American Idol- Cry, Cry, Crystal

Simon Cowell- "This may have been a step too high this week, in terms of actually believing in the perormance...having said that, you have improved over the weeks."

It seems that Simon decided to pay a bit of homage to Larry David after new broke today that Curb Your Enthusiasm will return for an eighth season in 2011. Nice work Simon. Other notes on the judges: Kara needs to stop using metaphors. Ellen is getting better since she started coming up with jokes before the show starts. I don't think Randy knows a single thing about music.

Tonight was inspirational songs week, and unlike the judges and many others, I'm not going to goo and gush over how moving Crystal Bowersox's performance was. Her People Get Ready was the best of the night sure, but is that saying much? There are only two other contestants that should make a normal season's top 24. MamaSox starting acapella was quite a moment but what was absolutely shocking to me was that she cried during her performance! The funny thing is that if a lesser contestant would have done that, they would've been killed for it. Since Boxershorts is the only commodity Idol has right now, she was commended for it. Brilliant.

The other two that deserve to make an Idol semifinals. Lee DeWyze and Siobhan Magnus both had good performances tonight. Seriously how much better would Simon and DeWyze been than Simon and Garfunkel. Garfunkel might not have been able to cover Sam Cooke during the third season of Saturday Night Live, but Lee sure as heck could cover Garfunkel here. Was I the only one surprised that the judges killed Siobhan's When You Believe? I thought she killed it without throwing in a ridiculous scream and the falsetto was pumpin'. Why do they always let Siobhan babble after her performance. This is the main reason for going over the alotted time every week.

Everyone else was bad. Casey James was better than last week if only because the vibrato died down. He seems to run out of breath while standing still, which is never a good thing. Tim Urban, for the first time in a couple of weeks, was completely over powered by this Goo Goo Dolls song. Aaron Kelly. Oh boy. I'm so tired of talking about how much I hate him. I think JJ said it best when he tweeted "my performance of I Believe I Can Fly at Pleasure Island was better than Aaron Kelly's", but that may have been 'cause he took his shirt off. For the first time ever, Michael 'Will Kieffer' Lynche had a bunch of bum notes. That combined with his corniness will get him knocked out of the competition this week.

My Performance Rankings

1. Crystal Bowersox
2. Lee DeWyze
3. Siobhan Magnus
4. Casey James
5. Tim Urban
6. Michael Lynche
7. Aaron Kelly