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Kady Malloy is beautiful and engaging on camera. The problem is that she's beautiful and incredibly dull when singing. That and nothing particularly about her vocals stands out either. Being a pretty blonde girl in a competition surrounded by at least three other pretty blonde girls means you have to work to stand out.

Kady stood out due to her spot-on Britney Spears impression and her fun personality during interviews. But the bottom line is that when she hit the stage and performed, all those bubbles in her personality disappeared leaving a very flat and forgettable performer on the stage. In AOL's interview with Kady Malloy, she said that she still doesn't know what Simon meant when he said she had no personality on stage. Just watch the tape, honey. It'll all come clear.



While I had hopes that Kady would find a way to shine on stage, as she had in earlier rounds, week after week she just didn't. And with as much talent as we have on the show this season, she just wasn't giving me, and apparently you, a reason to keep her around. Here's her elimination and final performance, where at least she shows a little emotion. On a side note, this is a popularity contest as well, and Kady is a beautiful young lady who failed to capitalize on that until it was too late. I guarantee you had she worn this top on a performance night, she'd have at least been a little more memorable.:


By the time the Top 16 performances were coming around, Kady had heard over and over again that she showed no personality. I get that this is her favorite song (mainly because she says so in her exit interviews), but it's also a very slow song that she wasn't able to bring any personality to. At this point America was forgetting that she was still on the competition, and based on the voting after this performance, they were pretty much tired of waiting for her to step up and show us that sparkling personality in a song.:


This out fit really bothered me. On Top 20 night, she wore a shapeless dress with giant stones going down the front of it, and one of the stones was even missing. Again, this is a shapely and beautiful girl. She's not doing herself any favors by wearing something that fits her like a plastic grocery bag. Wardrobe, though, has been a serious problem for many contestants so far this year, and Kady is by no means the worst offender (Asia'h what was up with those pants!):


Kady's problems started right off the bat as she suffered not only pitch problems throughout "A Groovy Kind of Love" here, but began to portray her wooden performance style that didn't do her any favors. Standing still and crinkling your nose occasionally isn't enough to stand out from the crowd.:


Kady was an early favorite based on her initial audition. She was bouncy and full of energy and showed a great deal of personality, premiering her Britney impression and fun side. As the competition wore on, she lost a lot of her sparkle during her performances, while her backstage and on-camera antics remained just as fun. It was a weird contrast.:

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It's a shame that she didn't go into her real opinion of the judges' comments, because that would have made for great TV. "Whenever the judges talked to me I kind of just tuned them out," is what came out during Reality TV World's interview with Kady Malloy. "Because they're only three opinions honestly," she went on, "and they're no more important than anybody that's walking on the street today. When it comes to music, everybody's opinion is equal to me." A beautiful sentiment but she's naively wrong. Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell's opinions will always be more important than the homeless guy on the corner of 15th and 36th Street. Because Randy and Simon have connections, baby. And that homeless guy ... he's got something, but you don't want any part of it.

Kady was pretty straight forward regarding speculation that she'd already recorded an album prior to her participation. Almost all traces of its existence had been scraped from the web by the Idol machine, but Malloy said of the self-titled album, ""I just don't think that that's very important ... Anybody can fail at an album, and these days, anybody can pretty much get a record deal, too ... A second chance is fine." This must come as good news to some other finalists, who've also already put out albums, most notably Carly Smithson.

It's interesting that when asked about her future plans, Kady is the first Idol castoff to start by talking about something other than music. Her passions include opening an animal shelter, a camp for kids and championing for gay rights. Lofty goals indeed. Maybe Kady's goals aren't as focused on music because now she'll be looking for a third chance.

IDOL SEASON 7 FAREWELLS
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#18 - Alaina Whitaker
#19 - Alexandrea Lushington
#20 - Jason Yeager
#21 - Colton Berry
#22 - Joanne Borgella
#23 - Amy Davis
#24 - Garrett Haley