AMERICA VOTED: And there's at least a little to say.
Bottom three: Stefano, Haley, Paul. Paul goes home.
He had been a sleeper pick of mine early on because the quirks and the maturity led me to assume that this was a fully-formed artist in the Kris Allen mode, someone who'd reinterpret things from week-to-week and grow as a performer as Adar II turned to Nisan. But that change never came -- Paul was a one-trick pony with a weird, twitchy, ultimately less-than-appealing trick, and placed in the vulnerable opening slot he had little margin for error this week.
The slow march towards the inexorable Scotty-Lauren-James final three continues ...
