Spoil alert! Contains details of the Sunday episode of "American Idol".

A few days after we predicted that he could win everything, our favorite competitor "American Idol" was sent to pack his bags.

Red crooner Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon was knocked out of the ABC singing competition on Sunday in a shocking manner after landing in the last two rows with Laci Kaye Booth. Urged to use their only backup of the season at the end credits, the judges voted for Booth to stay in the series while he enters the Top 5 next week.

Their decision to keep Booth above Harmon was a headache, given his disappointing performances during the episode. The judges criticized the wooden rendition of Janis Joplin's "To Love Somebody", imploring him to engage in the crowd and not to stand in one place. They were more receptive to her vision of the "Open Arms" show on the "Journey Arms" show, although viewers were not as impressed, tweeting as she was. "The voice is not strong enough" and that was the "bad song" for her.

Harmon, meanwhile, gave two shots: impress the judges with his vocal lyrics on the evangelical hymn "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and reach new emotional heights with the magnificent "Somewhere" of "West Side Story" , which has perfectly demonstrated out of its seemingly limitless range.

"I was locked in every word, every syllable, you did such a good job," Katy Perry said afterwards.

Luke Bryan noted that Harmon had started quite badly, before adding: "From mid-term to the end of the song, it was just amazing. Amazing."

Lionel Richie was the most effusive in his praises, saying, "You can not study hypnotic.The audience was completely prisoner of you.You killed it tonight."

Harmon, 26, from Catonsville, Maryland, worked as a janitor at her father's church before becoming gay. The singer-songwriter has been frank throughout the season about his struggle to be accepted by his conservative parents, who finally attended a "Idol" recording last week.

Three more episodes remain this season of "Idol", with the Top 5 disputing Sunday (8 EDT / PDT) before the start of the final in two parts that will begin May 19.

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