Bye bye Kinnik and Melissa -- you guys are just not good enough. Not that your fellow cast mates weren't trying to help a sister out -- it was another overall bad week for the ladies.

Paris - Okay, so she's more potential than execution this week. Was she getting over a cold or something? I mean, I liked that she mixed up the song, but then again I hate that song, and nothing short of a miracle will save it for me. This was not that miraculous performance.

Lisa - Again, she just stinks. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how she's touted so highly. Totally lacks any understanding of anything she's singing, and years of Star Search and talent shows have left her plastic, over-rehearsed, and lifeless. She does that same furrowed expression all the time to pretend she's getting into the song or something. Her voice just isn't that good, folks -- it's constantly off-key and all over the place. Head scratcher. She's Vonzell II.

Melissa - Quite frankly, Melissa was much better than Kellie, Lisa, Ayla, and Kinnik this week. But she really needed to hit a big note at the end to make America reconsider her status as a non-player, and she failed miserably. She has an interesting texture to her voice, but she really doesn't have the bigness you need to be considered a contender in this contest. And I don't want to sound mean, but she already mentioned that she's a frequent beauty contest contestant which seems disconnected from her rather average looks. Now she tells us that everyone thinks she's a girly girl. Did anyone get that from her? What stunning work of femininity does she see reflected in the mirror on her planet?

Kinnik - Funny thing is, she sounded better in the recap. Not great or anything, but at least on key. Must have been the nerves that got to her performing live. Not too sad to see her go. BTW, you're struggling to stay on the show and connect with the audience, and all you can come up with is chitlin's? Tone deaf in so many ways.

Katherine - So weird to see her move around. Almost creepy, like she was being controlled by a puppet master. It seems her comfort zone lies in standing still and singing with minimal limb movement, which is not the end of the world (Carrie pulled off that trick last year). The actual singing part was hollow and disconnected -- it was like she was so preoccupied with her movements she wasn't all there during her performance. My wife said she looked really self-conscious. When she sees the playback and all of the booty and booby shakin' she was doing, it's not going to help. I can see a lot of people liking this performance because she was totally on every note and had great tone throughout (and some will appreciate the shaking), but I found it soulless. It was kind of like listening to the Zombie Aretha Franklin.

Ayla - She wanted to do this to show off her performance skills? Honey, a performance happens when you get into what you're doing and let your body be part of the music. It happens when you feel it and we feel it, and you communicate with more than just your voice. Strutting around the stage awkwardly, doing deep poop stance (I swear her ass was gonna touch the floor at one point), and wiggling your hips occasionally is NOT a performance. Looking totally lost at times does not constitute a performance either. Also really amateurish vocally. On the plus side, no black wardrobe. Also, I did not know she was only 17. Not that she looks old, but she came off as being in her early twenties. I think maybe it's because she's so mechanical and calculated that it makes her seem very mature in a way that is not a plus on Idol.

Mandisa - Still sounds like yelling to me. Didn't really hear the big dfference stylistically between what she did and what Patti LaBelle and Whitney did. Except it was louder. I swear, one day all of the speakers in the auditorium with explode simultaneously in a shower of sparks, sort of like that scene in "The Natural" when he hits that ball into the lights. I am already weary of Mandisa.

Kellie - So, Kellie has this one very small spot in her range where she has a nice tone and she can stay in tune and sound big. So of course she goes off and picks a song that starts too low then jumps too high, thus totally by-passing her sweet spot, making her reach and shriek to stay in tune. Is she challenging the audience to keep voting for her despite her lack of talent? And I swear, if you go to her home back in NC you'll either find lead paint chips strewn about her bedroom or the script that she memorized for her dumb, conepone, retardo hick act. She just makes me roll my eyes something fierce every time she opens her mouth, and something about her saggy face (maybe the orange cast?) does not install anything in me resembling lust. Salmon? She never had friggin' Salmon? C'mon -- I mean, she's not from the middle of nowhere, North Carolina is a coastal state. BTW, Simon's comment about preferring her performance over Carrie's is just clueless and needlessly provocative. Really, Kellie can't hold Carrie's jock in any department (except maybe in the Lookin’ Stupid department).