Idol Loses Overmyer

Amanda Overmyer, American Idol's female hard rocker with the two-tone hair, is gone from the show.

Chikezie, Romiele Malubay, Brooke White, and Jason Castro are still alive. All of these contestants made the top 10 and will tour. Overmyer will not.

This blog's reaction: befuddlement. The vote tally is absolutely perplexing.

White is the best of the contestants mentioned above, but she isn't better than Overmyer. Some of the others should already be off. None of them performed better than Overmyer either.

As it stands now, I've been robbed of the privilege of watching Overmyer next week and for the rest of American Idol.

She had one of the best performances last night, serving up a rousing rendition of Back in the U.S.S.R. Simon Cowell's complaints to her for delivering a predictable performance didn't make sense. The Beatles' song catalog is over 30 years old. We've heard the music a trillion times already. Covers are going to be predictable. Plus, American Idol is not an unpredictability contest. It is a singing contest, a performance contest. Overmyer delivered so much more than others. Furthermore, as far as predictability goes, how can these contestants add anything new and relevant to works written and performed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney? It might be possible with Eleanor Rigby, but to expect it with every song is pretty unrealistic.

Overmyer did fine, and she should still be on the show.