It’s a country, teen finale for American Idol
Fans of American Idolon Thursday opted for an all-teenage, all southern, mostly country season 10 finale, sending Haley Reinhart home after a record 95 million votes. The final elimination from the top-rated television show left deep voiced 17-year-old country singer Scotty McCreery to battle it out with pop/country singer Lauren Alaina, 16, for the 2011 “American Idol” title next week. “This is the biggest platform anybody can ask for,” Reinhart said of her time on the show, which ended after an episode that took the three finalists back to visit their home towns. “I rocked it out, and I had a blast, and this is only the beginning,” she added before launching into her send-off performance, Bennie and Jets.
Reinhart had shown her rocker side on Wednesday, performing Led Zeppelin’s What Is and What Should Never Be with her father playing guitar alongside her on stage, but also taking a brief tumble in her high heels. But with the Idol judges offering nothing but praise for all three contestants on Wednesday, the decision on who to send home was left firmly in the hands of the viewers.
For all the controversy earlier about audience bias towards male contestants, viewers sent a slew of male singers home over the past five weeks, leaving the finale a battle of the sexes — in addition to both being from the south.
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