Since it seems like Tim Urban has a real good chance at winning this thing, I thought I would give y’all a Tim Urban news summary for today. We’ve all heard the experts say that Tim shouldn’t be there. But 10 million idol fans can’t be wrong. Now, the links for today:

‘American Idol’ Fans Surprised By Resilience Of Aaron Kelly, Tim Urban

‘American Idol:’ Tim Urban calls Ryan Seacrest’s behavior ‘a little weird’

Only fools — and Tim Urban — rush in

‘Twilight,’ Tim Urban: What backlash against the backlash are you now experiencing?

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Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that:

Howard Stern has agreed to an undisclosed deal to host the final season of American Idol, replacing Simon Cowell on the panel. Although rumors had been circling about the possibility of the New York City based shock jock joining Idol, it had never been confirmed until now.

With Simon leaving, Idol producers have been making the rounds of music/entertainment elite to see who would want to host the final season of the show. Sources close to the show said that they were in talks with a number of high-profile artists and personalities, but Mr. Stern offered a more unique combination of traits that reached a broader spectrum of listeners…

Read the whole article at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/american-idol-confirms-howard-stern-new-judge/

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gettin ready for some realtime updates…

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Who rocked and who didn’t last nite? Who’s going home tonite??? http://bit.ly/bP7wzs

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Did Alex just pass Siobhan to take the #1 spot?

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Ah yes, Top 11 Elimination Night will forever go down as one of the most boring shows in history. It all started with some weird, bizarro pseudo-horror movie montage complete with some weird chick with blood streaming down her face in the crowd. We soon learn that these ppl are “Siobhanmbies” (we know they are called this because Siobahn tells us so). Her boss is there, also, channeling some major Geico Caveman vibe.

Ryan does his usually intro and talks with the judges a bit. Ellen is reconsidering this whole new career move and is wondering how much it is going to cost to get out of this damn contract. Jackson is Jackson. Kara is desperately trying to extend this gig, cuz I think she knows that everybody is pretty much wanting to give her the boot and bring Paula back if only by cardboard cut-out. And then we have Simon. Well, Simon looks like he is counting the minutes until the taping is over so he can run over and continue decorating his new X-Factor set.

Now we have Hannah Montana come out to really show us how to perform. She plays a sappy piano song instead of her traditional fare, and I can appreciate that and I do enjoy it, but then we get the whole see more in Miley’s new movie coming to a theater near you hard-sell which immediately turns me off because whoever greenlights these damn things needs to be checked out.

Then we get JJDL to come out. We all remember how Joe Jonas did the last time he did Idol and they aired a full two minutes of his judging ‘commentary.’ Although Joe and Demi Lovato are a sight for sore eyes, their whole song makes for sore ears by the end of the piece. Don’t get me wrong, they remain as attractive as ever, but the show doesn’t know what to do with them or the viewer’s attention. I am yawning as I type this.

More useless bantering as Ryan and TPTB try to squeeze a few more million out of sponsors as they stretch two minutes of action into 60. After the Bottom 3 (Paige, Tim and Kathy) are announced, Ryan gets to the finale and Paige is announced as getting kicked off this week. She blames her throat problems even though she sang better than the week before. Simon tells her not to sing her final song in hopes of sparing us, but to no avail.

Some responses from Idol Chatter:

Really_Tired:”Well, praise be. There is justice after all. So, besides the fact that [Paige] was awful, isn’t there an Against All Odds curse, as well? Meaning, in the past whenever someone sings it their on the Greyhound homeward bound the next night.”

mizteyes:”It’s sad but no big shocker. I hope she can take Simon’s advice because he was right about one thing. She does have a good voice. When she’s good she’s very, very good.”

flashg:”Paige had a lot of potential, but she sabotaged herself week after week with really poor song choices and off-key singing. The one week she shined was Rolling Stones week. She does best when she can just belt the song out, but as soon as she sings soft and sweet, it’s anything but sweet. Anyway, I wish her well, but it was a well-deserved exit.”

Julie Suzanne: “Finally, America gets it right … but Paige should never have been in the top 12 and certainly not on the idol tour. Unfortunately, Tim shouldn’t be on the idol tour and is, much to the delight of thousands of adolescent ‘tweenies.’”

Riblet:”Yay, Paige goes home. Only another five useless participants to go before the real voting starts.”

pedalit:”Paige sounded good singing her farewell last night. Too little, too late. Unfortunately, not a pressure performer.”

user7799:”Idol at its best. We love you but now we hate you. You have the best voice but now you suck. Say ‘bipolar’ a thousand times.”

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FYI, voting is now back at vote4idol.com! It was down for a bit becuz of some heavy voting last week, but we’ve got… http://bit.ly/cGOSTh

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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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