What the hell? I've predicted the demise of Jacob Lusk for like three weeks in a row now and he just keeps hanging in there. I guess I misjudged the power of the black and gay voting blocks out there. Surely this is his last week?
Alas, however, we had to say goodbye to Casey Abrams last night. Well, it's about time for that. Casey had been a breath of fresh air at points but his song choices were just getting too erratic and he was beginning to growl all the time. I guess America got tired of it too.
Casey started off being somebody I thought would go a little more in that Landon Pigg, Ryan Adams, Mumford and Sons vein and instead became a self-described disciple of blues and jazz ready to bring them to prominence in a world in need of a music history lesson. Boring. There are plenty of people out there carrying that banner already.
The irony with Casey is that, after several bad song choices in a row, he would have killed it if he had been around for next week.
Next week's show is a "now and then" theme where each contestant will perform twice doing a current song and one from the '60s. Supposedly Casey was going to do either the Santana/Rob Thomas song "Smooth" or a Blink 182 song for the current and "Eleanor Rigby" for the '60s tune. Well, depending on how he would have approached them he could have killed it. But I think Casey was losing sight of what this competition is all about.
You repeatedly hear contestants say crap like "I just went out there and had fun!" Well, you can have fun going to a bar and singing karaoke. You need to have fun enjoying what you're doing in light of American Idol being a HUGE deal that could determine your future as a musician. If you're just going out there and having fun then you probably need to be having fun in a different profession.
I don't know if I'll try to make any song recommendations for next week since the choices are far too numerous.
It's going to come down to either Jacob or Haley going home at any rate.
I'd like to note that I think it's cool that Bruno Mars can actually write a piece of crap song. I've been pretty amazed by him for a little while but his performance last night of some new song that sounded like a Jason Mraz toss off was refreshing. I'm sure it's going to be or already is a current hit but it shouldn't be.
Crystal Bowersox was boring as hell too.
It has come to light today that Iggy Pop was considered as a possible judge for Idol this season and I have to say that would have been a hell of a lot of fun. As boring as Steven Tyler has turned out to be I have to add.
Also, there is supposed to be something in the works to give the judges more of an opportunity to vote next season so we don't get any more of those save Casey then see Pia go home scenarios and a good singer will win the competition.
In other words, apologies to fans of Taylor Hicks, Kris Allen, or Lee DeWyze but is anybody seriously awaiting their next release? This is the crap you get when you leave it all up to phone in voting.
Fortunately, we won't have that problem this year but you get the point. I really believe that Scotty, Lauren, and James Durbin will all have big careers post-Idol but that outcome has been so infrequent that the show producers have felt the need to do something about it and it's about time.
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