Sara Nunes Judges Simon

Like Constantine Maroulis, the American Idol contestant who was surprisingly voted off the show Wednesday night, Finland's Sara Nunes left her rock & roll band behind to pursue pop stardom. However, unlike the diplomatic Maroulis, she is not above taking shots at Idol judge Simon Cowell.

The twenty-three-year-old, who began singing for home-country heroes Sinamour eight years ago, has just released her debut solo single, "Simon Can't Sing." The spry Avril Lavigne-like ditty features the lyrics "Simon can't sing/Simon can't dance/ . . . He's always dressed in black/ . . . Do you think that you're cool?/Do you think that you rule?/Do you think that you're hot on your TV show?/ . . . I would rather piss off people like you."

Nunes says that the song is more of a commentary on pop artists' eagerness to please and "do some stupid soda-pop ad just to get their faces somewhere" than on Cowell. "The message in the song is that I wouldn't want to sell myself," she says, "but it's not meant to be taken too seriously. It's just a pop song, and we don't want Simon getting too pissed off."

Nunes does admit to being a fan of Cowell's new boy band Il Divo ("Those guys are really amazing!") as well as an avid Idol viewer -- both the American and Finnish versions. Her early American Idol favorite was Nadia Turner, but after she was voted off, she switched her allegiance to Maroulis. "He's really cute," she says, "and you can tell he believes in what he does."

"Simon Can't Sing" is the lead single from Nunes' debut, How 2 Rule Da World in 12 EZ Lessons, due later this year. The album features another bit of pop commentary, "Britney's Still a Virgin" -- also, claims Nunes, not about the celebrity for which it's titled.