Carrie Underwood has sung "Home Sweet Home" on the east coast — which means that American Idol’s eighth season is down to its final eight contestants. [SPOILERS ahead, for those of you on Pacific time.] Not surprisingly, Simon made the whole "Judges’ Save" about himself, the folks in the bottom three seemed not particularly rattled by their misfortune, and Megan Joy flapped her wings and brazenly cawed in the face of adversity. It’s enough to make you wonder why she didn’t choose Nelly Furtado’s "I’m Like a Bird" for "Top Downloads" week. Except for the fact that, well, we all know Simon hates songs about birds. As for me, I hate the fact that more people would apparently prefer to hear the musical stylings of Yell Rounds and Sleepy MacIntyre than Allison Iraheta. What. The. Hell? Anyhoo, check out our spankin’ new video interview with the charming Michael Sarver below — it’s a three-parter; parts 2 and 3 play automatically when part 1 is finished — then head to the comments section and share your thoughts on tonight’s results show. Holla!
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Megan must have bird flu. How else to explain her being even hot messier than usual?
Megan has become a supremely annoying beyotch!
Danny’s true nature came out during the imitations. Matt’s was good-natured. Allison’s was awesome. Anoop’s was just OK. But Danny’s was absolutely toolish.
awww Michael is so sweet.
I’m actually gonna miss Megan. I didn’t find her annoying at all. She just came across to me as someone that openly resisted being labeled a “package artist” and getting pigeonholed by the judges. I say good for her on that. I also thought she composed herself well on her final sing, knowing she wouldn’t be saved (at this point, I have to wonder how many of the contestants and viewers know that the Judges’ Save is an absolute joke).
All I care was that Matt’s safe to sing another week!
I wish Anoop had at least tempted to sound good when imitating Kris. Instead he sounded horrible as usual.
Upfront, I am in the Allison camp and I do not understand why she was in the bottom three. Is it because she would be another “young” winner that the producers/judges seem to be actively trying to get her booted? Anyway, keep supporting her Michael, thanks!
@kath: I actually thought Anoop’s impression of Kris was pretty funny. I agree that Danny acted like a tool, though. I’d suspected as much from him for awhile.
Nice interview with Michael- he was extremely down to earth. Good Luck to him.
Can’t say I’m upset she’s gone.
I’ve been a Megan fan since day 1, and though I don’t think she was able to show her true potential on the big Idol stage, her exit was hilarious, memorable, and totally classy. She knew it was her time to go and she embraced it. I loved how she totally stuck it to Simon and clearly made a mockery of the show (which has become downright ridiculous. I mean, lip-synching the group perfs, pimping out Lil via her children, etc?!?!?) Her infectious personality, quirky style, and talent will take her far! Can’t wait to see what she does next!
So glad Megan went home, especially after she told Simon she didn’t care what he had to say. Thought it only fitting that he told her if she didn’t care, they didn’t care and to not worry about singing, they weren’t saving her. Two points for Simon!
That “bird” imitation she did really made me glad she left. Still don’t understand why Allison was in the bottom 3, but I bet it’s one of those things where people didn’t vote thinking that everyone else was.
Thanks for posting this. I’m on the west coast and just can’t bring myself to watch the elimination shows… Phew!
Thank you America! Nuts to you “Vote for the Worst”! Megan Joy has finally flown the coop! My ears can stop bleeding!
love, love, love megan flipping the bird to the judges on her exit. she knows what we know and that’s simon and company couldn’t care less about anyone but yeller and widower. well done, lady caw caw.
note to Megan:
AND STAY OUT!
LOL, this place is unbelievable. “OMG, IT WAS SO FUNNY WHEN KRIS AND ALLISON WERE DOING IMPERSONATIONS….BUT DANNY IS SUCH A TOOL FOR…DOING IMPERSONATIONS.” Sad that some of you are such hypocrites.
Perhaps you didn’t hear her say she loved all the judges as one of her final comments….
aw, Megan! I’ll miss that girl. She’s a gorgeous lady, talented, and best of all, she’s got a wicked sense of humour. I hated to see her leave, but man I loved watching her!
Really the only reason left to watch AI is Allison Irahita. Everyone else on the show has the personality of cardboard. Sorry Glambert, but your vocal tricks get OLD FAST when you do them ALL every single week.
CAW CAW FTW!
Oh Megan. Where did this miseducation of yourself all go so wrong? Using my psychoanalytic skills, I’m going to guess that it was the day you performed “Rockin’ Robin” and did the bird caws. Yes, this seemed to be a continuing theme with you tonight (“Don’t forget the caw.” “Don’t forget the caw.” And do I even need to discuss her flying bird caw over to the dreaded silver chair?) I picture you, Megan, in my therapy room, lying on the couch, telling me about the day perhaps a big bird flew above your head and took one, big, gi-nor-mous shat all over your pretty long locks. Could this be the root of your problem, Megan? So the only way you could deal with this memory was by cawing after your “Rockin’ Robin” performance? And then once everyone started commenting on your cawing, it became immortalized, and so your next coping mechanism was to become the jokster?
Elizabeth
http://www.myrealitybit.com/
Don’t let your wings hit you on the way out
hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaah
wow glad to see megan gone…dang was she wierd tonight or what?
all those goofy(not in a cute way but wierd)expressions…the remarks she made. what simon said was hilarious & true.
she is just akward on stage.
But were the other Idols scared of their own possible demise? Notice how no one dared do an impersonation of Corkrey during the light-hearted imitation segment. And did anyone else see the way she ordered Kris to stand on his mark when they had to take the stage together? Did anyone else hear a strange noise after Kris was announced as safe and when they showed ol’ wifey in the audience? If you missed it, I suggest you rewind. It’s like finding an old Disney hidden innuendo; except this time, we have Corkrey putting on some kind of hex.
-Elizabeth
http://www.myrealitybit.com/
Well, Megan ultimately says she doesn’t care, leaving the judges no other choice but to not care about her. The miseducation continues. So wait, no judge’s save, but we still have to be tormented with her singing “Turn Your Lights Down Low” again?!?! It is at this point, Megan has completely turned to the world of the fem-bots, and has decided that the rest of the human world is against her. So what else does she do? Give us some absolutely lunatic performance, crawling on the stage, getting fearfully close to a non-amused Simon, and proving that someone who could have possibly been great, has turned into a train wreck right in front of our very eyes. (Was anyone else having Dennis Rodman/Celebrity Apprentice flashbacks at this point?)
-Elizabeth
http://www.myrealitybit.com/
YES! I’M LIKE A BIRD! I had just thought about that as I thought about Megan’s obvious obsession with birds during her final episode.
Ugh…Scott Mac was saved!!! This guy HAS got to go next week. He is too much of an Osmond-clone. And he can’t sing without cracking too many sour notes. Megan was ready to go…you could tell by her abysmal performances these past few weeks. BUT WHAT
WAS ALLISON DOING IN THE BOTTOM THREE!! Lil
Rounds should have been in that position.
Sorry, Lil, you are not that great…you,
too, hit too many sour notes on that Celine
Dion song & there’s nothing unique about
you at all. My prediction still stands that
Kris will be #2 and Adam will be #1. I hope
that the contestants pick some really, really good songs to sing from the year they
were born, PLEEEEEZE! And AI…how ’bout
a moratorium on Whitney Huston songs, Mariah
Carey songs, Celine Dion songs, Heart songs.
Carrie Underwood songs? ENOUGH, PLEEEEZE!!
If the show’s around next year, just let
the contestants in the Top 12 (13?) sing any
thing they d**n well please! I’ll end with
this for Mr. Cowell, “CAW-CAW!!”
To Elizabeth: Have you been drinking?
The handicaps are voting for blind guy and the black people are voting for Loud Rounds.
Megan shouldn’t have been chosen over some of the other girls let go, like Franky and the girl who sang NO ONE…she was very good.