Former Housemate Mike's American Idol Power Rankings: 5/4/10

Better late than never! Here’s my objective picks from watching the show, and previous weeks combined, as power rankings go. As a heads up, I’m still not over Crystal’s fake crying spot. Killed the whole season for me.

As always, the number after the name signifies the previous week’s ranking.

1. Lee Dewyze (1) – Still number [...]

American Idol, 2010 – Episode 19 (Girls): The Originals

Good song choices on the whole this week made this post a pleasure to put together.

Videos below the fold!

American Idol, 2010 – Episode 17 (Girls): The Originals

This series is an experiment. If it proves popular, I’ll do it all season. Please let me know if you find it valuable.

After watching the performance shows, I sometimes get a hankerin’ to revisit the original version of one or two of the songs covered, or, on the rare occasions where I don’t know the [...]

American Idol, 2010 – Episode 13 (Guys): The Originals

This series is an experiment. If it proves popular, I’ll do it all season. Please let me know if you find it valuable.

After watching the performance shows, I sometimes get a hankerin’ to revisit the original version of one or two of the songs covered, or, on the rare occasions where I don’t know the [...]

Revisionist History: The Top 15 Singles of American Idol (Part III)

Before I begin the end here, I just want to comment on Entertainment Weekly TOTALLY ripping me off this week with their “Top 28 Tunes From ‘Idol’ Grads.”

Screw you, Entertainment Weekly. More like “Plagarism Weekly”.

Ok, so anyway — after much ado (and delay), here are the Top 5 singles [...]

Revisionist History: The Top 15 Singles of American Idol (Part 2)

As we enter the Top Ten, the season winners start to represent. The way this list turned out, eight of the fifteen songs are by American Idol winners. However, five of those are by two contestants and only four winners are represented out of eight seasons.

We start here at number ten [...]

On the future of Adam Lambert.

It’s been a long time since I followed the British music press, but when I did, I seem to recall a crazy level of hyperbole. Bands were routinely called “the best band in the UK” or “the best band since [some legendary musical act]” before anyone had ever heard their first album, based [...]

American Idol, 2009 – Episode 21 (3/17/09)

Well, the big news today is that someone is claiming that American Idol is rigged. I’m not sure this is really news–anyone with eyes can see how they stack the deck for their favorite contestants, and their favorite contestants are nearly always not mine. (In the seven previous seasons, my personal fave has only [...]