Let the people decide if she belongs there or not.

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I don’t think this is going to hurt Felicia too much. Remember we had heard nary a word on Jason before the semi-finals last year and look how far he went. Perhaps this publicity will make people excited about hearing her too.

Anyways. I am VERY excited that Felicia is in and I, for one, will be voting my little fingers off for her.

Don’t think the uncloaking of the JoPlanta’s ficus-ness didn’t have anything to do with this. IOW, don’t go flyin’ in any small planes any time soon, MJ.

If it truly was the case that they recently decided to drop her seeing that this link had been discovered, then the top 36 chair so was probably fnoshed of not close to it and why try to edit Joanna out? They wouldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t have any footage to show of Felicia getting in so why not just leave it as is and then, as MJ said, put out the press release for max pr exposure?

Didn’t they do something hinky with Sanjaya during the chairs episode? I may be totally remembering this wrong, but I seem to recall that Sanjaya was not one of the original Final 24 for Season 6. He had been cut, but was re-instated by the time the Chairs episode aired because I think one of the other contestants had gotten into trouble with the law. Yet, you couldn’t tell any of that from the chairs episode that aired (it only leaked out later).

In any event, Idol has featured duets with dead people and younger versions of people, I’m sure they could have faked something if they wanted. Shown a quick clip of Felicia looking happy and you are there. Crop the crap out of it and photoshop it a bit and nobody will know that it was from the auditions. They film those stupid Ford commercials on Sunday and have them ready to air on Wednesday (and a few of them have had some editing done to them), so faking a happy Felicia shouldn’t be a problem for them at all.

I still cannot believe that these dudes didn’t think that VFTW (or somebody) wouldn’t have found out about this 19M connection sooner or later (and having this exposed later would have actually been worse). 19 probably leaked the story themselves.

Of course, it could have been planned from the beginning and I’m just a fool. I wouldn’t count that out.

hardkandy, there is one youtube video of her performing No One by Alicia Keys. Just type her name in the searchbox and youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll find it easily

Ok I’ll check that out tomorrow…thanks for the heads up!

hardkandy

Hey Mel! *waves* I need to hear Felicia perform yet before I get on the bandwagon haha. I didn’t catch her youtube performances before they were taken down so I don’t really know much about her.
I’m happy for Felicia though, I know a lot of people here like her. And i do like her over Joanna so I am not bummed by this news at all!

Hopefully Tatiana is next to get the boot (she deserves it for blatantly breaking the rules last week) and replaced by someone like Leneshe or Deanna (even though they weren’t even in the top 50 – within the top 50, Angela Martin or Frankie Jordan would be my first picks).