Rock Star: INXS Craziness

I'll admit it, I've been watching Rock Star:INXS. It's like "American Idol For Grown-Ups", for those who haven't been watching it, where the winner gets to be the new frontman (or woman) for INXS as they replace their dead lead singer.

Each week, on the elimination night, they have someone who is picked to perform an encore of the previous night's performance, and then they later isolate the "bottom three vote-getters". Normally the encore is picked by INXS, and the bottom-three is based on phone-in votes, etc. This week, both were determined by "the masses".

Paradoxically, the guy who got the encore this week (e.g., the majority of the people out there said "his performance was the best and we want to hear it again") was also a member of the bottom three vote getters (e.g., "These are the three people who we think had the worst performances.")

That makes no sense whatsoever. Seriously. That's a brain-dead system.

Admittedly, the "masses" actually get no say in who leaves the show. (INXS decides from among the bottom three who they want to send home, so if they like someone, no matter how much the world hates them, they don't go home). But still,.... for the person to get voted as both "the best performance" and "one of the worst performances" simply makes no sense.