April 11th Top 9 "American Idol"

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9) Tim Urban, (last week: 10) sang "Can't Buy Me Love". How was he not even in the bottom 3? Unless he has an amazing performance he's going to remain at the bottom of this list until he's mercifully (to the viewing public) voted off.

8) Katie Stevens (last week: 4) sang "Let It Be" and I thought her performance was terrible. She's another one who I thought might be sent home. Like Urban she wasn't even in the bottom 3.

7) Aaron Kelly (last week: 8) sang the amazing song "The Long and Winding Road". That's a great song, my favorite version of that song is Billy Ocean's version. Paul McCartney also has a live version of that song that's pretty amazing. By far that's one of the best Beatles songs. Aaron Kelly's version was okay.

6) Andrew Garcia (last week: 9) had a pretty solid week with "Can't Buy Me Love". As Kara said, I really liked the "breakdown" part of that song. I can't shake the feeling though that he's living on borrowed time.

5) Sioban Magnus (last week: 6) sang the dreary "Across The Universe". Randy Jackson was right on when he called her performance "sleepy". I had thought the same thing while she was singing. She's sort of been coasting or hit a rough patch. I haven't really liked one of her performances for two or three weeks now. She probably has 2 or 3 more weeks though before she has to worry.

4) Michael Lynche (last week: 2) sang a pretty intriguing arrangement of "Elenoar Rigby". He was the fourth singer of the night and up to that point, I thought he was the best performance of the night. Of course he followed Aaron Kelly, Andrew Garcia and Katie Stevens. I still liked what Lynche did with that song. I also agreed with the judges that he should have been saved. Although that song "A Woman's Worth" has got to be one of the most dreary songs all time.

3) Andrew Dewyze (last week: 3) sang "Hey Jude" and I liked his performance. The bag pipe was a little strange but I actually liked that as well. This and the next two songs all were purchase worthy on this one of the strongest weeks of this season.

2) Casey James (last week: 5) sang "Jealous Guy" and I thought his performance was amazing. He sang that song so well and it was a great performance. Instead of doing a paint by the numbers version, he made that song his own.

1) Crystal Bowersox (last week: 1) sang "Come Together". She had a very funky version of the song just like Carly Smithson did. This is her fifth consectutive week at #1 and she's clearly the class of the competition.

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