American Idol Top 6 - The 2000s thus far

UPDATE (June 21, 2005)
Files are back. :-)

UPDATE (May 19, 2005)
I removed the files, because I'm running out of bandwidth. :-) I'll put them back up around the beginning of June, when my bandwidth starts anew. :-) I could afford to host more files if y'all would refrain from ignoring my shameless begging section in yonder sidebar. :-)

Farewell, hairless Anwar - I'm sad to see you go and take your twittering cartoon birds with you.

I really don't have much to say about this week's performances, for some reason. And Pauler was surprisingly normal, although she did totally overuse the phrase "having said that". Having said that, here are a few comments and performance mpegs for everyone but Scott, because I didn't want him thugging up my server with his maddening face. GRRRRR.

1. Carrie Underwood - When God Fearing Women Get the Blues
   performance clip ~20MB, right-click and "save as", please
   I hate this song so much. It kind of colored the performance ugly for me, although I was glad that we didn't see another pink, sparkly, pretty pony princess dress with giant bouffant hair. And I REALLY hate that song. Really.
2. Bo Bice - I Don't Wanna Be by Gavin DeGraw
   performance clip - ~21MB, right-click and "save as", please
   Bo looks like a member of The Great Unwashed - I think he's been sleeping on a hillside for a week, protesting something or other. Other than his scruffiness and his annoyingly unnecessary sunglasses, I thought it was entertaining.
3. Vonzell Solomon - I Turn to You by Christina Aguilera
   performance clip ~20MB, right-click and "save as", please
   Awwww, she is as cute as can be. And awww, her brothers love her - one of them "almost, like, cried" (loose quote there.) She sounded great and looked adorable. I like her.
4. Anthony Federov - Something-Or-Other About 'Surrendering' by Celine Dion
   performance clip ~21MB, right-click and "save as", please
   I tend to compare these guys to Scott (my Scott, not "Scotty McThug, aka Look at Me, My Face Looks Like a Fist!" - and if Scott was an American Idol finalist confronted with the theme "2000-2005", then I seriously doubt he'd go, "FINALLY! I can sing that Celine Dion song, hooray!" Anyway, I'm liking Anthony less and less. I don't think I'll miss him if he gets booted.
5. Constantine Maroulis - How You Remind Me by Nickleback
   performance clip ~22MB, right-click and "save as", please
   I like that song - it was the one song of Nickleback's that they aren't all whiny about everything. I think Constantine did a good job, even though he almost kicked the cameraman and he whirled his hair around too much. He still makes me want to hose my television with an industrial-strength antimicrobial, in which I will then dunk my eyeballs and my brain. I hope he's eliminated soon, because I'm running out of ways to say, "I hate the gross way he does his unsolicited eye-molesting." Blech.

I wrote this before the results show, and after hearing the results of last night's voting, I just have to say - whyyyyyyy? Not even in the bottom three??? Are you KIDDING me??? Something evil is definitely afoot here.