If you're in the Nashville area, some of VFTW's favorite contestants from last year are doing a fundraiser to help benefit a charity called "Buckets of Hope for Haiti." The fundraiser is a concert on Monday, February 8 at 8 PM at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville. The Idols appearing are Brent Keith, Alex Wagner-Trugman, Felicia Barton, Ricky Braddy, and Anne Marie Boskovich. The show is free and we're assuming they'll be accepting donations there. So attend the show if you're in the area and help a good cause.

Honestly, can you blame them? American Idol threw many people under the bus this year, almost double the normal amount of cannon fodder. The contestants who were cast aside by the Idol machine twittered about this season's finale:

Got tickets for Wicked on Wednesday. I'm told this might change my career goals. We'll see

3:05 PM May 11th from web

rickybraddy

@rickybraddy it'll make you want to be a witch. Or Adam lambert.

3:17 PM May 11th from TwitterFon in reply to rickybraddy

alexWTrugs

@alexWTrugs Which would you prefer?

3:24 PM May 11th from TwitterFon in reply to alexWTrugs

brentkeith

@brentkeith well, the life of a witch feels too full of drama and

makeup and high pitched shrieking. So let's say... Um... Neither. A

wizard

4:25 PM May 11th from TwitterFon in reply to brentkeith

alexWTrugs

The best part is, they're right. Seriously, Adam's high pitched shrieking was what the show wanted this year? We welcome all cast aside contestants into the Worster fold, of course. You guys know first hand how dirty Idol is, and it must suck to be on the receiving end of that crap.

Thanks to MJ'S Big Blog for the info. iTunes made a mistake AGAIN and released the sales of the wildcard performers' iTunes tracks. Matt Giraud, Anoop Desai, and Megan Corkrey are way out in front (because Idol's voting and buying audience are frauen, tweens, and crazies), followed by Tranny Alien, Ricky Braddy, Jesse Langseth, Von Smith, and in dead last fabulous Tatiana Del Toro. This certainly bodes well for 3 of the wildcards' survival in this competition. As for Jasmine? No one likes her, even if we have to hear how "commercial" she is every time she farts on stage. The only way we'd like her is if she's the VFTW pick, and even then, she barely has a shot at lasting more than 2 weeks on the show.

Spoilerific news on the horizon. JoesPlace has posted a picture of Matt Giraud, Ricky Braddy, and Anoop Desai coming out of a movie with Alexis Grace and Kris Allen. This means the first 3 are back in Hollywood for some reason. It looks like they're 3 of our wildcards. Matt and Anoop were no brainers, but Ricky was a stretch after the whole web ordeal. Interesting news. Where's Tatiana, though?