wife made him put on a fresh shirt after mowing the lawn so they could go to Olive Garden.
Allison shouldn’t have been in bottom 3, but glad she’s safe. Next week, Matt or Danny should go. I want Adam/Allison/Kris top 3!
ACK: I don’t like the RAT PACk standard. All men, adored by all women; and there go the older female votes in a wave of nostalgia.
Sadly, many of those gals are either dead or senile, but it will soften the blow.
Indeed Noctem
“True, but what Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m saying is if you go back to last year, almost every week the person with the actual lowest DI number was also the person eliminated.”
I followed Dial Idol pretty closely last year and there was only one week that didn’t happen, can you guess which week?
I’m not that interested this year so I haven’t been following DI but the peeps that do are saying to me it is way off this year – not sure what has happened, are less people using the DI software, are more people just texting. I heard that TBTB are ticked off about DI so maybe they found a way to sabotage them.
Has TIVO said anything this year? They said they were having a pretty good prediction rate last year going by the number of times people would rewatch a particular performance, don’t ask me how they know this stuff and again can you guess the one week TIVO was off? Fluttering eyelashes coquettishly. Bwah.
Agreed. Best.Dance.Number.Ever on AI. Paula still got it.
The Golden Oldies of Disco – oh KC – just a reminder, kiddies, we all get older unfortunately. What Donna Summers was booked!
Oh there was at least one unofficial female member of the Rat Pack, her name was Peggy Lee.
“You give me fever” [snap those fingers]
Etta James is not too shabby either but I suspect her Vegas was a different Vegas than the Rat Packers.
Actually, I think there were several unofficial female members. Legend has it that Lauren Bacall is the one who coined the term “Rat Pack” in the first place. Although, I have no idea if that’s true.
Yes, that’s actually the best-case scenario, and the one I’m hoping they’re engaging in.
I wouldn’t want our theory to be spread too widely, so that it doesn’t diminish the sympathy vote. But I figured the few of us here at MJ’s might be able to take a bit of comfort in it.
I suspect that the theme is actually much broader than “just a bunch of songs by guys” (assuming that’s what you meant), because it seems like Sinatra sang pretty much everything written over about 30 years, including “girl songs” like my current favorite for Allison, Someone To Watch Over Me.
And speaking of being dead….
What do you do for guest appearances on the results show when everyone involved in the theme is long gone? I’ve been wondering if they might drag Ol’ Blue Eyes out of the grave and prop him up on the stage on Wednesday night!
I found it completely adorkable how excited Allison was to meet David Archuleta. I am liking her more and more each week. I would love to see the top 3 be Kris, Matt, and Allison. I also want a pony, and I know that’s not gonna happen either.
Loved seeing Archie perform. I agree that his vocals–usually spectacular–were a bit rough. So nice to see him working the stage though, dancing and having fun.
The only thing wrong with David A’s performance…IT WAS TOO SHORT! If I had to suffer thru Pickler and Miley, which seemed like eternity, at least I would have liked the full 4 minutes of TMH. But, there are many full TMH perfs on YT from David’s solo concert.
I would honestly like to see Allison make top 3 but I’m not sure that it’s going to happen. Something tells me it’s going to be a Danny/Adam/Kris final 3. Allison & Matt will go out 4th and 5th depending on the performances.
Since I’m not usually a big fan of the male singer seasons the past two seasons haven’t been all that interesting for me. All but two runner-ups have been guys. I’d like to see another girl runner up but I don’t think Allison has the fan base to overtake Gokey, Kris, or Adam.
So I guess one good thing about this season for me is now that TPTB have had THREE white male winners (effectively 4 counting Archie) they will finally shut up about the winners not being balanced.
Bring on the girls next year!
Finally watching Anoopà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s final farewell song, it hit me. Heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s this yearà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Archie. Smooth, clear sounds, struggles when upbeat, awkwardly moving about at times, great slow sweet ballads, but risks being boring. Archie had the so young, just an adorkable kid thing going for him. Anoop did not. So it was odd to me to hear them within minutes of each other on that stage. And Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m sure Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m the only one that sees a resemblance between those two.
I agree with this assement. Anoop had smooth vocals but not the “it” factor that David Archuleta has and still has. I supported Anoop all the way until his ouster last night, probably will continue to do so if and when he puts out an album.
I was giddy with excitement to see David perform last night admirably too with his being sick and travelling with hardly a day off…and damn if he does and damn if he doesn’t with “Touch My Hand”…I love the song, it’s catcy and danceable…at least he didn’t sing “ALTNOY” last night that in previous post many were grumbling that he better not sing that song, he didn’t yet he still get’s slammed for singing what I don’t consider a “cheesy” song…oh well, David can’t please every one, but he does certainly light up a stage, something that’s missing with this season albeit Adam and Kris have been terrific vocally, but David has that spark that Simon often talks about…and it was wonderful to see David back on the Idol stage…that made my night…for that I thank David Archuleta….. :wub_tb:
Glamberts, seriously, get over yourselves. I take back all the snark I ever put out there about the Archies because the Lambertinis make them seem like peace-loving Quakers by comparison (yes, I realize that’s a redundancy).
If you want to hype Adam in comparison to his current competitors, be my guest. But, don’t try to imply that he’s superior to the depth of talent of the season seven field.
I find myself wishing that there was a clause Idol could invoke that made all non-winners from the previous season eligible for a new round of wildcard entries into the present year’s competition. Then David Archuleta could come back and sing Glam-Boy straight off the stage and kick his ass right back to Broadway.
“Archie = Sounded off his game to meà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦and no-one should attempt falsetto in the presence of the Lambert. Sorry, kid.”
I agree to this, he was not on yesterday but I dont think they were saying Adam is superior to Archie, that is like comparing apples to oranges, Adam just has more range one way, Archie another. Archie is great and what he is doing now is exactly right for a young kid, going Disney and opening for a Disney star. Archie is adorable and I think doing the right thing with his career.
Actually, I did no such thing. I said “no-one” meaning, well….no-one, anywhere on the planet :tongue1_tb:
…which I hoped would be enough – plus the wink smiley – to indicate that it was NOT a serious comment. How could it be when I’ve encompassed every singer in the world? :laugh_tb: Ah well…the joys of internet mis-communication. I will keep my jocular asides to myself in future. :smile1_tb:
(and FTR if Adam ends up on Broadway I for one do not see that as a disaster. My father was a professional singer who managed to make a reasonable living in the music industry and considered himself extremely privileged to have been able to do so. It’s a very crowded profession so anyone who can do it as a sole occupation and never has to put aside their dream and wait tables or stack shelves is doing well in my book. A Broadway career is surely nothing to be ashamed of. YMMV, of course.)
“A Broadway career is surely nothing to be ashamed of. YMMV, of course.)”
^^^^^
Anyone should BE so lucky
Did anyone catch Matt telling Allison somethig like “Wait, I had a dream last night, it’s going to be okay.”? It happened when he hugged her after she found out that she was in the bottom 3.