Whatever the case may be, American Idol will go from 24 contestants to 16, with eight competitors from each night guaranteed to advance.
Given the talent that remains in the Top 24, there are going to be some rough cuts, and both competitors’ performance with Jewel may have given America an easy decision to knock two off the list from the Monday night crowd.
Of course, it’s impossible to predict how America will respond as a whole with any certainty, so perhaps this will just be a funny moment where Jewel rocked out a little hard, but it wasn’t a big deal.