Another American Idol churned out....

SOOOOoooooo....was I right, or was I right? Taylor won AI! Yee hah! But then there were a heckuva lot of other people who predicted he would win as well. I have to say though, the finale was really a fun show to watch. Lotsa fun stuff, including the complusory making fun of early auditioners who sounded or looked or acted really bad during their auditions. And they even gave away 'Idol Awards' for different categories to the really bad singers. The best part for me was when they gave away an 'award' for best impersonation of another singer, and a really geeky guy who so made himself up to look like Clay Aiken won the award. Then when he went up to get his award, Ryan Seacrest asked him to sing "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" and he did. But while the geeky guy was doing his bad rendition of the song, the REAL Clay Aiken came out on stage from behind him and the guy didn't realise it until he turned around and saw Clay there, and the geeky guy was so flabbergasted. He was like a teenage girl seeing his idol, even jumping up and down. And Clay, who looked a lot cooler than during his geeky days, straight away took over the song and did it very much justice. So cool! Another good part was the 'Brokenote Cowsboys' performance, the three cowboys who were in the same group during the group round of auditions, but all got kicked off during that round. They showed again the parody movie trailer of the three cowboys, and the three of them then took to the stage and sang some cowboy songs. And they actually did really well! They didn't sound so 'brokenoted' after all. :D Then there were the video clips of cute ol' 'calamari' Kellie Pickler learning to eat gourmet food like escargot and fresh lobsters for the first time. Haha, she really is such a funny character, I'm sure this won't be the last we'll see of her. Of course, the guest performances were pretty cool too. Most of the guest singers were those who had pretty much disappeared off the face of the planet for the past few years, like Meatloaf (who sounded gawd awful at the beginning of his song. :P), Toni Braxton, and Prince (or if you wanna be technically correct, the Artiste Formerly Known As Prince But Now Is Just Some Wacky Symbol). Prince was the last guest performance, right after that naughty Ryan Seacrest said it was time for the results and there were gonna be "no more surprises". Ah well, keeps the show entertaining! Then there was Mary J. Blige who sang U2's 'One' with Elliot Yahmin. I was hoping U2 or Bono would be popping up sometime during the song, but they didn't. Well, I supposed it would be weird to see Bono performing on American Idol..... but they were singing a U2 song! Of course, they brought back all the 12 finalists (I forgot about Melissa McGhee in my post yesterday....but then she was the first of the 12 finalists to get kicked, so who cares? :Þ) and they performed a whole bunch of songs, some with the guest singers. And last year's AI winner, Carrie Underwood was there showing off her pipes too, and she sang really well. I dunno why they don't play her tunes on Malaysian radio. Probably coz' her first single had 'Jesus' in the title. Ooohh....too sensitive for our tender Malaysian ears. Bo Bice wasn't around though. How sad. But all in all, it was a great finale. And now we AI fans must go back into our own little worlds and wait in bated breathe for American Idol 6 next year. And those of us in Malaysia can also wonder when they're gonna start Malaysian Idol 3. Ladidadidaaa.....