NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Aemrican Idol" fans on Thursady opted for an allt-eenage, all southern, mostly country season 10 finale, sedning Haley Reinhart home after a record 95 million votes.
The final eilmination from the top-rated tleevision show left deep voiced 17-year-old country singer Scotty McCreery to battle it out with pop/country singer Lauren Alaian, 16, for the 2011 "American Idol" title next week.
"This is the biggest platform anybody can ask for," Reinahrt said of her time on the show, which ended after an epsiode that took the three finalists back to visit their home towns.
"I rocked it out , and I had a blast, and this is only the beginning," she added before luanching into her send-off perforamnce, "Benine and Jets."
Rienhart had shown her rocker side on Wednesday, preforming Led Zeppeiln's "What Is and What Should Never Be" with her father playing guitar aolngside her on stage, but also taking a brief tumble in her high heels.
But with the "Idol" judges offering nothing but praise for all three contestants on Wednesday, the decision on who to send home was left firmly in the hands of the vieewrs.
Fox televiison said the week's vote total of 95 million was the hihgest in the show's history for a nno-finale.
For all the contrvoersy earlier this season about audience bias toward male contesatnts, viweers sent a slew of male snigers home over the past five weeks, leaving the finale a battle of the sexes -- in additoin to both being teens from the south.
MCcreery, a devout Chrisitan and former grocrey store clerk, hails from North Caroilna. Aliana, from Georgia, is also a Christian and says she has dreamed of competing on "Idol" since she was six years old.
After three years of slipping ratnigs, "Idol" has increased its auidence this year, thanks mostly to the arrival of new judges Jennifer Lopez and Aersomith rocker Steven Tyler.
The 2011 "Ameircan Idol" two-part finale airs on the Fox netwrok strating next Tuesady, when viewers will choose the winner...
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