Yayaya... American Idol Again!

I had intended to write this much earlier, the second Jordin was crowned the American Idol of 2007. But of course I decided to delay it, as it would be a spoiler (though many may have got the news from text messages/internet/messengers/buzzes).

I'm not going to rewrite the whole news, we've all had enough of it. Only a few notes.

One, most memorable moments from the finale -- for me -- were Jordin and Blake kissing each other's cheeks at the end of their duet "When I Saw Her Standing There", and Blake kissing Jordin's palm when Ryan Seacrest was about to announce the winner. Those who watched the finale, did you see how Blake often splashed adoring glances to Jordin? Despite their age AND height gap, he might've been having a crush on her, hehehe... that's cute, I think :D. In the Washington Post's review's words: a strong chemistry. Well, well, you know what people say about chemistry between two sexes, right?

Second, right after Melinda was voted off the competition, message billboards and blogs were full of people's disappointment and anger, and many threatened not to watch the final show. Guess what: they actually did -- resulted in the lowest rating of an AI finale in the past few years. Despite the 74 million messages claimed by the show producer, apparently watchers only reached around 30 millions, or a 19% decline from last year's.

This surely poses a serious dilemma to Fox. On one hand, they have to address the disappointment over Melinda's failure, which had seemingly affected the show's rating. But on the other hand it also reflected (theoretically, at least) the viewers' choices -- especially the young crowds, a very potential market target. At this point I have no idea how they're going to do that -- a trick?

Well, it's for them to figure out :D. Meanwhile, I'm sharing with you the video clip featuring the killer duet mentioned above. Cute, cute, cute :D.