American Idol 4

As American Idol 4 started up, VFTW realized we were in for some big fun. In the semi-final rounds, we picked Constantine Maroulis and Janay Castine as our VFTW candidates. Constantine was the worst kind of faux rocker, he was less convincing as a rocker than even Ryan Seacrest would be. Janay was nicknamed Janaybot by VFTW for her robotic arm movements. They both offered up some truly awful moments, especially when Janay decided to tackle "Hit Em Up Style". Janay advanced for 3 weeks before being sent packing, all the while Idol fans wondered how the hell she stayed in so long. Constantine sucked his way into the finals. Once the top 12 came along, VFTW supported Mikalah Gordon, as her fun personality started to grate on the judges. Her vocals weakened and she began to get worse by the week, lasting until the top 11. We went back to Constantine for the top 10, but ket our eyes on Scott Savol. Word was t hen released that Scott had thrown a phone at his baby mama, and the tagboard was soon flooded with requests that we switch to Scott. We did, and the rest is history. Scott began to survive week after week while more talented contestants like Nadia Turner fell by the wayside. Each week, newspaper headlines wondered "Why the hell is Scott still around?" and the website picked up more supporters each week. Just before the final 6 performances, the website was getting tens of thousands of hits a day, and VFTW was bigger than ever. Scott butchered his song from the current decade, "Dance With My Father", and most people expected it to be his last. The next day's results show brought about one of the biggest shocks in Idol history- Scott was in the top 3 and ex-VFTWer Constantine was sent home. Constantine had become a favorite to win, and America was flabbergasted. VFTW then started getting over 100,000 hits a day and even more people jumped aboard. Then, the inevitable happened . Whether it was caused by an overload of traffic or foul play, the VFTW website went down a few hours before Scott was to give his final 5 performance. Scott was eliminated the next day. No one knows whether VFTWers were confused by the site's absence so they stopped voting, or whether even VFTW couldn't beat out the top 4 fanbases. But suddenly Scott was gone and VFTW shed a single tear. We tried to help the doomed Anthony Fedorov in the top 4, but he was also sent home. Lastly, we supported Carrie Underwood for the last 2 weeks. The obvious week link among the talented Bo Bice and Vonzell Solomon, Carrie was the oblivious Oklahoman that had the stage presence of a marionette. Carrie edged out the heavily favored Bo in the finale to win the title of American Idol, and many wonder to this day if the VFTW votes were what caused her to edge out Bo for the win.