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Amanda on Idol Exit: "It Is What It Is"
Amanda Overmyer's problem was that she was a square—"a square peg in a round hole."
An admittedly exhausted Overmyer told reporters Thursday that she knew her American Idol time was up when she, along with much-maligned Kristy Lee Cook and Carly Smithson, her roommate, landed in the bottom three on Wednesday night's results show.
"I know how different I am," said the rock-steady Overmyer, who became the second eliminated finalist after David Hernandez. "And I know I target an older audience...maybe than American Idol provides.
"I definitely had hopes of [top] six or seven. But it is what it is."
By finishing 11th, Overmyer missed by one tantalizing spot a place on Idol's summer tour. She said she was neither disappointed ("The ultimate goal is to get my own") nor indignant.
"I think for it being an American Idol tour, it is what it is," she said, returning to her theme. "I think they have the best group for it...I didn't really fit in."
The 23-year-old nurse from Indiana with the voice by Janis Joplin was the only rocker among the female contenders and was even less pop-inclined than David Cook and Michael Johns, the two rock-ish performers among the male contenders.
It was Overmyer's anti-Idol vibe that led the Idol-tweaking site, Vote for the Worst, to champion her as its next Sanjaya.
Overmyer didn't sound as if she lost sleep over the Vote for the Worst endorsement
"It personally didn't hurt me at all," Overmyer said. "I mean, hell, votes are votes. From what I hear, they weren't too harsh on me."
Overmyer is the third Vote for the Worst candidate this season, after Danny Noriega and Amy Davis, to fail to get enough votes to stay on the show. As of Thursday morning, the site was open to suggestions for its next pick
If there had been a next week on Idol for Overmyer, she said she would have belted "On the Dark Side," a John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band cut from the cult movie Eddie and the Cruisers.
Overmyer had no regrets about her song choice this past week on Beatles night, part two, "Back in the U.S.S.R."
"If it wasn't that song, it would have been another song sounding like me singing it," she said.
The future for Overmyer could see her doing more music, or it could see her returning to Indiana and nursing. She just doesn't know.
"I have zero experience in this [music] industry," Overmyer said. "I'm as green as they come."
The one thing the imminently sensible Overmyer knows is that real life goes on.
"Last night wasn't the most traumatic thing to happen in my life," she said. "I just got voted off a TV show."
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