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With the elimination of Hollie Cavanagh last week, the Top 3 contestants remain: Joshua Ledet, Jessica Sanchez, and Phillip Phillips have a three-song night: the judge’s choice, the singer’s choice, and Jimmy Iovine’s choice of song.  All the performances were all uniformly good, which means that they were all average.

But it was Jessica Sanchez who received the one critical feedback, from judge Randy Jackson.  But her partisans in the studio audience made their displeasure with his feedback known, with loud booing.

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• Here we go with the West Coast American Idol Top 4 Performance night! #idol Woo-hoo! #
• "have you ever seen the rain?" sung by Phillip @pphillipsAI11 – not my favorite choice for him – he's vulnerable on #idol #
• "Faithfully" sung by Hollie @cavanaghAI11 – she sounds like an injured cow. MOOOOOOOOOOOOUCH!!!! on #idol Even worse than Phillip. #
• Sadly, @cavanaghAI11 is my favorite, and she just didn't do it well tonight for the first song. #idol #
• "You Raise Me Up" by Joshua @jledetAI11 on #idol – better than the other 2, but not by much. wht's up w/ these singers tonite? Allergies? #
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• "Steal Away" sung by Jessica @jsanchezAI11 – OMG those pants are droopy-drawers! She's like a child singing adult songs – play acting #idol #
• "Volcano" as sung by Phillip @pphillipsAI11 on #idol – much better than round one – intense, but just kinda laid there at the end. #
• "I Can't Make You Love Me" sung by Hollie @cavanaghAI11 on #idol – oh, dear, she blew it – oversinging what should be a very vulnerable song #
• "Its a Man's, Man's, Man's World" as sung by Joshua @jledetAI11 #idol – he's taken it over the top. Wow. Just wow. A songasm. #
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• "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" for Jessica @jsanchezAI11 – too much, too much, and too little understanding of the lyrics. Blech. #

On a night filled with amazing performances, the American Idol Top 4 had some winners and losers.  Let’s start with the boys:

Phillip Phillips

In round one, Phillips sang “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and it was a poor song choice for him, as it stuck him in his cliché style, the Dave Matthews soundalike.  Nothing new or original in this performance.  This has made him vulnerable to elimination.

“Volcano” did redeem him somewhat, with a low-down growl reminiscent of Joe Cocker, but it was too low-key and the ending fell flat.

Joshua Ledet

Perennial front-runner Ledet had one good performance, with “You Raise Me Up,” and an absolutely incredible one with “It’s a Man’s World” that blew the rest of the competition away with its nearly psychotically soulful intensity.

Their duet was better than last week, but still forgettable.  So much so that I forgot it – some Maroon 5 song, I think.

And now the girls:

Jessica Sanchez

Despite her vocal acrobatics that are second to none – even Joshua is edged by her technics – Sanchez continues to find songs that are too mature for her emotional understanding.  In both “Steal Away” and “And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going,” she brings out the intensity, but you can tell that she just has not experienced the kind of loss she sings about to make me believe it.  She’s a child singing adult song.  Still, her performances will probably be enough to get her into the Final Three.

Hollie Cavanagh

Hollie is my favorite.  She started peaking two weeks ago, and I was very hopeful for her tonight, but she completely missed the mark with both songs. In round one, the “California” round, her version of “Faithfully” by Journey was just dreadful.  It was pitched too low for her, so she never got to have that Steve Perry moment, and as I tweeted, sounded instead like a wounded cow, mooooaning her way through the song.  She chose Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” as her second song choice, and oversang it, revealing none of the vulnerable intimacy of the lyrics.  The judges seemed to disagree with me, at least on her first choice, and scolded her for the wrong song choice for the second.

Prediction

I predict Hollie and Phillip in the bottom two, and Hollie going home.

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Skylar Laine Eliminated

Once again, as I predicted, American Idol Top 5 competitor, Skylar Laine, was eliminated tonight on this week’s results show.   She peaked too early in this year’s competition, and remained in the bottom three too often, so when she and other perrenial bottom three’er, Hollie Cavanagh, were the bottom two tonight, well, it only goes to figure that Skylar would be out.

That leaves Joshua Ledet, Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips, and Hollie Cavanagh as the Top Four.