Claudette Yamin, mother of American Idol Season 5 contestant, Elliott Yamin passed away overnight of undisclosed causes. She was 65.  Full Story at MSNBC.

IdolBlather send it’s condolences to Elliott and the Yamin family.

Greetings Idol Fans!

Did you know that this is the most talented American Idol season yet? I don’t know how anyone could have missed it since Ryan told us 7534 times tonight. Seriously, he said it so many times, if you made a shot game out of it, you’d be tanked by the first commercial break.

Idol Fashion Fix: Shoe comment — Did anyone else notice the 1 1/2 inch heels Simon was sporting on his boots? Can we say inadequacies? I bet he drives a really big Hummer too.

Anyway, they changed format this year. Gone are the painful 3 and 4 member singing/late night bickering teams of yesteryear. This year it’s every Idol for themselves. The first two days, all the hopefuls get a shot to impress the judges without the worry of a cut. The ones who wow the baby Gap t-shirts off Simon and the other 2 get a free pass right through to the final rounds. The others must sing a capella for their musical lives for on Day 3, the guillotine starts it ugly morbid descent. The final 50 who have managed to avoid the proverbial axe, have one more shot with the judges.

Here are the MOST TALENTED 24:

Oh wait…. we have to wait until tomorrow night for that.

Peace, Love & Perfect Pitch,
Kristi

More good outcomes from Season 5 of American Idol. First Taylor Hicks loses his record contract, and now, OK Magazine says Katherine McPhee got hitched on Saturday. The brunette beauty married boyfriend Nick Cokas.