Skip to footer

American Idol: All 4 contestants are headed home but who goes first?

American Idol recap: After an evening full of break-ups, make-ups and dedications on Wednesday, American Idol turned its sights toward the business at hand: eliminating another contestant. Which Idol suffered the disappointment of missing their home town visit?

|
Michael Becker/FOX Broadcasting/AP
From left, Sam Woolf, Jena Irene, and Alex Preston perform on the April 30, 2014, episode of the 13th season of 'American Idol.' On Idol Thursday night, May 8, one of our four beloved remaining contestants headed home.

On American Idol Thursday night all would be revealed - and no, we're not referring to Jennifer Lopez's dress - but the fate of our four beloved remaining contestants. Flash to the Idols shoveling food into their faces and trying to sound as though they're having genuine conversation while contestant Jessica Meuse expresses how she feels about the others, "Y'all are all amazing." Who knew Jessica could be so expressive?

Host Ryan Seacrest then served some beignets to Harry Connick, Jr., to remind him of his hometown, New Orleans. Harry promptly started tossing them into the crowd, which made the stage hands very happy that the producers opted for beignets rather than crawfish.

But this being only a half-hour show, there was only so much time they could waste - namely 28.5 minutes - and the lights were dimmed.

First one to learn the good news was Jena Irene, no big surprise there. Following Jena to safety was Caleb Johnson - also no big surprise. It seems as though his performance of "Maybe I'm Amazed," was enough to make his fans forgive him for calling them "retards." Oh the heart is a fickle thing indeed. 

Then it came down to Alex Preston and Jessica and having just spent time in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, chatting it up with the owner of the Mont Vernon General Store who held an Alex Preston fan day and bedecked his store front in Alex banners, it would be a lie to suggest that my heart wasn't invested in bringing an Idol back to New England.

In the end, it was indeed Ms. Meuse who learned that she was eliminated and if we're looking for silver linings, the pain of having been voted off resulted in the most emotional performance she's ever delivered. It was really pretty heart-breaking to see her chin quivering and the others trying to console her.

And there you have it, friends - just three contestants left before we crown our next American Idol. Until next week!

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to American Idol: All 4 contestants are headed home but who goes first?
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2014/0509/American-Idol-All-4-contestants-are-headed-home-but-who-goes-first
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe