American Idol Update: The Love Songs

Ken AshfordPopular Culture2 Comments

Tv_tivoGuess what?  If you set your TIVO to record "American Idol", but a thunderstorm knocks out your cable box (unbeknownst to you), your TIVO won’t record "American Idol".

Yup.  I missed it.  I have no idea what happened.  The entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune writes:

Love is fickle. Love songs are even fickler.

Just ask Kellie Pickler, who torched another song on "American Idol" on Tuesday night, despite the coaching of popera star Andrea Bocelli.

Judge Simon Cowell’s scathing review of her "Unchained Melody" was so long that producers were forced to cut him off. "It was so monotonous, so bland, there was no heart, no warmth from your vocal, you really were like a robot during that performance," he said as music started to play.

"I haven’t finished!" he snapped.

Taylor Hicks was equally flat and hesitant. But Elliott Yamin and Chris Daughtry drew midsong cheers from the audience. Yamin’s "A Song For You" moved judge Paula Abdul to tears. "You are this handsome, evolved performer," she said. "You are an American idol! You are!"

Now, going into last night, I would have said that Kellie and Elliot are the weakest.  Based on the Trib  review — which is all I have to go on — it looks like Kellie may be the next to go.

But I didn’t see it.  So what did y’all think?