And then there were five. "American Idol" has chopped out two contestants from its eight season after giving Matt Giraud a second chance last week through the one-time Judges' Save. Those meeting the end of the journey are Memphis native Lil Rounds and Wild Card pick Anoop Desai.
Both Rounds and Desai stumbled on Disco night. The former sang Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" and got butchered by the judges, with Simon Cowell predicting that she's going home. Desai, who got the privilege of performing last, sang Donna Summer's "Dim All the Lights" and Simon thought it was his worst performance.
Ryan Seacrest was very fast in announcing that Rounds was out from the competition. She was called first to be in the bottom three and immediately told that she did not make it. "I'm actually going to miss your family screaming at us every week," Simon commented on her departure. Desai meanwhile, was waiting for his fate when lined-up beside Allison Iraheta who was also in the bottom three.
Performers of the result night were Freda Payne who sang a medley of famous disco songs including "Band of Gold", Thelma Houston who sang "Don't Leave Me This Way", KC from KC & The Sunshine Band who sang "Get Down Tonight" and former "Idol" runner-up David Archuleta who sang his latest single "Touch My Hand".
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See you later chump! Now back to working at 7/11.
I will really gonna miss Anoop. He should have been in the Top 5 IMO.
I will really gonna miss Anoop. He should have been in the Top 5 IMO.
Agreed - with whoever said Simon is a jerk. and may I add he's extremely moody and inconsistent. you'll never know when he'll find a performance good or bad and why. Agreed - with the people who said it was Lil's time to go. Quite frankly I can't believe she even got a "welcome to hollywood". TOTALLY agreed with the racism comment. Part of me had wanted Anoop to go because I figured well the slumdog millionaire movie was enough glory for India. But now that he's actually gone I regret how i felt. He truly had a terrific voice. Sorry Anoop. Good luck to those still standing.
Lil finally got sent home thank God! Matt should've got the ax not Anoop..Anoop is so much better than he is