The Top 36 of American Idol 8 has been revealed, but has arrived with some controversy.  Joanna Pacitti, the ringer, former recording artist and judges' favorite, has been ejected from the competition under suspicious circumstances, FOX quietly explaining in a press release that Ms. Pacitti had been replaced by the anonymous Felicia Barton, who we saw very little of during the first month of the season.  In the past 24 hours, it has also been revealed that Pacitti may have had an “inappropriate” relationship with an executive at 19 Entertainment, the company that runs American Idol.  Ooh, scandal.  This is one of the many topics that I, Oscar Dahl, and my colleague John “Kris Kringle” Kubicek discuss in today's American Idol podcast.  Listen, will you?  If you like American Idol, frankly, you owe it to yourself.

You can listen to the full mp3 audio of the podcast below. 

Topics of Discussion

Today's podcast took a pretty structured format.  We briefly discussed the Joanna Pacitti situation at the beginning and, from there, systematically went through every member of the Top 36 and gave our thoughts about them.  After that, we previewed next week's group of twelve semi-finalists, and give our predictions of who will advance to the Top 12. 

To jog your memory, here is the list of the first group of twelve that will be performing next Tuesday during the two-hour performance episode.

Casey Carlson
Stephen Fowler
Jackie Tohn
Ricky Braddy
Anne Marie Boskovich
Brent Keith
Alexis Grace
Michael Sarver
Stevie Wright
Danny Gokey
Tatiana Del Toro
Anoop Desai 


Surprisingly, John and I predicted the exact same three singers to automatically advance to the Top 12 from this group, and they were Jackie Tohn, Danny Gokey, and Anoop Desai.  Everyone loves Anoop and Danny, so they feel like shoe-ins. 

Oh, and we make fun of a blind guy, if that's something you're into. 


-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
(Image Courtesy of FOX)