In a somewhat mild surprise, Amanda Overmyer was eliminated from American Idol last night.  Amanda was the rocker from the South with the Janis Joplin voice who rides motorcycles and worked as a traveling nurse prior to American Idol.  Amanda, it's been conceded, was the most different and unique singer in the Top 24.  Amanda was definitely her own personality, and she just put herself out there with no apologies.  Her elimination was surprising because, while her performance this most recent Tuesday wasn't all that great, she was coming off two very good and well-received performances in the previous weeks.  Today, Amanda talked to the press in another American Idol conference call. 

Amanda's current situation is kind of up in the air.  She owns a home back in Indiana and she can go back home if need be.  She's going to test the waters out in Los Angeles and in the music industry first, but she's not sure if the opportunities will be there.  In the answer to a particularly dumb question, no, she has never serenaded patients with her voice back at her Indiana job.  Her least favorite part of the show was doing the group numbers (I don't blame her at all).  She had no problem blending in the group numbers, but she just didn't like the choreography.  Surprisingly, Amanda has a choir background – she sang choir in high school. 

Amanda thinks that her unique persona, her rocker chick style, helped her get on the show and make the Top 24 and then the Top 12, but as the competition moved along, the demographics tend to gravitate more of the mainstream singers.  She's not bitter about it, though.  Amanda was pretty indifferent about the whole spectacle of the three judges – it sounds like she mostly just ignored them.  Even though she was upset about being kicked off, she wasn't surprised when she was.  Overall, Amanda seemed pretty unimpressed with having to answer the media's questions.  Maybe it was bitterness, maybe it was relief at this being one of her final Idol requirements.  To be fair, she says that she has been doing interviews since 4am, and that was after only two hours of sleep.


-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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