American Idol

[Daphne]

Please don't tell me Mandisa supports Fred Phelps. I swear I've heard nothing about Mandisa being homophobic. Where is this information coming from?

[King]

Daphne, it's on page 46 or 47 of this thread. Look for it.

[alwaysAMC]

Daphne - it is on page 45.

[Daphne]

I found the Mandisa/book author story (thanks KingReilly and AlwaysAMC). Honestly I don't know what to make of it. I hesitate to call Mandisa "anti-gay" though. Oh well.

[MzHuggable]

okay.. so i see mandisa left... i missed tonite's show, who was in bottom 3 with her?

[DrewH]

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[tina m]

Seeing Mandisa leave is horrible...I was in total shock. I couldn't believe it. She has a great voice and was truely robbed. Wake me up when BUCKY goes home.

Bottom 3 - Paris, Elliot, Mandisa

[KMan101]

Chris will win.

Taylor might be a close runner up. I just don't think he's all that great. He blew this week. He wowed me about twice. Other than that... if he didn't have such a fun personality he'd of been toast.

Bucky sucks. Nuff said. Seems like a nice guy but he is the suckiest one left.

I also knew from the second the show started who would be in the bottom three when I saw Mandisa, Elliot, Paris and Taylor on the top row. I knew it wouldn't be Taylor so it wasn't all that much of a shock. I actually thought Paris would go.

And let's face it, the people listen to Simon. They may all hate his guts but more times than not, they listen to him.

I think surprises like this have a lot to do with song choice. When you pick a flat and boring song even your most hardcore fans aren't encouraged to call in. That's what happens.

I had a feeling tonight would be a shocker and I was right. But I really wish they'd seat these contestants differently; they just make it so damn obvious.

[Angela]

How the heLL is Bucky still in this competition? Even on country singing night I didn't think he was all that good. Love or hate Kellie, she brought it on Tuesday.

Paris has begun to annoy me, well that started weeks ago; I also thought she would be the one who had been voted out with the bottom 3 they had tonight.

Well, as long as Chris wins...

[R!ck]

You can get the version Chris copied from the band Live on their Greatest Hits Album. He completly sounds like Ed Kowalczyk.

[hollynadinem]

Well I thought the bottom three was spot on. I like how the voters seemed to vote solely on last nights performances instead of on the season as a whole. Paris wasn't very good and deserved bottom three and while Elliott and Mandisa both do have good voices they totally sucked last night. Both of them butchered the songs they sang. Even tonight Mandisa sounded horrible, based on that and last night she totally deserved to go. Do I think Bucky or Ace is that good? Heck no but they brought it last night and deserve another week.

[RogerNewcomb]

I don't get the shock. I fully expected Mandisa to go home. She has really sucked two weeks in a row.

The only surprise was that Elliott was in the bottom two.

I truly believe that Taylor, Kellie and Chris get the most votes every week. I want Elliott in the top three but I think America has already decided that, even though I don't think Kellie is all that great.

[R!ck]

DialIdol measures the busy signals to find out who is going home each week. Here are the results from this week. I am surprised that Taylor and Katharine are getting the most votes.

http://www.dialidol.com/asp/predictions/Predictions.asp

Rank/Contestant/DialIdol Score

1. Taylor Hicks 37.333

2. Katharine McPhee 28.589

3. Kellie Pickler 28.135

4. Chris Daughtry 26.915

5. Ace Young 23.787

6. Bucky Covington 23.113

7. Paris Bennett 19.035

8. Elliott Yamin 14.184

9. Mandisa 13.177

[PhoenixRising05]

I am not surprised at all. All those in the bottom 3 should have been there (Taylor could have been too though). Based on last night alone, it was right. I knew Mandisa would take a hit with everything going on whether it was true or not (especially given what are culture is now a days). Her bad performance last night (and last week too) did not help matters. Simone warned her about that song last week and this week he told her last night that song was wrong (although not for the same reasons as last week's).

Don't get me wrong I loved her but she just was not the same the last few weeks so its not as big a shock as Latoya and Jennifer in season 3. We all knew this year would be shocking and this is the first big bomb. I still think Chris and Katherine for the finale with Kellie or Taylor in third and I am sticking to it.

Elliot, whom I like, better do something WOW next week. He has been good but nothing really gripping. Paris will go soon-she is getting tiring.

[Chris B]

I'm glad Mandisa finally went, that anti-gay thing stopped me from voting, but would you really want her to win? In the UK, they had an overweight woman who acted like she was missing a limb win and it was just awful. She ended up doing so poorly that they cancelled the show. Look at Ruben, where is he? I know I may offend some, but I'm just being realistic. Unless you are a rapper, it's very difficult to become a pop star and be overweight. EVen with actors it's difficult.

What I really like about this season is that while the contestants aren't all amazingly brilliant vocals, they are a diverse bunch. I can see each of them going off and being a different type of Pop Idol.

Look at Madonna and Janet Jackson. Two of the most successful female artists of all time and they aren't very strong vocalists. It's about the full package and I think thats what some of these people are bringing.