American Idol--Amazing Performance

We didn’t love the cold play songs but the dedications to mom were beautiful. The original songs this year are better than previous years. I thought many were good although last episode the Adele song was my fav.

I think Chayse is wonderful! I hope he wins!    

I like Grace. She is so talented. And I'm glad Arthur is gone. I thought it was terrible idea to bring someone back from last year. Last year's contestants got the short end of the deal, but they still got their shot. And he stole a spot from this year's contestants. I was shocked when Alyssa was eliminated. I thought she would go much further. Caleb is very talented but he has no personality on stage.

Chayse is also my favorite. Grace is great, just not the kind of music I'd listen to. I don't understand all the extreme love for Willie. I just don't think he's that great but unfortunately I think he'll be the winner because of how much they gush over him.

A few weeks ago, American Idol turned off voting in my time zone before the last two contestants performed. I was quite unhappy.

I was unhappier still when Alyssa Wray was eliminated. I think she's incredible. Like, goosebumps. And sooo much stage presence.

I agree Alyssa definitely should have had a chance to go further, I hope we hear more from her.

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I have to disagree - I was so glad to see her go. She was WAY over dramatic with her facial expressions and really acted very full of herself. When she was being mentored by John Stamos she was quite flippant, and then well you just don't sing Cinderella doing stank face!

Alyssa was our favorite...sorry to see her go.

I agree with the comparison to Reuben. I definitely think Willie can sing well, but I don’t feel like he has much personality on stage.

I find this sad, and I’m not sure I agree with kicking him out of the competition, although I might be okay with it if there is more information. This decision just seems to have been made awfully fast. I feel conflicted about the whole thing.

One, he was 12 when that video was made. I feel that his actions then would be more of his parents doing than his at that age.

Two, he wasn’t wearing the hood. The person beside him was. I don’t see anything in that 3-second clip giving context for what Caleb thought about it.

Three, in another article I read, his mother said it had to do with a video game and was not about the KKK. I know next to nothing about video games and did not recognize the name. Even if I had, I would not have any context to know if her statement made any sense.

It doesn’t bother me to hold older students and young adults accountable for something like this. At some point, you cannot claim “I didn’t know that was bad.” I just have a hard time swallowing this as a consequence for something he did at age 12, a time when information is filtered through the adults in the family.

I fully believe in “when we know better, we need to do better.” But at 12, did he really “know better?”

I am not unsympathetic to the AI view, either. Their brand is at stake, and their audience is anti-racist for the most part. Maybe they really have no choice but to remove him and get ahead of the story. As I said, I just have conflicting feelings about this.

I wish this would serve as a lesson to racist parents: don’t let your young kid do something racist because it will come back to haunt them. Unfortunately, they will probably use this as evidence of “cancel culture against southern heritage” or whatever.

You said this better than I could. He was 12. People do stupid things when they're young and also things they don't understand. I don't blame this kid. But you nailed it when you said that racist parents allowed it.