American Idol 2008 - Top 12 Announced

The third week of American Idol 2008, Season 7 live performances is now complete. On Thursday night, yet another group of four people, two men and two women, were cut from show, this time from the top 16 contestants. If you missed the performances you might want to check out our recaps of the shows with actual performance videos:

• American Idol 2008 - Top 8 Men Performances
• American Idol 2008 - Top 8 Women Performances

I must say I was quite pleased with the results this week. If you read the recaps of the shows and saw what we had to say about all the performances then you know that we were pretty close with our picks. The four we thought were the most likely to get voted off were:

• Luke Menard
• Chikezie Eze
• Kady Malloy
• Asia’h Epperson

I’ve certainly made it no secret that I can’t stand Danny Noriega and would have picked him to go out every single week if I thought he would actually get voted out. I really thought the gay vote would be strong enough to keep him in. As it turned out, however, it wasn’t. The four contestants who were kicked off of American Idol 2008, Season 7 this week were:

• Luke Menard
• Danny Noriega
• Kady Malloy
• Asia’h Epperson

So, even though one of my picks for the men was incorrect, I’m actually very happy about it. I would much rather have seen Danny Noriega get kicked out than Chikezie who I think has a strong and talented voice.

Luke and Kady both seemed like nice people and I have nothing against them at all. It’s always a little sad to see people like that have their dreams crushed in front of millions and millions of people because the truth is, they do have talent. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to shine in the few weeks they had on American Idol.

The true travesty, once again, is that Amanda Overmyer gets to stay while Asia’h Epperson has to leave. Amanda lacks the talent and seemingly the ambition to carry on in this competition while Asia’h has fought hard to stay even if she hasn’t been perfect. But, that’s the way it works.

The American Idol Top 12

• David Archuleta, 17, Murray, UT
• Jason Castro, 20, Rockwall, TX
• David Cook, 25, Tulsa, OK
• Kristy Lee Cook, 24, Selma, OR
• Chikezie Eze, 22, Inglewood, CA
• David Hernandez, 24, Glendale, AZ
• Michael Johns, 29, Los Angeles, CA
• Ramiele Malubay, 20, Miramar, FL
• Syesha Mercado, 21, Miami, FL
• Amanda Overmyer, 23, Mulberry, IN
• Carly Smithson, San Diego, CA
• Brooke White, 24, Van Nuys, CA

If you’re keeping score with the little side contest Jeff (from Static ThinkBox) and I have going… Jeff missed two of his four picks while I got three out of four which means that we are, once again, tied. The score is below.

For a quick recap from a slightly different perspective, swing by Static ThinkBox and see what Jeff has to say about the ousted contestants.
 

American Idol Pick Off 2008: Jeff 7-5 Jason 7-5

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Music, Television
Danny Noriega, Kady Malloy, Luke Menard