My American Idol Finale Week Confession

Well tonight is the big night when the next American Idol will be crowned.

I have been a big Lee fan since the Top 24 days. I was not really a fan of Crystal's throughout the entire season.

Well it hurts me to say this, but I must confess that after watching the Finale Performances on Tuesday night, it was obvious that Crystal was the more deserving contestant to win the Idol title for 2010 based on Lee and Crystal's performances that night. I think Crystal has the Idol win in the bag at this point and most people will probably agree with me even though they won't announce her as the winner until the very end of the 2 1/2 hour show tonight.

I felt Lee's song choices were not as good as last week's while Crystal's song choices were much better this week. Lee was more subdued in his performances while Crystal was very energetic and her performances seemed to play much better to a TV audience and with the giant screens in the large Theatre they were performing in during the Finale week.

Crystal's final song came off very genuine while Lee's final song was about average for him in my opinion. The momentum has clearly shifted to Crystal after tonight. I just can't see Lee winning now. Too bad he wasn't doing the Hallelujah performance this week instead of last week.

Here is who I thought did better in each of the three rounds:

Crystal won slightly over Lee in Round One
Crystal & Lee tied in Round Two
Crystal won by quite a bit in Round Three

So I am not really going to be watching for the suspense tonight, but mostly to see Simon on the show for the last time as well as some of the musical guests. I thought it was odd that they didn't mention who is performing tonight on the 2 hour results show. I sure hope General Platt is going to be there to perform his "Pants on the Ground" song. I would hope so because he generated more buzz than Ellen did on the show this season.

Hopefully this will be Ellen's final regular appearance on Idol as well tonight. As for who should replace Simon Cowell, I would like to see a male judge with a good musical knowledge and who is like Cowell in the sense that they are brutally honest. I don't want his replacement to be someone who is going to tell singers they are great when they are terrible.

So far replacements for Simon that have been mentioned include Jamie Foxx and Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert is way too new to the world of Idol to be a judge while Jamie Foxx would be a great judge based on musical knowledge. But I doubt Foxx would give very critical reviews to the contestants.

If I were Idol, I would choose someone who has been in a band recently such as Bret Michaels, Mark McGrath, or a Tommy Lee. But not Ozzy Osbourne, because you would need subtitles to understand what he is saying half of the time. And we all remember how Osbournes Reloaded turned out for FOX.

FOX will announce Cowell's replacement shortly after the end of Idol this season, so stay tuned!!