Wednesday, May 25, 2011

AMERICAN IDOL 2011 GRAND FINALE: THE COUNTRY BOY WINS


Thousands auditioned, hundreds were brought to Hollywood, 24 were chosen to perform for America, 13 were given the chance to perform for the finale, and now, 2 are left for the final showdown, but who will win?

The show was opened with Ryan announcing that there were 122 million votes sent in last night. He then introduced the judges and the top 2. After that, we get a performance of "Born This Way" by our Top 13 Finalists, who are all in white.

James Durbin then performed with Judas Priest, with the songs "Living After Midnight" and "Breaking the Law".

We also get to see Randy Jackson's video of the season, he is the Veteran, followed by Jacob Lusk's performance of "I Smile" with Kirk Franklin and Gladys Knight.

Casey Abrams then performed "Fat Bottomed Girls" with Jack Black, followed by the Ladies performing Beyonce songs; "Single Ladies", 'Irreplaceable", Deja Vu", "If I were a Boy", and were later joined by Beyonce who sung "Crazy In Love".

Steven Tyler's video of the season tells us that he is The Loose Cannon. Haley Reinhart then performed with Tony Bennett with the song "Steppin' Out". The performance was followed by Jennifer Lopez's video of the season, and she has the title "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World".

TLC then performed, followed by Scotty performing "Live Like You Were Dying" with Tim McGraw. They then showed us a video of the most Epic-Failure of the Auditioners who didn't make it to the Hollywood rounds. Marc Anthony then sung, with JLo dancing.

Another video, James and Casey were having a fake fight of which elimination was more shocking, until Pia Toscano went out with the title.

The guys from the top 13 performed a Medley of Tom Jones' songs, who later joined them with his performance of "It's Not Unusual".

We get the final music video of Ford, "You Remember" then the top two gave cars to Lauren's principal, and Scotty's music teacher, and they were also given any ford car they want.

Lady Gaga was up with "The Edge of Glory" followed by Lauren performing "Before He Cheats" with Carrie Underwood. Her performance was followed by What the other contestants think of the final two.

Beyonce was up on stage again with "1+1" and the Spiderman In the Dark cast with U2 performing some songs. Steven then followed their performance with "Dream On".

The results, Ryan announced that the winner of American Idol season 10 is SCOTTY MCCREERY with LAUREN ALAINA as runner-up.

Did America get it right? Please leave a comment.

Note: See you all in season 11, I'll be posting you updates about X Factor, and Survivor: South Pacific soon.

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