Here's my penny's worth take on the final eight for American Idol singing "songs on inspiration!"    First, Randy and Simon seemed to trade places, Randy was the grumpy "pitchy" one, Simon was fair, for the most part, but did you notice he did NOT do his trademark snarky "sorry!" at all?    Now, Paula.  Maybe she was inspired by Dolly Parton last week, maybe she dug deep in her 80's "Straight Up" days closet.  In any case, her strapless, um, top, was tootight, cutting across her chest so much I had trouble breathing!!!   Now to the singers....my top two...Jason for his ukelele rendition of "Over the Rainbow" and believe it or not, Kristy Lee for a decent performance of Martina's "Anyway."   David Barfuleta (stop the hating, this is what I think...mkay?) turned in his predictable top performance.  I know he's talented, but it's expected so much, the kid's kind of like a car alarm, don't you think?   Pretty much the same thing with Brooke.  Girlfriend needs to give up the hippie chick thing.  David Cook (my fave) was just ok...I didn't really get his song.   Michael Johns was better than Randy said...when the Dawg told Michael this competition is "not about dreams but about finding the best talent."  I thought, "uh, hello?  Aren't dreams involved?"  Methinks someone whizzed in Randy's Wheaties yesterday.  Now, to my bottom two...Syesha...she needs to stop with the Diva stuff....she keeps trying to do all the "first name" singers like Whitney and Fantasia, and just being ok.  I think it's kind of self-promoting of her to take on that kind of singer.   Syesha is very likeable, but I'm over her....then there's Carly.  I used to really like her.  But now the big giant multi colored tattoos scare me and she often looks like she just rolled out of bed to perform.  I think Simon was right, she DID sound angry when she sang her "inspirational" Queen song, but the thing that put me on edge was when she's trying to explain away her performance by claiming Simon's look "threw her off" in the middle of the song.  What a cheap shot!  Don't be blaming Simon if you lost it girl!   My bracket is all screwed up anyway because Kristy is still here.   I think Syesha is going home this week.  If anyone DOES go home.  I say that because remember last year during "Idol gives back" week, Ryan scared Jordin by making it look like she was going home, then saying that they wouldn't do that during this week.  So, we'll see...

--Nancy