Cut to three

Barry Gibb somehow is performing on the same bill as Pink; and the judges switching seats is the highlight of the opening. Simon pretends to be Paula with some seal-like clapping, Paula pretends to be Simon with some chest puffing.

They go to the farmer's market, of course everyone who enthuses about Barry Gibb is old. It's all totally pointless, and just padding. As Ryan says, you can tell we have an hour to fill tonight. Ouch.

Back with a commercial for Idol on tour, per usual Sanjaya's the focus. Pink performs, interesting striped black and pinkish dress. She's okay; funny that Idol's essentially renting out its stage to anyone with something to promote. Switching between AI and the Golden State-Utah game; wonder what Charles Barkley's watching in the studio.

Ford commercial is good, You Really Got Me, with vintage Beatle-esque filming. Jordin looks good as a school girl; not so much Blake. The medley has audio problems at the start; jeez, you'd think they'd have that figured out by now. Jordin is just dominant, both stature-wise and vocally; she's amazingly stylish. The songs aren't any good, though, so it's all kindof a waste of time. Wait, they're singing Islands in the Stream--that's a Gibb song?! Why didn't someone sing it last night!

Back chatting with the contestants, nothing so illuminating except LaKisha admits to rehearsing in case she's gotta go home. Extended round of interviews; with a shot of Simon's toothy girlfriend. Jeez, more commercials--Idols went to see a preview of the Fantastic Four, with Icemanish 'Silver Surfer'. Interesting, director is Tim Story, who's black. Preview looks mildly interesting, if totally derivative of X-Men. With Jessica Alba and the rest of the cast in the audience afterwards as the commercial continues.

Hmm, a deeper look at the contestants. Wow, all only children except for Jordin, who we know has a brother. As she says she looked the same as a kid, very cute. The photos are actually all great, this is interesting. They should've done something like this way earlier; there's a great photo of Jordin as a toddler with her dad's name on the back of her little jersey.

Big group hug as we come back, they refuse to break into a line, it's hilarious. Jordin is safe, group hug and some talk before she sits. The rest of the results but first AI is apparently looking for the best undiscovered band in America. Well, a very logical and good idea; the individual thing is running out of steam.

Barry Gibb performs To Love Somebody, which is a great song; he's pretty good actually, the nasal thing works for this one, and it seems pretty heartfelt. He gets a big hand; he performs much better than he advises.

Back and Melinda, of course is safe. Randy doesn't know who's going home, Simon offers to guess, says LaKisha; funny, Melinda and Jordin look like sisters in one shot. More than 45 million votes according to Ryan, and it is indeed LaKisha going home.

Tape reminds me of how great she was that first week doing Jennifer Hudson; she's really a good person, I'm sad to see her go home even though it was definitely her turn. She's in tears watching it all; what a pure person. She really brings it on Stayin' Alive, more so than last night. I'd love to have seen Jordin sing the song, but she's not bad, some attitude which was totally missing last night.