Vikki, you and I are tracking fairly close tonight.

In order of appearance:

1. Lil Rounds; 7; I'm Every Woman; Simon was right: this was Karaoke. At least she looked good (hair, makeup, clothes) tonight, but the vocals were the usual pitchiness and very little originality in the arrangement. She's most likely a goner.

2. Kris Allen; 9; She Works Hard For The Money; Wow, an "alt-pop-latin" version of this song was totally unexpected. He pulled it off well both as an arrangement and vocally. He still needs to work on his weird facial expressions though. That's the main thing that bugs me about him, but he's safe this week.

3. Danny Gokey; 9; September; very respectable, just not outstanding performance. Interesting variation on the arrangement. He stretched the melody a bit, which was good.

4. Allison Iraheta; 9; Hot Stuff; I can't think how she might have done the song better; vocals were amazing and on-pitch; she just didn't make me want to stomp my feet and get up and dance. Maybe it was the arrangement, but it may also just have been that slight "distance" she has from the audience that's practically undefinable. She's a great singer who will definitely get some sort of record deal, but she needs to warm up as a person or no one will buy her music.

5. Adam Lambert; 10; If I Can't Have You; He knocked this one way out of the park tonight; it passed the goosebump test with both me and my wife; she even welled up a little near the end of the song. The man has already proven he can scream the high notes with the best of the rockers, and tonight he proved he can reach out and grab your heart with tenderness as well.

6. Matt Giraud; 8; Stayin' Alive; bad song choice and the arrangement wasn't unique enough to counter that. It was still a respectable, but not amazing performance.

7. Anoop Desai; 7; Dim All The Lights; I think this was his swan song; Kara seemed to be oblivious to the fact that he only hit 75% of the notes on pitch. His tone is ok, but he's had constant pitch problems. I actually cringed on a couple of notes tonight and could hardly wait for the song to end.

Unless Lil has a huge fan club, she's a goner tomorrow night. I think Anoop has also sung his last.

Dialidol predicts Allison and Kris as the bottom two, but they were wrong last week, too.


Larry
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