Gedeon - Kinda weak vocally. This time around, because I was familiar with the song, I really felt like he just never really let it go, never really ripped it up like he should have -- he seemed to be really tightly wound and kept pulling back. On another note, when did he become Rainman? That intro with the painting was unintentionally hilarious due to his weird speech rhythms (I cut him some slack about the content because he is only 17 after all), and then he spoke in the same strange, spacey, halting way during the after song chat. Either I didn't notice he spoke like an 80 year old man or he suffered a stroke very recently.

Chris - Pzzzzzft. You want gut wrenching growling? Chris is your man. If you want to hear a slow song sung with passion and musicality, look elsewhere. Although I must say, I never heard this song before nor do I particularly want to hear it again. I think all the talk about his limited range is starting to crystalize.

Kevin - Again I ask you -- is this a joke? And again -- he sings every song like an Irish tenor singing "Danny Boy". The Klingon brow was back as was the excessive blinking. At times his lisping was so bad he sounded like Daffy Duck. Get him out of here! He just does not belong. The performance was deee-thpicable

Bucky - Man, there's nothing like pulling a twin brother, and an identical twin brother at that to get everyone to notice you. That's some irony, huh? It's sort of the female equivalent of showing cleavage -- it's all so desperate, and yet I predict that Rocky will be the sole reason Bucky makes it through tonnight. Because dude, it ain't his singing. You know what he sounds like? It's like you took a 45 rpm record of the Tasmanian Devil and then played it at 33 1/3. It's Taz on barbituates. My wife kept asking, "What the hell is he singing? I can't understand a single word he's singing". I told her it was the country classic, "Mrbrwrbbr mumble mumble".

Will - Wow. I though this was his best performance of his three just because it was a better song choice and he didn't overreach. Not that it was good mind you, but I was a bit surprised at how the judges jumped all over him. If he goes tonight, he can blame it on Rocky Covington.

Taylor - My wife and I laughed for about 5 minutes after he finished. We had to pause our PVR so as to not miss the judges comments (although really, we could have laughed through Paula's anyway). And here's the thing -- we were laughing at him and with him at the same time, because he seemed to be laughing at himself as much as he was just having a good time. You can't fake stuff like that. And that's why, even though he didn't wow me vocally, he definitely had a great performance.

Elliott - You can't make a diamond from dogshit. Don't sing Bryan Adams songs. Here endeth the lesson.

Ace - This was the Rorsharch test performance for Ace -- if you like Ace, you came out thinking, "I just love the falsetto, it's really strong, and he sounded really good". If you don't like Ace, you thought, "his falsetto was like a demon trying to possess and corrupt my soul by thrashing and pounding away at my ears. A cut rate Johnny Mathis parody that exposed how weak he is vocally, and he should really hope for a boy band resurgence, because he doesn't have the chops to be a solo act. And that "smoldering" -- eccch -- so phony, so creepy and gross. He lucky to have his looks because he's not much of a singer, and I don't think he's going to make it any further than Constantine did."

I'm sort of leaning towards the latter. Ah, the hell with it -- I'm all in.