American Idol Round of 3: A Horseplayer's Perspective

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

I don't think that it is "written" that we can't have two women in the finals, Jordin has a following and I'm not sure Blake is that strong...a lot of the "he's so cute" teenyboppers stopped voting when Sanjaya left I think. It would be a travesty if Melinda was voted off, she's been perfect every song and regardless of anything else, how can she not make the finals. Jordin is obviously the better singer, the only thing Blake has going is originality and that I think ran it's course...Blake has a future in the business but I suspect it may not be performing rather arranging. We will see...Randy was clear, he said if based on singing it would be the two women; I was surprised that Simon hedged a bit saying that Melinda was his only choice. it will be interesting!

I didn't mean to implay that we can't have two female finalists, but just that something in my gut tells me that Blake will make it to the finals just based on the intangibles advantage he has over the two of them. Given that I assume that will happen, I can't see how Melinda would go before Jordin.

But, we are at that point of the season where crazier things have happened, so really anyone could go tonight -- but I think we all know who should go.