Idol Round-Up: Lana Leaves After Being Declared “Out Of Her Depth”, Australia Sez “You Don’t Say”

Australian Idol finally did something right last night, ousting Perth teenager Lana Krost a few weeks later than should have been the case (about five weeks too late, to be exact).

The schoolgirl with the Mid-Atlantic accent of indeterminate origin faffed her way through weak-voiced renditions of songs we suspect she didn’t really understand, though we were slightly taken aback by the mature (read: very unlike previous schoolgirl Lauren “The Waterworks” Buckley) manner with which she acquitted herself post-eviction:

“I’m gonna look at it like I came 10th out of 35,000 people,” she said, wearing a girlish grin that had been largely absent during the past few week.

And then she sang a reprise of her Moloko cover and all the bile came flooding back.

We look forward to this week’s “acoustic” night and the accompanying, no doubt, soulful/meaningful/”special” performances full of deep male pain (as with the departure of another female contestant, we are, as Mark Holden so sagely put it, “heading into the testosterone zone”).