American Idol is coming closer to the end.

Last night I predicted that the bottom three would include Anoop Desai, Lil Rounds, and Matt Giraud with Anoop going home.

It looks like Adam Lambert got his hair cut. I actually like it!

The show included an incredible performance by former AI contestant Jennifer Hudson. With a nice tribute video for Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, it was a great spotlight to what American Idol contestants can achieve — even those who were not winners of the competition. (Congratulations to Jennifer on her recent engagement.)

The performance by Miley Cyrus was more toned down than I’ve seen her on stage before – it’s almost like she’s trying to create a transition between teeny bopper to serious artist – until close to the end when she was banging her head back and forth – it did not work with being in a beautiful evening gown – and then the whole performance got a bit messy. It wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated. I think she’s a better “studio performer” rather than live, but she has mass-market appealing songs – radio-friendly. They are packaging her well. When she was finished, I almost wanted the judges to chime in and give their criticisms… that would have been kind of fun.

So once the results show got started, we ended up with the bottom three as Anoop Desai, Lil Rounds, and Matt Giraud. (As predicted).

I have to say I was shocked that Anoop was safe and the bottom two ended up being Lil and Matt.

With over 36 million votes… wow… Matt Giraud was the contestant with the lowest votes. Quite a surprise for me tonight – not that he was in the bottom three but that he was the lowest of those in the bottom three. I was hoping the judges would save Matt… the crowd went wild when the judges pulled out their “save” and kept him in the comptetition. I wonder how it will affect his performances for the future – if he will work that much harder and if his fans will pull together to keep him.

Tonight made American Idol history – with the judges saving a contestant who they didn’t feel deserved to be going home tonight.

Next week it means two people will be going home, and it’s Disco week (that should be fun, and I can only imagine what Adam Lambert will pull out for that genre)…

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