lmao, Simon's eyes when Aaron said "I chose it because my journey has been a long and winding road" are gif worthy.

Want to get on the record pre-judges saying I think Katie did great imo.

Yeah Katie was awesome.

Katie really has an awesome voice

def a pretty sick performance from katie. altho i must admit i was expecting something a little stronger. but she did great with it.

That was like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones doing the Beatles.

Michael was kinda... bad. Not sure what is going on.

He honestly looks like John Coffee.

LOL the judges are on Big Mike's nuts every single week. That wasn't that good. His vocals at the end were good but overall that was meh. He took a lot of the triumphant feel out of such a triumphant song..thought the arrangement would have been a lot better than it actually was. At least Simon has some sense.

yessah boss.

i thought he was decent. better than andrew and aaron, but nowhere near katie tonight. his stock may be falling, perhaps.

^ exactly. It was decent. It wasn't horrible or anything but when you hear the judges critiques it's just like ...lolsss wut? What are Randy and Kara on...the performance was OKAY not nearlyyy as good as they claimed it was. It's so ridiculous how they overrate dude's ass every single week, you just know they're gonna praise him even when it's unwarranted which it usually is. Concensus on the net right now was that was meh as well

LMAO @ randy "you're in your own category...it was a good TIM performance"

eta: great, Simon ensures Tim sticks around another week.

tbh tim >> aaron tonight. might have even been better than andrew and mike. i dunno tho. but def better than aaron's.

I'll admit when he started singing the beginning of the song I was thinking to myself that it wasn't actually that bad and that he sang on key but the rest was just dull as hell

casey was pretty dull tonight. of course the judges are gonna cup his balls tho.

what a weak ass show it's been

are you ****ing kidding me? Lee's good and smashed it last week but WTF is wrong with the judges that was [randy] pitchy all over the place [/randy] and one of his weaker performances. lollll judges. Simon's extreme bias towards Lee has been so obvious since day 1..I mean at least he pointed out that the bag pipe player was corny as hell. But what the hell is going on.

for me tonight...

Katie
Crystal
Siobhan
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Lee
Casey
Mike
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Tim
Andrew
Aaron

She does a bit too much of the compliment sandwich thing for my taste

Tim is god awful, but the 12-16 female demographic is going to guarantee he sticks around another week

1. Crystal - I thought it would be a horrible song choice because there's not much to do with it vocally, but she proved me wrong. Very good.
2. Katie - Very solid, still has no shot at winning
3. Lee - the bagpipe entrance was the most WTF, out of left field moment I've seen in 9 seasons of AI. It was going pretty well up to that point.
4. Casey - thought it was a great song choice as many people won't know the song, making it easy to eliminate comparisons and invite the "you made it your own" line.
5. Mike - Horrible verses, great chorus
6. Andrew - felt a little swing band-y for me
7. Siobahn - Her little speech made everyone love her, but it was boring as hell
8. Tim - Decent
9. Aaron - Go away

Tonight:

1. Casey
2. Siobhan
3. Crystal
4. Aaron
5. Katie
6. Big Mike
7. Lee
8. Tim
9. Andrew

Also found it interesting that Big Mike's family band in the south was called "The Lynche Mob".

That's what I want to know. Lee was awful and his voice all over the place. Total mess. Simon wants him to win for whatever reason, pimps him every week.

That was ummm bizarre...

yeah i lol'ed @ that pretty hard.