American Idol Gives Lauren Alaina Unfair Lead in Tonight’s Vote

Last night, Rosie from Fit Fab Celeb blogged our recap and this is what she had to say after the show:

In last night’s episode of American Idol the clear favorite amongst judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler were Lauren Alaina - when they expressed their unfair influence to invoke favoritism so that she takes the Idol crown this evening. When it came to each of the finalists singing a song that would be released in the event that they win, Scotty McCreery was given I Love You This Big, which was very nice but nothing compared to what they gave Lauren.

Lauren’s song was Like My Mother Does, which was an ode to her mother and to add insult to injury, host Ryan Seacrest took her by the arm, led her down the stairs to hug her mother while she is still singing the song and zoom in on her and her mother’s tears. This an obvious and outrageously biased attack on Scotty. To make matters worse, Judge Lopez says “It is a really tight race, but with this song Lauren may just have won” and Tyler “First time I saw you, you were my American Idol, the rest of America will too”.

Both Lopez and Tyler have many fans. Idol is about showcasing your talent and having the judges critique it, not influencing voters to go one way or the other based on favoritism.

What do you think, did Lopez and Tyler give Lauren and unfair lead in tonight’s vote? Click here, to vote in Fit Fab Celeb’s poll and we will post the results after the show tonight.



  • stereogirl

    That might be the most insane thing I’ve ever read, and as an Idol fan, I’ve read a lot of insane things this season. Do you not remember judges’ always favored contestants James and Casey getting the boot? The judges clearly don’t hold much sway or neither Casey or James would’ve been gone. How many times to Randy declare James the winner? Short memories make for bad journalism. 

  • Anonymous

    The judges always know the vote totals as they go along each week.  They had to know that Scotty gets huge numbers of votes, and Lauren probably didn’t have much of a chance to beat him in the fan votes.  It was reported from one of those “inside sources” that Scotty got almost twice as many votes as did Lauren in the finale.  Also, look at Dialidol and you will see that this finale is the only one out of all 10 seasons where the first place winner got such a larger percentage of votes than did the runner up. 

  • Rebecca70111

    Ms. Rosie, you sound awfully bitter in that article.  You don’t equate judge criticism to a form of influence?  Really, don’t quite your day job and if this is your day job, maybe find a new vocation.  All your hemming and hawing, and Scotty still won.  Give the voting public some credit to think for themselves.  What a waste of an article.

    • http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/author/roberta/ Roberta Ferguson

      I disagree. I think there’s some merit to the fact that the news broke of something happening to her vocal cords right before the show aired. It was almost as if it were done out of sympathy. And the judges pretty much awarded the night to Lauren, as well….

    • Rosie Giroux

      Well Rebecca, it’s called freedom of speech. As far as I know, it still exists. Don’t worry, I won’t ‘quite’ my day job, I hope yours doesn’t involve proper grammar.