And this Vicci girl can sing.

Or as they say in my neck of the woods:

"that girl can SANG." For real.

I just about died with the Andrews Sisters selection. Hilarity ensued.

The Sisters cannot sing.

I can't decide if the fact that their thing is harmony and they can't stay on pitch is tragic or comic. I just want them to go away.

Mmmm, Jolene? Intersting choice. Love this song. And this Vicci girl can sing. Damn, she can put it down. Love her voice. And she didn’t smile through the whole damn song like they always do when they try to sing this song on AI. Yep. She’s got good stuff.

Vicci has been one of my favorites since the auditions. I'm not sure if I loved that arrangement, but I love the song and agree that it was refreshing to not see the normal bouncy version that you tend to hear everywhere (except for Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, who rock their punk version).

ETAsk: What is this crap song that Nakia is singing?

OK, I admit I've never heard this song before, but "your sex is on fire"? Sounds like something out of the Smart Bitches reviewing a romance novel and saying "THE STD BURRRRNS". But I do like Nakia, if for no other reason than that we rarely get to see a big gay bear on TV!

(WTF is CeeLo wearing? That JACKET!)

Is it me, or was Jeff Jenkins really disappointing?

I’m not a huge fan of this chicken little kid. He sounds very good here, but he just doesn’t do it for me. He’s like a little Adam clone, though, so I can see why he likes him. Still, he’s in tune, so he’s automatically ahead of the sisters. He’s just a boring performer. Despite what Adam told him, standing in the middle of the stage and rocking back and forth with the mic stand does not equal performing. And ooh, that last big note before sliding into the ending was bad. I might even dare say it was pitchy.

Nikia – Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon. I do not get Cee-Lo’s song choices. At all. Vicci is the only one who has been served well thus far and she bucked him and sang a song she wanted to sing. He sounds fine, but the song doesn’t suit him. And the two fire twirlers in the back both seemed either bored or stoned or both. But this kid has a great voice, man. He’s the real deal.

Jeff singing Jesus Take the Wheel? Damn, I love this song. Don’t fuck it up, kid. And he starts out flat. Well, that’s a shame. This song is really, really hard. People do not give La Underwood the credit she deserves. Oh, my. This is bad. Really, really bad. So under the pitch. It’s just . . . not good. Oh, he is murdering the big, glory note and he has no breath control so he couldn’t hold it. Which is better I guess since he was so far off the note. Look at his face. Aww, poor baby. He knows he was flat as a pancake through the whole thing. Why are the judges even on this show when they just lie so blatantly to these kids? Can they even hear? Maybe during the performances, they are secretly replaced by stunt doubles and head up to the V Lounge so Blake can get his sip on, Adam and Christina can finally just do it already and get it over and Cee-Lo can toke it up? So they don't really hear the performances and then they just come back and say something vaguely encouraging? That's gotta be it.

I was really disappointed by Jeff--he sounded good in clips and in his audition and competition, but...that song just sucked.

Is the fact that Adam's people have to sing with a whole choir mean he doesn't trust them to sound good on their own? :) (They're actually doing fine, I think) (OK, I wrote that before Adam bent in half and went 'yeahhhhhh" as if he were constipated) That boy with the faux hawk on Adam's team is awfully adorable, even if he was kinda dreadful in his solo

kat, I thought the earlier "I really liked the ...decor! the candles!" was an interesting non-compliment.

Well done, choir. That was a great performance. Adam's team was there, too. Shame you couldn't really hear them at all.

meara, that was such total Christina hateration. It was delicious. She really can't stand it that Vicci can just flat out blow. She has thrown shade all over all the girls tonight except the crappy sisters. It's like she can't stand any competition for her girls.

Wow, country boy is managing to make this song completely forgettable and sound JUST LIKE every other country song ever in history. And I like country music. Jesus.