Skylar Laine is eliminated from Idol and will head back to Brandon, Mississippi.
The 18-year-old country ball of fire was sent home on Thursday's (May 3) "American Idol" results episode, after receiving the fewest number of votes following Wednesday's performance episode. "Nearly 60 million votes", host Ryan Seacrest reported during the show.
Skylar found herself in the bottom together with regular bottom 3 dweller Hollie Cavanagh. Since there was only 5 left, only a bottom 2 was declared before Laine got the boot.
After Ryan's announcement, Skylar hugged Cavanagh tight at the center of the stage and sang Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder & Lead" for her swansong as the show closed.
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During Skylar's performance, Jennifer Lopez told Laine she had victory in her grasp. "You wanna win, don't you?" Lopez asked Laine after she sang Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," which followed her earlier performance of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son." Laine replied affirmatively, to which Lopez said, "I can tell. And you just might with performances like that."
Jimmy Iovine called Skylar "a fighter" in his assessment of her Wednesday performances. He praised her for suiting up and showing up "every night." He said he thought she did well, though he said her take on the Dusty Springfield song lacked the "darkness" of the original. "She doesn't deserve to go home because of that," Iovine said, "but it was less than what I know she's capable of."
In Iovine's estimation, Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez should have landed in the bottom two. He said Phillips has been "coasting" and described his two performances as "very bland." As for Sanchez, Iovine called her performance of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" a "travesty" and said he should have talked her out of singing it when he had the chance. He said her outfit during the song was "too mature" and "too racy" and said the "Idol" wardrobe department was "torpedoing" her.
Iovine and the judges are too obvious with their choices, always giving standing ovations to Joshua and endless praises to Skylar. The two contestants who own the ugliest natural voices who both can't sing anything soft and with a flowing melody. The only thing these two can can do is scream out and shout their songs which does not make a complete singer, but instead a side show of nothing but ornaments in their performances. Give they challenging soft ballads with long melodies and you'll what kind of voices these two really own. Ugly, rough and unstable!
Iovine, are you saying that you know better than America???
Coldplay also appeared and performed two songs, "Paradise" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," and fourth-season "Idol" winner Carrie Underwood stopped by and performed "Blown Away," the title track from her latest album, which hit stores this week.
What did you think of "Idol" on Thursday? Let us know in the comments! As for me, I believe Iovine is an unfair mentor who gives too much praises to his favorites.
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