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		<title>Season Finale: An Ending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I was wrong. And I have never been more pleased to be wrong. It took Candice three times to get to the voting rounds. When she did though&#8230; she dominated. Kree and Angie came close and at least made it a race, but there was never really any doubt who was the best singer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 2 Performance Night: Dead Heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a season that&#8217;s been full of&#8230; odd decisions, to be rather charitable, we got another one for the finale. Up to now, as far as I can remember, we&#8217;ve had two-hour performance shows. So they decide that for the finale, we get a one-hour show. So we end up with six performances that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 3 Results: Expect The Unexpected</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say that it&#8217;s been a busy day in the world of Idol is a giant understatement. America voted and&#8230; turned in a somewhat surprising verdict. The Powers That Be voted and&#8230; sacked Randy Jackson. And may well be sacking everyone. Let&#8217;s deal with the on camera drama first: Angie Miller&#8217;s boot. To say it was unexpected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 3 Performance Night: No Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to know who&#8217;s more tired at this point of the season: the contestants, the people watching at home, or the entire franchise. For the contestants, that was pretty clear from how they performed: while there were some good performances, there was an undercurrent of fatigue. It was like they could only do so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 4 Results: Messing With Fate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Idol Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well. This season has been a disappointment so far, but at least it&#8217;ll give us one thing. This is as intriguing a top three as we&#8217;ll ever see. It&#8217;s a relatively even one. There are three possible finale combinations&#8230; and you can make a possible argument for each of them. Angie has as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 4, Take 2: Running On Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Idol Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s epic disaster of a show, anything would have been an improvement. This week&#8230; was a snoozer. We got eight ballads. Not only eight ballads, but eight of the slowest, least exciting, songs on the planet. It was a very, very, long two hours punctuated by the judges arguing with each other and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 4 Non-Results: An Hour, Wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Idol Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will try to keep this recap short because I actually respect the time of my readers and will not subject them to an hour of filler. Unsurprisingly, the busing of Kree backfired. This always happens. For many, many years, confronted by pimping that is in defiance of reality, voters react by doing the opposite of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 4 Performance Night: A Middle Finger To Everyone At Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can somebody please check that Nigel Lythgoe and the other Idol producers are not receiving bribes from Mark Burnett and NBC? I swear, the quality of the decision-making this year goes beyond incompetence. It has descended to the point of malice. It&#8217;s as if they want Idol to deliberately, and utterly, fail. That is the only explanation for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Results: Flying Blind</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theidolguy.com/season-twelve/top-5-results-flying-blind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Idol Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today finds me in a&#8230; very weird situation. Thanks to the failure of my cable provider and/or the cable channel, I haven&#8217;t seen this week&#8217;s performances. Because of this, I am completely unqualified to comment on who did or didn&#8217;t do well this week. Let&#8217;s not even talk about the complete and utter insanity that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 6 Results: The Insanity Ends</title>
		<link>http://www.theidolguy.com/season-twelve/top-6-results-the-insanity-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theidolguy.com/season-twelve/top-6-results-the-insanity-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Idol Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have rarely been pleased to be as wrong as I was this week. Finally, the calamity that was the Lazaro Arbos campaign has come to a long overdue end. Well done, America. Thank you. Before I close the book on Lazaro and pretend he never existed, let me address the judges and producers of American [...]]]></description>
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