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After a great opening week performance, Alexandrea Lushington really slipped in her second week on the American Idol stage. Unfortunately, we hadn't seen enough of her personality yet to make any sort of connection with her, and so we were left with an audience that probably didn't remember how solid she was and only remembered a very shaky, off-key performance seriously lacking in confidence.

In AOL's interview with Alexandrea Lushington, she admitted to being surprised about her early elimination, but remained confident that everything happens for a reason. "I think because this happened it was supposed to happen. I know that I'm going to benefit from it all."

A couple of days ago, the purported list of the Top 24 contestants spilled across the Internet. Monday, I took you through the list of Top 12 Boys, so now we're going to look into the Top 12 Girls. And let me tell you, after researching these 24 (whether they're the accurate Top 24 or not is still up for debate), I can tell you that American Idol is definitely NOT about finding great undiscovered talent this year.

After the lackluster response to last year, they were determined to get better singers on the air, so it makes sense to look for people who've already had major record deals and have already been signed by major labels and stars, but whose big debuts just kind of fizzled. You know they've got talent because they were already signed once, they're just not signed now. So it's "Unsigned Talent" that's more important than "Undiscovered Talent." I just wish they'd be more honest about it on-screen instead of pretending these people just walked in off the farm.

[UPDATE - Now updated and with additional audition video! - j/h]