American Idol picks first five boys and Nicki Minaj crosses a line

American Idol recap: The first five of American Idol's final 10 male contestants were revealed Thursday night but not before Nicki Minaj makes a questionable remark to 18-year-old Elijah Liu. Did she go too far?

By Jodi Bradbury,?Contributor / February 22, 2013

Nicki Minaj gestures to the audience during the American Idol premiere event at Royce Hall in Los Angeles last month. On Thursday, Nicki was especially flirtatious in her appreciation of some of the male performers.

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On Thursday night, it was the boys' turn to subject themselves to American Idol's daunting sudden death round. (Am I the only one who can't help but think of The Weakest Link every time they say sudden death?) But before they even got a chance to perform, Ryan Seacrest put American Idol judge Mariah Carey on the spot, asking her what she loved about the girls the night before. Seems like a simple enough question but Mariah, looking like a deer caught in headlights, was stumped. Suddenly it felt like a scene out of a MIss America pageant's Question Round as Mariah rambled on nervously, failing to address the question posed to her.?

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Thankfully, Ryan quickly moved on to the performances. Aside from perhaps, Kree Harrison, the girls' performances from the night before were nothing remarkable so it was with baited breath that viewers waited for the boys to blow them away. As we waited, we had to listen to American Idol judge Nicki Minaj sexually harass more than one of the male singers.

First, she questioned Johnny Keyser, about his relationship status (still single) and went on to tell him that he was sexy and masculine. Next up was Chris Watson who Nicki said was the prettiest man she had ever seen in her life and she wanted to marry his vibrato. (Does telling a man he's pretty constitute sexual harassment?) Chris should have been happy to know she wanted to make an honest man out of his vibrato since poor Elijah Liu got no such offer; instead, Nicki called him a little boy and then told him she wanted to have his babies. Finally, Nicki told Charlie Askew that she wanted to cradle him in her arms. Perhaps recognizing that her creep-o-meter went into overdrive with the Elijah comments, Nicki clarified that Charlie reminded her of her brother, so apparently this would be strictly platonic cradling.?

Mariah, on the other hand, seemed to think her husband, Nick Cannon, was lurking off-stage just waiting for her to insult his manhood by appreciating another man. She tried very hard to be demure when she agreed that Johnny was masculine and Nick was a pretty boy. When it came to Elijah, she simply said that she liked that he was Mexican and Chinese. "It's a good mix," she told him, as if his nationality was a bottle of wine from a particularly good year.

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