American Idol 8 – Top 5 results
Apr 30, 2009 That's Hot
Tuesday’s show was one of the best I’ve seen in a while… but who misses the cut?
- Over 47 million votes cast Tuesday night.
- Season five’s winner Taylor Hicks, Natalie Cole and Jamie Foxx will all be performing tonight.
- Ford Music Video: “Energy”
- Live performance: The top 5 perform a medley of “It Don’t Mean A Thing” and “I Got Rhythm.”
- Danny’s birthday was last Friday, and Allison’s was Monday. The top 5 made cake… and one hell of a mess. Danny gets the $6,000+ cleaning bill for starting the ruckus.
- The top 5 line up center stage. It’s not hard to see them do their standard “2+2, where do which half do you think is the bottom?” deal.
- Matt is sent to stage righty, and Danny goes stage left. Allison moves stage left with Danny, and Kris is shuffled to stage right with Matt.
- Adam is, of course, safe, and gets the predictable question. Unlike most who simply squat center stage, he actually ventures a guess, and stands with Allison and Danny.
- Allison, Danny, Adam…Â are not the bottom three. Adam, Matt and Kris, in fact, are. Danny and Allison are safe.
- Kara’s jaw drops at the announcement of Adam being in the bottom three, and Paula says it’s crazy, but it’s really not. All five sang great last night, and it’s all a numbers game at this point — none of them deserve to get cut, but someone HAS to go. Plus, this opens up the competition even further — one would have assumed that Adam was just running away with the show, but there was obviously at least two people who got more votes than he did this week — he’s an obvious favorite, but he doesn’t have it locked yet.
- Live performance: Natalie Cole sings Frank Sinatra’s “Something’s Gotta Give.”
- Matt, Kris and Adam are sent backstage to stew.
- Live performance: “Seven Mile Breakdown” by Taylor Hicks, who appears to have lost some weight since his win, and looks like he’s in good shape.
- The bottom three return to the stage. One person goes back to safety…
- …and it’s Kris. Adam and Matt are the bottom two.
- Live performance: Jamie Foxx sings his single, “Blame It.” I initially thought it sounded weird because we could hear his regular voice along with the autotune, but then I realized that it’s not his voice in the autotune, it’s someone else.
- After the highest total vote count of the season, Adam…
- …is safe, as expected. Matt Giraud’s Idol run ends tonight.
Next week: the final four sing rock & roll, with mentoring by Slash.
