Worst 'American Idol' Finalists ever- #4: Jasmine Trias

LOL oooh Jasmine! I'll never forget her boohooing and those results...so much fun! But I actually loved her performance of Inseparable.

I wish you'd wait until the end of this season. I think you could find about eleven people from this show to fill the bottom twelve.

"Hawaii has its own time zone and thus can get in way more votes than any other location voting for Idol." I don't understand this. I thought that people in each time zone can begin voting after the episode ends for a specified amount of time, like 2 hours.

Exactly. Hawai'i has a time zone all to itself(HST).

The brain trust at 19E/Freemantel/Fox didn't take that into account at all. Hawai'i supports its own. Its the only state with a college vollyball team that makes a profit at the end of the season. How? Because they have a overwhelming winning record and people show up by the thousands to watch each game.

So the closer it came to the finals, with Jasmine still there, the harder they voted. One businessman even rented a phone bank on tuesdays to help Jasmine each week.

And really, they knew she was close to crying and switched up the order of the judges comments(Simon had his say 1st) that night to push her over the edge.

Ironically, producers interviewed after the Hawai'i audititions said they were looking at coming back next year for auditions.

I'm convinced Jasmine's success by way of the Hawaii voting block is why Idol has canceled Alaska auditions more than once. They're afraid all those native Alaskans will send a mediocre, less-than-marketable singer to a win. We haven't had a native Utah Mormon in the top 12 since Carmen, either, have we? Obviously, the show wanted someone from Hawaii to do well, since they sent three contestants through to the semi-finals (oh, Jonah, there was no room for a wannabe Israel Kamakawiwo'ole on Idol with two pretty girls in the contest), and let two coast through to the final 12. It's pretty obvious Camille, not Jasmine, was the chosen Hawaiian (yo, dawg, you're like a young Lauren Hill, dawg) and her zombified performances could not be glossed over. Thus, Jasmine became the state flower of Hawaii and sailed through for weeks and weeks.

This was the season where they had to do a set with banter, right? She sang "Almost Like Being in Love" and started crying at the judges comments, no?

Jennifer Hudson went home due to knocked out phone lines in the chicagoland area that fatefull tuesday night. it was a long mean thunderstorm with no phone reception in her base area . just thought i woulds pass that along . flower power was awful !

Jasmine wasn't that bad but she got that reputation because of how long she lasted. If she had come in 8th or 7th like she should have, people would have looked at her fondly.

Her Inseparable was pretty good. That was it.

? Isn't it true that in their time zone, they can start voting when the show stops airing, and the voting window lasts as long as it does for voters in the other time zones, usually 2 hours? I don't believe any one time zone has a longer voting window than the others.