Okay, I've admittedly been feeling lazy so I didn't do this blog last night when I should have but last night's Top 12 results show actually provided a degree of drama. It seems like the conventional wisdom of LeRoy Bell being the first one to go home proved false. He did prove to be the smoking gun in a rather unexpectedly amusing fashion. It turns out that their live results show performances aren't so live after all. LeRoy Bell was quite visibly caught lip-synching to the David Guetta/Usher collaboration "Without You" in the opening ensemble number.
Carson Daly, host of the rival show The Voice on NBC, overtly jabbed at the competition by highlighting this mini-Milli Vanilli like scandal on his account. It seems that most people seem to be more amused than outrage, since this has been an on and off occurrence over the years and so people have become so desensitized to this kind of shenanigans.
When it was all said and done, after the first ten acts were safely advanced to next weeks show, we were left with InTENsity and The Stereo Hogzz holding their breath while awaiting the judges' decision. Personally, I think it's ridiculous that the lowest vote getter doesn't automatically go home. This is clearly the Simon Cowell juggernaut at work, trying to create more drama, and it will probably continue to work, even those of us who fiercely hate this format with a passion.
It finally came down to InTENsity being voted off by a 3-1 vote, with Simon being the lone dissenter, and you must wonder if he's really playing the game more than truly deciding who should be going home. It's a safe bet, or certainly at worst a reasonable assumption, that he felt that The Stereo Hogzz posed a much greater threat to his team but at the end of the day Simon is still the one who will ultimately win because it's his show and production company. He'll be at the press conference to announce the winner's deal no matter what but by that same token it also means that he can afford some aggressive gamesmanship on his part.
The ten piece group InTENsity took it pretty hard, as host Steve Jones clumsily alluded to before adding that they'd be back next Wednesday. It's still safe to say that LeRoy Bell will be in trouble soon enough in all likelihood, and not over the obvious lip-synching flap because that affects everyone (the show itself confirmed it too), but because his fan base just might not be as numbered, varied, and devoted as some of the show's frontrunners.
So there we have it. Next week The Stereo Hogzz will obviously be in peril going into the week. Outside of LeRoy Bell, it's hard to gauge who will be more immediately in danger of going home as well. Besides The Stereo Hogzz and LeRoy Bell, we are now left with Drew Ryniewicz, Rachel Crow, Melanie Amaro, Stacy Francis, Josh Krajcik, Astro, Chris Rene, Marcus Canty, The Stereo Hogzz, and Lakoda Rayne.
Stay tuned.
I am still planning on doing a piece on Stacy Francis and the vicious attack machinery against her recently. I'm hoping to post something in time for next Wednesday's episode.
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