After last night on American Idol we now have 15 of the Top 20 specified with the final 5 decided tonight (okay, actually last night, but I will pretend I do not know that.) The first thing that struck me after last night's show ended was that there is no way we will have a repeat of last year -- having 3 short ladies in the Top 5. Last year we had Skylar Laine, Hollie Cavanaugh and Jessica Sanchez all in the Top 5, but this year only Janelle Arthur (and Adriana Latonio) seem to be that short. When Janelle was standing next to Rachel Hale, Janelle seemed a good 4 to 6 inches shorter. I do believe Rachel is fairly tall but Janelle looks tiny. Last week the shortest lady was Adriana Latonio, and she was the only one of the five that could be considered "short". I will have to see her standing next to Janelle to determine which of them is shorter. I actually remembered that Angela Miller was in the "Misfits" group with Janelle (and Breanna Steer and Kez Ban) so we can examine these two pictures to see if we can tell whether Adriana is taller than Janelle (using Angela as a frame of reference):
The other result I realized from last night was that there are now only two minors remaining in the competition, both at 17: Adriana Latonio and Charlie Askew. The three other minors (all female) were eliminated: Juliana Chahayed, Shubha Vedula and Jenny Beth Willis. I wonder when Adriana and Charlie's birthdays are, since I remember in the past having minors in the competition meant that contestants could not work as many hours and had to have tutoring to remain "legal". Knowing the ages of the first 15 of 20, I can now update my age distribution graph:
