IDOL final results are in, and the winner is...Melinda???

THE FINALS

BLAKE opens by reprising his odd version of Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name"…I don't like any better this time than I did last name, but I write it off to me being old…There you go, kids, here's your next American Idol…

Randy agrees with me and says while the beatboxing was hot, the singing wasn't all that…Paula says something about mimes and rainbows, and Simon said the performance was sizzling and he is the best performer.

SCORE: 11

JORDIN counters with a rousing rendition of Christina Aguilera's "Fighter"…While I want jordin to win, I can't help but think how non-descript this performance is compared to Blake's…Yes, the girl can sing, but she really needs some showmanship right now and I ain't seeing it…

SCORE: 9

I agree with Simon – Blake wins round one, by a nose…

We get some quick flashback in which Blake's dad tries to get us to believe some cockamamie story about Blake beatboxing since he was five or something…Right…And I was doing radio shows in my basement at six…

BLAKE comes back with Maroon 5's "And She Will be Loved"…Blake's fashion statement is the sweater vest, which looks painfully hot in the spring LA heat…He handles it okay, but it comes off as as rest period before the big finale later…

The judges are nonplussed, and all give him a kind of ho-hum review…

SCORE: 7

JORDIN reprises her song from country week, Martina McBride's "Broken Wing"…Again, she sings fine, but I want to see some passion…Some Irish step dancing…Some clogging…

Oh well, even Mariah never clogged, maybe I'm expecting too much…She looks great in her little denim outfit, which kicks the sweater vest's ass…

SCORE: 10

Round two goes to Jordin in my mind, but it's close going into the money round…

Stand by, kiddies, here comes the creepy Idol songs they make them sing…Look for a lot of lyrics about hopes and dreams and overcoming obstacles and flying over rainbows with care bears and how proud your daddy is and what not…

They announce the winners of the songwriting contest and intro Blake singing their song , "This Is My Now'. What? You have to be kidding with that title…

And the lameness of the song is hurting Blakey boy to start, although it kicks in finally and sounds a lot like the song Taylor sang last year, "Do I Make You Proud"…God, it's at this point I start to hate myself for watching this show…Can't they come up with better songs than this crap?
BLACHHH!!!!!

Randy starts in by knocking the song, too…Paula dances around the song's crappiness as well…Simon finds the whole thing to be odd, with the dancing around in the middle…A whole lot of feh!

SCORE: 4

Does Jordin have to sing that same crap? Or did they find a different piece of crap to sing?

Oh God, they are…Although it's really better suited to her, she still looks embarrassed to be singing it…These poor kids busted their ass to get here, and then they have to sing this crap…Jordin loses it and cries at the end, but don't be fooled that she's overcome with emotion, it's really because they made her sing this treacle…

Randy tells her she's the best singer, Paula says something about kitties, and Simon announces that he didn't think she belonged in the finals, but admits he was wrong…

SCORE: 13

Based on the point system, Melinda still wins over Blake 170-166, and she isn't in the competition any more!!!

Here's the season totals:

MELINDA 170

BLAKE 166

JORDIN 159

LAKISHA 113

CHRIS 98

PHIL 85

GENA GLOCKSEN 59

SANJAYA 58

HALEY THE SLATTERN 48

CHRIS SLIGH 28

STEPHANIE EDWARDS 13

BRANDON ROGERS 5

SABRINA 2

JARED 0

ANTONELLA -6 (she was there tonight!!!)

SUNDANCE -9