Source: USA TODAY
“I’m just happy that America got the best four of the competition to the top four,” Nicki Minaj said during American Idol‘s results show Thursday.
Shortly afterwards, though, Ryan Seacrest revealed that, after 81 million votes in a two-week period, Amber Holcomb, the 19-year-old singer from Houston who loved to sing the songs of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and other divas, would be the one going home.
Holcomb had been one of last week’s Bottom Two, along with Candice Glover.
Wednesday’s performances of Pink’s Just Give Me a Reason and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s My Funny Valentine weren’t enough to make up the lost ground — even though record executive Jimmy Iovine called Holcomb’s rendition of My Funny Valentine “magnificent.”
That means the Top Three — Glover, Angie Miller and Kree Harrison — get hometown trips this weekend.
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