Tonight was all Jordan. What more can I say.

Amen! I love Jordin! She's young and talented with a bright future. I think she's what American Idol's all about.

The 'prediction' site has Jordin way ahead. Tonight she outshined, (is that a word), everyone.

all i can say is...who thunk up making them sing bee gee songs?

hehehe doydie..i'm making up words too.

yep...it was jordin's night. my daughter called and called her voting numbers.

i agree ceci. i really was disapointed when they raised the age of the contestants. it let in too many whwo have already sung "professionally".

Raised, lowered - why does it matter? You vote for who you like. If Sanjaya was good enough to make the final 12, then I can't imagine that Melinda's presence meant that a well-qualified younger person was edged out.

Really, though, demographics are always a consideration. FWIW, if we had not been able to hear old lady Melinda (29) to sing, I think it would have been regrettable. The other point I want to make is that, just because someone has sung professionally, that doesn't mean that they have had more training. Paris Bennet - only 16 - was schooled for years by her aunt and other professional singers in her family, but she herself was not a pro. Melinda, although she has worked as a back-up singer, may have had no training at all, for all we know. You get hired based upon your ability to sing; they don't do on-the-job training for singers - especially back-up singers. If you aren't solid already you don't get past the audition. So having sung professionally is not necessarily an advantage.

I thought Melinda and Jordin clearly outshined the other two last night. Blake was atrocious - oy. His "unique" style has been exposed as the only trick in his bag. Without that silly beat-box stuff, he's nothing. Lakisha, IMO, sings like a million other people; pretty good, but certainly not great; there's no music in her voice. Assuming things go as they should, I will have a hard time voting against either Jordin or Melinda when the final vote rolls around.

I was really suprised. I went over to the .com vote prediction site and after all phone votes were 'counted', Blake is ahead of Jordin now. Lakisha is way down in the bottom. But this is only a prediction site. Last week they had Phil in second place and Lakisha in last. So they can't predict very well. The nasty little site that Howard Stern endorses is promoting everyone to vote for Lakisha. Sanjaya was their poster boy, Phil took over and now it's Lakisha. It is their goal to get everyone to vote for the least able to win, to show the public what a sham the show is. Last year Talylor Hicks was their man and he won.

The people voting for their A.I., as much and as often as posible, is kind of a sham operation. I can see how it could take on a life of it's own and get the wrong Idols eliminated from the final three.

There is a final three, isn't there? Or do I have AI mixed up with another show?