It is NOT a singing competition. It is a popularity contest with pre-teens and middle schoolers probably making up 80% of the vote.
Did you vote? How many times?
I've been rooting for Jordin to win this whole thing for the last 8 or 10 weeks, but I haven't voted for her once. I'll leave the voting up to the maniacs and middle schoolers.
Jordin is versatile (much more versatile than Melinda), she is as cute as a button and I don't think I have ever heard a 17 year old kid with as much maturity in her voice as Jordin has. She could sing the phonebook and it would sell records.
But I watched it every week LOL!
I'm picking Blake to win.
I have been saying for eight weeks that Jordin would win. I still think so. I didn’t post my predictions this week, but I did say privately at home, that Melinda would be eliminated tonight. NOT because she deserves it, and NOT because the other two are (that abstract judgement) “better singers” than she is, but for a whole host of subtler reasons. Melinda came across, almost subliminally, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, as someone who almost “didn’t belong there”. True, she is outstanding, highly polished, in a league by herself, and all that type of stuff, but psychologically , it seemed like she already WAS the winner, so what was the point in voting for her?
There was no surprise from week to week, she was consistent every week, which “on paper” looks good, but psychologically, removes the whole dimension of surprise and involvement. People who watch and vote on American Idol are flattered into believing they themselves are creating stardom for somebody. Melinda came across as somebody who already SHOULD HAVE BEEN a star, but somehow WASN’T. THAT is why she was eliminated.Jordin, on the other hand, is someone who at her tender age looks like she has unlimited potential. In twelve years, Jordin will NOT be competing against the likes of someone like herself, which is the position that 29-year-old Melinda unfortunately was in. I am not at all surprised that she was eliminated, and I think it was for those reasons. I still think Jordin will win, and have believed that for a LONG time, and I am really surprised Blake made it this far, even though his boldness and originality are unmistakable-—I underestimated the broadness of his appeal, or the tenacity of his fan-base, whichever one of those may apply.