American Idol Top 5

Say good bye to Anoop Desai and Lil Rounds

Wednesday night, Anoop Desai and Lil Rounds learned that American Idol finalists can survive only so many trips to the bottom three. For Anoop, his fourth consecutive trip to the stools of doom at stage right earned him a trip home. For Lil, it took only three.

Lil's departure leaves Idol without a black contestant in the top five for the first time in the show's history. (If the surviving member of the bottom three — Allison Iraheta — had joined her, it would have been the first season without a woman in the final five, too.)

Voters decided to give another reprieve to Matt Giraud, who'd earned a save from the judges last week. He was safe, along with Danny Gokey, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert.

After a rounds of elimination, American Idol judges revealed the Top 5 results from the last week Top 7 Idols.

Here is the list of the Idol who will continue to perform:

1. Kris Allen
   
2. Adam Lambert
   
3. Danny Gokey
   
4. Matt Giraud
   
5. Allison Iraheta
   

And sad goodbye to:

• Lil Rounds
  
• Anoop Desai
  

What can you say about the results? Who do you think would be the next American Idol Season 8 winner among Kris, Adam, Danny, Matt, and Allison?

Next week, the Top 5 will be performing…

JAZZ STANDARDS

I recall them doing one of these in Season 4, right?

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