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And then there were seven. After being a regular in the bottom three, it was no great surprise to bid farewell to Jacob Butler last night.
The Melbourne lad was gracious in defeat, displaying humility at odds to his often cocky and brash onstage persona.
“It’s one of those things, it’s a competition,” he told the Idol crowd last night.
“Everyone here is just so good it can go any way. I was here last week and I’m here again, so well I’m going home now.”
The biggest surprise on the night was that Central Coast lad Marty Simpson again escaped the bottom three. Many felt Marty’s number was up after Dicko begged Australia not to vote for him. I guess no one listens to Dicko; Daniel Mifsud and Carl Riseley earned fewer votes.
Next week the contestants can choose songs from the year of their birth. With so many young performers this year, expect plenty of music from the 80s!
This is the one he should have been able to really do well, and instead he went with the Beatles. No balls at all.
(Oh, and there’s more to Britpop than Oasis, Pulp and Blur.)
Really makes me wonder if he was in fact “persuaded” to do something stupid to get him off the show. ’cause otherwise Carl would’ve been gone, and I get the impression he’s a bit of a “judge’s favourite”.
I’m not one to dog on The Beatles, but I do think Australia may have judged him a bit more harshly than anyone else as he was performing within his niche.
I’m not sure I buy into the conspiracy theories though. I don’t think this was a bad song choice at all – just a bit of a miscalculation. I think we’ll probably see the back of Carl before too much longer, judges’ favourite or not.
Speaking of – how did that happen? I long for the days when Marcia was the only one in his corner