Oh yeah, I think he gave the weakest performance of her group last night too, but I was assuming his popularity would keep him in.

I thought she was out of her everloving mind, but yeah, I guess we're just kinda down to it in the season already. It's going to be weird how after tonight two teams will have two people only and two teams will have four. And it's kinda unfair to these judges because the other teams' judges will get some time to think about who they're going to kick.

Also, she took way too long doing it, and I felt back that Jordis basically had to get kicked with almost no explanation. But I thought maybe she was getting the "I believe this is my time" edit of doom. Which presumably they didn't know, live, whatnot, but still.

y'all watching "The Voice." You need to take a look at Christina's stank face after Justin Bieber hugs her.

Seriously.

She totally had her hand out for a shake. Hilarious.

It also cracks me up how, ten years ago, it was obvious that Justin Timberlake wanted to be Prince and it's equally obvious now that the Biebs wants to be JT.

omg I hate Raylynn. Hate.

Is it me or have there been a ton of singers this season with these crazy contrived sounding voice. I do not buy for one second that half of them naturally sing that way.

Oh yeah, a ton. The saved one from Christina's team put it on tonight, when I don't think she usually does?

I AM STUNNED. I can't believe Blake's finalists are both full-grown adults.

Hahaha, yeah, she was all omg I got bieb germs on me!

I was okay with tonight's elims. I continue to have mad respect for Adam because he consistently gives solid musical critique to singers that will help them in their off show careers. He was right in what he told RaeLyn, because I think she does have a decent straight voice under all that, but nobody's ever made her use it. Blake tried, pulling her off the growl some, but in her own uncoached piece she went right back to it, and Adam was right to call her on it.

Christina, I think, is too tied up in her image and the contest aspects of it all to really be that great a mentor. Her whole demeanor shifted when the format changed, and I dislike it.

On an odd note, I finally realized today a funky performance note. When I'm onstage, I both raise and lower my level, by going on my toes or down, and male vocalists do this too sometimes. But the female vocalists never do, which on this show translates into this weird bent knee stompy thing when they want effect. And I finally realized it's because of their heels...they have no up to give. Apropos of nothing, I know, just an odd thing I finally understood.

Liese,

I think I might disagree with you there. I think Christina seems to give pretty good advice to her team, but perhaps not to the other contestants. In fact, she seems to be the top 2 of mentors to her own team (with Adam). She demonstrates what she is talking about in terms of how to sing.

It seems to me, that she does not want to be seen slamming other contestants, so she chooses her words very carefully when she does not like a performance. It's almost like she has made a decision not to look like the "bad guy." Given she is the only woman on the panel, I can only assume that producers, etc. likely told her how she comes off when she says "mean" things.

I was shocked that Christina voted off Jesse, but I couldn't argue that his performance was by far the worst of the night from her group. That said, she picked a terrible song for him. Halo? Really? If I were him, I'd be pissed.

So glad RaeLynn is gone.

AI

Hollie – Rolling in the Deep. Seriously, famewhores, stay away from Adele. So, so tired of her. If I saw Adele on the streets somewhere, I’d run up and smack her just for all the residual badness she’s unleashed on the world. And this little girl sounds good . . . better than she ever has. But she also sounds like an Adele impersonator and not like anyone whose album I would want to buy because really? If I wanted to hear Adele, I’d just listen to Adele or something. And she’s still dressed like a Boca housewife. What is that necklace? Christmas lights? See through dildos? Just . . . no. I can’t even start with J-Lo. I’ll have to catch her outfit on the flip side.

Colton – Bad Romance. I have no interest in this performance. Let’s chat instead about the ridiculousness of the red streak in the hair. It looks like he did it with a crayola marker. Also, I don’t care about his sister and Nigel should understand that AI is not SYTYCD and Colton and equally annoying sister will never be like the Schwimmers or Danny and Peanut. And good god, y’all, this song is so long. Is it always this long? This is not one of my Gaga favorites. In fact, I don’t think I have Gaga favorites other than Just Dance because that song is awesome. But anyway, this song is just kinda boring even when Gaga does it but when this fool does it in his whiny emo way it just became this interminable thing. And Good lord, he’s still singing. And now the judges are on the whole “It doesn’t matter if you sing well because you are awesome” tip. Umm, no. You still must sing well. Poor hairboy. Your box does not expand enough to include me ever.

Elise – No One. Why are you always in the B3? Because you’re old, mama. You’re old. And bad song choice, btw. The pre-teens who vote for this show were in Pre-K when this song was big on the charts in 05-06. And then she proceeded to do not much interesting with it. It was fine. It was not memorable. Steven is trying not to say it was monotonous, but it was. The judges are so trying to get her to go home. Damning with faint praise. Awwww. Dead doggie stories are not gonna get it done, though.

Phillip + Usher? Hmmmm. I’m cautiously intrigued.

Phillip – You Got It Bad. I love this song. Hats off to you, sir. I think I might actually like this Phil Phillips performance. And yup. I really liked it. Really, really liked it. He kinda shut it down on that one. I have to give it up to him. It just worked – the whole . . . wait, did Steven just say “No chump love, sucka”? I love it. I will use that tomorrow on somebody. Oh, Randy. The show still is not about you.

On the real, this is a seriously talented top 7. Even the ones I don’t care for.

Jessica – Fallin. Hmm, another really bad song choice. Not that I dislike this song. Well, yeah. Maybe I kind of dislike this song. And is that a white jumpsuit? A white, gaucho pants jumpsuit? A white, gaucho pants jumpsuit with a gold chain with an Aztec mask on it? Just no and wrong and no. And she sounds amazing because she always does but she is still hella robotic. She has no clue what this song is about. I don’t believe she has ever been in love and lost it and then kept getting pulled back into a crazy, co-dependent relationship. In a few years, this girl is gonna be nothing nice. Right now, she’s 16. And look at that. I’m back to hating 16 year olds on this show. Who knew?

Skylar – Born This Way. I had no idea Gaga made a country version of this song. She’s really scraping along that lower register, isn’t she? Once the chorus kicks in, she’s much better and really wailing it out with the country nasally thing she does in full effect. And she gets down on the second bridge. (continued...)