Marginal singers and bad ensemble singing. It must be American Idol.

Who should go home? Antonella and Sanjaya are my first tier of weekly should-be losers. Past that it gets a little murky. Haley or Stephanie would be fine on the women’s side and Chris R, Jared, Sundance, or Phil (in that order) could go and I would be happy. Chris R seems an unlikely cut--he has a contemporary style and look that will probably keep him on the show for a while.

But what do I know? I still think that Paris was the best contestant that they had on the show so far.

As Bob, regular comment guy here, noted: it’s hard to justify keeping an equal number of men and women on the show this year. The women are much closer to good and only a couple of the guys are even close (with Chris Sligh having, if not a perfect voice, at least the charisma to imagine seeing him go quite a ways).

Lakisha: safe. Blake: safe. Good and good.

Chris Sligh: safe. Very good.

Jordin Sparks: safe. Which is nice. I like her (even though last night wasn’t what I would call wonderful).

Phil: safe. Maybe that will give him a chance to improve himself next week. This week was rough.

Jared Cotter: going home. Which I’m okay with--he hasn’t proven to be a consistent singer--but it is a shame. He’s a nice guy with potential, although I can’t imagine that he would ever sell and album to me.

Melinda: Safe. Which, c’mon, we saw that coming. Brandon: safe. He may have gotten a bit lucky; his song this week was one of his better moments.

Gina: Safe. Good for her--I was a little worried that her rockin’ moment might have scared off the kiddies. Chris R: Safe. Whatever.

Aside from the aside: I liked Bo. I liked Bo Bice and his Big Bag of Cocaine. Carrie Underwood is an entirely different story.

Aside from that aside: Oh, hell, Mad Max would totally drive this car. He would still be played by an anti-semite, so it’s hard to celebrate the way that I used to, but what a car.

Antonella: going home. Hallelujah. Stephanie: staying. Which, if she keeps wearing things like that, I might consider voting for her. Now we’ll just wait for the inevitable news of Playboy offering big bucks to get more some pictures of their own. Given her level of talent--marginal would be overstating it--that might be her best shot at stardom.

That wasn’t very nice, was it?

Haley: safe. Which is sort of sad, really. Sabrina: gone. Which doesn’t seem quite right. Between these two, Haley should have been heading off.

Sanjaya: safe. Sundance: going home. I could see sending either of these two home, but it was still the wrong choice. Sanjaya is the least talented of the men and he doesn’t deserve his slot.