Poor Tony Bennett. All these kids who don't know any of the standards they're singing (except for maybe Blake, but that's because he got to sing the song that was in all those McDonald's commercials in the '80's). Don't get me wrong, I love Tony Bennett, always have, but bring back Rod Stewart for Standards Night. At least he was entertaining in the interviews.

Anyway, off to the races.

Blake kicked if off with "Mack The Knife," and really, you can't top Bobby Darin's version of the classic. As being over his little breakdancing/beatboxing crap, I wasn't surprised he didn't drop down and do The Worm at the end. But the squealing girls love him, so he's not going anywhere.

Phil comes out with some weird version of "Night and Day," and Paula must be back on the sauce after hearing that Frank Sinatra comment. If he was singing to his wife, she must not be a great person to be in love with. I was so bored, I changed the channel for a minute. He'll probably be in the bottom 3 (again), if not flat-out eliminated this week.

We don't really need to talk about Melinda anymore. Seriously. She could sing the ingredients off of a Rice-A-Roni box and make us believe it.

Chris. You are the only Chris left. He kept himself safe this week by not trying all that hard. Nice Justin hat, by the way.

Jordin was decent this week. She's really getting there. But everyone has her in the bottom 3, which I'm not sure I agree with. There may be a bit of a sympathy vote this week, even if she wasn't as phenomenal as she's been.

Somewhere inside me I root for Gina. (Maybe it's a fellow tongue-piercing thing, I'm not sure.) But as much as she tried, her look overshadowed her vocal, which actually was pretty decent. DialIdol has her in the bottom 3, and I wouldn't be surprised.

Okay. I admit it. I was oddly mezmerized by Sanjaya this week. I'm not gonna lie. I mean, not that he's really going to have a career after the show, but at least he's stretching out his 15 minutes. And the hunger striker already started eating again, so all is not completely dead. Yet.

Haley tried to slut it up this week, and it's going to fail on her. It's her critical mass week, I think. She's at the bottom on DialIdol, which she has been for pretty much the past month. It's her time to go.

I think there's starting to be a LaKisha backlash, because she's in the bottom 2 on DialIdol today. I'm not quite sure what that means, though: maybe people are in on her Diva-ness, or they're just done with her phoning it in and being told she's awesome every week. It'll be a shock if she really is in the bottom 3, but she won't be going home. At least she looked decent this week.

Haley and Phil are neck-and-neck to go home this week, but I'd hedge on Chris or Gina.

Labels: American Idol, Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell

posted by Kari at 10:33 AM