And that's why we love him! Guest blogger Claire Meyerhoff gives her take on sing your birth year night:
About 80 bazillion people try out for American Idol, so you would think that by the time we’re down to just EIGHT contestants, those eight would be really, really good. Not the case. Every year, without fail, it emerges that only a few of the top eight are really good, the rest are OK and one is really bad.
After “Year They Were Born Night,” it’s pretty clear Adam is really good, Scott is really bad and everyone else is somewhere in between.
Quick recap:
Danny sings “Stand by Me.” Ryan says it’s from Danny’s YOB 1980. Huh? Quickly google song and it seems Ben E. King released it in 1961. Am confused by YOB criteria. Danny is decent.
Kris sings weird “All She Wants to do is Dance.”
Lil makes big mistake with Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With it?” May be in trouble.
Anoop accepts Ryan/Randy props for Tarheels. Sings Cindy Lauper’s 1986 song “True Colors,” and did really well. Judges like it.
Scott tortures Survivor’s “The Search is Over.”
Allison, all of 16, sings mature Bonnie Raitt “I Can’t Make you Love Me.” Judges say good things.
Guy who looks like JT sings “Part Time Lover” and Simon gives him a “well done,” which is Brit version of “good job,” but sounds like burnt steak.
They usually put best person last. No exception with Adam, who brings Simon TO HIS FEET. Wow! I miss Ryan’s intro to song, can NOT think of title, so quickly update Facebook status to:
Claire Meyerhoff needs to know name of song Adam Lambert is singing.
Within one minute, from Long Island, Maryann Krokowski Graham, a friend from my days at Carle Place High School comments, “Mad World originally by Tears for Fears, Adam’s version was by Gary Jules.” Thanks, Maryann.
Two seconds later, my buddy Ken Herz, the finest school teacher in the Adirondacks, pinged me on FB and said “Adam is in a different league.” Ken thinks Scott will go home. Maryann agrees and says, “Is that mean?”
No Maryann, it’s not mean. Just because Scott is blind doesn’t mean we can’t wish him away to the cornfield like Billy Mumy did to that Collie dog in one of my fave Twilight Zone episodes.
Jetsons Stool Predictions; Lil, Scott and Kris.
Assistant Features Editor Adrienne Johnson Martin would like to have her life turned into an animated cartoon. 
