Top 7 Redux Results - Double Jeopardy Edition

Bottom 3 Prediction: Anoop Desai, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud
Elimination Prediction: Anoop and Lil

Actual Bottom 3: Anoop Desai, Lil Rounds, Allison Iraheta (NO!!!!)
Actual Elimination: Anoop and Lil

Question 1: What is going on with Allison?
Answer 1: I don’t know, but I’ll give it a shot. Her voting base seems to be limited (yes, to those that like great singing). She’s young and, unfortunately, she does not have the winning, communicative, and charismatic personality that it might take to win over casual voting fans in this popularity contest. Also, (and I know I have received push back on this subject), I think her outfit last night was not a vote-getter. Skin-tight black leather corset and white hooker heels made a lot of parents go and make sure their own teenage daughters were safely in the house (precious time that could have been spent voting for Allison if she had worn something “better”). Third, I believe a tangential result of Matt being “saved” by the judges last week is a rallying of Matt’s fans who were casually non-voting before this week. Those fans realized that he was in trouble (he was eliminated, for goodness sake) and the save gave them a second chance as well to keep him going (these “extra” votes keeping him out of this week’s bottom 3). Finally, how antsy did the judges (Simon) have to be looking at Anoop and Allison and realizing they were on the verge of paying for using their one-time option one week too early?

Q2: Paula as stern choreographer: did it work?
A2: Considering I wanted her off the show 24 hours earlier, it was mildly refreshing to see her be a little tough with her kiddies when teaching the routine. And, I also found it very appropriate for the gang to completely lip-synch the performance since Paula hasn’t sang a live note on stage since before the “Forever Your Girl” album. Finally, was it any surprise the best lip synch job was by Adam? What a professional.

Q3: Any comments on David Archuleta?
A3: Ummm, nope. My wife implored me to fast-forward the DVR past it because she was very sleepy and knew Archu-Grobin would surely put her over the edge. I was very grateful for the request. I hope you don’t mind if our guest commenters unleash on this particular part of the show.

So, now we finally head into what I think is the serious part of the competition. All the pretenders are gone (those that I thought to be weak – think Kris – have shown themselves to be challengers). And, I have heard that next week is Neil Diamond Week. It’s now hard to forecast who is in the most trouble, but, hopefully, Allison latest brush with elimination rallies her casual non-voting fans. I know my cell phone will be ready to go to work.

One last thing: K.C., you should have really turned down this gig last night.

Let me know what you think.