That’s probably the first — and last — time you will ever hear a singing performance on TV likened to a hamburger. But then, it was Simon Cowell doing the comparing, and the man is nothing if not creative when it comes to milking mic time for memorable sound bites.
It was Brooke White, and her solo piano act, on Mariah Carey’s Hero that drew the unfortunate food comparison. Cowell’s point — and he did have one — was that her performance was a little like getting the hamburger bun, but with nothing inside. No beef, no mustard — and not much relish from the judges, it would appear, except for Paula Abdul’s broken-needle routine, “You are who you are, and that’s what I love about you.”
By the time the last high note was sung on Mariah Carey night, there were some genuine surprises — for one, it was a night for the guys, not the gals, despite Carey’s gal-centric songlist — and some  of the same old same-old: Strong performances from the two Davids, and can-we-please-stop-this-nonsense-and-end-it-now performances from White and — again — Kristy Lee Cook.
That said, it will likely be Syesha Mercado and Carly Smithson who again land in the bottom two, in part because they’ve been there so often, and in part because they have truly beautiful voices, and vocal ability — David Cook and David Archuleta aside — don’t seem to carry much weight with the viewers who’ve been doing the voting this time around.
I suppose we could always be in for another shock. David Cook, now the elder statesman in the group at age 25, may yet prove to be this year’s Chris Daughtry —  i.e. the talented rocker who goes home before his time but goes on to have a credible singing career — but the odds of two shocks in a row seem slim, even in this year’s American Idol.

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