Megan Corkrey — or Megan Joy, as she was later known — the tattooed singer with the brassy cabaret vocals, was banished from American Idol last night, and didn’t even get a chance to “sing for your life,” as Ryan Seacrest promised at the top of the episode. (Nice try, Seacrest, but RuPaul is far more dramatic shouting, “It’s time … to lipsynch for your life!” on RuPaul’s Drag Race.) When she was asked what she thought of Simon Cowell’s criticism of last night’s Bob Marley cover, Corkrey said she didn’t care, leaving the door open for Cowell to slam it, and her, in the end. “You don’t care, nor do we,” he barked, proclaiming her final performance her “swan song” — oddly appropriate for the girl who sang “Rockin’ Robin” and “caw caw”ed her way off the show.
The episode began with a dreaded group number, but in a stunning turn of events, the Idols’ version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” did not suck. Matt Giraud sounded oddly like Steve Perry (and by extension, Arnel Pineda) and the track was amazingly suited to their voices. America could have done without the Idols doing impressions of each other to kill time, but it was still better than the live fan Q&A debacle from last season. And after David Cook performed and was presented with his platinum plaque (see, some Idols actually sell albums!), the hopefuls were separated into trios, and Corkrey, Allison Iraheta and Anoop Desai were dumped in the bottom three. The judges wanted to see Megan sing an Adele, Winehouse or Duffy song — we would have settled for Nelly Furtado’s “I’m Like a Bird.”
Lady Gaga arrived to sing an utterly heinous version of a truly awesome song (”Poker Face”), and Ryan noted the performance was “cool” in a moment reminiscent of the famous “neat” scene from Madonna’s Truth or Dare. When Gaga departed, Megan was set free and the Idol pool shrank to eight, leaving just two women in the competition: Iraheta and Lil Rounds.

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