Video Package: Olive Penderghast
After her name was announced a video package began with Olive Penderghast sitting in a director's style chair, her legs crossed and her fingers laced on her top knee. In the background, Olive's cover of "Mary Did You Know" played quietly in the background. "I should probably explain myself," she finally spoke after nearly thirty seconds of silence. She rolled her eyes, "but I won't. Closest I'm going to come to explaining me walking out before the judges could comment on my little protest last week is that Kyle was right." She shrugged, letting out a heavy sigh. "Sometimes, you just don't want to hear it. Even if it's praise. And I'm not going to put on some front and smile when I'm annoyed."
She uncrossed her legs, nice and slow, bringing one hand up to raise her head-on. "Now we've come to the finale that we all knew was coming. From week one, everyone predicted that it was going to come down to me and my Queen. And here we are," she grinned, raising her eyebrows. "Sure, I've done a little experimenting throughout the show, but I get that I couldn't be doing that the whole time. The last few weeks, I've been doing straight rock covers because to quote Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, I Wanna Rock!" She threw up a pair of devil horns with a grin, then shrugged, "It's just that even rockers do ballads sometimes." She left it off at that point, letting the video fade out as light applause sounded.