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American Idol: Top 2 power rankings
Posted in American Idol, Music, TV Show on the May 23, 2007
He table is set. Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis are our two, quasi-unlikely finalists and their face-off tonight will play a part in deciding the American Idol champion. The conclusion, however, may very well be foregone (barring, of course, a monumental choke by one of the two singers on live television tonight.) There probably isn’t a significant population of undecided voters still out there, and the two performers are going to have a difficult time swaying viewers to their side at this late juncture. Blake and Jordin are so vastly different in their styles that it doesn’t really make sense to compare and contrast the two. If you’re a Jordin fan, no matter what Blake does tonight, your sensibilities will still lie in the Jordin camp, and vice versa.
For all the uproar over Melinda Doolittle’s elimination from the show, this final two is the right final two. They are both viable commercial entities. If this sounds cynical, it isn’t meant to. Melinda was a great singer, but not much else. She was a little boring, but everyone liked her, so people fooled themselves into believing that she might actually win this thing. Melinda didn’t stand a chance.
There are hundreds of great singers in this country of Melinda’s ilk. There are not hundreds of 17 year olds like Jordin Sparks. There are not hundreds of people that can do what Blake Lewis does. Blake Lewis has creative potential. Melinda was only a singer. Jordin Sparks is young enough to improve, be molded into the product that America/the record companies want. Melinda had peaked as a singer.
So what do you think, who is going to win on Wednesday.