Michael Johns is the surprise ouster from American Idol this week.
Actually it's only really a surprise to those who liked him. To the rest of us who didn't dislike him, but still had to find reasons to like him, it came as no surprise.
Michael's a decent singer. At times he had a good stage presence. Unlike Chris Daughtry, though, he never seemed to have that undefinable star quality in his performance. It may be that we was trying too much to be a rocker, ignoring his forte which seemed to be a heavy blues style. Even when he was praised as nailing a song by the judges, I never connected to him until he did It's All Wrong, But It's All Right for Dollyweek.
And that's the problem. These contestants are as much about selling themselves as anything else. That is what they are going to have to do constantly if they want to make it in the music industry.
Michael was just not that good a salesman.
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