Tales of the Golem; or, the Modern Epimetheus

Bucky Covington

Bucky's departure from American Idol tonight is a good demonstration of the fact that the AI voting is based on the integral of your performance over time, not on your most recent nightly performance.

Bucky's performance of "Fat-Bottomed Girls" this week was the best song he's ever done, and among the better performance of this week. If he had performed that well every week, he wouldn't be in the bottom three.

At least he went out on a high note.

posted by Richard Mason @ Wednesday, April 12, 2006