Chalk and Cheese

So, this week the bottom three seems so obvious that I feel bad not picking an upset. I want to choose a surprise loser just to show that I can pick up on hidden insights, but... no. I'll choose the obvious ones tonight.

Anyway, the details are this:

Lee sang and he did well and no one cared and he was boring. I'm currently predicting him to last until the final four or five, and then his boring quality will no longer carry him.

Paige was absolutely terrible. As was Tim. Man, I hate Tim.

Aaron was David Archuleta, and I don't mean that in a good way.

Crystal was awesome. She still is very much the homeless pot smoker busking by the subway, but she's the best dang busking homeless pot smoker I've ever heard.

I thought that Michael was much better than the judges gave him credit for. Still, he's safe.

Andrew was bad, but not as bad as the judges made him out to be. Still, he suffers from both mediocrity and boringness, and that's the kiss of death. That's what killed Lacey last week.

Katie was better than she's been, although she was pitchy, dawg. Pitchy to the max.

Casey was very good--very good--but the song sounded almost exactly like Huey Lewis, with no variation. Yo, he didn't make it his own, dawg.

While I agree with the judges that Didi seemed a little too much "in character", she also was much better this week than last week. I can see her surviving for several more weeks.

And then there was Siobhan, whose only real problem was that she screamed again (albeit very well) and it would be a shame if she became "that girl who screams". She's better than that.

Anyway, the predictions are thus and obvious: Paige, Tim and Andrew will be in the bottom three. The loser will almost assuredly be Paige. If there's a party crasher in any of this, it will be Michael.