After two weeks of performances and eliminations, we now have six finalists for the latest season of American Idol.

I’ll get right to the point. I think the performance shows were terrible; and the contenders generally sucked. I mean if you stood out, you stood out by a MILE. For the most part, they seemed clueless about choosing the right song for themselves. On the basis of these past two weeks, you would seriously doubt the judges’ choices and if these 36 semi-finalists really were the best singers Idol could recruit from all around the USA. I think we need to see more performances from each of them! The more performances an Idol had, the more people could see their singing ability and potential as the weeks go by. On the other hand, this one shot easily weeded out the good ones from the bad ones. And America decided that the good ones are:

(the chosen one) Danny Gokey	(pretty good jazzy style) Alexis Grace	(i like him but i like anoop more) Michael Sarver
Kris Allen (this season’s cutie)	Allison Iraheta (good singer but a bit awkward)	Adam Lambert (emo? broadway? really high voice!)

So far, the ones who made it to the finals were a bit of a surprise (in a good way); and I’m getting the feeling that people are now listening to what Simon says. They, in one way or another, deserve a spot. (More Anoop than Michael, though.) I’m pretty happy. Still, Kris Allen? Alexis Grace? I think they got the votes they needed mostly because of Simon’s endorsement. They’re good singers; but especially in the case of Kris Allen, he didn’t have that much screen time and now he’s in the finals. In a way, it’s good that people are finally relying on Simon. Still, I’m not contented with seeing just one performance before watching them in the finals. In any case, like everyone predicted, the guys are kicking the girls in the a**.

Let’s see what the next two weeks would bring.