As American Idol's top 12 was clipped to 11, the question arose: Is it better to be unique and bold, or safe and stale? Looking ahead, is another guy about to get gone? Or will this week's theme throw a stumbling block in front of two front-runners? TVGuide.com asked Kimberly Caldwell and Rosanna Tavarez, the hosts of TV Guide Channel's Idol Chat, Idol Tonight and Reality Chat, for their expert takes.
TVGuide.com: In last week's chat, Rosanna predicted that Chris Sligh would face an obstacle with the
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American Idol's Brandon Rogers blames his perhaps critical error — forgetting the words to "Can't Hurry Love" — to neither nerves nor pressure, nor the onus of singing first this week, but to his... hips. "Honestly, it was just me having too good of a time," he said during a Thursday press-conference call. "I went out there, did my little hip-shimmy, and the crowd screamed — it was the loudest they'd been my whole time in the competition — and I was like, 'Whoa, this is awesome! Um, what the heck are my words?' My mind went blank."Immediately upon Brandon's ouster, bullet-dodger Sanjaya's face went forlorn, suggesting either sadness over a friend's fate or proactive dread over what Simon will say next about his own singing. Asked what turned Sanjaya so sour, Brandon told TVGuide.com, "I have no idea. It's hard to see anybody leave, and every week there's no confusion as to why we're all in tears. We genuinely care about each other, all of us."
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Welcome back to the big stage for the next three months. (Did he really say that?) Tonight we celebrate the music of Diana Ross and, therefore, Motown. Diana was named something like “Female Entertainer of Forever” and I always loved her. Immediately noticeable was Sanjaya’s curly 'do (we’ll get to that later), and Phil’s bare head, lampshade optional. Did you notice that when Ryan introduced the judges, he referred to them as the “people who found our contestants in the first place,” an obvious snarky reference to Jennifer Hudson’s neglect on thanking AI in her Oscar speech. Simon mentions that this stage will either make or break the contestants. Unfortunately, it will only break one of them at a time, and after tonight’s show, I can count at least five people who are broken and need to go home. Ryan’s suit was just weird, and the vest did not seem to fit. The man can’t weigh a buck fiddy, so where did he find a vest that was...
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