By this time, everybody would have
beaten this dead horse with a stick. Please allow me to add my own stick.
Well, there it is, Phillip Phillips
won and congratulations to him, his fans, and his voters. If he is too bashful
to participate in the Ford commercials, let’s see how he does in promoting his
records… I mean CD’s. I’m not sure if the West Coasters voted enough for
Jessica because according to my dialing experience the night of the finale, after
9 p.m. California time, it was easier to get through on the phone lines. Ok, so
Jessica Sanchez didn’t win, but let’s not forget that she would not have
reached the final two without the judges’ save and the people who rallied to
vote for her afterwards.
I apologize for criticizing the pained
look on his face when Phillip sang and his non-participation in the Ford
commercials. Apparently he was in real pain lots of times due to kidney stones.
Anyone who have had that same problem knows how debilitating that can be.
I mentioned in one of my previous
posts that according to the Christian Science Monitor, if overall tweets and You Tube hits translated to votes for Jessica,
then she would win the competition. Another newspaper agency analyzed the
numbers after the final vote and found out that Jessica had overall the most
number of tweets that originated from the Philippines, the U.S., and elsewhere.
Well, the Philippines and elsewhere didn’t count. If only the tweets in the
U.S. were considered, Phillip won that one. The same can be said about
telephone voting because another website that tracked busy phone lines of the
two finalists indicated that Phillip had the most calls.
As much as we are disappointed in the
results and that a lot of people were right when they said that only a WGWG
would win, let’s just say that we had taken Jessica to as far as we could take
her with our votes. That’s the best we could do. And to those who say that she
did not win because of racial discrimination, I have two words for you: Barack
Obama.
And this final note – would you
believe that some people still have a mistaken notion that Simon Cowell is
still involved or connected with American Idol?! Nuts! OMG, how did I get so
involved in this??? Next up: So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD). Do you think they
would have a Filipino finalist? I remember they had one the other year…
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