Sometimes the Idol judges irritate me so much with their decisions. Last night included one of those moments, and I’m not talking about Katy’s dress that looked like metal manta ray. Or Lionel’s possible freudian slip after Kennedy’s performance… he said, “When we said ‘no,’ excuse me, when America said ‘no,’ you said ‘I don’t think so!'” Ummm, are judges and producers pulling the strings and fooling us all? This IS the channel that shows The Bachelor, the most scripted unscripted show ever.
Conspiracy theory aside, all 20 contestants performed again for the second day (the first ACTUAL live show of the season) and as the episode progressed, we learned who was moving on to the next round and who was sent to what Ryan called, “The Danger Zone,” meaning the singers who were not voted into the top 14 but still had a chance for the judges to save them. There would be 10 with the highest votes, and then 4 judge saves from the bottom 10. Spoiler alert, the judges saved the contestants in *bold from this group of 10.
Odell Bunton Jr.
Jennifer Jeffries
*Jordan Anthony
*Nya
*Roman Collins
Ajii
Kennedy Reid
*Jayna Elise
Mackenzie Sol
Quintavious Johnson
Before the show aired I had picked Jordan, Nya, Jayna, Quintavious, KB, and Kayko as the ones to get eliminated. OK, OK, I was wrong! The judges had other opinions and as they called out their 4 saves, I was shocked, perplexed, and a little ticked off. How could they let Jennifer go? Odell! Kennedy and her catalog of styles (wigs). It was a travesty.
As my family and I watched we started researching contestants’ YouTube video view counts (from the previous night’s singing) and it was surprisingly accurate for who was safe and who wasn’t. Those with lower views were in the bottom half of the 20, and those with higher views were in the top. So it became very possible to predict the outcome as each name was called. Because of that, I can sort of understand why the judges saved who they saved, except for Mackenzie and Kennedy.
I still think they got it wrong overall, though. Neither Nya, Jayna, Jordan are going to win the show. That’s just the hard truth. I think the winning spot belongs to either Jack, McKenna, Triston, or Abi. The rest are just along for the ride… or however long the judges America wants to keep them around.
-Out of the Wilderness
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