Hall or nothing: Two singers fail to rock the vote on ‘American Idol’ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night
One particularly anti-rock top 14 contestant survived, but metal fan Carrie Underwood claimed he “cheated the system” with his song choice.
Sunday was Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night on American Idol Season 23, as the top 14 became the top 12. At one point judge Carrie Underwood blurted, “I know I’m going to be mad at America tonight no matter what happens, because we have so much stinkin’ talent on this show!”
Carrie was obviously mad about some of the contestants’ song choices, too. She’s an avowed metalhead known for impulsively joining in on joke auditioners’ Drowning Pool and Korn covers, and she showed up Sunday cosplaying as “the greatest frontman of all time” of “the greatest band of all time” — Axl Rose, of the Rock Hall Class of 2012’s Guns N’ Roses — with whom she surprise-dueted at last year’s Stagecoach Festival. Carrie was probably hoping for covers of inductees like GNR, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, or Def Leppard, but of course, she instead got Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Whitney Houston songs.
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