Idol Top 8: Killer Queen.

That was SO much more fun than the past 2 snoozapaloozas. I'm not sure anyone sang any better last night, but at least I was entertained.

Some random thoughts, because that's how I'm remembering it:

The Powers That Be do have a sense of humor, don't they, showing Marlee Matlin in the audience while Elliot was singing. I though Elliot was good with a really tough song, but he seemed to be struggling to keep up with the band.

Speaking of the band, could they be any louder??

Ryan lost at least one of his beards.

Sheila summed up Chris' performance perfectly: it was like being at a concert by your favorite band, being totally into the songs and then they whip out a track from their new album and everyone tries to clap along to a song they don't know but the band's lost the audience. Very indulgent, unmelodic choice of song. They'd better back off the eyebrows, too. He's looking more metrosexual than hardcore.

While we're on the subject, Randy was never more in need of a smack than when he argued with Simon's assessment of Chris' performance (which was right on the money) by saying that it wasn't about song choice, it was about talent. Excuse me, what show have I been watching? Someone play back every single semi-finals performance show for Randy so I can watch him eat his words.

Paris is quite the little performer but I didn't know the song and she looked like a cross between Li'l Kim and that midget hooker from Total Recall.

Taylor had the Mother of All Spaz Attacks and completely missed the mic stand when he tried to kick it over. We had our heads buried in the furniture laughing so we missed the majority of the performance but I heard the end and he sounded awesome.

The second most awesome OhMyGodDidTheyJustDoThatIHaveToLookAwayMoment was Ace getting put in his place twice by Brian May. Hee! He made the worst song choice of the night and it was predictably bad, but he was strangely calm. Weird.

Katharine was not helped by the dress rehearsal recap clip they used for her - she missed a few notes in the live show but she wasn't that bad. But her clothes were! Jesus Christ, who's closet did they raid for that top? Dynasty-era Joan Collins'?

Bucky sang what was probably the only Queen song that I know of that he could pull off (although I would have loved to have seen what Taylor would have done with "Fat Bottom Girls") and was adequate. Very amiable, but the boy has absolutely no energy on stage. He did have a great moment after the song (paraphrased): Bucky: "[Freddie Mercury]'s not someone you want to come up behind." Deadpan Ryan: "You can say that again." Ha!

The performance I dreaded the most was Pickler singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" and, while it was not in any way, shape or form good, it was no where NEAR as bad as it looked on paper. "On paper" being one of those high-falutin' expressions those weird British people use. Then again, Simon does "have the weirdest terminology." Terminology, huh?

I honestly don't have enough of a clue to even attempt a prediction at the Bottom 3 tonight. All I can say is if this were a just world, Ace would be going home.

Tonight's results show is an hour long, from 8:30 to 9:30, wherein we get a Queen performance and a group sing and a whole lot of filler.