Lauren Alaina Suddeth‘s song selection on “American Idol” this week turned out to be prophetic.
Lauren Alaina Suddeth performs on “American Idol” on March 23. (Contributed by Michael Becker/ Fox)The Rossville, Ga., teen sang the Supremes’ 1960s hit “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” and the show’s voters did just that, returning her to the show for at least another week and cementing her as part of the show’s multi-city summer concert tour.
The tour is typically reserved for the show’s Top 10, but “American Idol” producers expanded the number to 11 because Casey Abrams, the contestant voted off Thursday night, was “saved” by the judges.
The judges, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, had one “save” to use this season and they used it to throw a lifeline to the bluesy Texas native, Abrams.
Paul McDonald, a Nashville resident whose mother Susan is an instructor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, also made it into the Top 11 concert tour group.