American Idol Season 10 - Top 8 Elimination Show

I think something was wrong with Scotty's earpiece---he was singing so quietly, then it looked like he ripped it out of his ear as Lauren sang. How cute Lauren looked! All Barbara Mandrell in her off-the-shoulder frilly dress. A sweet rendition of "American Honey," and the show clearly knows who their American Sweetheart attractions are. Lauren's hair looks gorgeous again. I think this Darci doll look is my favorite 'do on her. Hey, the dress is kind of Darci as well. She just needs the rose on the ribbon. And she could try those heels. I'm getting sick of the cowboy boots. Candies style heels would be fun on her.

The zombie commercial was hilarious, and now it's clear Paul has no excuse for his beard: a superclose trim revealed the planes of his face and neck, and there's no deformity there. He actually looked rather cute with that close trim, especially paired with the fun sculptury and deliberate bedhead hair (compared to his usual fluffily messed bedhead). Even Casey looked significantly better with carefully styled hair so it looked more neat and geometric than flailing and wild.

Haley and Casey really showed off fantastic ability in their duet tonight, especially Haley. It's too bad they can't pick songs that do that on the live shows people vote on.

Finally Paul is in the bottom three! Thank god. Now I only hope he's the one to go.

Rihanna doesn't really have the voice to sing a ballad, does she? Well, she's got a little tough girl in there, but it's mostly little girl. She has a nice touch of hoarseness I wish she'd use more than other sounds she uses. Well, hell, I don't care. I don't listen to Rihanna. I don't care.

I'm so glad Haley is safe. All girls going could mean Lauren's doom. I don't really care which of Paul or Stefano goes, but like I said, Paul deserves it more, so I'm glad he got the boot. He does seem like a fun, nice guy. I'd want to hang out with him, and definitely hear him sing some specific songs. But in general, dude sounds freaky. Jennifer proves my point by having him sing Maggie May as his exit tune.

Rob Reiner stops by to prove to me he's actually much more handsome than Casey, even though he has to compensate for his upper head hair loss by growing hair on his face. Well, he used to make uglier faces when he played Meathead, and he said a lot of dumbass things as that character, so he came off less attractive.

Kelly Clarkson sounds amazing as usual, but her face looks so drawn! I think it might be the shade of her hair. It's usually darker, and that looks punchier. The golden look and very flat top isn't flattering to her. But she's definitely a star on point, and her comments to Casey were adorable, as was Casey's reaction.

The quartet chosen to sing "The Sound of Silence/Mrs. Robinson" was scary, but Jacob and James actually worked beautifully together, and even seemed to lift up the the four of them together. Too bad no one told them it was "an A Street lamp," not "an a street lamp." Paul surprised me by sounding good on his solo entry to the chorus. I have to say in spite of its weirdness, this bunch work together way better than the nightmare groups they put together in past weeks (the Beatles medley was truly blech).