Thursday, March 15, 2007

First blood

SPOILERS ARE DIRECTLY BELOW THIS GRAF, SO IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED AMERICAN IDOL YET AND YOU'RE PLANNING ON IT, STOP READING.

Not much to analyze, though I'm glad to see all of the bottom three were guys and all of them deserved their spot. Phil didn't go home, but you came close, America. Good work. Here's the story, via AP:
NEW YORK -- Brandon Rogers, who forgot the words to his song on Tuesday's American Idol, had a feeling he wouldn't last. He got confirmation Wednesday.

Rogers, a former backup singer from Los Angeles, became the first of the final dozen to be voted off the top-rated Fox network sing-off.

"I have no hard feelings," Rogers, 28, said before leaving the stage. "I kind of expected it."

Rogers said he committed a "cardinal sin" by stumbling with some of the lyrics of the Motown classic "You Can't Hurry Love." Judge Simon Cowell, who has routinely criticized Rogers for a lack of charisma, said his performance was dull and uninspired.

Sanjaya Malakar and Phil Stacey had the next-lowest vote tallies in the phone ballotting, which drew about 28 million calls and text messages.

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