https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXbZ1ELnkH0

Another season down, and another winner of American Idol crowned. Since Fox is always trying to outdo itself with its Idol finales, it seemed to have found itself in the precarious position of needing something truly shocking and/or awful for last night’s broadcast.

So, Ryan Seacrest, tone-deaf as he is, agreed to sing for the first time in Idol history.

And that’s not all. He performed a sort of homoerotic duet with none other than Richard Marx, one of Bryan Adams’ main “soft-rock” competitors throughout the 80’s and early 90’s. Side note: Marx is looking more and more like Barry Manilow as time goes on. Not that I’ve been paying much attention to him or anything.

I think I enjoyed American Idol‘s finales a lot more when they used to do stuff like this:

And this: