Idol Stalker - Watching American Idol

American Idol Season 8 Top 4 Results Show

Posted: 06 May 2009 06:58 PM PDT

The show started with a group performance of "School's Out" which is one of my favorite songs to play on Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock. It was pretty cool to see the contestants rock out like that.

Danny Gokey had me cracking up as he talked about how funny it was to watch his performance from last night. Judge Simon Cowell had said his last note sounded like something from a horror movie and Danny had to agree. He said that his own aunt had muted it and he heard that people were making ringtones. Too funny!

We were treated with a little montage of Paula Abdul's career before she performed her new single "I'm Just Here for the Music." The lip-synching is unacceptable, can I just say? A lot of celebrities bomb majorly because they try to perform LIVE on the Idol stage and I think it's sort of a right of passage. There's no flipping way she was moving like that and singing. BUT I do have to give her major kudos for those amazing moves. She really blew me away by jumping off the stage and being flipped around like that. Fierce!

On the flipside, I kinda wish that Gwen Stefani from No Doubt had lip-synched as she warbled her way through "Just a Girl." No further comment needed. Moving on…

Over 64 million votes were cast which is the highest number outside of a finale. Go America!

Kris Allen was the first to be sent to safety! I'm pretty happy with it because he's humble, inventive and cute.

Daughtry performed their new song "No Surprise" from their upcoming album Leave This Town. What do you think of the song? I'm not a huge fan of it, to be honest.

Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey joined Kris on the couch but Allison Iraheta was sent home. I can't say that I'm too surprised but it's too bad. She's got a great voice but she really needs to come out of her shell and connect more with her audience.