IDOL LIVE predix: Top 9 Results

Last night's "top downloads" non-theme allowed for a few good efforts and a majority of forgettable and/or disappointing spectacles, which will be reflected in tonight's results. While the top three contestants were in a different league that the others' last night, there were six finalists that will play musical chairs to avoid landing in the bottom three, never mind elimination.

Without further ado, here are my predictions for the Top 9 results:


Tonight should go relatively according to plan:

Bottom 3
>Scott, Anoop, Megan

Bottom 2
>Anoop, Megan

Eliminated
>Megan

This is the curtain call. The final straw. The last hurrah. The end of the road. Whatever you want to call it, Megan's time on this show has run dry. She was cute for a little bit, then her vocals got really annoying really fast and she could never get out of her rut no matter how badly the judges (specifically Kara) wanted her to improve so as to not make them look dumb for putting her through as a wild card in the first place.

Scott will most likely land in the bottom three for a second week in a row because even though he gave a substantially better performance than the previous few weeks, he got a fair amount of praise from Simon that could in fact be his signature reverse psychology. Although it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to see Allison in there over him.

And then there's Anoop, who will come dangerously close to elimination tonight thanks to his jittery, karaoke-like tribute to Usher last night. He will land in the bottom two along with Megan, but the judges will not be forced to use their immunity on him because Megan will ultimately be the one leaving.

In my original predictions, I had Kris Allen going, but there's next to no chance of that happening thanks to the fact that he was in the pimp spot last night and he far and away delivered the strongest performance.