Phil may be back to duty, Gibbs boogie tunes should go back to 70s
By Jeffrey Jolson
AI Final Four
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 5/8/07 — During the Vietnam War, if you got kicked out of college, you could end up in Danang. Now, if you get kicked off “American Idol,” you could get sent to Baghdad. At least that’s what last week’s loser Phil Stacey is facing.
And if the army will take them, Blake Lewis and LaKisha Jones may soon join him after causing the most damage in a train wreck of a boogie night on AI.
Stacey is an active 3rd Class Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy who was given time off to participate in Idol. He is now negotiating a chance to appear on the Idol concert tour this summer. Good luck, it didn’t work for Elvis Presley and other performers. Prince Harry of England even demanded to be deployed in Iraq with his troops. Generally, army brass feels celebrities make a better recruiting poster doing their duty than being given an easy out when others are in harm’s way. There is even of chance of backlash from soldiers and their families. Yet little else in the American Idol universe makes sense, so who knows?
In retrospect, it was all the better Stacey got to skip the mangled disco Bee Gees songs and mentor Barry Gibb. Blake’s beat box backfired on him. Simon wasn’t being mean when he called Blake’s first performance “absolutely terrible” and jolly Randy said it sounded like something heard “in a weird foreign disco.”
Simon who smooched LaKisha last week, said she would get “no kiss tonight,” adding her performance was “back to shouting, verging on scary.” Later when she fell a little flat on her second song, he said “you and Blake are in trouble tonight.”
Indeed, only Melinda Doolittle and Jordin Sparks didn’t suck like disco in its heyday. Jordin was told by all three judges that she was the best so far tonight, which wasn’t saying much considering it was the final four. Melinda was a highlight and Simon predicted one of her songs was strong enough to “propel you into the semi-finals.