Inspirational night was excellent.  It was needed after last week's 3 tragedies - VA Tech, NASA, Blue Angel's Air Show Crash.  I'm looking forward to tonight's "Idol Gives Back" special. It was touching to see the judges and Ryan out and about.  The best was a humbled Simon.

Melinda and Jordin are the best in this competition.  Phenomenal voices!

My bottom 3 picks for this week

LaKisha - I think she has a fabulous voice.  I don't understand though why she picked songs by back-to-back Idol winners 2 weeks in a row.  I don't think she screamed (as Simon said) "I Believe" any more than Fantasia does.  It's one of my favorites and I play that song a lot to this day.  But of course she's going to be compared to the former Idols.

Blake - I loved his Imagine but his voice did crack a little.  Plus he was in the bottom three last week.

Chris/Phil - Could go either way because there has to be a bottom three.  In all of these weeks I never would have thought LaKisha had a greater chance of going home before these two.