The decision to ban Tickle Me Archuleta's whacko stage dad from rehearsals has dominated American Idol since late last week, overshadowing The Top 3 and next week's finale. The rumors about Little David's papa turned out to be true, and the crap hit the fan last week when Daddy Dearest switched up the lyrics for Stand By Me to include lines from Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls , which samples the classic song. The producers had told him this was not allowed because the show didn't have clearance, but David A. sang it anyway during the live show costing AI untold dollars in royalties.
Not that it matters at this point. It's definitely a David Archuleta vs. David Cook finale, so I hope Syesha Mercado is packing her bags. Tonight's show was merely a formality. The Top 3 sang three songs — one chosen by the judges, one of their choice and one selected by the producers. It was, in a word, boring.
David Archuleta: Paula picked Billy Joel's ballad And So It Goes and he knocked this one out of the park. It would turn out to be Squinty Elmo's best performance of the night. What's up with the Members Only jacket and skinny tie? Is that back in fashion? I got a closet full. David's choice was Chris Brown's With You. Hilarious! Hearing the little puppy sing about kissing and hugging a girl, not to mention calling her "my boo" had me rolling on the floor. Simon accurately described it as a "chihuahua trying to be a tiger." Awkward and skeevy are more like it. The producers selected Dan Fogelberg's Longer , a 70s soft rock ballad that has enough schmaltz to put the average listener into a coma. For a show trying to be hip, the producers proved they are a bunch of oldsters who not only don't have their finger on the pulse of today's youth, but may not have a pulse themselves.

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Singer Duffy sits next to a clear blue swimming pool on a hotel rooftop patio, the sun setting behind her blond bouffant. She takes a sip of her drink, widens her blue eyes and grins.
“Just like the movies!” she exclaims about the setting — repeating a waiter’s observation.
It all does seem just like the movies, and a long journey for an ambitious gal raised in a tiny town in North Wales who now lives in London. Just hours earlier, she performed her ‘60s-inspired hit “Mercy” for the first time on U.S. television, singing her heart out for a taping of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” A day earlier, she played to a sweaty crowd at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the California desert. Her album “Rockferry” — already a chart-topping smash in England — made its U.S. debut Tuesday.
The 23-year-old — born Aimee Anne Duffy, but known simply as Duffy — is one of several young female singers from the United Kingdom descending on the United States.
Amy Winehouse, whose double-platinum U.S. debut “Back to Black” album won five Grammys earlier this year, and fellow London crooner Lily Allen’s critically acclaimed debut, “Alright, Still,” may have jump-started this so-called British Invasion. But Duffy and others such as chart-topper Leona Lewis, Adele, Kate Nash, Laura Marling, Estelle and Amy MacDonald are mapping out their own paths from Europe to the United States, and the women are all unique.
Still, some have dubbed them the “new Amys.”
Duffy sighs at the comparisons.
“I kind of want to be left alone a little bit, with that. I want to hide. I prefer to be not known than to be known as something completely wrong,” Duffy told The Associated Press during an interview at a Los Angeles-area hotel.

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