Canadian Idol 6 - Episode 022

Final 7 results show with Tom Jones.

To the person who commented on Television Without Pity that the clinkers Drew played on guitar last night are intentional wrong notes that Radiohead plays on the Creep original: thanks for the heads up. What a relief; I thought it was the drugs.

After a recap of last night’s performances we are treated to a two song medley - Green Grass of Home and Delilah. Amberly, Mark and Theo are okay on GGoH and Drew is alright on his section of Delilah, but Earl and Mookie are a disgrace. Big yuck.

Mulroney kicks it over to Tom Jones himself, doing It’s Not Unusual (in keeping with the VPTV we-always-admit-our-mistakes policy, TJ did acknowledge Mookie’s It’s Not Unusual crack with a fast sotto voce and totally deadpan, “Good title for a song,” retort that I only caught on the replay. If British humor is dry, Welsh humor is as desiccated as a mummy). It looks like it hurts more than it used to, but damned if he doesn’t deliver the “Why can’t this crazy love be mine” money notes strong and clean. That he doesn't quite get all the scats that follow the way he did when he was in his prime is okay by me. For a second there it was 1965. Cut to a commercial and we’re back with TJ in full voice doing If He Should Ever Leave You. Props to ya, Sir Jones.

Next bit of filler is Jully Black schmoozing with the contestants as they get their make-up on. Earl says, "It's not the manliest thing, but you lnow, like, I don't want to look like some crazy, like, grey dude." Jully replies, "This is why we love us some Earl, 'cause he drops it like it's warm."

Filler time is over.
Drew and Amberly are told they are safe.
Earl and Theo land in the bottom three.
Mitch (shit!) is safe, as is Mookie.
Mark is the final member of the bottom three.
Drum roll…….and Mark Day is finally sent home. Good run, kid. Frankly, I liked last night’s Keep Bleeding best of all the work I’ve seen you do over the past 6 weeks. It’s not your fault that Canada kept you on while giving the boot to far more deserving talents like Martin Kerr, Paul Clifford, Omar Lunden, Gary Morrisette and Oliver Pigott.

Are you listening, Earl? Pay attention to your endings! Being laid back doesn’t have to mean being lazy. Ending every song you sing by showing your tonsils to the camera while shouting “Yeah, yeah, whoo-whoo, awwww right,” is going to lose this thing for you.

And Theo; you are too good to pander to the panel’s cheesiest instincts. We are the ones who say whether you stay or go, not them. Respect yourself.