Casey Abrams and Jack Black joined forces on the American Idol season finale May 25 to jam the hell out of Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls. WHO SAW THAT ONE COMING?
Watch the delightful performance for yourself – Of course, Ryan Seacrest got a plug in that Jack’s new movie, Kung Fu Panda 2 comes out tomorrow:
On April 28th’s American Idol, we were not told who the bottom three were. The last three not safe, in random oder per Ryan Seacrest, were Scotty, Casey, Jacob.
The ones previously declared safe for the night were: Haley, James, Lauren.
Live blogging.
Spoiler Results:
The person who got the least votes and going home is WOW~~~unbelievable! Casey Abrams…NO NO NO!!!!
Watch the elimination:
Casey Abrams fans – this one is for you!
Casey performed Carole King’s Hi De Ho on Wednesday night’s (April 28) American Idol.
Randy Jackson: “It feels like this song was written for you. It took me back to New Orleans.”
Steven Tyler: “You made my scalp itch it was so good.”
J-Lo: “I’d love to see you loosen up physically.”
Casey Abrams finished his performance Wednesday night on American Idol by kissing Jennifer Lopez on the cheek. Steven Tyler squirmed: “Casey! You did what I have been trying to do for four months!” Casey looked proud of himself and Jennifer said, “Casey is not playing fair…Casey got soft lips!”
Casey sang Maroon 5’s Harder to Breathe! And both him and Jennifer had a hard time breathing after that surprise kiss!
J.Lo said, “I Loved it! The performance! The performance! The performance was great. You brought all your Casey’isms to it. You took a pop song and took it all the way rock. It was really great.”
Randy Jackson wasn’t kissed but gushed over Casey anyway: “What I love about Casey is that it’s always surprise, surprise, surprise. I enjoyed it….I loved that you came here and kissed[ J.Lo.]. Amazing job. Keep taking chances, I love it. I can’t wait to see what you do every time.”
Steven Tyler forgot Idol is a family show and called Casey a “cult hero” and said there are “millions of people in America that are really angry because you piss them off you’re so fucking good. You’ve changed so many fucking people’s minds. You’re that kind of artist. I gotta tell you, I love you man.” Of course the F bombs were muted by Fox, but you could read Steven’s lips clear as day. Funny thing, Steven did not even realize what he had done, until Randy told him. “Darn good!” corrected Randy. Me: I LOVE YOU STEVEN!
Watch Casey perform and kiss the most beautiful woman in the world:
I’ve said it once, and I will say it again. American Idol contestants sound much different when you hear them sing live on the Fox studio set than they do when we watch them on TV at home. They usually sound much better in person.
Case in point or shall I say Casey in point: I am a HUGE Casey Abrams fan. HUGE! However, his rendition of Nat King Cole’s Nature Boy just fell flat with me during Idol‘s Wednesday performance night.
Then again, I was watching it at home this week like most of America. Were you surprised to see the studio audience go absolutely wild for Casey’s rendition? If you were, it’s the live vs. TV factor differential.
The judges went nuts over Casey as well with all three joining the standing crowd to give Casey a unanimous standing ovation. Jennifer Lopez, the just-named world’s most beautiful woman, said Abrams brought “a special thing to music.” Randy Jackson said Casey gave a “Grammy-type performance…I thought it was brilliant. I thought it was absolutely genius.” Steven Tyler said Casey is an “artist in the truest sense of the word.” He compared him to Sting and told Casey “You took a song that my momma sang to me when I was a little boy and you took it and you did what’s in your heart regardless of what Jimmy told you.”
Casey picked the Nat King Cole classic despite Jimmy Iovine’s advice in rehearsals to choose something that could make him win like Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight. Did he make the right choice or will this song selection cost him a shot at the Idol crown? Did you enjoy it at home and call in a vote in for him or were you shocked by the adulation you witnessed on TV?
What did you think of Casey’s performance? Watch it for yourself and let me know! In this video, you can also hear Casey speak about his favorite Gnocchi and meatballs dish at Cafe Aroma!
TONIGHT’S RESULTS ARE ALL THE WAY AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE!
SPOILER ALERT: I am blogging live from the result’s show. If you want to know who is in the bottom three right now and who gets voted off and eliminated on American Idol Thursday April 7, look below. If you want a behind-the-scenes of Wednesday night’s performance night – keep reading.
This season, I have heard a lot of complaints from fans about the judges’ comments being too nice. Well, let me tell you why they are seemingly too positive: When you hear the contestants sing live on the Idol stage and in person, they all sound fantastic.
These top nine finalists are extremely talented and they even sound better in person than they do on TV. That’s why Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson heap so much praise on them.
When Jacob Lusk sang Man in the Mirror last night, every person in the studio had goosebumps. We all knew we had just witnessed an Idol event to be remembered for years to come. While Scotty McCreery electrified the crowd, James Durbin moved us to tears. Pia Toscano sounded amazing on her first up tempo;song but JLo was right – she definitely needs to up her showmanship. Stefano Langone connected with the lyrics so much, we could feel it his passion for the song.
Paul McDonald was the perfect way to end the show with a bang! His style is so infections. His smile is even more infectious. And his teeth are so brightly white, we could see them from 200 feet away. His rendition of Johnny Cash’s Fulsom Prison Blues made the entire place so happy, that we all felt as we were kids at Disneyland. While Idol replayed of each Idol‘s performance and their phone numbers on TV, in the studio, all Idols ran to stage and hugged and congratulated Paul on his performance. And the entire time the numbers and replays played on TV, the Idols were dancing and doing the Dosey Doe! You could tell that they all really like each other.
The biggest Idol cheerleader in the crowd last night was Christian Slater! He was pumping his fists and rocking to every contestant’s song! He is obviously a true Idol fan. And the judges – unlike previous years when they left the studio during commercial breaks, they all stayed with the audience and during each break, a team of two to three makeup and hair people would work on each judge to make sure they looked pretty for the next segment.
Back to the contestants…they were all so mesmerizing last night that I am sad to see any of them go home…but that’s how Idol works, so, here are the results from Thursday’s (April 7) results show:
LIVE BLOGGING:
Safe: Casey; Lauren, Scotty, Paul, Haley, James.
Bottom three: Stafano, Pia, Jacob.
Voted Off: PIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Casey Abrams has proven for two weeks in a row that he deserved to be saved by the American Idol judges.
Randy Jackson said: “You definitely did justice to that song.” About Casey’s bass, Randy said, “You’ve put it in popular music, dude. This is revolutionary!”
Steven Tyler loved the performance so much that he said Casey should put wheels on the base and take it everywhere! He gushed: “You’re such a true musician; every time you sing, you bring something different.”
“That’s exactly where you belong – right there, with your bass,” Jennifer Lopez said.
He almost went home last week, but on Wednesday’s American Idol, Casey Abrams put forth a gutsy performance to prove that the judges wisely used their one save of the season.
Watch Casey put on a sweet falsetto run:
When American Idol judges used their one save of the season on Casey Abrams, Abrams was mystified and asked them, “It’s top 11, why would you do that?!” Well, Jennifer Lopez provided an answer to Abram’s question on Ryan Seacrest‘s radio show Wednesday.
The problem with using the one save of the season is that the full decision of who will be crowned our Idol winner will lie in our collective hands.
And well, America, we haven’t always been right. Or even close to right. Do the names Jennifer Hudson and Chris Daughtry and what we did to them shake your nerves..even just a little bit?
Lopez is not worried. “I really feel we put 11 amazing contestants in front of them, and now it’s [about] who their favorite is, who’s going to be their American Idol. I didn’t realize I was going to fall in love with the contestants the way I have and feel for them the way I do.”
OK fans, let’s do this. Let’s get this right starting tonight….
Photo Credit: Fox
American Idol is so good right now that it’s hard to remember that so many of us deemed the show dead after Simon Cowell‘s departure from the judges’ panel.
