Lady Gaga Advises Scotty McCreery To Treat His Microphone Like His Girl Friend While James Durbin Leaves American Idol

Google's Blogger has been in major malfunction mode, which prevented me from blogging.

So, I am 2 days past Lady Gaga's interesting appearance on this week's American Idol.

I found all Lady Gaga's mentoring to be amusing, with the most amusing being the mentoring done to 17 year old Scotty McCreery.

Telling the kid to treat his microphone like his girl friend, to make sweet love to it. I forget what else.

And then Lady Gaga stood up and walked over to Scotty. The shorts Lady Gaga was wearing were very interesting. Actually, I could not tell for sure if she was wearing any shorts.

Scotty's reactions were funny, as were his comments, post-Gaga.

Lady Gaga seemed to be giving good advice. I thought all did well. I was surprised that it was James Durbin who got the tearful boot on Thursday and not Haley Reinhart or Lauren Alaina.

I am sort of disappointed we won't be seeing a James Durbin hometown visit. It likely would have been very interesting. With a lot of tears jerked.

I've read in the past couple days that Lady Gaga wants to be on Glee. A Lady Gaga appearance on Glee would likely be highly amusing.

American Idol's Final 5 Performance Show with Haley Reinhart Getting Standing Ovation

My two favorites on American Idol have now been reduced down to Scotty McCreery and Haley Reinhart.

Haley won me over with her showstopper showender rendition of the Animal's "House of the Rising Sun." This got her a standing ovation from the crowd, including the judges.

Scotty McCreery is only 17. Yet he seems much older and very confident. I was surprised by how energetically he owned the stage in his first song of the night, Montgomery Gentry's Southern Rocker "Gone."  I also liked his version of the Elvis classic, "Always on My Mind."

How can Lauren Alaina only be 16 years old? I didn't care for Alaina's first song, Carrie Underwood's "Flat on the Floor." But, I liked her version of The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody."

Jacob Lusk I fast forwarded past.

That leaves James Durbin. His teary breakdown over Harry Nilsson's "Without You" seemed a bit much to me. I try and like this kid. But then he comes out with that tail again.

After tonight we will be down to four finalists. With the 10th season of American Idol scheduled to end on May 26. Unless those end of the world predictors turn out to be correct, with the world ending on May 21. If that happens we will never know who won the 10th season of American Idol. And it won't really matter all that much. Not that it matters all that much either way.

I'm guessing Jacob Lusk goes tonight.

American Idol's Casey Abrams Finally Eliminated For Good

It is a sad indicator of how far of my radar screen American Idol has become, that I forgot til this morning that someone got eliminated last night.

It took 2 seconds of Googling to find out that the "Judges' Save" saved Casey Abrams from elimination for, what? Two weeks? Or was it 3?

This week's American Idol performance show really amped up the stage productions. In previous iterations of American Idol, if I remember right, only the finale would see lots of backup singers.

Take Casey Abrams' performance, on Wednesday, for example. In years past Casey would have come on a bare stage, and with music accompaniment sing Carole King's "Hi De Ho" song.

On Wednesday, on the stage with him, Casey had a piano, with a  piano man playing, I don't know how many women playing trumpets, back up singers and lots of other things going on.

This morning it dawned on me that maybe GLEE has affected American Idol. What happens on the American Idol stage has definitely become more GLEE-like.

Is that a bad thing? Or a good thing? I don't know. I do know that last week when James Durbin came on to the stage, in uniform, with a march band behind him, I thought it was a bit much.

One more note before I shut up about American Idol. James Durbin has grown on me. Previously I thought Scotty McCreery was a shoo-in for the win. Now I'm thinking, unless he messes up real bad, the front runner most likely is James Durbin.

I've got last night's results show recorded on the DVR. I must remember to watch so I can see this week's Ford commercial.