Hey, no confederate flag this time! Kristy's sounding good in her debut video, and the song's very catchy. Despite looking a little bland, Kristy could potentially have a hit here. It's a pretty catchy song. Good for her.

Not bad. You can listen to her entire album at CMT. One song is called Plant the Seed and Krity sings "God bless the ones who plant the seed." Is that a thank you to the producers of American Idol for planting her on the show? But hey, not too shabby for a debut album. See, we don't hate everyone. Though Kristy probably had this recorded long before she went on Idol, being a plant and all.

Even worse than Kellie's album cover! Seriously, do these record labels even care about these "artists"? Leave us a comment to let us know what the horse is thinking in this picture. (P.S. This is not the horse she sold to get on Idol. That horse is glue now. Like this one will be soon. No one wants a horse infested with genital herpes.)

The surprise isn't that "15 Minutes of Shame" by former VFTW pick Kristy Lee Cook has leaked online. The surprise is that it's actually a decent song! Hey, good for Kristy.

After signing Davids Cook and Archuleta, 19 Entertainment made a strange choice in their third contestant to sign from the past season: Kristy Lee Cook. Kristy is signed to 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville... yes, Arista Nashville was the same label she was signed to a long time ago before she was dropped... and will release her appropriately named first single, 15 Minutes of Shame, on August 11. I guess that means there will be a sample of Eight Days a Week in the new single. Or she'll be posing in front of a Confederate flag for the single cover. There are so many places to go with this, we hope the song is as deliciously tacky as Kristy (soon to be followed with her second single: God Bless Puppies and This Great Country We Live In). Want to take bets on how much Arista Nashville had to pony up to get Kristy on the show to make money on their patriotic investment?

Apparently Guitar Hero is sponsoring the Idol tour this summer. Whatever. The fascinating part of the article is this picture.

Everyone remember this when you think about trying out for AI8. You have to do this. And again... Carly manages to look like an idiot in every picture she appears in. 

As the seventh season of American Idol has ended, Vote for the Worst has compiled a list of the 20 performances that make us actually take the time to watch Idol. These are not the 20 worst performances, nor are they 20 performances with bad singing. They are our 20 favorite, most entertaining performances that really define what VFTW is all about. Did your favorite make the list? Click "Read more" to see how the members of this site ranked our top 20, watch the performances again that you love, and check out some new ones you may have never seen that are true classics.

Vote for the Worst has raised $2500 for Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society this year, but we'd like to do one more thing to help out. We're starting a charity auction with 6 great items that you can bid on where 100% of the proceeds will go to help the fight against cancer. To bid on the items, simply follow these links over to eBay, and bid generously to help an oustanding cause.



Bo Bice T-Shirt with Signed Catalog and CD
Steffi DiDomenicantonio Custom Made Autographed Bows
Taylor Hicks Signed T-Shirt
Mikalah Gordon 'My Job Is To Annoy You' Shirt From Her Time on Idol
Phuong Pham Hat From American Idol and Demo
Canadian Idol Autographs and Trading Cards

(We also had one more INCREDIBLE item that may be lost in the mail. We hope UPS can find it soon so we can put it up. We'll keep you posted if they can find it.)

The official VFTW caricatures are timeless works of art, and they are also up for auction! If you win the auction, you will own the one of a kind artwork, the only copy in existence, complete with a letter of authenticity. 100% of these profits will go to the artist, the very talented Laura Hawbaker. Bid on the caricatures at the links below:

Randy Jackson ● Simon Cowell ● Paula Abdul ● Danny Noriega ● Amy Davis ● Amanda Overmyer ● Kristy Lee Cook ● Brooke White ● Jason Castro ● David Archuleta