...In which Matt gets visibly annoyed at America.

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Sorry for all the caps. Felt I again needed to warn people. So happy am I that these things called results shows are so very short and padded, cuz I'm sleepy here at 2:30 a.m. It also doesn't help that I already knew what happened, so, there being no drama, I was able to flip quickly through the show.

Here's where I say that THIS is the reason (not the 30 others I've rattled off to you before) that I dislike American Idol: because America votes like it's a second-grade student council election. They don't look at the show and say, "YOU'RE GOOD, you should stay," they say, "YOU'RE PRETTY, you should stay" or "YOU'RE MY FRIEND, you should stay."

Honestly, of the four who went home, only maybe one REALLY deserved it -- Rudy Cardenas.
Paul Kim wasn't terrible on Tuesday, but he certainly wasn't great. As I've said, I hate his awful, breathy faux R&B voice. He was better than a bunch of the other guys, though. Amy Krebs just picked the wrong time to be safe Wednesday. I dug her, and she probably should have stayed in place of a few of the others. Nicole Tranquillo -- same thing... enjoyed her on Wednesday. She's better than others that are still there. (Seeing a pattern here?) Ya'll know how I feel about Rudy Cardenas. You sing better than me, dude, but nowhere near on par for this competition.

In review: America, pay attention... you've seen what happens when you don't. Look at Pennsylvania Avenue. Stop banding together so your buddy or the cute guy gets farther in the competition. There's seriously a difference between being subjective or bias and just being inane. I'm sure we'll have this conversation again, the show's on until May, and this won't be the last time someone squeezes through with no real reasoning. But, having never watched the show before this season, I feel a responsibility to go through this rant that I'm sure every Idol fan has before.

Now there's second chances for the likes of Antonella Barba, Leslie Hunt, Alaina Alexander, Sundance Head, Sanjaya Malakar and A.J. Tabaldo. Though not one of them deserved it, America. Shame on you. To you lucky ones: No clean slate kids -- you now have a responsibility to rock people's faces. To the others who stayed: Sing these jokers into the ground. That's an order.