{"id":4768,"date":"2014-04-10T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multilingualbooks.com\/wp\/soundandvision\/2014\/04\/10\/american-idol-livin-in-the-80s\/"},"modified":"2014-04-10T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:55:12","slug":"american-idol-livin-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multilingualbooks.com\/wp\/soundandvision\/2014\/04\/10\/american-idol-livin-in-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol: Livin' in the '80s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American Idol<\/a><\/em> went back to the ’80s Wednesday night, with the Top 8 finalists performing song selections from music’s most fluorescent decade — despite the fact that none of the contestants were alive in the 1980s. (Think about that for a second. Feel old yet?) They get help from a nearly unrecognizable David Cook<\/a>, who returns to the Idol<\/em> stage this week to act as a mentor.<\/p>\n

We get our first elimination of the night fairly early, when judge Keith Urban<\/a> opts to ditch his bitchin’ mullet (“sixty thousand dollars’ worth of hair extensions,” quips his co-panelist Harry Connick, Jr.<\/a>) within the first five minutes of the show.<\/p>\n

With the judges having used their only save<\/a> on Sam Woolf<\/a> last week, someone will definitely be going home on Thursday night. So, how did the Top 8 do? Let’s get to the performances: <\/p>\n

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