Oh my gosh! You slept through it??!! Paula was bawling, and I thought C's mother was going to pass out. C looked pretty shocked too (as did Scott, for that matter!).

Yeah, who IS voting for Scott? Insanity.

Go Bo! Go Bo! Yeah, that get-up has to go, but Go Bo!

I would love to see who is voting for Scott. It's kind of scary.

Although Constatine's performance Tuesday night was really bad, I wasn't ready for him to go yet. I was tired of being molested through the camera, but still felt Scott must go!

Maybe this is AI's way of trying to get others to vote? I dunno

as for myself, I think this kind of crap gives even more credence to ABC's allegations that the vote is rigged.

I mean, most people around here thought so when they couldn't even call in to vote for Clay.....

I'm going to take the contrarian view: I think Simon got it right.

Constantine started his journey as a grungy hard-rocker. For the last six or so weeks he has been a total pop-idol whore, doing pop-ish stuff or even rock-ish stuff in a very pop-y way, and totally vamping for the camera in such an obvious way he was totally whoring out. It was SOOOOO obvious. Rose and I both hated him for it. Mind you, in a way it's not fair, he obviously saw the rules of the game and was playing to them--but he was too shameless, too transparent.

This week he tried to go back to being a serious rock guy, and he totally failed. The teeny-bopper audience was totally disappointed--and guess what? Those of us who liked him in the first place were like, "ah, fuck you, you're full of shit."

Combine that with the fact that so many people are SO MEAN TO SCOTT, he's got that fat boy/city boy/rebel thing playing for him, and gets sympathy. Plus honestly, I think a lot of people who didn't like his performance the other night were just comparing it to Luther, rather than just evaluating it on its own merits. I actually thought it was one of his best performances.

I am only surprised because I'm delighted: I thought Constantine the Evil Genius might just win it. Instead he misstepped--those of us who saw through him had already had enough of his schtick, and the 13 year old girl audience was like, "Huh? What? Bleah!"

Oh, I forgot to mention WHY Simon got it right:

Simon said, "You crossed over to the dark side, you can't go back." Or words very close to that effect.

He was totally right. Constantine sold out and tried to be teen-flame. Then he tried to go back. No one liked it.

Ok, I agree this week was a good performance for Scott, but generally his is the weakest performance of the group, week after week, and I suppose you're right about Constantine, but he is a good singer,and I thought he was showing his versatility with the pop stuff. Maybe he just got voted out because he didn't wear the makeup this week.