Since yesterday and last night's show I have, for the most part, steadily remained in Scotty McCreery's corner in terms of both my personal prediction at this point and who is the more deserving at this point. Lauren Alaina had a fairly strong moment last night with her "Like My Mother Does" cover of former American Idol Kristy Lee Cook but Scotty has, by far, been the more consistent singer. He has played it equally safe but truth be told, the true excitement will be in who is coming back to perform. I would fully expect to see Casey Abrams and several others onstage. As usual, the rumor mill is in overdrive, and we will soon get the unfiltered actual version.
Going to keep this short. Still predicting Scotty, but much more tightly than before. The show was blatantly trying to manufacture a narrowing of the public perception so a Lauren Alaina upset would not be as shocking as I would have envisioned it being just a couple days ago. In the end, Lauren probably needs it more than Scotty does and I think they both know that too. Carrie Underwood reportedly performing with Lauren tonight is no accident on three obvious fronts; Carrie is Lauren's personal idol, she's the Season 4 winner of American Idol, and she's a country superstar.
So now we must ask ourselves if Nigel Lythgoe has successfully bridged the perceived gap between the two teenage supestars. And will the teenage girls still vote for Scotty? And will their mothers now stop their boy-crushing and think more like, well, mothers again and vote for Lauren based on the show's shameless ploy to bait Cougar Country into voting as mothers?
I do think that the ploy will work but we will soon find out to what extent. Will Lauren's "dramatic" performance night (the whole laryngitis angle seemed to be vastly exaggerated for dramatic purposes) be enough of a countering of Scotty's seemingly unmovable momentum? It's all in Ryan Seacrest's hands and then win or lose, these two talented young singers' true fans will show their colors once their American Idol journeys come to an official end tonight.
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