AI OD: A farewell to Ramiele Malubay - VIDEOS

In Ramiele Malubay's exit interview, she said that she saw her elimination from American Idol coming. She also said that nerves were definitely getting the better of her, along with a combination of early praise going to her head. At least she's not running around blaming everything from the judges to her placement on the show. Here's a twenty-year old girl who's basically coming right out and saying "You know what, I blew it." Just not in those words.

She plans to become roommates with her new BFF Danny Noriega, whenever he gets done cruising the world with Rosie O'Donnell and she gets done touring this summer, I guess. Ramiele is an incredibly talented girl with a cute personality and tiny little frame. With the proper marketing team behind her, and obviously a manager to help her find herself as a singer, she could really make something of herself.

She's well aware of the success former Idol contestant, and fellow Filipino, Jasmine Trias has had in the Philippines, and intends to follow that route as well. But she also wants to finish college and perhaps pursue acting. Honestly, Ramiele? Acting? You're going to have to come a helluva lot more out of that shyness shell of yours if you want to pull off acting. Look how far Britney had to go just to get a bit role on How I Met Your Mother. Okay, maybe that's an extreme example.

There's really no point in analyzing Ramiele's individual performances. She started off strong, with passion and conviction in her performances. Then week after week she put on empty performances of bad song choices and lost more and more of that momentum she'd started with until it finally sputtered out and she was gone.

During Ramiele's elimination, the oddest thing was the amazing size differential between Ramiele and the amazonian duo of Brooke White and Kristy Lee Cook. Ramiele's cute personality shone a bit in this sequence as well. Oh, and who can forget the awkwardness of her face to the bosom hug with Kristy when she was cut. You could tell Ryan wanted to just pull her right out of that cleavage. "This is a family show, young lady!":


Top 9 "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind":


Top 10 "Alone":


Ramiele Top 10 "Alone" (studio version dubbed). Okay, I have to interject here. Someone took the studio recorded version of Heart's "Alone" that Ramiele did and dubbed it over the footage of her live performance. The vocals on this are absolutely amazing. Maybe Ramiele is one of those singers who just sounds way better in a studio than she does live?:


Top 11 "I Should Have Known Better":


Top 12 "In My Life":


Top 16 "Against All Odds":


Top 20 "Don't Leave Me This Way":


Top 24 "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me":


Ramiele in Hollywood. What happened to this girl? She was so amazing!:


Ramiele's initial audition where she just blew the competition away. Consider this. Jasmine Trias was a good but certainly not an amazing singer. Ramiele can out-sing her any second of any day. And yet, Jasmin managed a third place finish. Is the talent that much stronger this year, or did Ramiele really blow it that badly? My money's on the latter, though the talent is strong.:


IDOL SEASON 7 FAREWELLS
#10 - Chikezie
#11 - Amanda Overmyer
#12 - David Hernandez
#13 - Danny Noriega
#14 - Asia'h Epperson
#15 - Luke Menard
#16 - Kady Malloy
#17 - Robbie Carrico
#18 - Alaina Whitaker
#19 - Alexandrea Lushington
#20 - Jason Yeager
#21 - Colton Berry
#22 - Joanne Borgella
#23 - Amy Davis
#24 - Garrett Haley