Awesome Pia Toscano Voted Off In "American Idol

American Idol" ended on a very uneasy note tonight as Pia Toscano, one of the show's strongest singers, was sent home.
Jennifer Lopez cried, Steven Tyler snapped, Randy Jackson ranted.
Tyler later told reporters on the post Idol red carpet: "Boys aren't voting, and girls are jealous............

Pia Toscano is a Murderer on American Idol

Pia Toscano murdered Tina Turner's classic "River Deep, Mountain High" on American Idol last night. That's meant as praise by Steven Tyler. she rocked!

"Murderer! Murderer! You killed it!" Steven says.

Not to be confused with butchering it, which would imply a poor effort, Pia Toscano absolutely killed. Her inspiration for taking a page out of Tina's book?

I want to shock everybody," she says,cause I've been doing the whole ballad thing................

American Idol

So you wanna be a rocker, James Durbin? Take a lesson from Iggy Pop  who at age 63 Note: That's like 398 in heroin years pranced shirtless across the "Idol" stage singing his 1986 hit "Real Wild Child."

At some point, even legends become caricatures of themselves. Think "Fat Elvis" or, you know, Britney Spears. But that doesn't mean we don't still heart them. And Iggy gets our props for in true rock and roll spirit not giving a flying * whether he delivered a top-notch performance on a competition show he would've bombed out of back in 1969 anyway. The man is a rock legend and that's why he was there Thursday April 7 night.

Those of you out there who are not necessarily fans of Iggy's seminal band, The Stooges, may have been left shaken and a little confused. It's okay. Just forget it ever happened and keep humming Constantine Maroulis's rendition of "Unchained Melody............