We find out that Carrie and Anwar are "safe" and that Bo - shocker! Simon was right - is in the bottom three. He sings the Black Crowes' "Remedy" with gusto and confidence, though his dialogue with Ryan about his lack of concern for this turn of events is unconvincing and ill-advised. The voters don't really want to hear that you already feel like a winner, they want to hear that this is the most important thing in the world to you and that if you don't win you will likely expire, or at least suffer the vapors. The voters like the feeling of power.
Paula, who seems mildly intoxicated, declares once again that we will see Bo in the finals.
Ryan tells us Constantine, Vonzell and Anthony are safe, and that Nadia rounds out the bottom three. She sings a sultry, emotionally compelling "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." Ryan lines up the bottom three, only one of whom belongs there and he is not the one to go: it's Nadia, whose adherence to an unpredictable, eccentric vision of pop music history is her downfall. She is probably the most classically beautiful and poised woman to have appeared on the show, as well as a fine singer, and if the entertainment industry doesn't cling her to its bosom, it is manifestly mindless. I mean even more so than usual.
Ryan closes the show with a chivalrous gesture: he removes his tie and gives it to Nadia so that she might dab her dewy doe-like eyes. He is always gallant in the presence of distressed damsels, it's a nice trait.
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1 - Dawn
in an outburst of emotion he wrestles the song to the ground and gnaws at it with his canine teeth.
So apt, so true, so feral.
That's Scott to a tee - he will fucking wrench that AI title out of your hand with brute force, and out of defiance for your having talent where he lacks it, he will drop a smelly grumpy on you in his final act of low-class behavior.
He doesn't sing, he belches out his songs on cheap Old Milwaukee and Taco Bell burritos. I wonder how often the AI house has to be cleared after a Scott constitutional?
2 - Eric Olsen
brutal, woman
3 - Temple Stark
Really other than Carrie for the guys - who would want to see any of these people in their birthday suits.
Um, this is up on Advance, like, you know.
4 - Natalie Davis
Hmmm... watched the show with folks at work. The guys all thought Vonzell was quite attractive. As always, mileage varies.
5 - TylerNewton
Um, yeah, the Bo/Carrie/Constantine "plan" is NOT shot down buddy.
All that happened here is that too many Bo fans voted for Scott and Anthony in an attempt to dump Nadia/Anwar/Vonzell.
While it worked, that PLUS many people not voting for Bo ("he's safe, so he doesn't NEED my vote") led to Bo going to the bottom 2.
If Ruben and Fantasia can hit the bottom 2 and WIN AI, Bo can too. Now Bo fans will rally behind and give him a surge of votes.
Next week it will be some Constantine fans who change their vote to Scott and Anthony in an attempt to get rid of Vonzell or Anwar, and that could leave Constantine in the bottom 3, BUT either Vonzell or Anwar, the huge threats to the Big 3, WILL go home next week.
6 - Eric Olsen
and you heard it here first