{"id":635,"date":"2009-03-18T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/american-idol-top-11-results-l.html"},"modified":"2009-03-18T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:49:12","slug":"american-idol-top-11-results-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/american-idol-top-11-results-l.html","title":{"rendered":"American Idol Top 11 Results LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s American Idol results night, and it&#8217;s time to find out what happens to our Top 11.<br \/>\nWill Michael Sarver live to bore us for another week? Will Adam&#8217;s over the top show finally be too much for viewers? Did Anoop step up his game enough to stay another week? Did Danny offend the non-Christian viewers with his song choice? Did Kris melt enough female hearts to stay? Do we want to see Scott surprise is in coming weeks without the piano? Will Lil&#8217;s fans forgive her horrible country performance? Will Alexis get another chance to &#8220;dirty up&#8221; her performance? Is Matt a solid contender? How long before Allison is the last girl standing? And will Megan go back to her normal annoying singing once she&#8217;s over the flu?<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s find out!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8:58 pm: I hate that the results show is on at 9 pm. I&#8217;m tired and while I usually enjoy watching chefs argue, I didn&#8217;t need to sit through &#8220;The Chopping Block&#8221; to get to the results. And David won&#8217;t switch the station &#8230; grrr &#8230; 8:59 &#8230; give me the remote &#8230; thanks!!<br \/>\n9:00 here we go! One contestant is going home, and Ryan opens with an ominous &#8220;results that may shock you&#8221;; could that mean that Lil is going home? That&#8217;s the only shocker I can think of. Hmm, I told KBRT radio host Rich Buhler tonight that I hoped the save went unused this season and I stand by that, no matter who goes home. Sometimes the earlier a singer gets out, the better off he is.<br \/>\nBut back to the show. Ryan reminds us about the judges&#8217; save and gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/american-idols-top-11-perform.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recap of last night&#8217;s performances.<\/a> Watching the performances again, I really think Kris Allen pulled ahead of the pack, but we have some really talented singers in the competition this season.<br \/>\nBut before we find out who goes home, the group performs a rousing rendition of &#8220;Trouble,&#8221; with Scott MacIntyre on the piano. Wow, when they&#8217;re all together like that it&#8217;s really apparent how much the girls are outnumbered.<br \/>\nDuring the break we see Kristen McNamara&#8217;s audition. I&#8217;m sorry. I think that girl can sing and because she got hooked at the hip to the drama team on Hollywood week and then a gain to Nathaniel in the semi-finals she didn&#8217;t get a fair shot from viewers. Just my opinion.<br \/>\nWhile they&#8217;re watching the Ford commercial, Ryan chucks a water balloon at Simon and it goes over his head and into the audience. Oops!<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s go the behind the scenes look at last week&#8217;s elimination and how the Top 11 reacted. It&#8217;s nice to see the judges talk to Jasmine and Jorge and see how much everyone really cared about each other. Awww. So who&#8217;s joining them? Michael tells a story about his 3 1\/2 year old daughter Makenna, who asked him why he doesn&#8217;t want to be home with her right now, so Ryan gives him a chance to shout out to the kids on live TV. Megan sheds some tears in sympathy, and they show video of everyone during rehearsals wearing masks because of her flu.<br \/>\nBut enough chatter. On to some results:<br \/>\nDanny is up first, and he&#8217;s through.<br \/>\nLil Rounds is next and she&#8217;s through. Hmmm, so what&#8217;s the shocking result?<br \/>\nAnoop is up, and he&#8217;s safe.<br \/>\nAllison and Michael are both called next. I&#8217;m predicting Michael&#8217;s going home. Ryan asks Paula who she thinks is in the bottom three and she says she can&#8217;t really answer while Simon keeps saying &#8220;Answer the question, answer the question&#8221;. And of course, Paula adds her positive affirmation about whoever goes home is OK because home is a new place, blah blah.  And &#8230;. Allison is in the bottom three! Whoa, even she&#8217;s shocked. Whoa, and Michael is ALSO in the bottom three! Ok, that&#8217;s not a shocker. I expected that.<br \/>\nBut who&#8217;s the third? I&#8217;m going to predict Alexis. We&#8217;ll find out after the break and some performances by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know much about country music so I defer to my darling husband David who confirms my thought: Brad Paisley&#8217;s performance isn&#8217;t that great. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s downright boring. If he was competing tonight I&#8217;d predict he would be in the bottom three. Hey, he&#8217;s short, like Ryan! Maybe Ryan should wear a big old cowboy hat so he could look a bit taller.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re back to see who is the third member of the bottom three. Alexis and Adam are the last two sitting in the row so that&#8217;s a clue.<br \/>\nScott&#8217;s up and he&#8217;s safe. He&#8217;s so sweet. I&#8217;m so glad he&#8217;s going through.<br \/>\nMegan is up and she&#8217;s safe. Sick but safe.<br \/>\nMatt&#8217;s next and he&#8217;s safe.<br \/>\nKris is up and he&#8217;s through, too. The girls are screaming.<br \/>\nAnd now we&#8217;re to Alexis and Adam. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s Alexis but it would be a shocker if it was Adam. And Ryan did say the results were shocking. Ryan asks Simon if he wants to change his comments about Adam&#8217;s performance, and Simon says it was even worse watching it again. Ryan asks Randy who he thinks is going through, and he says Allison &#8230; errr, he meant Alexis. And it&#8217;s Alexis in the bottom three.<br \/>\nSo right now Allison, Alexis and Michael are in the bottom three. Ryan sends Allison back to safety, leaving exactly what I predicted: either Michael and Alexis is going home. (That&#8217;s no shocker, Ryan.) We&#8217;ll find out which one after Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis sing.<br \/>\nOh, they&#8217;re performing together; this is the first time they&#8217;ve done this duet live. If there&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s for sure: Carrie Underwood is an amazing performer. She was born to do this. It&#8217;s a little weird watching Randy Travis sing a love song with her, because he&#8217;s so much older, but you can see how amazed even his is by her voice. I don&#8217;t love pop country, but I love this kind of country.<br \/>\nRyan is back to the final two, and asks Simon if the judges would consider using the judges&#8217; save on one of the final two. Surprisingly, he says yes, they would consider it on one of them. But which one, I wonder? I don&#8217;t think either of them should be saved, but I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;d use it to save Michael. They love him, for whatever reason. I guess we&#8217;ll find out; if Alexis is going home and they don&#8217;t use it.<br \/>\nIf they only get one the whole season, why not wait until it&#8217;s a contestant that really has a chance to win? I mean, next week Allison could end up on the chopping block, and she definitely can outsing Alexis and Michael put together.<br \/>\nAnd the contestant going home is &#8230; Alexis. Whoa, Simon says she was the one they were thinking about saving, and it all comes down to her performance. Can she wow the judges? Did she just forget the words? I think she&#8217;s trying too hard. I like her and would like to see her continue but I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to save her, and it&#8217;s probably a good idea. It&#8217;s only one save for the whole season, after all. I hate this judges&#8217; save. It&#8217;s double heartbreak on live TV.<br \/>\nI love seeing the change from mousy mommy to pop singer in her recap video, and I&#8217;m bummed she&#8217;s leaving.<br \/>\nNext week, the President has pre-empted the show, so Idol is on Wed. and Thurs.<br \/>\n<strong>RELATED POSTS<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/mtv-features-gospel-soundcheck.html\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Features Gospel Soundcheck In A Story on American Idol<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/gospel-soundcheck-featured-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck Featured in Associated Press American Idol Story<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/is-there-too-much-jesus-on-ame.html\" target=\"_blank\">Is There Too Much Jesus On American Idol?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/4-reasons-why-there-are-so-man.html\" target=\"_blank\">4 Reasons Why There Are So Many Christian Contestants On American Idol<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/tension-at-the-american-idol-j.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tension At The American Idol Judges&#8217; Table: Is The Honeymoon Over?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/american-idols-jamar-rogers-an.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol&#8217;s Jamar Rogers and Frankie Jordan &#8211; BIG BIG NEWS!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/american-idol-contestants-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol Contestants With Ties to Christian Music &#8211; Round 2 &amp; Updates<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/01\/more-on-american-idol-contesta.html\" target=\"_blank\">More on American Idol contestant Danny Gokey and wife Sophia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?search=American+Idol&amp;IncludeBlogs=81\" target=\"_blank\">More American Idol Posts<\/a><br \/>\nAnd if you want more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newchristianvoices.com\/blogs\/american-idol-blog\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol show recap, visit my Idol blog at NewChristianVoices.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/mtv-features-gospel-soundcheck.html\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Features Gospel Soundcheck In A Story on American Idol<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/gospel-soundcheck-featured-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck Featured in Associated Press American Idol Story<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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