When you've got 24 contestants fighting for only 20 places on the nation's favorite reality competition, it's a better strategy to set yourself apart with a thoroughly abysmal showing than to be forgettable and middling. That's the lesson poor Rudy Cardenas and Amy Krebs will probably be trying to process as they rewind their respective performances of "Free Ride" and "I Can't Make You Love Me" in the weeks and months ahead. But that's the reality of reality TV: Rudy's getting a free ride back home, and no, Amy can't make her love us if we don't.
As for this week's other two eliminated contestants — Paul Kim and Nicole Tranquillo — they made the mistake of giving truly ghastly performances that somehow failed to evoke the nation's sympathy response. The opening bars of Paul's "Careless Whisper" sounded like a gasp but I think his big mistake was spending most of his interview time maniacally insisting that he would never take the stage in anything but bare feet. Nicole, meanwhile, delivered each note of Chaka Khan's "Stay" like a punishing blow to the audience's ears, then retreated into her country-mouse persona while facing the judges panel. Also, she did not play the all-important ditzy-sexpot card so wisely chosen by Alaina Alexander. I loved how when Ryan asked the judges for constructive advice for Nicole, Paula blathered something about how she should keep doing what she's passionate about but did not say that Nicole should pursue a singing career.
So hear ends the first round of eliminations which I totally think America got right. Let's see how things unfold next week.
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IMHO, America got it right to a certain extent.
Sundance should have got the axe though, his performance both this week and in Hollywood was utterly abysmal.
He's going to want to perform something utterly spectacular if he's going to win me over.
Speaking of which, I love LaKisha to bits, that woman is da bomb!
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