Ryan lets us know that Kelly Clarkson and Scotty McCreary will be singing tonight.
The top 6 perform a medley of Burt Bacharach hits and the judges give them a standing ovation.
Tonights Ford Fiesta mission is a Fiesta Shootdown. The contestants are divided into 2 teams and get to bump giant soccer balls into nets in their Ford Fiestas.
Ryan begins with Kree.
Jimmy says she needs to give a lot more personality in her vocals if she wants to win it.
Angie
Jimmy says she did a very competent job but not enough to win tonight
Lazaro
Jimmy calls his performance boring, he's an Ambien milkshake, he's proven me wrong every week by staying. I'd put him at # 10
(a voice off camera says there's only 6). Jimmy says, yes, I know.
Ryan tells us that they will be doing pairs tonight. He brings up Angie, Lazaro, and Kree and tells us these were last weeks top3 and then has us wait until after Scotty's performance.
Scotty McCreary performs his new song 'See You Tonight' (Good song, but I didn't see much of an emotional connection, I dunno)
Ryan tells us they have been asking their twitter followers for ideas for musical themes and they have come up with these 5:
Break-up Songs
One hit wonders
Dedicated to someone special
Guilty pleasures
Unplugged
Janelle
Jimmy says she is doing a literal interpretation of the songs she sings and that won't work. She needs to make them her own. She joins Angie
Candice
Jimmy gives her a 10 out of 10. She's got more than a great voice she's got a great sense of what she should sing. Candice joins Kree.
Amber
Jimmy says she looks like the entire package, I don't know what to tell you to change, keep doing what you're doing. Amber is put with Lazaro.
Ryan informs us that one of the pairings is the top 2, one is the middle 2, and one is the bottom 2.
Kelly Clarkson is next. In the 11 years since she won Idol, she has sold 20 million albums, had 80 billboard #1's and 3 Grammys. Kelly sings her new song 'People Like Us'. (Watch it if you have a chance, really different --lots of black lights and fluorescent colors.) Kelly tells Ryan how nervous she was to come and sing in front of Mariah (Awwwww). So Mariah divas her way on stage and gives her kudos and a hug.
Finally the results:
Kree and Candice--top 2
Lazaro and Amber--bottom 2 (huh? what's wrong with you America?)
Angie and Janelle are safe.
After 34 million votes, Lazaro is at risk and Amber is safe.
Lazaro goes home. (He's lucky he made it this far.)
The girls will now be duking it out.
