American Idol Gives Back Top 7 Elimination Results: Goodbye, Tim Urban!

Tonight’s Idol Gives Back telecast featured a variety of performances, most of which seemed weird and out of place during a night about charity and giving.  Barack and Michelle Obama opened the show with a message about giving.  Oh Michelle, you can’t read the prompter like Barack!  Performance wise, The Black Eyed Peas opened the show with “Rock that Body,” and though I usually enjoy the BEP, I couldn’t help but feel that “Rock that Body” was a bit of an inappropriate way to follow-up Jennifer Garner’s visit to poverty-stricken areas of America.  Joss Stone sang “I Put a Spell on You”, and though it was good vocally, it too seemed out of place as a part of Idol Gives Back.  Alicia Keys’ two performances included “Unthinkable” and “Empire State of Mind Part II”, both of which were decent, but, once again, out of place.  Finally Carrie Underwood sang “Change” from her latest album, Play On, switching the mood of the night to one more appropriate for a charity special.  Underwood’s performance also made it even more evident that this year’s Idol crop just ‘ain’t all that’.  Carrie also announced that she’s donating 36 cents from each tour ticket she sells to Save the Children.  What a class act. Idol Gives Back veteran Annie Lenox sang from a UK video feed because the volcanic ash caused her flight to be canceled.  Annie, you too are a class act.  Her performances on Idol are always brilliant.  Next was Mary J. Blige and a laundry list of stars including Orianthi and Randy Jackson, singing “Stairway to Heaven”.  It was probably the best I’ve heard Mary J. sound in a while and the guitar playing courtesy of Orianthi was really good.  Closing out the guest performances tonight was Elton John singing “Your Song”.  Great job, Elton!  Now on to the least inspirational moment of the night (which some of you may have missed due to Idol’s refusal to keep proper time):

Goodbye, Tim Urban!  That took long enough; the eliminee wasn’t announced until 9:22, which was a good 22 minutes AFTER the show was scheduled to end.  I guess you can do that kind of stuff when you’ve been the number 1 show for like 8 years.  Gosh, poor Tim doesn’t even get to do the sing out song!  I guess that Wanda Syke skit earlier in the show that made fun of the “sing out”  resonated with the producers!

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Rick

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