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Revision as of 13:37, 2 March 2016

The American Vote for the Girls lore is a collection of information that fans retain and share.


Episodes

The following is a selected list of memorable events that have stood the test of time and are considered common knowledge by VFTG fans:

2010

2011

  • The Thrill of a Vote for the Girls Win... (May 12, 2011, Ava Zinn, Holly Everman and Robyn Hurd vs Dave Della Terza, American Idol 10)
    Sparked by the early elimination of female contestants in the first five weeks of the American Idol 10 finals that led some critics[1][2], including Zinn, Everman, and Hurd to believe that it was partly due to the demographic of the voters being skewed towards females who tended to vote for men led to criticism of bias against women. The last of these five girls to be eliminated was a presumed front-runner and Vote for the Girls pick, Pia Toscano, and her elimination drew considerable criticisms, with various former Idol alums and notably Zinn's longtime friend Alec Dailey[3] and Kristy Habiby expressing shock and surprise.[2][4] Toscano's elimination saw Lauren Alaina and Haley Reinhart as the only remaining females left in the competition.[5][6][7]
    Idol producer Ken Warwick said, "It's no secret that most reality shows are female driven, either by moms or by young girls. It does mean we're going to get a heftier amount of female votes and it's always bent towards the boys, obviously, we are very much aware that the voting can be skewed towards the boys." In response to the criticism, the producers considered tweaking the voting format for the following season to correct the bias.[8] In response to criticism, the producers considered tweaking the voting format for the following season.[9] However, after Toscano's elimination, the performances of Alaina and Reinhart&dash;the latter being chosen by Della Terza as a Vote for the Worst pick–led the web site bounce back from Toscano's elimination seeing the next five eliminated contestants were all males, leading to the first Top 3 with two females since the sixth season, the largest comeback ever in the site's history setting up for a possible since the third season to have a finale consisting of two women and guaranteeing a Double VFTG Victory. The episode represented one of the most important events in the web site's history of American version of Vote for the Girls. This episode introduced the "pulling a Brandi Chastain" as a popular reference on the web site as host Ava Zinn pulled a Brandi Chastain on the U.S. version was the elimination of James Durbin on May 12, 2011 upon seeing Haley Reinhart and Lauren Alaina were the first two advancing in the American Idol 10 Top 3 by spontaneously whipping off her shirt and falling to her knees in her black bra, which generated mixed reviews and is considered to be the site's most memorable wins (this is Zinn's most memorable Vote for the Girls moment), referencing Brandi Chastain's iconic image celebrating the winning spot kick[10] at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, after scoring the fifth kick in the penalty shootout to give the United States the win over China in the final game featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated became one of the defining images of women's athletics in the United States.[11][12][13][14][15] [4] Ironically, three months later that year on the eighth season of So You Think You Can Dance the site finally gained its first double VFTG Victory upon the third place finish of Marko Germar with Melanie Moore defeating Sasha Mallory to what was then the largest comeback (that would later be surpassed two years later upon the elimination of Lazaro Arbos on Idol ) in the web site's history.


2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

See also


References

  1. ↑ Sorry, ladies. 'Idol's' just not that into you Female hopefuls keep getting the boot, while guys who aren't as good stick around
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 With Pia Toscano now gone, can American Idol do anything about its woman problem? Retrieved March 30, 2013
  3. ↑ "PiaRoll'd". Vote for the Girls. No. 11, season 2. Retrieved on 29 February 2016. "Alec: I'm done watching American Idol."
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Us Weekly (2011-04-08). Jennifer Hudson, Tom Hanks Outraged Over Pia Toscano's 'Idol' Elimination | Rolling Stone Culture. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2011-08-06.
  5. ↑ "Why did Pia Toscano leave 'Idol' so soon?". Content.usatoday.com. 2011-04-08. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2011/04/why-did-pia-toscano-leave-idol-so-soon/1. Retrieved 2012-04-21. 
  6. ↑ 'American Idol': Voting methods, judges are to blame for the girls' downfall. Blog.zap2it.com (2011-04-08). Retrieved on 2012-04-21.
  7. ↑ 'American Idol' EP Ken Warwick: 'Maybe we change the voting system slightly next year'. Blog.zap2it.com. Retrieved on 2012-04-21.
  8. ↑ 'Idol' considers voting tweaks to fix boy bias. Today.msnbc.msn.com (2011-04-20). Retrieved on 2012-04-21.
  9. ↑ "American Idol" mulls voting tweaks to fix boy bias
  10. ↑ 1999 U.s. Women's Soccer Team - Los Angeles Times. Articles.latimes.com (2012-07-13). Retrieved on 2012-08-02.
  11. ↑ Brandi Chastain Cover - Sports Illustrated 07.19.99 Issue Contents - SI Vault. Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-02.
  12. ↑ JERE LONGMANPublished: July 05, 2003 (2003-07-05). SOCCER; The Sports Bra Seen Round the World - New York Times. Nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2012-10-30.
  13. ↑ SETH FAISONPublished: July 12, 1999 (1999-07-12). WOMEN'S WORLD CUP; The View From China: 'So Close, So Close' - New York Times. Nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2012-10-30.
  14. ↑ Reynolds, Charles (1999-07-10). Football: America in love and having a ball - Sport. The Independent. Retrieved on 2012-10-30.
  15. ↑ BBC News - Why Women's World Cup champion Brandi Chastain bared her bra. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2014-07-28.


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