Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without taking. But they sent you away (and
left us with the bland, key-challenged Kristy Lee Cook,) oh Mandy.
It's not that rock and roll nurse Amanda Overmyer was great -- after all, she
did start her "Back in the U.S.S.R." in the wrong key -- but at least she was
interesting and she looked at the contest from an adult perspective.
My sadness over Amanda was tempered though over my joy that Carly Smithson landed in the bottom three after her bludgeoning of "Blackbird." The judges
looked on in horror as their underperforming Irish ringer failed to win
America's hearts. There really are some things you can't sell.
We'll miss you Amanda, especially when you rock out to our beloved Joan Jett.