During these weeks it became crystal clear, if it had not before, just how the season would end.

LOL! I have to admit I thought during Top 5 Results when Ryan was reading David Cook’s recap, he ended by saying that Paula was right in regards to her comment that she was looking at the American Idol. He tried to cover quickly by adding “you’re at least safe for another week”. If I had been a believer of the show being rigged (which I’m not), that would’ve sealed the deal for me as to silence any lingering doubts. That plus all the supposed songs that Archie was told he could not rearrange when Cook got free reign to do whatever he wanted. I think Archie’s camp might have gone a tad over the top and exaggerated just how many times that actually happened to him. The only one I’ve heard Archie himself confirm was Top 3 Week for the song Longer, Producer’s crappy choice. Oh my…could it be sabotage?! *note the sarcasm* I am a huge Archuleta fan, by the way, but the conspiracy theories were getting out of hand by this point.

Also, how come David didn’t get to do All Along the Watchtower? I watched the Idolatry video months ago but I can’t remember. I’m guessing they just couldn’t get it cleared?

I would love to hear David’s take of that song. I wish he would do it in concert. Heck, I would love for him to do all the songs I wanted studio versions of (AIRNIY, Baba O’Riley, and First Time Ever I Saw Your Face) but I know that’s just wishful thinking.

Top 4:

Jason Castro- should never have made it this far, lol

David Cook- very meh first performance. Second was good, but not amazing… still liked it.

Syesha Mercado- Top 4 was her week baby! She was incredible, in my opinion, her best week as a whole. It’s not usual someone doing really well on both performances, but she did it. Loved watching A Change Is Gonna Come on the big screen again- it was amazing.

David A.- Good first performance- ending was NOT good lol. Simon said it was the best performance so far I disagree completely Syesha blew him off the stage performance and power-wise. Easily the 2nd best though.
2nd performance: it was good. I dont think he crushed the competition. No way. He was really good, and a lot less mediocre than the past few weeks, but it was not HIS night

All I know, is I would buy an EP of AIRNIY, Baba O’Reily, Hello and The World I Know from DC in about 1/2 a second.

Brooke and Jason fell apart. Brooke self destructed and Jason showed he was in over his head. But the thing that got to me was the way both were edited. Granted it would have been difficult to not show Brooke’s meltdown, but Jason was edited poorly and Paula’s “mistake”, please.

David C did well top 5, David A did well top 4. The “scandal” of the beautiful girl lyrics “came out” to prevent David A from building on his slam-dunk top 4 performances. There is no way, in my opinion, that David A would defy a producer’s instructions about the lyrical content of a performance when he would not even defy a producer about changing up an arrangement a bit.

During these weeks it became crystal clear, if it had not before, just how the season would end.

Love Stand By Me in Top 4 even if it wasn’t his first choice and it brought up that contrived scandal.

Reasons why Neil Diamond was all wrong as a mentor.

His eyebrows….

So distracting….

IMO Jason should be the 5th, and Brooke should be the 4th or even 3rd. Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s because of Paula, she screwed it up!! Brooke should bounce back if she made to the top 4. She would sing one of fleetwood macà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s or anything and ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s in her zone.
Yeah, but thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s already happened, but i love all of seasons 7, and i love Brooke.

Oh, I think so too. It was the only week I was really frustrated with the person leaving. Brooke at least tried, and she had one awesome song that week, I am I Said was beautiful. She wasn’t one note only, even I’m a believer was kinda fun, it seemed like she was enjoying it. Jason should have gone instead of her, imo.

I liked ND week a lot. That’s another artist I was not very familiar with, but I knew both Archie’s songs and I’m a Believer. After the show I was a fan of the man.
I liked both Cook’s performances, AIRNIY is one of my very fav performances by him. I liked what he did with it, how he made it fit the 1minute and an half, and what I liked the most was where he went with his voice during the song. From low to falseto, it was pretty fantastic.
Still, I’d be curious to know how his Hello Again would sound, and it would be fun to have him singing a song called Hello Again.
Also liked Sy’s both performances, the second one more than the first though. She and Cook were the best that night.
Archie was good too, I liked America the most.
Didn’t like anything about Jason that week.

Top 4 was one of the worst weeks of the season. Cook took a break. Jason never recovered. Archie had one great song and a bland one, Sy was probably the best, but didn’t impress me.
I was happy Sy was #3. The girl deserved it. No one this season was so thrown under the bus like her. The producers must have been really scared she’d steal the top 2 from one of the Davids. I think she deserved more than she got from the judges.

And who picked the studio songs? Cause I think they really picked the wrong ones for Cook and Archie. Really…

I do not like to speak about Top 4 performance night. Because I was never a fan of Duran Duran’s HLTW. I love the Who and Baba O’Reilly. So the fact that HLTW performance was longer than BO, well was wrong; but even more wrong? the fact that we got a HLTW studio recording and not a BO recording. GRRR. Talk about being kicked twice. And that DC’s HLTW is my least favorite performance ever. I wish that he had performed “All Along the WatchTower” – he mentioned on EW’s Idolatry how he had planned to cover that song. Pffft.