The morning after Jacob Lusk was eliminated in fifth place, he opened up to the press on a conference call. The 23-year-old opened up about his swan song performance, "God Bless The Child," and his future album.
Jacob Lusk landed on the American Idol radar during Season 10's Hollywood auditions. His rendition of "God Bless The Child" was called "the single best performance on Idol ever" by judge Randy Jackson. Jacob explained, "I went out there and I don't know if anyone noticed, but I changed one of the lyrics in the song. When I ended, I said 'God bless the child that's got his own; I need my own. My Momma may have, my Poppa may have, but I need my own,' and that's really why I sang it. I was tired and I didn't want to go back home to my normal life and I had to have my own...Everybody has theirs. You know JLo has hers. Steven had his and I wanted mine. And that's really where I sing it from. I didn't want to struggle any more. I didn't want to have to wonder where my next meal was going to come from. I didn't want to wonder where I was going to live or if I was going to have enough money to pay rent and now I don't have to worry about that ever again."
Post-elimination, Jacob gave a celebratory performance, and even as the cameras stopped rolling, ... read more
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