Today in Ty Taylor

Here's the thing. Ty is trying so hard to cultivate this nice-guy image, but really he's quite bitchy and entitled:

1. He stated this week that he thought there were some others who should end up in the bottom three, just to see what it's like. I'll have to remember the excruciating pain of the bottom three the next time I'm contemplating war and famine, just so I can maintain the proper perspective. It could be so much worse! I could be in the bottom three!
   
   
2. Why does he assume that his performance of "Proud Mary" merited the week's encore? "Proud Mary" is a fantastic, soulful song that is exciting and fun to sing. It's not, like, a big challenge. There is a woman at karaoke night in my local bar who sings "Proud Mary" each week. I daresay her version is even better than Ty's. Perhaps this is because she doesn't have a mohawk, nor does she bristle in a queen-like manner at the suggestion that she is too theatrical.
   
   
3. Then there was Ty's insistence that he shouldn't face elimination this week because he "put on a show" when he performed "Proud Mary." This "show" of which he speaks seems to refer to using Jordis, Deanna and Suzie as his back-up singers. In which case credit should go to them for dutifully singing Ty's back-up "arrangement" (which was so groundbreaking! "Rolling / rolling / rolling on the river ... do do do do / do do do do").
   
   
4. Finally, the Atlas of the Rock Star mansion, Ty thinks he carried the whole cast on his shirtless lats because this week he (a) rehearsed his own song, (b) co-wrote, arranged and rehearsed Deanna's "original" composition and (c) arranged the back-up vocals for "Proud Mary." If Ty wasn't around to steamroll -- I'm sorry, inspire -- everyone's efforts, the rest of the singers would probably just sit aimlessly by the pool pondering how sometimes we're not being human, but we're all human beings.

So my schadenfreude this week was two-fold: Ty was in the bottom three, and so was Deanna, who sang Ty's crappy song about truth. So much for his Herculean efforts to produce every ounce of the performance episode this week. Went over like a lead balloon. Or, a Led Balloon. Rock on, people.