We hate you! Now SING!

Am I the only one who thinks it is inhuman to make the AMERICAN IDOL contestants who just got booted off then have to sing? You learn on live national television that 30,000,000 people just rejected you, you can almost hear a collective cheer going up in the country when your name is announced, and now you’re expected to man up and perform. Yikes!

Last night one of the four bootees, Alaina Whitaker was so wrecked she didn’t want to do her song. To his credit, Ryan jumped right in and reassured her she didn’t have to. Alaina eventually did it but I’m amazed more kids don’t refuse. This is your big moment? With mascara running down your face and your throat all choked up?

And the song they make you sing is the same one that got you eliminated in the first place. All the criticism from the night before – poor song selection, you’re not good enough for that material, you have no charisma – all that’s going through your head as you stand before the largest audience you will ever face in your life.

I just don’t get it. Why not let the four people who got the highest vote totals reprise their songs? Those are the people we obviously liked.

Or better yet, whatever four contestants DON’T cry get rewarded with the Thursday night repeat performances. (Hell, just make them the four finalists and send everyone else home. That damn crying is nauseating already!)

But what I saw last night was AMERICAN IDOL completely destroying Alaina Whitaker then moments later announcing that AMERICAN IDOL CARES.

I dunno. It just didn’t work for me, dawg.