How fickle and memory challenged we all are.  A few weeks ago there were 24 smiling songsters, but with each passing episode former favorites are wiped from our brains like vanishing dreams you can’t remember by afternoontime.  Amanda who?  Aww.  Who said that?  Ooh.  Shiny!

So... 

So they all rolled over and one fell out. 
Nine bears in the bed and the little one said... 
Move over Ramiele Malubay.

The bite-sized Filipino from Florida hoped to become the first Asian-American Idol, but alas, she will just have to squeeze boobies until the disappointment passes.

But that’s what happened at the close of the show.  The kids of AI7 opened the Wednesday night show with a group sing of Dolly Parton’s homage to sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigots.  A feisty kick indeed for the lucky bunch who are either still in school, or clever enough to have avoided corporate hell.

Dolly sang to us about Jesus and gravity, and The Next Great American Band band, The Carter Brothers, sang a song about something while I was in the kitchen throwing away salad dressing from 2006.

And while I love to take my own pictures of the television, I have to thank the FOX/American Idol clickers for providing such excellent fodder for the next portion of this recap:

oh my gawd.  why was i even nervous?  duh.  did you
seeee how good i was in that ford commercial?

please don't eliminate my lips.

the first one said KICK ME.  explain yourself.




dude, i like, never saw that note before in my
whole entire life. 




just a few more years, son. 





kick my heels up and...

shout!

lesbian couple adopts over seas




not without my daughter!




one is the loneliest number.

group hug and david cook needs a toilet.

so cooold...afraid of the liiiight...




why'd you come in here looking like that. 

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