'Idol' Speculation

Hello Everybody

Mesa’s Brooke White dodged her biggest bullet yet on season 7 of “American Idol” Wednesday night, sweating out the bottom three, then the bottom two, before being declared safe to advance to the popular singing competition’s Top 6.

After performing the tunes of Mariah Carey last night, tonight’s results show found the “Idols” divided into two groups by host Ryan Seacrest, the first group consisting of Jason Castro, Carly Smithson and Syesha Mercado, and the other group represented by Brooke, David Cook and Kristy Lee Cook.

David Archuleta was then declared safe, and Seacrest then switched Mercado, who was so-so last night, with David Cook, and told Archuleta to join the group he though was going to advance. The singer was non-committal, sitting down in between the two groups (a very PC move on the Utah teenager’s part).

Seacrest then said that the Smithson/David Cook/Castro group was safe and that our bottom three this week were Brooke, Syesha and Kristy Lee.

Of course, as we always lament at Idol Speculation, the results show is an hour long, so before we found out who was going home tonight we had the obligatory group number (the “Idols” singing Carey’s “One Sweet Day”), recaps of all the “Idol” performances from Tuesday (during which time, after a replay of judge Simon Cowell telling Brooke her performance was like “ordering a hamburger and only getting the bun,” Brooke said in a preview spot backstage “Simon, I wish it didn’t hurt, but it does”) a performance by a former “Idol” contender (the likable Elliot Yamin who finished third on season five), a few phone calls from “Idol” fans with inane questions for some of the contestants (is this really necessary, other than to kill a few minutes?!!? Let’s cut the results show down to a half hour! Please!) and a performance by Tuesday’s guest coach Mariah Carey (”Bye Bye”).

But what we care about here at Idol Speculation is the final result — which singer is toast — so here’s how it shook out.

Syesha, who has been a fixture in the bottom three in recent weeks, was declared safe, leaving Brooke and Kristy Lee Cook facing elimination. Brooke had been in the bottom three only once and Cook had been there a few times only to survive to sing another day each time.

Then, after some tense, suspenseful build-up, Brooke was declared safe, leaving Kristy Lee Cook as the odd singer out.

For Brooke, singing Mariah Carey styled R&B/pop is not her forte (she’s more of a singer/songwriter type in the Carole King mode), so it was a stern test that the AZ native passed this week.

Tune in Tuesday night when the Top 6 “Idol” contestants perform tunes written by Andrew Lloyd Weber, then check in with the Idol Speculation blog after the show to get the lowdown on all of the performances.

Chris

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