I wonder something...why is Paris in this competition if she has such a famous grandmother?!? You mean the girl can't get herself hooked up with someone with that behind her?

Just a thought...

FYI, if Chicken Little and Bucky don't get the heck out of dodge soon, I may have to stop watching, as they both are KILLING ME!

Who the heck is her grandma? Clearly, I'm missing something...

Paris' grandmother is Ann Nesby, formerly of Sounds of Blackness. The lady can sing, and I'm not necessarily a fan of gospel type music.

http://www.bluewireconnect.com/ann/

Bye Bye Bucky (I hope.)

Oh geez, me too.

Same here...

I'm impressed by how good the final 12 are. Normally I can pick 2 or 3 I really like and I don't care about the rest, but I genuinely like a lot of the remaining people.

I want Miss Pickler and Bucky to be the next to go though. :D

What about Kevin "I've got one hand in my pocket" Kovais?

Can anyone give a good rundown of the performances? I only got to see Mandisa, Bucky and Paris. From what I saw, the girls kicked it up a notch last night. Bucky was horrendous.... I don't know why he gets so many props from Randy and Paula. Seriously, how on earth could they market him as an American Idol?

It's the teeth.:D

Ace just isn't cutting it for me anymore. I thought his hair looked greasy last night, even though it was probably just "styled." Also, don't like falsetto singing. Blah.

Can I say I totally called Ace singing "In The Still Of The Night?" :D

I only got to see the first four performances. (I did tape the rest to watch today!) Chris did "I Walk The Line" and really knocked it out of the park.

Here's what everyone sang (I snagged this from the American Idol LJ community):

Mandisa - "I Don't Hurt Anymore" (Dinah Washington)
Bucky Covington - "Oh Boy" (Buddy Holly)
Paris Bennett - "Fever" (Peggy Lee)
Chris Daughtry - "Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash)
Katharine McPhee - "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Ella Fitzgerald)
Taylor Hicks - "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly)
Lisa Tucker - "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers)
Kevin Covais - "When I Fall In Love" (Nat King Cole)
Elliott Yamin - "Teach Me Tonight" (The DeCastro Sisters)
Kellie Pickler - "Walkin' After Midnight" (Patsy Cline)
Ace Young - "In the Still of the Night" (The Five Satins)

I'd be happy if Ace, Bucky, Kevin or Lisa was kicked off tonight. Everyone else I like.

Yeah, as much as Kellie gets on my nerves, I do agree she gave a good performance last night. Now, if only she wouldn't talk...

I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually liked him last night. Well I liked him more than some of the others. I wouldn't mind him staying and letting them go first.

And heck, I totally didn't even watch Ace. I guess he went last because I just stopped wacthing when I thought it was over. Clearly, he's not my top choice or that wouldn't have happened...

He hasn't been good since 'Father Figure'. I still voted for him a bunch of times last night because AI needs a hot contestant. :D

From TWOP..It sums up my feelings-

It's 1950s night, and Barry Manilow, Ryan Cabrera, and Constantine are all in the house. Okay? I'm not sure what's going on, exactly, but I won't rule out a zoological event of some kind. So, but except for the many rodent-like facial qualities that Barry possesses, he's also chock full of shit-talk and even a truly committed Pickler gag, and who knew I'd end up kind of liking him?
Anyway, Mandisa does her hair up all big and beautiful for her version of Dinah Washington's "I Don't Hurt Anymore." She renders the judges incapable of words, except for Simon who manages "stripper." Strangely enough, he's not wrong, and it is awesome. The theme with the judges this week, by the way, is "The Vocals Aren't the Best, But…" To wit: Bucky sings Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy," and he sounds like no fewer than three different singers, none of whom I'd really care to hear again. His hair is back to looking like he slept in a back alley somewhere, though it's still slightly poofy, enough to make you think the alley is behind the unisex salon. Paris is resplendent in yellow and we finally get to see her do "Fever," and it's great. She's pretty and the performance is on point and she manages to not be an asshole even once, so we're cool for this week, I guess. Chris performs "Walk the Line" in name only, let me tell you. It's the Stappiest version of a country song you could ever possibly imagine, and the light show is frankly embarrassing, but I admire Chris's fierce devotion to subverting the show's actual rules and regulations, whereas somewhere in America, Jacob's head popped clean off his body.

Kat McVee McPhee has some giggly harsh words for too-cool-for-school Simon, before knocking Ella Fitzgerald's "Come Rain or Come Shine" out of the damn ballpark. Vocally she's playing catch-up a lot, but girlfriend knows how to move about a stage and is one of the precious few who looks like an actual performer in her own right. She's gorgeous and wonderful and her free-wheeling boobs make Ryan so very nervous. Not even Barry Manilow is safe from Taylor Hicks's in-your-face brand of jackassery, and he sings that song that sort of sounds like "Hand Jive" and sort of like "I Want Candy" but is actually "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. It sounds both like Taylor and yet also like nothing at all. It disappears from your ears the second it hits them. Additionally, it sparks a Watts-level riot amongst the judges, for whatever reason

Lisa ("Why Do Fools Fall in Love?") and Kevin ("When I Fall in Love") both take it to the high school musical revue place, and Simon calls one of them on it. He also goes for the reverse juju on Kevin like he should have been doing for a couple weeks now, so we'll see how that works out. Elliott absolutely hates Barry Manilow and isn't afraid to say so. I was not expecting that. Ryan tries to bail him out for a hundred hours, but Elliott's sticking by his profound distaste. Guess we found someone he won't be crying over, eh? He sings "Teach Me Tonight," and it's once again brilliantly sung and boring as sin. Everybody's so elderly this year! Young ones, old ones, dumb ones, cute ones, they all grew up inside their grandparents' record collections. Kellie Pickler set her own personal make-up gun to "corpse," I think. What the holy hell is going on there? Barry makes fun of her totally hardcore, and it's lovely, and then she sings some Patsy Cline in her usual shit-kicker bar style, and I've heard worse, but I am not kidding when I say that she looks like the Grim Reaper's court jester. Finally, Ace sings a "jazzy" version of "In the Still of the Night," and all the things he's good at, he does well. "Singing" not being particularly one of them, but that has never really mattered in the slightest. He's also got a bit of the "open casket Irish wake" thing happening, but I'm sure some of that is his usual perma-blush.

^^^
I *heart* TWOP.

I missed a few. I only really wanted to see Chris and Taylor's.

I really hope Kelli's act will catch up with her. The whole pickle thing was hilarious though. But I think people will get sick of the stupidity. Other than that, she sang decent last night.

Bucky was terrible. Stop with the pimping!

My thoughts for going home: Lisa with Kevin in the bottom 2. Ace sucked too but I think the fan girlies with text messaging would have been in full force last night after last week.

Lisa is just uninteresting.

Bottom 3:

1. Lisa
2. Bucky
3. Kevin

Kevin's gone.

Thank god Kevin is gone. He could sing decently, but I just couldn't stand him.

What did Simon call Kellie last night? Apparently,she didn't understand what that was either.

He called her ballsy. Apparently she thought it was a noun.

As much I didn't like Kevin, I really thought it was goign to be Lisa that left.

I thought Lisa should have gone. Her performance last night was awful.

I think that next week, it will just be a matter of Lisa or Bucky. Lisa's personality is very bland, and Bucky lost all points when he sported the Jessica Simpson 'do. I would personally like to see Bucky gone first. And maybe in the bottom 3 with them...Ace, again?

I seriously thought that Bucky would be on his way out tonight. While I don't think Kevin was American Idol material, he was still better then Bucky. I will keep my fingers crossed next week for either Bucky or Lisa to go!!

You would have thought the producers would have pulled a fast one and sent Bucky home.

They just lost a good chunk of either the elderly market or the tiny tween market that would have gone to their tour because of Kevin.

Remember, the top 10 is the only section that tours. I'm not sure what market segment is going to enjoy seeing Bucky on tour AND the rest of the Idols.

this is what kellie wore to the prom.

http://i1.tinypic.com/s4awlz.jpg

Classy.....

Wouldn't she get cold? Granted, she's further south than I am, but prom is held inside (unless you've got some crazy outdoor thing going on), with AC.

Plus who wants to sit down to a formal dinner with their stomach hanging out?

When did these dresses really start getting popular? Glad no one in my HS wore them

Am I the only person that thinks Elliott is the most boring contestant EVAR??

i was just wondering if that is a thong showing.

Simon says Kellie, Taylor and Chris are the ones who will be there in the end... I'm really really starting to love Taylor.

I have always loved him. I don't know why either. There's just something about him. Regardless of AI, I forsee a good career ahead of him.

I suppose I have to root for him because he's a B-Ham boy, just like Bo Bice and Ruben Studdard, even though Taylor went to Auburn and not Alabama.

My dad went gray at an early age too, though not in his teens, like Taylor's grandmother said, I believe?

Yikes... goodbye Lisa!

I think it will be Katherine, Chris & Taylor

What in THE HELL is Katherine wearing????? Ewwwww.

Tonight's songs have sucked... the only person i've really been into was Chris. I actually like his voice on most of the songs that he sings better than the original bands.

Chris and Mandisa were good, and Taylor wasn't bad. Everyone else has been a big bunch of "meh" so far.

Okay so I have 3singers left to watch, but has everyone forgotten how to sing tonight or what?!

I mean Taylor wasn't awful, but tonight's been lackluster to say the very least. :rolleyes:

Katherine sounded bad tonight, but I think she may have a cold. Paris just sounded horrible. I really don't like Chris, but I think he'll be one of the last to go. I want Kellie to go so badly!

THAT WAS PAINFULLY AWFUL!!!

Taylor and Chris were the only ones who were tolerable.

I can't believe the judges liked Katherine and Elliot tonight...Katherine was pitchy throughout and Elliot just murdered Gavin DeGraw's song (and messed up the lyrics).

But please, America, make Kellie or Lisa leave tomorrow.