Last week, Dana Williams survived a “Rising Star” elimination by receiving her second West Coast Save.<\/p>\n
The same luck would not extend to Shameia Crawford, who proved unable to earn a second reprieve from those watching the tape-delayed broadcast.<\/p>\n
She, along with fellow contestant April Lockhart, departs ABC’s music competition.<\/p>\n
Advancing thanks to the west coast save is Maneepat Molloy, whose rendition of “Your Song” only received 46% of the initial audience’s vote. 55% of the West Coast, however, showered Molloy with support, which was exceeded the voting power thrust behind Crawford and Lockhart.<\/p>\n
Crawford, who received 54% during the initial broadcast, received the same support from the west coast audience. Lockhart’s 27% vote total on the east coast improved to 30% on the west.<\/p>\n
Impressive about Molloy’s successful campaign for the save is that she received a 3% power vote from only one of three experts. Brad Paisley and Ludacris did not join Kesha in supporting the young vocalist.<\/p>\n
While those two also abstained from supporting April Lockhart, they did vote for Shameia Crawford.<\/p>\n
Their collective 6% boost was not, however, enough to push Crawford through. Maneepat Molloy instead joins Jesse Kinch, Austin French, Josh Peavy, Dana Williams and Audrey Kate Geiger in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Neither Molloy nor Lockhart had previously required a West Coast save to survive. Crawford, however, banked on the tape-delayed voters to push her through the audition round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[233,2733,2734,2461,2732],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n