This will be my final live recap of American Idol for this season.
In a matter of hours, we will know who takes the title this season: Will it be Lauren Alaina, or Scotty McCreery.
Along the way we have had some amazing and groundbreaking performances, especially from the final two contestants!!
After the finale tonight, I will post my usual gathering of recaps from across the blogosphere, and starting Friday, I will only be giving you headlines from American Idol. It will be like that until the start of Season 11.
You can rest assured that I will still update my Idol blog, even when the show is not airing!
5:30 PM
Here’s who will appear (what I know so far): http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-worship/lady-gaga-u2s-bono-edge-192262
Lauren Alaina gets to sing live with her Idol, Season 4 Winner Carrie Underwood.
Scotty McCreery gets to sing live with Tim McGraw
Lady Gaga returns to the Idol stage to perform “The Edge of Glory”
Beyonce returns to the Idol stage to perform “Run The World (Girls)” with Season 10’s Top 12 girls
Tom Jones will sing with the Top 12 guys.
Steven Tyler will perform (sans Aerosmith) “It Feels So Good” and possibly also “Dream On.”
U2’s Bono and The Edge will appear, but not to sing.
James Durbin will sing with Judas Priest
Haley Reinhart will sing with Tony Bennett
The two remaining members of TLC: T-Boz and Chilli are performing.
That’s all I know for right now. Look for more updates!!
5:35 PM
Jennifer Lopez will be performing with her husband, Marc Anthony.
Gladys Knight will be performing.
Lil’ Jon will be performing.
5:38 PM
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00040762.html
Pia Toscano is rumored to be performing her debut single, “Counterfeit,” with Glee star Charice.
5:42 PM
U2 is confirmed to perform tonight on the American Idol finale: http://www.rickey.org/u2-confirmed-for-american-idol-finale-performance/
5:52 PM
To watch American Idol live tonight online:
http://www.seeon.tv/view/12898/
If the above link doesn’t work, here’s another for you:
http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=1730
5:52 PM
To watch the live pre-Idol finale red carpet from 6-8PM:
http://www.americanidol.com/finale/
6:00 PM
Here is the correct link to watch Pre-Idol finale festivities:
http://www.americanidol.com/finale/surround_videos/
6:12 PM
360 Degree Views of Photo Walk, Arrivals, and Interviews Live From the Nokia Theater for the Season 10 Finale have begun:
http://www.americanidol.com/finale/surround_videos/
6:17 PM
Judas Priest has arrived at the Idol Finale, so they will be performing with James Durbin at the finale tonight!
6:25 PM
Word is spreading that over 122 million phone, text, and online votes for Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina! If true, that broke the record for most votes cast on American Idol!!
6:32 PM
Didi and Brandon, who are hosting the Americanidol.com live coverage, just finished interviewing Michael Sarver, and they are interviewing Sanjaya Malakar now!
6:41 PM
Didi and Brandon just wrapped up interviewing Rob Halford and Judas Priest, who stated that they are indeed performing with James and both are performing “Breaking the Law”
7:10 PM
Paul McDonald confirmed that he is recording a song for a soundtrack.
Pics From Idol Finale: Courtesy of Shirley Halperin
7:46 PM
I will be continuing to live-blog until about 10:15 PM tonight, so keep coming back to get more updates about American Idol.
Didi and Brandon are interviewing Tim McGraw, WOW!
8:00 PM
The finale begins…AWESOME!!
8:05 PM
The Top 13 are back together to sing Lady Gaga’s hit “Born This Way” and they’re all in white!!
8:11 PM
James is performing with one of his Idols, Judas Priest!! Pure metal awesomeness!!
8:15 PM
Clip montage of Randy Jackson’s judging this season! Awesome!
8:17 PM
Jacob Lusk is getting to sing with gospel legend Kirk Franklin and Gladys Knight. They are really showcasing the talent of the Top 13 contestants!
8:26 PM
Casey Abrams is performing with Jack Black. Pure comedic genius!!
8:29 PM
The ladies of the Top 13 are singing “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” and synchronized in the dance. Then they switched to “Irreplaceable.” I have the feeling that Beyonce is going to come out at any second! Then, they sang “Get Me Bodied.” Now, they are singing “If I Were a Boy.” Next up is “Déjà vu”. I was right, Beyonce is singing with them!! Both the girls and Beyonce sing “Crazy in Love.”
8:38 PM
Video clip of Steven Tyler’s crazy antics! AWESOME!!
8:42 PM
Haley Reinhart and Tony Bennett sing “Steppin Out With My Baby”.
8:43 PM
Video clip of Jennifer Lopez! Love that Jennifer and Steven have been on the show this season!!
8:46 PM
Lil’ Jon and TLC perform with the Top 13 ladies! They perform a medley of their greatest hits!
8:50 PM
Scotty McCreery is getting to sing with Tim McGraw! WOW!!
8:54 PM
There have already been some awesome surprises tonight!! Can’t wait to see who else they got to come tonight!!
8:58 PM
Ryan found his protégé in one of the previous contestants. He is introducing some of the bad contestants of this season! Hilarious!!
9:00 PM
Marc Anthony performs “Aguanile” with his wife, Jennifer Lopez dancing and Sheila E on the drums.
9:06 PM
James, Casey, and Stefano are talking and joking about each other. Awesome!!
9:07 PM
Casey, James, and the rest of the Top Guys are singing “Kiss” by Prince, “What’s New Pussycat” “Green Green Grass of Home” by Tom Jones. They’re singing Tom Jones songs. Then, Tom Jones comes out to sing “It’s Not Unusual”
9:19 PM
The last Ford Music Video featuring all of the Idol contestants that made it to the Top 13. Awesome summary of all the commercials!
9:20 PM
Ford has a special gift for the teacher that influenced the Idols so much and they are there at the finale tonight.
Here’s the surprise: here are the keys to a brand new Ford Focus.
Scotty and Lauren get the keys to any Ford vehicle that they want.
9:23 PM
Lady Gaga is singing “The Edge of Glory” with Clarence Clemmons from Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Sad that they didn’t give him a shoutout on the show!!
9:31 PM
Lauren is singing “When He Cheats” with Carrie Underwood. AWESOME!!
9:35 PM
The other Idol contestants are picking at Lauren and Scotty, because of their age! All in good fun though!
9:36 PM
Beyonce is back to perform “1 + 1”!
9:45 PM
Bono and The Edge with the singer from Spiderman: The Musical are performing “Rise Above”. Awesome!!
9:54 PM
Steven Tyler is performing!! Awesome!! He is singing “Dream On” one of my faves!!
When Idol comes back…we find out who wins…will it be Scotty or Lauren? We’ll find out soon!!
Rehearsals for the performance:
The actual performance:
10:01 PM
The results are in…
And the winner of American Idol Season 10 is…
SCOTTY MCCREERY!!!
10:03 PM
Scotty McCreery, newly-crowned Idol winner, sings his debut single, “I Love You This Big”
SO GLAD HE WON!!!
It has been a pleasure live-blogging American Idol this season. I will miss getting to live-blog the show. Look out for the live blogs starting next January for Season 11!
For the last time this season, in a live blog, D-RIZZ OUT!!!
I leave you with comments from the contestants on the finale, courtesy of Fox5Atlanta my local Fox affiliate here in Georgia (http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/our_programs/american_idol/american-idol-finalists-comment-on-finale-20110525-tm):
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