Whoa. I don’t think many people saw this one coming. Tonight on American Idol the Australian native Michael Johns was the one voted off out of the eight remaining contestants. This announcement comes as a surprise to many American Idol fans as Michael was not a regular in the bottom three contestants during the previous weeks.

This result is a classic example of what it means when Simon continues to say that performances are not memorable. Michael Johns is a good performer and we’re pretty comfortable with saying that he is better than at least a couple of the remaining seven contestants, but he plays it safe too often and doesn’t stand out from the crowd to get votes. Keep in mind that the performers are not actually voted off, but are just not voted on as much as the others. Michael did not necessarily do poorly, but also did nothing to warrant enough votes this week to stay in the competition this week.

For us here at the ‘Therapy we’re just glad it wasn’t Kristy Lee Cook or Syesha simply because they are nice to look at and make watching the show much more bearable, but at the same time Michael was not one of the ones we would predict to be going home this week or even in the next couple weeks.

Syesha did make the bottom three this week which doesn’t make me happy but I do understand. Like David Archuleta she just strikes me as a little too polished of a performer for a show like this, and I don’t like how the producers let in more seasoned performers this year than they have in the past. It’s just hard to get behind someone and watch them improve when they are already that good to begin with. Carly Smithson was the other of the bottom three and was the only one that we felt should have been in the bottom three this week. Michael probably would not have made it to the winner’s circle but I think he should have gone farther than this. At least he makes it into all the AI tours this season.

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