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Hours after narrowly missing the cut to join "American Idol"'s touring Top 10, AMANDA OVERMYER talked about her experience on the hit FOX series.

"Yesterday was the most traumatic thing that’s happened in my life; I just got voted off of a TV show," the rocker chick quipped. "I definitely had hoped for position six or seven, but it's not how it worked out. It is what it is. I'm not going to cry over spilled milk."

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Copyright 2008 Frank Micelotta/ FOX / FOX

One night after "American Idol" contestants revisited the LENNON/McCARTNEY songbook, viewers told another finalist to hit "the long and winding road," crystallizing this season's touring Top 10 during Wednesday night's results show.

On the heels of her "pitchy" rendition of "Back in the U.S.S.R.," gruff rocker AMANDA OVERMYER got the boot. KRISTY LEE COOK and CARLY SMITHSON nearly did, too, as they rounded out the bottom three.

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