 Oh God, these people come with terrible suggestions. We're done, right? No, what's next? Jennifer Hudson's elimination on American Idol. What the fuck is that? Jesus Christ, suggested by cloud liked by 30 people. Come on. Well, hey, for this, let's do something different. Let's have a guest. Welcome my lovely girlfriend Danielle. Hey, come on. Great. Awesome. Love that. Okay, let's let's do this. Who is that? Is that Ryan Seacrest? Yeah, it's Ryan Seacrest. Welcome to American Idol. Ryan Seacrest, once more it is my job to reveal the results that will signal the end of the road for someone here tonight. Hello. This season three. Is that it? Yeah, he's trying to get based on a tear cut. Oh, well that's gonna be awkward. I'm not a fan of America, so this whole thing is about him. He is red and white. It's kind of annoying isn't it? Blue, ginger joke. Sorry. Sorry. He looks very old, but like he's trying to be young. Like that hair says, oh look, youth, I am one of you. But his face sure says I did a lot of drugs. I'm on death's door. Is he dead yet? You can have to do a lot of background checking for Barry Manilow. Where's my cell phone? This shit's boring. Is Barry Manilow dead? On Thursday, January 6th, the singer who raps officially confirmed that Barry Manilow is not dead. So this is some breaking news. Your next review suggestions would be a Barry Manilow album. Oh god. I'm sure someone would do that ironically. Someone on my video where I said, oh I don't want to see kids. Someone was like, huh huh huh, kids. Of course they did. Those kinds of shitty suggestions I was talking about. Oh no. Does that mean they're definitely safe? Is that one of those things? Do you know? Have you ever seen American Idol? I used to watch it. I stopped watching it when all the good singers were in. It's funny in the beginning when people are dishing. America voted Diana. You are in group B tonight. Jennifer. That outfit though. Andy said that was unbelievable. Barry said, just loved it. Paula said, way to go Jennifer. She's so zoned in on this right now. You are cleaning the battle of the divas. voted Jennifer. Please join the other diva Fantasia in group A. Hmm. So I guess. Group A is the one that's... Or it just doesn't matter? Maybe not. That or we've been lied to in this video is not where actually she gets a... Well let me make that. That'd be very funny. Well they don't know which group is which. I think it's part of it. Wow. What the fuck is this? Jesus Christ. Skip this bullshit. Oh wait, are they all like in it together? I think so. Oh my God. Is that like not a group? What? I don't know. What? I don't know. I'm so confused. This feels real fucking racist. Yeah, that was my first thought too. I think this is what is a reflection of. Oh, that's not good. That's not good. Ooh, ooh, I don't know. Yeah, okay, this took a turn. I'm not shocking the south, am I right? Wait, I know who's gonna lose. Why am I like tense? Although, you know, we know the real history. One of them does not going be in Tom Hooper's 2019 classic Cats. Good luck. That's for both of you. I act with matters. He should have gotten home. He never said. When Cloud suggested the subject, they said that the idea was to choose a pop culture moment and get my thoughts on it. I appreciated the sentiment and I'm happy that people have gone in some genuinely unexpected directions this month, but I also felt kind of bad because I didn't have much to say. Prior to this, I had never watched more than a few minutes of American Idol at a time. A brief clip of a performance here or some particularly intense judging there. Honestly, I'd never watched any sort of competition show prior to Bake Off's international ascension. There's something deeply strange about what I did watching a 17 year old clip from a show that I've heard so much about but never really experienced, but it also made just how uncomfortable that moment was even starker. I don't know any of those people, so when it gets to the realization that the divas who sang their hearts out to Barry Manilow were the lowest voted contestants it feels weird, kind of bad. As Seacra said, shock. There was a part that I cut out from the full video where the judges were saying that American Idol is not a popularity contest and while they phrased it that way, I eventually realized that this declaration was actually an admonishment. They were saying this to the viewers who voted for a pasty white boy over three black women clearly leagues beyond him. They were saying what they wanted the show to be in the face of what it clearly was a reflection of the biases and bad opinions of the American public. And that's fascinating. 5.0 out of 10. 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