“O.M.G.! Katy Perry! O.M.G.!” That’s Vivian, dancing and cartwheeling around the living room when the special guests for the April 21 show were announced.
Yep: Katy Perry. Yep: More entertainment to fill in a full hour so that Ryan Seacrest can stretch a five-minute process (sending one contestant home) into 60 minutes with plenty of Ford ads. And she wasn’t bad; Viv and Jean liked the new song, “Extraterrestrial,” but I’m getting sick of the same old over-costumed dangers rolling around in smoke on the floor. Can the high-tech world of Idol find a new special effect?
Not a whole lot of drama remaining. We all knew Stefano and one of the two girls would hit the bottom three; I wasn’t surprised to see Jacob there, too. Haley’s better than Lauren, but Lauren somehow seems to have the teenage-girl vote, so she’s got a few more rounds to go.
Stefano? Well, he put it right, and with some class: “It’s all about giving your absolute best.” That’s what he did — his absolute best. And it just wasn’t as good as the other guys.
Next week: the songs of Carole King. How the hell is James going to rock that shit?