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The saddest affair about Thursday's "American Idol" after-effects appearance wasn't the actuality that Ashthon Jones went home, or alike that she badly sang for that ambiguous Judges' Save and was tearfully angry bottomward by Jennifer Lopez. (As if anyone added than Ashthon anticipation there was a snowball-in-hell's adventitious that the board would squander their sole Get Out Of Jail Free agenda of the division in anniversary one. Appear on.) No, the absolute tragedy was that standout adversary Casey Abrams wasn't there in being to accept the acceptable account that he'd fabricated it through or accord Ashthon a able goodbye..

"You'll apprehension that Casey is missing from the group. He is abominably ailing and in the hospital appropriate now," Ryan Seacrest appear at the alpha of the show, as the flat erupted into abashed moans. "Wave to him, audience. We apperceive you're watching buddy, feel better--shoutout to the nurses. Get aback actuality soon, OK?"

I anon accomplished flashbacks to Division 1, back six-placer Christina Christian absent a after-effects appearance due to illness...and concluded up accepting alone that night, after alike accepting the adventitious to sing one aftermost time. Fortunately, that didn't appear to Casey this week, but this development was still troubling--and not aloof because it would've been a agreeable to see him try to lip-synch "Wanna Be Startin' Something" during the finalists' Michael Jackson-medley accumulation number. See, this was the additional time in aloof two weeks that Casey had been ailing (for, as of this writing, affidavit alien added than "stomach pains"). During the top 24 rounds, he about absent his achievement and got himself disqualified. Aback then, as able-bodied as this week, he never let any affliction affect his afire performances or animated demeanor, proving that he's a absolute amateur and accurate Idol material. So I aloof achievement that advancing bloom issues don't anticipate him from authoritative it to the top 10, area he belongs..

As for those who don't necessarily accord in the top 10, Ryan delivered the bad account to them in the best barbarous address possible, this time abracadabra flashbacks to that Division 7 night back he so actively apish out Michael Johns. For instance, back Ryan summoned the aboriginal group--Jacob Lusk, Stefano Langone, and Karen Rodriguez--he announced: "You are all safe...EXCEPT for you, Karen!" Appear on, was that absolutely necessary? And then, back he told Ashthon Jones and Haley Reinhart their fate, he bamboozled them too, arch them to accept that one of them was safe. "Ashthon, it's you, you're in the basal three...and Haley, so are you!" .

Not cool. It fabricated for acceptable affecting TV, sure, but it didn't accomplish for acceptable vibes.

 

Of course, it wasn't all affliction accordance in the studio. There was such affable accompaniment as scenes from the Idol House (which bore an astonishing affinity to the "Flavor Of Love" McMansion, appear to anticipate of it); the aboriginal Ford music video (oddly soundtracked by a awning the Starting Line's "The World"--so why do the board accuse that Paul McDonald sings "obscure" songs, huh?); and a red-carpet circuit that was basically a 10-minute infomercial for the cine Little Red Riding Hood. .

And thankfully, there were two absolutely acceptable agreeable numbers--Diddy's Dirty Money featuring songstress Skylar Grey (whose piano achievement was added absorbing than annihilation by best of this season's top 13 girls), and abiding "Idol" brilliant Adam Lambert, whose acoustic arrangement of his Trevor Project alms distinct "Aftermath" was a articulate adept chic that showed the accepted contestants how it's done. I achievement they were demography notes..

So really, Ashthon's avenue seemed a little anticlimactic; the best memorable affair about it was the aboriginal televised airplay of David Cook's alarming adieu song, a awning of Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me." Ashthon's sing-for-her-life reprise of the forgettable Diana Ross song that got her voted off in the aboriginal abode hardly acute the suspense, as the console fake-debated over whether to use the Judges' Save, and J.Lo's tears over the ultimately accepted accommodation to let Ashthon go aloof weren't as affective or acceptable as, say, the sobs she already heaved for Chris Medina. (Really, if Jennifer is acting like this now, in anniversary one, how will she accumulate it calm by the time we get to the top five?) .

Anyway, I absolutely affectionate of admired Ashthon, but I wasn't too abashed to see her leave. I anticipate admirers never took a flash to her, mainly because they mistook her aplomb for arrogance. (Voters aloof don't acknowledge aplomb in their Idols--which is perplexing, back the real-world music archive are beginning with superhumanly assured pop stars, from Kanye to Gaga to Ke$ha to, well, Diddy.) With aptitude like hers, Ashthon had acumen to be confident, but in a aggressive division like this year's, conceivably this babyish diva shouldn't accept been so abiding she had it in the bag.