{"id":517,"date":"2011-05-05T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/?p=517"},"modified":"2011-05-05T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:04:40","slug":"the-american-idol-final-four-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/the-american-idol-final-four-is-set.html","title":{"rendered":"The American Idol Final Four Is Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a complete shocker, Jennifer Lopez was voted off of American Idol tonight.\u00a0 This was surprising considering that she wasn&#8217;t an actual contestant, but her live performance of new single &#8220;On the Floor&#8221; was so bad that everyone agreed it was the right thing to do.\u00a0 Best of luck Jennifer!\u00a0 I am sure you will land on your feet.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in reality, Jennifer Lopez was awful but she is still on the show, and Jacob Lusk isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Given the way the voting has gone throughout the season this wasn&#8217;t a huge surprise, but I am still sad to see him go.\u00a0 Jacob had a number of pitfalls along the way, such as poor song choices and bad interview quips, but he was hands down the most talented vocalist on the show.\u00a0\u00a0 His range was top notch and the notes he was able to hit always managed to get my attention every time.\u00a0 He was never the best performer, but his raw vocal talent was and is far better than nearly every Idol winner.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Jacob isn&#8217;t too saddled in his post-Idol record deal, the gospel and R &amp; B music that he could put out would be awesome.\u00a0 If they try to turn him into a pop artist then his career will be short lived.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope not, I want to hear some more of those golden pipes!<\/p>\n<p>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/american-idol-top-5-in-it-to-win-it-edition.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol Top 5: In It to Win It Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/theprophetofpop\" target=\"_blank\">Follow the Prophet of Pop on\u00a0<strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prophetofpop\" target=\"_blank\">on\u00a0<strong>Facebook<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a complete shocker, Jennifer Lopez was voted off of American Idol tonight.\u00a0 This was surprising considering that she wasn&#8217;t an actual contestant, but her live performance of new single &#8220;On the Floor&#8221; was so bad that everyone agreed it was the right thing to do.\u00a0 Best of luck Jennifer!\u00a0 I am sure you will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,116],"tags":[255,574,573,354,572],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-idol-fever","category-music-on-tv","tag-jacob-lusk","tag-lauren-alaina-bottom-two","tag-lauren-and-jacob","tag-who-got-kicked-off-idol","tag-who-was-in-the-bottom-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The American Idol Final Four Is Set - The Prophet of Pop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/the-american-idol-final-four-is-set.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The American Idol Final Four Is Set - The Prophet of Pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a complete shocker, Jennifer Lopez was voted off of American Idol tonight.\u00a0 This was surprising considering that she wasn&#8217;t an actual contestant, but her live performance of new single &#8220;On the Floor&#8221; was so bad that everyone agreed it was the right thing to do.\u00a0 Best of luck Jennifer!\u00a0 I am sure you will&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/the-american-idol-final-four-is-set.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Prophet of Pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-06T01:04:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-05-06T01:04:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S. 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