{"id":570,"date":"2011-05-12T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/?p=570"},"modified":"2011-05-12T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T01:14:30","slug":"american-idol-james-durbin-heads-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/american-idol-james-durbin-heads-home.html","title":{"rendered":"American Idol James Durbin Heads Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-575\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/117\/2011\/05\/james_durbin1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tonight the number of Idol hopefuls dropped from 4 to 3, and the unfortunate soul to go home was James Durbin. \u00a0This was a shock to me, as I was sure that Haley was heading home tonight. \u00a0The list of unique voices left on the show has been dwindling since the exit of Paul McDonald, and with this exit Haley is the only one left who has something truly unique to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>James has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2011\/02\/james-durbin-overcomes-leaves.html\" target=\"_blank\">inspiring us at Beliefnet since his first performance<\/a>, he has truly overcome great odds to get to this point on the show. \u00a0He hasn&#8217;t always been my favorite singer on the show, but his positive interviews and great charisma have always impressed me. \u00a0I will forever remember James as the first Idol to have a flaming piano on stage, and the Idol who got Zakk Wylde to perform with him. \u00a0His performance of &#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; is still one of the highlights of the season, mainly because he completely ignored Jimmy Iovine and went with his heart. \u00a0James never played the Idol game, and I have to respect that.<\/p>\n<p>This is an especially bitter loss for James, as the final 3 get to experience the traditional Idol homecoming fest, but personally I hope that James still gets a homecoming party. \u00a0He deserves it.<\/p>\n<p>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/american-idol-the-final-four-take-on-inspirational-songs.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol: The Top 4 Perform Inspirational Songs<\/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>Tonight the number of Idol hopefuls dropped from 4 to 3, and the unfortunate soul to go home was James Durbin. \u00a0This was a shock to me, as I was sure that Haley was heading home tonight. \u00a0The list of unique voices left on the show has been dwindling since the exit of Paul McDonald,&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":[233,581,164,595,594,227,593,354],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-idol-fever","category-music-on-tv","tag-haley-reinhardt","tag-is-james-durbin-married","tag-james-durbin","tag-james-durbin-home","tag-james-durbin-idol","tag-lauren-alaina","tag-scotty-mcreery-lady-gaga","tag-who-got-kicked-off-idol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>American Idol James Durbin Heads Home - 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\/american-idol-james-durbin-heads-home.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American Idol James Durbin Heads Home - The Prophet of Pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tonight the number of Idol hopefuls dropped from 4 to 3, and the unfortunate soul to go home was James Durbin. \u00a0This was a shock to me, as I was sure that Haley was heading home tonight. \u00a0The list of unique voices left on the show has been dwindling since the exit of Paul McDonald,&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/american-idol-james-durbin-heads-home.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Prophet of Pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-13T01:14:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/files\/2011\/05\/james_durbin1-300x208.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S. 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