Ken Levine: American Idol: Top 3 (Yawn)

The fun weeks of American Idol are over. All the interesting stoners, tattoo ladies, hayseeds, emotional wrecks, biker chicks, foreigners, cretins, cheerleaders, divas, endomorphs, satyrs, and future serial killers have been voted off. Now it's down to three and you know who's going to win so it's kind of like dragging a dead horse across the finish line to shoot it. Sorry to say but American Idol has jumped the shark. I think it was the night Danny Noriega sang "Jailrock Rock." The format has gotten tiresome. We're sick of seeing the damn Coca Cola backdrop. Tired of saying "Who the hell is that?" after each audience shot of a so-called "celebrity" (like we're supposed to recognize the great Diane Warren). And bored to tears of hearing "in the zone," "you look gorgeous tonight", and "you could sing the phone book, dawg". At least Paula mixes it up by critiquing performances that hadn't happened yet. If there was a theme this week it was "going through the motions." David Archuleta, ... (link)