One awesome. One good. One not good. One horrific.

In other words, Adam. Allison. Kris. Danny.

Adam – thank you for taking one of my suggested songs! (Yes, the image you have of me is taking my bow.) He took Slash’s advice and restrained the shrieking. Adam is good enough to take on the classics even when the singers are near impossible to emulate. Even Diandra said she hoped Robert Plant was listening. Easy Best of the Night by miles and should restore him back to his rightful place at the top of the heap.

Allison – OK, this is me taking a bow again. I considered several Janis songs for Allison because Janis is in her range. But I rejected them because Janis' songs do not generally have much vocal range (minus her shrieks) and, therefore, have limited value in a singing competition. Allison has great vocal quality (Jenny, you know I luv ya and I know we can amicably disagree) and did the song justice. But not enough for what this kind of competition demands. Plus she had to follow Adam. She looked great though!

Kris – I am really angry that he chose a Beatles song. Yes, they are technically a rock band but to me that was a cop-out. I know rock isn’t supposedly his thing but there are many borderline rock artists he could have done that fit him better than the Beatles. And he wanted to do Revolution??????? That would have been a complete train wreck. As it was, Come Together didn’t work for him, either. Look, Kris Lovin’ Ladies, it wasn’t awful. But it just wasn’t him.

Danny – speaking of train wrecks – what in the *^%$@)& was Danny thinking? Somehow Dream On was appropriate because he clearly was in an altered state of consciousness when he thought that would work for him. Just a disaster from start to finish. No, actually the finish was a cataclysm.

Duets? Kris and Danny were dreadful despite Paula trying to find something nice to say about their harmonies. Neither of these guys are arena rockers. Who picked that song (Renegade - fun song, though) for them?
Adam and Allison were fun and do need to do a song together. It’s obvious they have great chemistry in their relationship and they perform wonderfully together. Paula was right about them feeding off each other whereas Kris and Danny looked like they were trying to stay out of each others way.
I think the duets should be part of future Idols. Good or bad, they added a cool element of fun and unpredictability.

Predictions. I hope tomorrow night Daughtry will do What I Want and Slash will play guitar like on the album - and Diandra will go into a Wanda-With-Prince-like frenzy. Assuming such a thing is even possible.

Oh, the voting? Ugh. Adam is safe. After that it gets murky. On merit, Allison should be safe but the judges may have hurt her tonight. I think Danny is the wildcard, though. As in college football, it’s better to lose early than to lose late and Mr. Untouchable was bad when it’s bad to be bad. I guess we will see how big his fan base is this week. Not to mention I have a side bet with a certain shamelessly and hopelessly devoted Kris Lovin’ Lady that Danny lasts longer than her Idol.