American Idol: Judges distracted by Iraheta's funky outfit

American Idol: Judges distracted by Iraheta's funky outfit

Lots of surprises and shocks are coming for audiences and judges on the famous American Idol show. In fact the funky outfit of Allison Iraheta got more attention than her performance.

The judges' panel seemed too distracted by what she was wearing to offer much criticism of her performance. According to Judge Simon Cowell the look of Iraheta resembled "something out of 'The Addams Family.'" Her red dress, black leggings, white heels and spiky magenta hair led Cowell to crack a joke by saying that the theme of the night must be Halloween.

For Tuesday night's performance show, 9 remaining contestants were asked to choose from the most popular downloaded songs on iTunes.

However most of them failed to live upto to the level of expectation of the judges.. Cowell said Anoop Desai's take on Usher’s "Caught Up" gave him a headache. Randy Jackson compared reggae-lite performance of "Turn Your Lights Down Low" of Megan Joy to "watching paint dry." The foursome brought Lil Rounds to tears after criticizing the soul singer for playing it safe with a Celine Dion song.

It was not all that gloom and doom. Thirty six year old theater actor Adam Lambert, who has defied labels and vocal limits, continued his hot streak with a not-so-corny rendition of "Play That Funky Music." According to judge Paula Abdul Lambert is a "genius" in the vein of Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler.

Also Simon gave compliments to contestants like Kris Allen, Danny Gokey and Scott MacIntyre for giving their best performances so far in the top-rated Fox singing contest.


"Of all the contestants that have graced the stage, I am most proud of you," Abdul told MacIntyre, who is blind.

The fate of these singers will be determined during Wednesday's results show. One will be sent packing unless the judges take the consideration of using a new rule that permits them to save someone whom they feel has been wrongly booted by voting viewers.