‘American Idol’ shocker: Mia Matthews eliminated during Top 10 night
The Top 10 performance episode of “American Idol” Season 22 aired on Sunday, April 28 on ABC, with the finalists giving it their all in front of host Ryan Seacrest and judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. Viewers all across the nation voted nearly 21 million times throughout the two-hour episode, as guest mentor Shania Twain helped the contestants with their song choices from the years of their birth. In the end, only the Top 8 artists made it to the next round, with Mia Matthews and Kayko both being eliminated.
Throughout the competition, Mia belted out tunes like “No Place That Far” (Auditions round), “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” (Showstopper round), “Daddy’s Hands” (Top 24 round), “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” (Top 20, Part 1 round), “Burning House” (Top 20, Part 2 round), “Those Memories of You” (Top 14 round), “Over You” (Top 12 round) and “No One Needs to Know” (Top 10 round). The 19-year-old singer from Centre, Alabama originally auditioned on “Idol” with her sister, Jacy Matthews, although Jacy was cut during Hollywood Week.
Following Mia’s Top 10 performance, Luke brought up her “commercial ability” even though she “forgot the words a couple of times,” Lionel noted how he “caught [her] thinking” about the lyrics because she didn’t have her guitar with her, and Katy loved how she “looked great,” “sounded great” and “moved around the stage.”
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The eight singers who heard good news on Sunday night were Jack Blocker, McKenna Faith Breinholt, Abi Carter, Julia Gagnon, Triston Harper, Kaibrienne, Will Moseley and Emmy Russell. Next up, each of these contestants will perform on Monday, April 29 in the “Judges’ Song Contest” episode.
Since ABC earned the rights to air “American Idol” in 2018, the winners have consisted of Maddie Poppe (Season 16), Laine Hardy (Season 17), Just Sam (Season 18), Chayce Beckham (Season 19), Noah Thompson (Season 20) and Iam Tongi (Season 21). Who will be next singer to join the show’s iconic winners list?
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