DARLING DON'T YOU GO AND CUT THAT HAIR: So, we've got our final 24, and if our Wacky Dancing Parade has taught us anything this year it's that we've clearly got the least talented group of dancers in Idol history, as well as some of the worst hair. (All is forgiven, Amanda Overmyer!)
If history has taught us anything, it's that multiple singers in next week's Round of 24 will make truly dreadful song choices -- someone will again demonstrate, as Kim put it two years ago, "that crooning without having preestablished a fan base is never a good AI strategy." [Also that week: I compared Danny Noriega to Johnny Weir and Garrett Haley to Plushy -- and it wasn't an Olympic year!]
But we have our twenty-four, and one of them will be The Next American Idol. Come next week, our full team coverage should be in full gear.
