It’s Grand Ole Opry week on American Idol! This means that our contestants will be tackling songs by iconic country stars like Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks.
This also means that one of the Idol kids will perform “I Will Always Love You,” a Dolly tune made famous by Whitney Houston. (Sigh. It’s too obvious and predictable for them to resist.)
But its the only guarantee we can make, because country music can be difficult to sing for those raised on a steady diet of Top 40 radio hits. So who will be voted out this time?
The Predicto Mobile community thinks this week’s victim will be Randy Jackson’s favorite “dogg”: 36% predict Anoop will be voted off on 3/18. (22% say Megan, 16% say Scott, and 26% say that none of these singers will be eliminated.)
This week’s show will also be the first time we might see the “Judge’s Save” in action. For the first time in the show’s history, the judges can band together to save a contestant from being eliminated if they think he or she doesn’t deserve to go.
Sounds kinda fishy right? Especially when you consider that an unnamed source who works for the show claims that Idol producers have already predetermined the Final Four.
The judges haven’t hidden the fact that they favor Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey, the two guys supposedly picked to make the final episodes. But would they actually decide to save either of them using their veto power?
The Predicto Mobile community is pretty split on this issue–36% say the Idol judges will choose Danny, while 27% say Adam and 37% believe neither will be saved.
It will be interesting to see who will be kicked off the show to the tune of Carrie Underwood’s version of “Home Sweet Home” this week (or if anyone will be spared!).
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Don’t expect to see the “save”, until the last 4 or 5 competitors. It really seems more like a marketing gimmick than something that will actually be used. The only way we see it coming into play is if one of the “big” talents got voted off because they were really unsuited to the feature music one week.
For example, imagine Lil Rounds trying to do really light popular music… Her voice would probably overpower it
[...] Last week Randy tried to pigeonhole Lil by complaining she shouldn’t have tried to sing like “Independence Day” like a country artist, and instead should that she should have sang “I Will Always Love You”. (Like I said, predictable.) [...]