Hey guys, its me again and I just wanted to take a second to announce that we are now on the look out for people who might be interested in blogging this season of American Idol. Now that we are in the Round of 12, the competition is really heating up and we expect that out of all of our loyal Vote4Idol fan base, there must be a few of you who want to write about it! So, let me know, at regina /at/ vote4idol (dot} com or just leave a comment here on this post.

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Alex Lambert, brother of American Idol superstar Adam Lambert was booted from the show last week to the surprise of many, especially his large contigent of V4I voters who have now taken up a campaign to have Alex reinstated on the show. Voters showed up in droves a day late and have skyrocketed Alex to the top of the daily votes list for a second day in a row. It is yet to be seen if and when Alex would be reinstated on the show.

Lambert knows Ellen DeGeneres’ extended metaphor about him and bananas was done for entertainment value, but he says he actually could see the underlying truth made sense to him.

That said, “I guess I probably won't be able to look at a banana the same,” Alex told reporters in a conference-call exit-interview Friday.

Stage fright and inexperience ultimately did Alex in Thursday. “Every time I got up there, I couldn't even sing my best because I was so nervous,” he said.

Performing wasn't so much the problem, he said, as things like cameras and crowds. After all, the biggest shows he'd ever done before American Idol were local coffeehouse. For, like, 40 people. Most of whom were his friends.

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The girls are down to eight and looking to cut two more this week, merging with the boys for the Dirty Dozen. Michelle Delamor was cut last week, after failing to connect with audiences, perhaps because everyone hates Creed. Haeley Vaughn was also shown the door, to great relief, but not before delivering one of the most skin-crawlingly awful performances in Idol history. It’s one of the show’s most peculiar rituals—making the contestants sing immediately after voting them off the show. Such a tradition is simultaneously compassionate and cruel, leading to a flood of emotions that often leads to bizarre final performances like Haeley’s and to melodramatic tears from the remaining hopefuls. Haeley was endorsed by Vote for the Worst, by the way, so so much for that group. If they can’t even concentrate enough votes to save a singer when there are ten to choose from, then VFTW has, without question, no real impact on results. But I’m sure it’s time well spent.

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We now interrupt your regularly scheduled ranting and complaining to bring you the following newsflash: The top 10 women of American Idol’s ninth season took to the stage tonight, and as the eloquent scholar Randy Jackson is so fond of saying, more than a few of them “blew it out the box!”

Okay, yeah, we still had to endure unfortunate things happening to Sixpence None the Richer and Miley Cyrus (payback’s a bitch, eh?), but in a season that’s been marked by little voices, big attitudes, and Ellen DeGeneres’ love affair with the word “great,” it was nice to get some actual solid-to-splendid singing on the Idol stage tonight. Crystal Bowersox took CCR to church (and the judges took to their pimpmobiles to spread the news of her inevitable march toward the Nokia). Lilly Scott ordered the Adam Lambert special — “A Change Is Gonna Come” with a side of fabulous feathers — but scored a moment of her own with a unique acoustic-jazz arrangement. Siobhan Magnus hit a note I’m still going to remember in mid-May. Katelyn Epperly took to the piano and officially put her hat in the ring for “season 9 dark horse.” And Michelle Delamor…well, I can’t say she made Creed cool, necessarily, but interesting I will give her!

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Two weeks ago, when I declared that this was likely the last good season of “American Idol,” I listed a number of cogent and deeply researched reasons that brought me to that conclusion — reasons that were certainly not at all thought up while I was eating mac ‘n’ cheese at a Panera Bread one afternoon.

But there’s another reason that escaped me that wintery day — a new facet of “American Idol” this year that became glaringly obvious to me as I watched this week’s first installment of live performances on Fox’s runaway reality show hit:

The singers are pretty damn boring.

via ‘American Idol’ in 60 seconds: Big Mike and the also-rans – Matthew Greenberg – Worst Episode Ever – True/Slant.

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Around 10:34PM today, Vote4Idol received its 1 millionth vote of the season in just about one week’s worth of voting.

The 1 millionth vote was for Aaron Kelly… we congratulate him and his fans on a job well done. As of last count, Casey James is leading the way with 180k with Siobhan Magnus in second place at 180k, trailing by just 600 votes or so. Aaron Kelly is 3rd at 156k (119k votes from today alone) and Alex is 4th at 140k. Many more contestants are ready to break into Gold Status very soon.

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