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"Following last week&amp;#039;s elimination, it&amp;#039;s now down to the Top 11 on The X Factor USA. Hoping to impress panellists Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger and LA Reid, the finalists will take to the stage on tonight&amp;#039;s live show and give it their all.  Tonight is &amp;#039;Movie Night&amp;#039;, which will see contestants take on tracks featured in popular films. Will the usual favourites continue to shine or will a new star emerge? Stay with Digital Spy throughout the broadcast to find out! &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; USA Top 11 poll: You be the judge - who sang best this week? 21:57 And that&amp;#039;s it for tonight&amp;#039;s performances. Who will fall into the bottom two tomorrow and who will ultimately go home? Tune in tomorrow night to find out!  21:52 I adore Rachel Crow, and she&amp;#039;s singing Etta James&amp;#039; &amp;#039;I Would Rather Go Blind&amp;#039; from Cadillac Records. She absolutely kills it, and I can&amp;#039;t believe that she&amp;#039;s only 13. It&amp;#039;s absolutely the best performance of the night, hands down. Well, next to Josh, anyway.  LA is wowed, admitting that he was previously unsure whether or not she could win the $5 million but has been convinced after tonight&amp;#039;s performance. Nicole doesn&amp;#039;t know Rachel gets all her soul but thinks that it was an &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; performance.  Paula loves her, gushing that she can&amp;#039;t get enough of watching her and calling it her favourite performance yet. Simon says that he adores her and trusts her as an artist, comparing her to Beyonc\u00E9 and saying that she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;back in the game&amp;quot;... when was she out of it?   21:41 Up next is Chris Rene with his own version of Coolio&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Gangster&amp;#039;s Paradise&amp;#039; from Dangerous Minds. I have to admit, I&amp;#039;ve been really disappointed by Chris since his initial audition (Never forget &amp;#039;Little Homie&amp;#039;). Still, I can&amp;#039;t help but root for him as he does seem like such a genuinely nice guy who&amp;#039;s worked so hard to turn his life around. The song is okay, but is okay really good enough?  Nicole loves that he &amp;quot;is up there channeling&amp;quot;... God knows what. She also then clarifies one of his lyrics and tries to rap with him. Paula applauds him for his honesty and passion on stage and leaves it at that.  Simon welcomes back the Chris that they all saw something special in during the initial audition and says that he has the potential to become a big star. LA doesn&amp;#039;t have much to say. but is proud of Chris. &amp;quot;It was a long road home, but we got there!&amp;quot; he adds. Methinks it&amp;#039;s a bit early for that, since isn&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;home&amp;quot; about winning the competition? Oh well, good for Chris.  21:30 You guys know I adore Josh Krajcik by now, right? This week he&amp;#039;s singing Joe Cocker&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends&amp;#039; from Across the Universe. It&amp;#039;s heavenly. I want to listen to him sing forever. Can he just skip this competition and start making records? It&amp;#039;s perfect.  LA calls it &amp;quot;really strong&amp;quot; and says that Josh is one of his favourite voices in the competition. Paula finds his voice comforting it, dubbing it &amp;quot;chicken soup for the soul&amp;quot;. Simon also loves the song choice, but says that he was like Dracula on stage and urges him to start singing without a mix.  Nicole thinks that he&amp;#039;s so ready for a $5 million recording contract, which I agree with (as I said above). She adds to Simon: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t hate, appreciate.&amp;quot; I heard that.   21:18 The Stereo Hogzz take on Christina Aguilera&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Ain&amp;#039;t No Other Man&amp;#039; from the Burlesque soundtrack. This isn&amp;#039;t as strong as past weeks, but I quite like them and think they could fill quite a unique niche in the industry.  LA is glad that they came back this week and did a &amp;quot;great job&amp;quot; after falling into the bottom two last week but he can&amp;#039;t praise it too much because he doesn&amp;#039;t know the song... which seems a little odd for a record mogul, but whatever. Nicole can only say &amp;quot;bananas&amp;quot;, dubbing it her favourite performance by the group to date.  Simon has a problem with the fact that they don&amp;#039;t perform songs that represents the type of records that they would make, calling them &amp;quot;cabaret&amp;quot;. However, he appreciates their choreography and work ethic. Paula disagrees, of course, saying that it was a perfect song choice and applauding their hard work.   21:08 Now we&amp;#039;re talking - Melanie Amaro is up next with Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Man In The Mirror&amp;#039; from This Is It. It&amp;#039;s in a bit of a strange key admittedly, but once we get to the chorus, it&amp;#039;s smooth sailing. This girl&amp;#039;s voice is effortless, I swear. Melanie is another one who&amp;#039;s in a complete other league.  LA thinks it was &amp;quot;really good&amp;quot;, telling her that she&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;great singer&amp;quot;, but admitting that it wasn&amp;#039;t that inventive because it was predictably strong. He wants to see more range with her song choices, which is fair enough. Nicole disagrees, however, applauding Simon for the choice and saying that &amp;quot;the whole world needs&amp;quot; it. &amp;quot;Her voice is a vessel of the light that this song was creative from,&amp;quot; she adds through a haze of invisible smoke.  Paula thinks that she could sing the phonebook and that it doesn&amp;#039;t matter what she sings, while Simon dubs it &amp;quot;bloody fantastic&amp;quot; - pointing out that it&amp;#039;s a British expression. Because Americans wouldn&amp;#039;t get that otherwise. &amp;quot;You did amazing. Congratulations!&amp;quot; he adds.   20:57 Aw, it&amp;#039;s little Astro, who&amp;#039;s doctored up Eminem&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Lose Yourself&amp;#039; from 8 Mile with his own raps. I can&amp;#039;t help myself, I love everything about this kid - he&amp;#039;s insanely talented and has the most ridiculous ego I&amp;#039;ve ever seen but for some reason, it makes him all the more endearing. This isn&amp;#039;t my favourite performance of his, but it certainly beats out everything else we&amp;#039;ve seen tonight and is in a totally different league.  Nicole is in awe of his performance, which was &amp;quot;so heavy&amp;quot;, claiming that it&amp;#039;s what separates the amateurs from the contenders. &amp;quot;Honey, you are a champion tonight!&amp;quot; she adds. Paula agrees, telling him that he has the ability to transcend and that his level of focus is what makes a star.  Simon is irritated to have to admit that LA is the &amp;quot;cat that&amp;#039;s got the cream&amp;quot; since he gets to mentor Astro. He appreciates the teen&amp;#039;s work ethic and creativity, adding that he&amp;#039;s a great role model and definitely has the X factor. LA is particularly proud that Astro has the audacity to re-write an Eminem song and actually do well with it.   20:46 I&amp;#039;m just going to rest my eyes for a few minutes while Lakoda Rayne are on stage, singing Keith Urban&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Wanna Love Somebody Like You&amp;#039; from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a movie even more banal than they are. I&amp;#039;m not sure why a group of four girls needs eight backing singers to pad out their choruses, but Lakoda Rayne do. Oh, whatever. I&amp;#039;m sure the panel will love it.  LA is glad that they took his advice and decided to go in the country direction, calling them his &amp;quot;favourite girl group in the competition&amp;quot;. Heh. Nicole says that she would be super popular if she took them back to her homestate of Kentucky. She praises them for being &amp;quot;effortless&amp;quot; and blending together so well.  Simon thinks that it was a definite improvement over last week&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;horror show&amp;quot;, admitting that they&amp;#039;ve finally become the group he always hoped that they would become. Paula is &amp;quot;so proud&amp;quot; of them but has nothing to say, so she just stands and applauds and then says something about &amp;quot;seeing them all over Pepsi&amp;quot;. Don&amp;#039;t ask.   20:37 LeRoy Bell has got U2&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Still Haven&amp;#039;t Found What I&amp;#039;m Looking For&amp;#039; from The Runaway Bride. Confession: I actually liked that film. In fact, I&amp;#039;d rather talk about that film than this performance, it&amp;#039;s that lacklustre. How many beanies do you think LeRoy owns? Do you think he&amp;#039;s been wearing the same one this whole time?  LA says that his song choices in past weeks have been &amp;quot;questionable&amp;quot; and admits that he was &amp;quot;getting bored&amp;quot; with LeRoy, but thinks that he turned things around this week. Paula agrees, praising Nicole for mentoring him in a way that has allowed him to grow.  Simon says that he is &amp;quot;used to working with older people&amp;quot;. Isn&amp;#039;t that nice? He loves that LeRoy, who is almost 60, came out &amp;quot;sounding like a 20-year-old&amp;quot;, dubbing it &amp;quot;classy&amp;quot; and his best performance by a mile. Nicole thinks that he is &amp;quot;just great&amp;quot;, confusing everyone as she says that she felt like she was at a rock concert but went to church at the same time.   20:25 From You, Me &amp;amp; Dupree, Drew Ryniewicz is taking on Coldplay&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Fix You&amp;#039;. There&amp;#039;s that bizarre voice-quaver she&amp;#039;s known for that comes in straight away and what was once an endearing addition has become a bit of an obnoxious affectation, I think. Too much of a good thing and all that.  LA thinks it was &amp;quot;really good&amp;quot; but admits that he couldn&amp;#039;t tell the difference between any of her performances as they were all the same. I feel that. Nicole says that she is &amp;quot;brilliant beyond [her] years&amp;quot; and praises her for taking her time on stage and being a &amp;quot;little slice of heaven&amp;quot;. Oh, Nicole. I&amp;#039;ll have some of what you&amp;#039;re having.  Paula appreciates that she always gives an honest performance and thinks that the song sits within Drew&amp;#039;s vocal range but criticises her outfit choice - which incidentally, Drew designed herself. Oops. Simon loves working with her as she&amp;#039;s always aiming to improve and says that the song choice is the exact kind of record she would make.   20:16 Up next is Marcus Canty with Mary J Blige&amp;#039;s (or Rose Royce&amp;#039;s) &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m Going Down&amp;#039;, which I never knew was on a soundtrack but apparently was, for a film called Car Wash. It&amp;#039;s not half bad and definitely shows a different side to him than we&amp;#039;ve seen before.  Nicole has two words for him, &amp;quot;mad chick&amp;quot;. I don&amp;#039;t know what that means, but she loves it because he enjoys and feels every single word and dubs him a superstar in every sense. Paula says that everything about him resonates star quality, from his voice and look to his &amp;quot;poise and delivery&amp;quot;.  Simon is glad that he&amp;#039;s finally singing songs that he would in the &amp;quot;real world&amp;quot;, claiming that it was 1,000% better than last week. However, he criticises Marcus&amp;#039;s outfit and advises him to dress himself going forward. LA disagrees, of course, insisting that he looks and sounds great. He then alludes to some weird &amp;quot;artist crystal ball&amp;quot; in which Marcus is a star.   20:07 Stacy Francis hits the stage first to sing Whitney Houston&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Queen of the Night&amp;#039; from The Bodyguard. Well, at least it&amp;#039;s not &amp;#039;I Will Always Love You&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s got some pitch problems here and there and seems a bit screamy to me. The song is simply too big for her, which feels weird to say, considering this is the same singer who tore up &amp;#039;Purple Rain&amp;#039;. Still, it was just... not great.  LA admits that he didn&amp;#039;t want to like it as he doesn&amp;#039;t approve of the track but thinks that she did much better with it than he expected. Paula calls her a diva, saying that every time she sings it&amp;#039;s like she&amp;#039;s singing for her life. However, she also doesn&amp;#039;t like the song, though she does think that Stacy managed to deliver.  Simon tells her that she looks &amp;quot;cute&amp;quot; but says that it&amp;#039;s a dress she would wear &amp;quot;somewhere else&amp;quot;... likening her to a lady of the night? (No pun intended.) Anyway, he wants her to start proving that she&amp;#039;s a $5 million recording artist and should step her game up. Nicole is, of course, partial, applauding her efforts and telling her how nice she looks. Who doesn&amp;#039;t dream of looking great... in a singing competition? 20:05 We get to see a video recap of the finalists attending the premiere of Jack and Jill last week, that awful Adam Sandler movie in which he plays his own twin. They&amp;#039;re all super excited to be there and freak out, with Drew Ryniewicz claiming that Sandler is her favourite actor. Uh, okay. Everyone seems to have had a good time, though, so I guess that&amp;#039;s what matters.  20:00 And we&amp;#039;re off! Can&amp;#039;t wait to see what everyone is singing tonight. Not sure who the announcer is, by the way, but I have to say he doesn&amp;#039;t have much of a voice for it.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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