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1 - 9/10 - A Change Is Gonna Come - Syesha2 - Blew me away. I cannot in good faith say it was better than "Billie Jean" as the best song of the season, but I will say it is tied with it. Just amazing and I was shocked by Randy's criticism of it. And I say all of this as a non-fan of Syesha. She has really, really upped her game this week. Plus she looked amazing.

2 - 9/10 - Proud Mary - Syesha1 - I thought this would be the best song of the night before Syesha blew me away yet again on her second one. This one doesn't approach "Billie Jean" or "A Change Is Gonna Come" as the best song of the season, but it's definitely up there in the top group. Where did this personality she's showing all the sudden come from? It reminds me of Latoya London singing "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" and all the sudden dancing around the stage which was so different from the kind of performances she'd given before that, though I thought this performance of Syesha's was much better than Latoya's performance of that.

3 - 8/10 - I Shot The Sheriff - Jason1 - Loved it. His most energetic performance to date.

4 - 8/10 - Baba O'Riley - David C.2 - David C. has been boring me the past weeks but he brought back a little of his former magic tonight with this song. It didn't blow me away like some of his others have done, but better than he's done recently.

5 - 8/10 - Love Me Tender - David A.2 - I don't really like this song at all, but I really liked his slow and almost haunting arrangement of it. As usual, great vocals. His second best song of the competition, only behind "Imagine".

6 - 8/10 - Stand By Me - David A.1 - Safe choice but great vocals.

7 - 7/10 - Hungry Like A Wolf - David C.1 - I like this song and thought he'd do better than he did. He still did good, but I just wasn't wowed.

8 - 6/10 - Mr. Tambourine Man - Jason2 - I thought it was very good, and if there were any bombs tonight this wouldn't be last. If he hadn't forgotten the words it'd be an 8/10, but that part of the song was so uncomfortable that it really scars it. But beside that, a lovely performance.


Overall - If you had told me any week before this one that Syesha would be in the F4 and that I'd rank BOTH of her songs better than the other finalists, I would've laughed. But hell has frozen over. She has been drinking the magic juice or something, I don't know, but whatever she's doing it's working. And one more thing I love about her is that we all know she has no chance of winning, yet she really still seems to earnestly believe she has a shot. I love that.

I thought the judges were pretty much completely wrong on Jason.

David A. has given his best performances in weeks and weeks tonight. Stand By Me was very safe (as always for him) but still good, and on the surface Love Me Tender was safe too. But even though I'm definitely not a fan of his, I loved the arrangement he used on Love Me Tender, and it slightly reminded of his great "Imagine".

David C. has been in a slump for weeks in my opinion. He's still great, but his performances are missing the spark a lot of his earlier performances had. Baba O'Riley had more of a flicker of a spark than any of his other recent performances, but still was not a "Billie Jean" or even an "Always Be My Baby".