Despite the seemingly universal admission that the seventh season of American Idol has been lackluster in almost every way imaginable (the ratings back this up, as do the BuddyTV user comments throughout the season), American Idol 7 has had its share of great and memorable performances.  It also has had its share of cringe-inducing low lights.  American Idol is always good at producing the good and the ugly, with those performances lying somewhere in the middle fading away into oblivion.  Next week, we are going to take a retrospective look at both the ten best performances of the season, as well as the ten worst performances of the season, and we need your help.  Yes, you, BuddyTV user.  Below, if you could, we'd love to hear what you believe were the best of the best and the worst of the worst on American Idol this past season. 

Here's how this will work: it's an open forum.  In the comments section below, feel free to nominate your favorite performances and least favorite performances of the year.  Give your reasons why.  From your selections, we will choose a top ten in each category.  If your reasoning for a specific performance is good enough, we'll publish that too, and you'll get credit.  Simple enough.

And, there are no restrictions.  We'd like to keep it to the Top 24, but if you think there was a particularly great audition or Hollywood performance, then include those too.  For instance, I wouldn't be opposed to including Brooke White's rendition of “Beautiful” from the Hollywood round in the top ten best performances of the season.  However, don't nominate any of the terrible auditions from the early episodes for ten worst of the season.  We know those were bad.  Think Kristy Lee Cook sings “Eight Days a Week.”

As for my well-known hatred of David Archuleta, well, certain things cannot be helped.  In all likelihood, his performance of “Imagine” will make the top ten, despite the fact that Little Archie thinks it's a happy song.  For any other Archuleta song, you're going to have to be very convincing. 

Comment away.


-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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