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It was yet another night that saw a nervous contestant’s hopes of a multi-million dollar career in the music business being dashed so publicly but was it a contestant who should have taken the walk of shame longer ago than last night?

Jason Castro, it would appear, has mainly viewed the entire competition as a bit of a giggle and even intimated last week that he’s really burnt out and wanted to be voted off American Idol.

With his 1960’s choice of Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff and Mr Tambourine Man, originally sung by Bob Dylan, it must have been difficult for Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and even ditzy Paula Abdul to take Jason’s efforts seriously!

And so it was that Jason was the contestant who had a size 10 placed swiftly up his backside as he was axed from the final line up of American Idol wanna-bees leaving David Cook, Syesha and David Archuleta as the remaining three competitors.

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Unlike most previous weeks on the reality show, American Idol, Tuesday night saw the four remaining contestants being given the opportunity of selecting their own choice of songs they wished to publicly crucify, with the proviso that it was a song that had ‘inspired’ them in the past.

From that category one would have expected offerings along the lines of, Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, or even Frank Sinatra’s My Way, so in that case how on earth did Jason Castro come up with Bob Dylan’s Mr Tambourine Man and David Cook’s choice of Duran Duran’s Hungry Like the Wolf?

Viewers could have been forgiven for thinking that the only thing worse than his first choice would have been Carlo Douglas’s Kung Foo Fighting but no, Jason them came up with Bob Marley‘s I Shot the Sheriff which clearly made Randy Jackson want to shoot Jason for choosing it as his second song. Maybe Jason just has a thing for Bob’s! (Marley, Dylan???)

David Cook, the 25-year-old who hails from Blue Springs, Missouri and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offered Hungry Like the Wolf and it appeared the only person, other than David himself of course, to be inspired by the rendition, was Paula Abdul as she commented that it had served to give her an ‘appetite’! Watch out boys, you know what she’s like when her appetite takes a hold!

For his second course David cooked up Baba O’Riley by The Who to which he accompanied himself on the guitar. Inspirational? We doubt that!

Next up with an equally surprising number was Syesha Mercado, the 21-year-old from Sarasota, Florida who currently resides in Miami, and the only female left on the show, who gave the judges and the audience her shrieky interpretation of Tina Turner’s Proud Mary. This obviously inspired Randy as he went on to tell her she was now in ‘the zone’, a popular phrase on American Idol but not one that actually indicates much as a phrase!

With what might have been preserved as a subliminal message to voters in the up and coming Presidential elections Syesha chose A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke for her second inspirational song of the evening. Bet Barack Obama was inspired!

David Archuleta, the fresh faced 17-year-old from Murray, Utah stepped up to the plate with two classic. Stand By Me by Ben E King and for his final choice he went for the Elvis Presley romantic number, Love Me Tender.

Both Archuleta’s offerings saw him being exposed as probably the judges favourite of the evening after Paula said, “That was one of my favorite performances from you. I felt your heart. It was fantastic and very beautiful.” See, what did we say, she’ll start feeling your heart and who knows where it could end with Paula Abdul?

Well one thing we can all be thankful for is that no one chose, Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime or worse than that, Ricky Martin‘s She Bangs!

Lets hope from now on the contestants are directed as to who’s songs they perform even if it is Mariah Carey or Neil Diamond!

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“I lost some lines in there; that’s kinda bad.” 21-year-old Southern contestant Jason Castro made a blunder the size of Texas during Tuesday night’s American Idol.

For the millions of viewers who tuned in to watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-themed episode, it was a nail-biting hour filled with enough angst to power a small country.

Jason started off with a not so thrilling rendition of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff,” which earned him several slaps on the wrist by two out of the three judges. Randy Jackson sat there chuckling before classifying the performance as “really karaoke,” while Simon Cowell spat the word “massacre” out like a sour lemon. “I can’t imagine what you were thinking,” he added unsympathetically.

Paula Abdul - being Paula - pulled her typical apprehensive thing by staying diplomatic when it came to her evaluation.

Bucking up for his second tune of the evening, Jason tried his hand at Bob Dylan’s timeless “Mr. Tambourine Man.”

Although the “Dreadlocked One” is not the first to muddle up a celebrated song, he did nothing to rectify the damage that will surely impact his career. It was clear that he hadn’t practiced much from the start, but when the second verse came along Castro literally forgot the words and opted to hum instead. Eventually he was able to recall a few lyrics but unfortunately it couldn’t save him.

All three judges were extremely unhappy with the lackluster routine. Randy said that Castro wasn’t “in the zone” and Simon actually advised him to pack his bags!

Last week the singer told Entertainment Weekly that he felt weighed down by all the attention he was receiving; that he had neglected to learn his songs in order to spend more time with his family, and that he was “kind of ready to go home.”

Wish granted!

~Carolyn~