Why pia eliminated

Then she took the microphone from Seacrest and belted out "Stand By You. Toscano, a native of Howard Beach, N. This week, she departed from her trademark ballads to take on her first up-tempo number, Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High," as the contestants performed songs written by inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Looking less than comfortable moving around the stage, she nonetheless brought the same level of vocal acrobatics to her performance. Nearly everyone looked surprised when Seacrest announced she was in the bottom three, along with Stefano Lagone. Jacob Lusk took the third seat. Secrest sent Lusk back to safety, leaving Toscano and Lagone, who nodded his head as if he knew he would be going home. Instead, it was Toscano, whom many had presumed could win the competition.

She can do no wrong, she's a great singer, she's beautiful -- she's got the whole package. You see both guys and girls react to her when she sings. She's a woman. Look at the list above and you'll see another trend: The creeping extinction of female contestants from the top nine. This year there are two left from seven originally being in the final 13, while all six male contestants have remained, despite performances that have at times been super-weird and just flat-out wrong.

Maybe the judges shouldn't have used their save on Casey Abrams a few weeks back in anticipation of a double-exed hopeful going home "too soon," but Casey is at least giving the show something resembling buzz.

What's Pia giving it? Which just so happens to be next week's theme! On the bright side, perhaps the timing of last night's elimination and the performance that immediately preceded it could result in Pia having the brilliant idea to reinvent herself in the mold of Iggy Pop!

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When asked how she was feeling, Toscano mustered, "I'm good. I'm OK. Had Toscano's elimination come earlier in the season, the Howard Beach, New York native would have no doubt been saved. But the judges had exhausted their lone save option of the season during top 11 week on Casey Abrams, who was deemed safe by voters this week.

Stefano Langone and Jacob Lusk joined Toscano in the bottom three. Toscano's elimination is the latest in an ongoing trend of female contestants being voted off "American Idol" before their male counterparts. Just two females -- Lauren Alaina and Haley Reinhart -- remain in the competition this season, while six males are left standing.