Crystal was good. I'm getting tired of her, like I am of this show.

Andrew was enjoyable. He didn't seem karaoke at all, and like Ellen I enjoyed the performance of Hound Dog.

Tim was awesome. Loved it! Sorta woke me up during the show.

Lee tried to have personality. Good effort for trying.

Aaron was a miss. Nice to see him try have a personality but I don't think his personality is big enough to be wandering around a stage and platform. Stand in one place until you're more comfortable.

Siobhan still bugs me. I don't like how wide she opens her mouth to sing because you expect more power and not some airy voice come out. And her changing look annoys the hell outta me.

Mike bored me. I was playing with the dog.

Same with Katie. I have no opinion of her. I'm sick of this show.

By Casey I'd totally tuned out and wasn't listening.

The results shows are almost as long and drawn out as the performance shows. At least during the performance shows there's lots of actual competition to make the show run late. Results shows always run late and all we really need is to see three minutes to see who gets the boot, if anybody. This time Big Mike was saved, probably because the judges were afraid to piss him off.

The Lennon/McCartney song book was opened and surprisingly not torn to shreds. I'm rather impressed with the idols this week. I'm still groaning about two hours of the show to sit through but at least that all changes next week. Let's recap!

After wasting the first 10 minutes of the show -- which included a commercial break before anybody had even sung -- it was Aaron who gave us a good performance. It was just good. There was nothing memorable about it.

Katie for once was awesome. I really enjoyed her version of Let It Be.

Andrew was OK but like Simon said it was a little corny. It was fun to listen to and fun to watch but in the grand scheme of things it wasn't an Idol-winning performance.

Mike is animated and great to watch. He's got good style.

Crystal's mumbling as she perhaps forgot the words wasn't commented on by the judges at all. Odd that anybody else would've been taken to the cleaners yet Crystal walks off squeaky clean.

Tim, again, fun to listen to, nothing extraordinary.

Casey was a little sleepy for me. I felt like I was in a daze. What happened to the rocker guy?

Siobhan was in a musical. Thankfully there was no scream but I just couldn't get into her performance. Seemed too theatrical for me.

Lee looked like Michael Buble. I think all seriousness of his song was lost when the bagpiper came out. I couldn't pay attention properly after that.

Anybody else notice the judges aren't doing that "this is the best group of kids ever" thing this season? Just an observation.

Boring night of performances I thought. No real standouts. Let's recap.

Big Mike is too big to be bopping around the stage and moving so fast. It looks very funny. It's distracting from his singing.

Didi was OK. Nothing memorable.

Casey looked like the chick from Sugarland. Nothing memorable.

Lacey was OK. But her sitting on the stage is too "come closer, I wanna tell you a story-ish." It's not working all the time. It has me wondering if she's too lazy to get up and move and entertain us.

Andrew seemed to be in his own world. Totally in a zone that didn't include us. I think he could be at risk for going home.

Katie's Wild Horses I was comparing to Susan Boyle's powerful version. She was OK, but it was nothing compared to Boyle's.

Tim was pleasant. He feels like a real performer. He was almost Blake Lewis-ish tonight. I didn't know the song he did so a reggae version of it wasn't bothersome to me. I liked it.

And so the makeovers begin. What's with Siobhan ditching the big goggles and trying to be sexy? I hate this part of the season when the contestants start becoming different people. Be the nerd that we fell in love with a long time ago.

Lee was entertaining. I really like his performance style. He's got a smooth voice. Great to listen to.

Paige was powerful and lively, but she's not all that entertaining to watch.

Is Aaron's mom's name really Kelly Kelly? Do you think she orders from Little Caesars for pizza pizza? He's a good singer. He works the stage and the cameras. He's probably getting lots of votes.

Crystal was good but I'm starting to not like her because the judges sing her praise and tend to bow down after every performance. As we know in Idol, that could be the kiss of death.

Lee's version of the Owl City song was great. I love the fact the judges thought it was better than the original. Lee is humble and a gentleman. He's quite charming.

Alex is great to listen to but really boring to watch. He's a radio person. Not animated enough to look at while he sings.

Tim Urban was great. Awesome! Loved that performance. I think he redeemed himself.

Andrew reverted back to how we first saw him and I think it was a better choice for him to do it now to refresh our memories about what we liked about him. I don't think we've liked him in the past few weeks!

Casey was enjoyable but nothing really outrageous to make him stand out. It was just an OK performance.

Aaron was hard to understand at the beginning. Sounded like mumbles at the start but then he developed a country twang which seemed odd. He knows how to work the camera though. I'll give him that.

Can all eight girls go home? What a dreadful night of performances. Thankfully the hour flew by because I was eating, folding laundry and playing with the dog. Let's recap:

Katie's powerless Kelly Clarkson song was too airy and she just didn't have any power. She did nothing to stand out and "breakaway" if you will.

Siobhan was creative in the way she started her song and it was worth tuning in to see how the rest of it would go, but in the end there wasn't anything super great about it.

Lacey was good but kind of made me sleepy. Nothing fun or energetic. I felt like I took a sleeping pill by this point in the show.

Katelyn's look -- a cross between Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood -- was bad enough but her Blossom outfit and bouncy piano number made me feel like I was in the mall listening to background music or on hold for something. It was bubbly but nothing that showed any talent.

I like Didi. Enjoyable to listen to while I was folding laundry.

Paige was looking around too much and too quickly during her funeral-type song. Ironically nobody was smiling after Smile. She was whining, it certainly wasn't an uplifting number like it's supposed to be. She needs something uptempo and fun.

Crystal, who seems to be getting the royal treatment this season -- as some speculate she's the producer's choice to go all the way, which is why they're making exceptions such as overhauling the performance schedule so she can participate despite it never happening for any other contestant (oops, is that a rant?) -- was OK, but because the judges sing her praise so much I'm starting to not like her. I sort of want her to fail because they make it seem like she can do no wrong.

Lilly was OK. I have no opinion one way or another on her performance.

I finally got through this episode. Why did I waste the time?!?! Nothing too great about it but let's recap anyway.

Crystal's lounge singer performance was OK for a smoke-filled bar but not the Idol stage.

Haeley was less annoying than last week but still not great. She murdered the Beatles last week and there was no redeeming herself.

Lacey was good but I also felt she could've been performing with Crystal in the lounge. Maybe she needs to be in a cover band or something.

Katie was energetic and fun and bubbly. Her personality is hilarious. I was laughing pretty hard at her interview. I think showing it before her performance made her more likeable to me.

Didi's beginning of her song sounded weird but later I really got into it and liked it.

Michelle murdered the song -- not like the good way when they say "you killed it." Everybody seems to be changing up arrangements too much to try show talent but it's screaming bloody murder.

I still really like Lilly. She was the best of the night, although, judging by the rest of the competition, that's not saying much.

Paige was good during the second half of the song. First part was bad, second was good. And it left Simon stroking his nipple during the critique. Did anybody else notice that?

Siobhan was great. I wasn't into the song at the beginning but by the end she had me wanting more.

Good thing we wasted 10 minutes at the top of the show with awkward host/judge banter and kissing Miley Cyrus's... never mind. But we came pretty close to seeing it in her video montage, wearing at least seven different pairs of circulation-cutting skeleton-showing short shorts. Let's move onto the recap of the two hours of train wreck performances.

Lee reminded me of Michael Buble, but his act got a little old. I'm not sure he accomplished what he was hoping to. But I think it was entertaining, just didn't keep me hooked.

Paige was so brutally raspy and offkey and faint and ahead of the music and pitchy and... well, I'll leave it at that. I wrote done a bunch of other words, but I think she heard enough of them after Tuesday's performance.

Tim's Crazy Little Thing Called Love reminded me of Elvis and a big theatrical performance of him running around and sliding and working the crowd. Kara was right that he's not a big star and it seems arrogant for him to be playing one.

Aaron picked a predictable song but it worked for him. Sick or not, he has a fun personality that you enjoy watching/hearing.

Crystal once again was good. I don't see her improving and when I hear her perform I just hear the same thing week after week. There's nothing remarkable that stands out in my mind. I envision her standing playing a guitar. They all sound the same to me. Clearly you can tell producers are favouring her because she gets her own carpet on stage. Seacrest gets a stair case, Bowersox gets a carpet.

Mike's phrasing was weird. I couldn't understand him half the time. I feel he was one of the idols playing a character tonight. It seemed weird. With all the old songs I felt like we'd gone back in time several decades.

Andrew has run his course. He's done. He's never going to be able to redeem himself and I was thinking the same thing as Simon: maybe that first Paula Abdul performance wasn't as good as we thought. Maybe we were just missing Paula.

Casey telling Miley "I'm a big fan... of your dad's" had me laughing my ass off. That was a great slap in the face. Bring her back down to Earth a bit! He was entertaining to watch. I actually stay tuned throughout his whole performance. Wasn't record material but certainly was good TV.

Siobhan's changing looks and signature Adam Lambert-ish scream are probably going to work against her soon. When you're an up and coming artist you want to be a familiar face and not changing your look every week. If I saw her tonight and then last week and then her in her nerdy glasses and wallflower look, I'd recognize her as the wallflower. The other ways she's been dressed an styled don't make her look like the person we got to know a couple months ago.

Who's going home? I'm saying either Paige or Andrew.

I wonder if Siobhan will scream when she's eliminated? She's irritating, she's sounding weak. Who is she besides some crazy dresser that wears stuff for shock value?

Casey's performance made me feel like I was at an actual concert and not a we-don't-think-it's-a-karaoke-competition karaoke competition. He's got energy, he's got a smile. He's fun to watch.

Michael was good but boring. He does the romantic slow stuff and looks like a dashboard hula girl when he does uptempo stuff. Is he locking himself into only one certain type of music: the ballad.

Didi's Tarzan dress with desperately dramatic Broadway performance was too much. I thought we were in a lounge. And notice how many times she tried pulling away from Seacrest despite his insistence on poking her more after the scathing review from the judges?

Tim's eyes were very creepy when he was staring at us. Not sure what went wrong there, but he sounded good. I've come to the conclusion his face looks like Charlie Brown.

Lee looks like Levi Johnston. Every season there's contestants I think look like someone else. I finally figured out two of them tonight! Lee is great. He's so fun to watch.

I thought Crystal was blind when she was at the piano. I started writing how she is in her own zone playing and doing it for herself. I wrote, "She was good but does she care about us? We're watching" and then added she totally shocked me when standing up and singing. I actually watched the performance twice I enjoyed it so much. And I don't normally sing her praises.

Aaron is a great performer. Once again he worked the camera, worked the crowd and worked the stage.

Screamer or Tarzan going home?