Crystal Rowsbower -You Can’t Always Get What You Want- Another Stone song I love. There’s some hate for Rowsbower around these parts, but I think it says more about the haters than Crystal. She is what she is, and she’s good at it.
Why does Crystal keep wearing shower curtain rings as jewelry!?
Okay, I admit I liked Crystal. Especially in contrast to Aaron. Ugh.
Talk about somebody doing the same shit they do every week.
Rowsbower?
If they stop doing it, I’ll stop calling them on it.
We will, we will Rowsbower.
(It’s an MST3000 reference)
I am looking forward to seeing David Cook tomorrow, but with all those other names Ryan mentioned…does that mean we won’t be treated to a gawdawful Glee version of a Rolling Stones group medley? 
They actually did “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” on Glee.
Orianthi…that should be interesting.
Rowsbower! ROWS-bower. . .ROWSBOWER!
The thing that’s hard for me is that she looks almost exactly like one of the teenagers at my church. This girl is only a freshman in high school, but just won best soloist at the state Show Choir competition! Now I’d like to hear Christa and Katie back to back. 
Why does Simon scratch his eye with his middle finger? He is gave a big “one finger salute” to America during his comments for Katie.
So who’s going home? I predict Lacey or Didi.
I would send Tim home, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.
Well, they completely de-nutted the Rolling Stones, didn’t they? Somewhere, Keith Richards is rolling over in the oxygenated crypt they keep him in between shows.
I’m not sure I can even remember the performances, as I entered a sorrt of trance-like stupor somewhere along the way. But here goes:
Big Mike: Big Fail. And he looked really stupid dancing around like that - sort of like a giant sloth on speed, with a microphone.
Didi: I think it was okay. I can’t remember what she did, but I remember thinking it was okay. Not great.
Casey: Favorite performance so far, but then I’m a sucker for a slide guitar. The vocals were probably the weakest I’ve heard from him - he had no tone to speak of. But at least he didn’t cut the nuts off the Rolling Stones. I think he should have sped it up and done the Molly Hatchet version myself, but then he was probably limited by the ability of the band to stay with him.
Lacey: Ruby Tuesday, sung badly as a strange country-dirge by an elf. And yet, I can’t even give it style points, because it was so bad. Lacey go home.
Andrew Garcia: A performance which proves that no matter how much worse he gets from week to week, he’s always capable of finding a new way to suck. I can’t believe I thought he was a front-runner three weeks ago. That may have been the worst performance of the night, unless something magical happened after I started banging my head on the coffee table to keep myself awake. Oh, blessed tinnitus, you helped me through that.
Katie: The fact that she was one of the best singers of the night is not an endorsement of her - it’s a sad commentary on the rest of them. This was still a performance I wouldn’t stop to listen to if she sang it on Karaoke night at the local bar. And Kara just proved that she doesn’t know squat about music, by approving of the way Katie changed the melody - because all of her changes were exactly the opposite of what the song needed. She pop-ified a song that’s supposed to be about desperation and longing.
Tim Urban: Give the guy credit for at least trying something. And as a concept, I concede it might be possible to turn out an interesting Reggae version of ‘Under My Thumb’. However, that wasn’t it. Too lifeless and dull. Reggae requires absolutely impeccable timing. It fails unless the singer and the band are completely in ‘the pocket’. And none of them were even close. Oh, and his vocals were really average.
Siobhan: It took me a while to figure out where she was going. She started all soft and sweet, and I thought, “Does she know how dark this song is?” But then she started amping up the anxiety level, and when she emitted that banshee wail I thought, “This is the best thing EVER!” But she should have ended the song with that. That would have been awesome. Instead, she had to come back for the cliche’ soft ending, which robbed the whole thing of its power. Still, she’s probably the best of the night so far.
Lee: Good, workmanlike performance. Nice vocal tone. Good enough to keep him around, but nothing special.
Paige: Surprise, that wasn’t bad. I think the laryngitis actually improved her vocal, giving it a raspy edge that suited the song. But have no fear, I’m sure she’ll be healthy and get back to singing boring melismafests before you know it.
Aaron: Did he start singing two bars early? Or maybe the arrangement was so awful that it just didn’t come together at first. In any event, he recovered from the timing disaster just in time to suck the regular way. He’s got a decent voice, but the blandness is reaching Manilowean levels. Humans generally don’t start to sound that boring until they lose their vocal power and start releasing albums full of ‘standards’.
Crystal: I totally get what Diogenes is saying about her. I’d say it was the best performance of the night, but still… I could have predicted her song choice, and exactly how she was going to sing it. There was nothing surprising or inventive about that at all, and the song is really easy to sing - she took the difficulty level up a bit with some flourishes, and she’s a pro so everything she added worked fine with the song and showed some taste. But still… She needs to put a little more creativity and effort into what she’s doing, or she will start to become boring.
Diogenes: I don’t think that’s meth-mouth. I watch the show in HD, and to me that looks like a birth defect. She’s just got an uncomfortably large gap between her front teeth and her molars. It’s identical on both sides. It’s also possible that it’s the gap where the bit goes. <rimshot>.
From best to worst:
Crystal
Siobhan
Casey
Lee
Didi
Paige
Katie
Big Mike
Lacey
Tim
Aaron
Andrew
The biggest loser: The two hours of my life I’ll never get back. It sure would have been nice to have Lilly and Katelyn there instead of Tim and Lacey…
There’s a whole lot of mediocre going 'round AI this year, so it’s a little hard to pick a loser. I am reduced to trying to figure out how ppl will vote, as opposed to picking the worst one, or the second worst, if you take Vote For The Worst into account.
Girls go home before young guys. More girls vote then guys, at least they do in the world I’ve created in my mind, and most like guys. Therefore, all things being equal, girls go home first.
I think Didi’s performance was slow-paced, low-key, lacked any memorable “wow” bit at all, and she performed second. Performing early in the show and giving the audience nothing to remember could mean she’s going home. She just might get forgotten.
I think Lacey was slightly more memorable in stage presence, and she had a section near the end that was somewhat louder and more upbeat, so she may be more memorable. She could be in trouble, though. Tim SHOULD be for that Hawaiian-Reggae monstrosity, but he’s a guy, so I think he’ll squeak by another week.
I’ll go with Didi as my pick, but I could see Tim or Lacey going.
She did “Playing With Fire,” and she messed up the hook by stretching the word “fire.” into two syllables.
Michael Lynche - “Miss You” - Michael Jackson meets Funk! Strangely enough, I would have loved that version done by someone else. I normally love Big Mike, but that seemed karaoke-y. And Ryan is AWESOME! I loved him going at Simon! 5/10
Didi Benami - “Playing With Fire” - I don’t like Didi when she’s trying to look tough and angry - it just looks silly. She sang it okay; wrong song for her completely. Ouch - that last note was a clunker. 5/10
Casey James - “It’s All Over Now” - Excellent song choice! I don’t think this guy can sing much, but you can go a long way with appropriate song choices like that. That was very much within his skill level and the kind of music he should be doing. 7/10
Lacey Brown - “Ruby Tuesday” - Another bad song/arrangement choice. That was completely wrong for her voice. And she goes for the power blast - and fails! I’m looking forward for her not singing anymore - that’s not good. I think Didi and Lacey should have swapped songs. The judges think the singing was okay? I think it stunk. 3/10
Andrew Garcia - “Gimme Shelter” - There’s nothing much I like about that. He didn’t sing it badly, it wasn’t a terrible song choice, there was just no magic at all. Kara finally has a relevant criticism - Andrew completely missed the point of the song. 4/10
Katie Stevens - “Wild Horses” - Not bad. Not great. Again, nothing much interesting going on there. 5/10
Tim Urban - "Under My Thumb " - Tim still is a cute girl. I hate this song - so misogynistic! Reggae was an interesting way to go, but this didn’t work for me at all. A young guy singing this song is creepy (actually any guy singing this song is creepy) - ick, ick, ick. 4/10
Siobhan Magnus - “Paint It Black” - Now, SHE might have made reggae “Under My Thumb” work! The first half was nice; she didn’t rock out the second half enough - she needed to wail. That last shrieking note was nicely discordant, then the beautiful denouement - I loved it (and I love her - so geeky! So weird!) 8/10
Lee DeWyze - “Beast Of Burden” - If you slur the words enough, can you hide forgetting the lyrics? Not a bad song choice for this guy. I think this was my favourite performance by Lee in spite of his mushmouth. 6/10
Paige Miles - "Honky Tonk Woman " - Interesting. I didn’t hate that - interesting song choice, interesting singing. 7/10
Aaron Kelly - “Angie” - One of my favourite RS songs - he almost completely resisted the temptation to Boy Band that - very nice. That was simply very good. 8/10 (Oh My God - learning “Angie” by the Rolling Stones - holy generation gap, Batman!)
Crystal Bowersox - “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” - Another good, unchallenging performance. She has buckets of talent, but no desire to push herself, apparently. 7/10
As usual I am just now watching this on tape after getting home from work. So far, Michael, Didi, Casey and Lacey all did things I enjoyed, some more than others.
Andrew totally sucked the life out of Gimme Shelter. It was so devoid of emotion it almost makes me wonder if he has ever heard the orginal.
And then Katie. She’s young and has a wonderful, very powerful voice but what she did to Wild Horses makes me want to slap her over and over. Total glurgy,sappy, blech.