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‘American Idol’ 2010: Top 4 results
Michael Lynche got the answer to his own musical question Wednesday night on “American Idol.” The 26-year old personal trainer from St. Petersburg, Florida sang Michael Jackson’s “Will You Be There” (from “Free Willy”) and America’s answer was “no.”
The humongous Lynche, often described as a teddy bear by his fellow contestants (and seen bench pressing them in his exit video) had a good run on the show, lasting longer then expected — Lynche was “saved” by the judges five weeks ago when they invoked that once-per-season option after Big Mike received the fewest number of votes and faced elimination.
I’m not sure Lynch missed a single note during the entire season but, like many of this year’s hopefuls, he suffered in the area of song choice, favoring overly-theatrical ballads wrought with insincere levels of over-emotion. Quite simply, he seemed unable to forge a genuine connection with enough voters to keep him around any longer.
Lynch’s departure leaves Casey James, Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox. At one point, Bowersox would have seemed a lock for the title, but her propensity to argue with the judges and those judges’ clear boosterism for DeWyze have put that in doubt. In any event, I will be surprised if good-time faux-blues rocker James isn’t the next to go.
What do you think? Who’s going to take the “Idol” title and put this season out of its misery? Sound off in the comments!
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By michelle
May 13, 2010 1:43 PM | Link to this
I T HINK CRYSTAL WILL WIN SHE IS SUCH A GREAT SINGER.AND SHE HAS WHAT IT TAKES. I HATED TO SEE BIG LEAVE,HE WAS FANTASTIC,I FEEL CASEY SHOULD OF BEEN VOTED OFF BECAUSE HES BEEN OFF KEY QUITE A BIT, AND HAS MADE SOME WRONG SONG CHOICES,I FEEL HES JUST BEING LEFT ON BECAUSE HE IS SO DARN HANDSOME.