15 April 2004

I'm not sure what's more disturbing - Quentin Tarantino serving as a guest judge on American Idol or finding out that the favorite movie of one of the contestants is Sister Act 2 (for the singing, we're told).

In any case, movie music was the theme last night, which explains Tarantino's presence (and not, you know, that he has a movie coming out tomorrow) and all the kids musing about their favorite movies. That was odd, at least to start, as George Huff went from talking about The Wiz to singing the title song from Against All Odds. He'd have been much better off singing "Ease On Down the Road," not his best performance.

Odder still was that both Jon and John were listenable last night, singing "Jailhouse Rock" and "As Time Goes By" respectively. Both were still clearly out-classed by other contestants, but it wasn't the nausea-inducing horror show of weeks past.

That was left to Diana DeGarmo, who sang "My Heart Will Go On." I really don't need to say any more here, do I? My guess is that either she or Jasmine Trias, whose song I can't remember, will get the boot. They were both in the bottom three last week, and have both made at least one other appearance there as well. For the third spot... George may actually take it, though Jennifer may go back down given that Fantasia and La Toya performed late in the show and did well.

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