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"It&amp;#039;s down to the final six singers on American Idol, and thankfully this week, we&amp;#039;ve said goodbye to the awful duets and instead, each of our finalists will be singing two songs - a selection from Burt Bacharach&amp;#039;s catalog and then a track that each of the singers wish they&amp;#039;d written themselves. Sounds promising (and potentially disastrous), so let&amp;#039;s get to it, shall we?  First up, it&amp;#039;s Angie Miller with &amp;#039;Anyone Who Had A Heart&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s a pretty restrained performance and vocally really on point. Another thing I have to say is that Angie does always look flawless, albeit about 10 years older than her tender 16 years. It&amp;#039;s an excellent song choice for her - she seems confident and in control, though she probably lacks a bit of the life experience necessary to really connect with the track deeply. It doesn&amp;#039;t really matter, though - we all know she&amp;#039;ll end up with a record deal. Keith thinks she looks great, which means he hated it. He goes on to say that while she has such a &amp;quot;great voice&amp;quot;, she shouldn&amp;#039;t rely on it alone. There were moments in the song he was waiting to hear the passion and since it&amp;#039;s so easy for her to reach the higher notes, it often comes at the expense of the passion. Nicki agrees, adding that her voice is &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s felt more emotion in previous performances. Randy echoes the sentiment but urges her to digest the lyrics of the songs she sings as if she wrote them so she can better understand them. Mariah concentrates on her perfect pronunciation, which she believes is behind the lack of emotion.    Next up, Amber Holcomb takes on &amp;#039;I Say A Little Prayer For You&amp;#039; - a perfect choice for her. She&amp;#039;s dressed simply and the vocals are absolutely effortless, as always. She&amp;#039;s another one that&amp;#039;ll easily get a record deal whether she wins or not (and probably already has offers). Her voice is just too good. It&amp;#039;s so big and she&amp;#039;s such a natural. How can anyone not love her?  Nicki wants to &amp;quot;bow down&amp;quot; in front of her and wanted to give her a standing ovation (but didn&amp;#039;t for whatever reason), calling her &amp;quot;unbelievable&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;everything&amp;quot;. She also declares Amber to be her favourite female in the competition. Randy declares that the competition has just started with that performance, adding that Amber is proving every week how much she wants to win. Well, I&amp;#039;d hope so. Mariah loved the bridge and the transition Amber made because she took a chance and stayed true to herself as an artist. Keith appreciates that she never over-performs and is always effortless, comparing her to a &amp;quot;summer breeze&amp;quot; which never let him go the whole time.  Moving right along, Lazaro Arbos continues to hang on by the skin of his teeth with a rendition of &amp;#039;Close To You&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s awful. I&amp;#039;m sorry, but this is his last night on this show, so I guess he should enjoy it. Good for him for being brave and getting as far as he did, but this is a singing competition, not a courage contest, and he&amp;#039;s off-key, awkward and just... wrong. No. Make it stop, my ears are begging you.  Randy is actually speechless, saying that he loves Lazaro as a person and is inspired by his story but &amp;quot;no, no no, that was horrible!&amp;quot; Agreed! He felt like they were sitting back at the auditions and they definitely would have given him a no if that was the case. Mariah tries to stop herself from laughing and mentions that she&amp;#039;s been told off by the producers for being so nice, so she has to be honest. She appreciates his struggle but at this point in the competition, he needs to be able to do a key change. I&amp;#039;d hope so! Keith acknowledges his story (blah blah) but agrees with Mariah, while Nicki refuses to comment because she has too many mean things to say.    Kree Harrison gives a fantastic rendition of &amp;#039;What The World Needs Now Is Love&amp;#039;. Now y&amp;#039;all know Kree is my absolute favourite - talk about perfection. She&amp;#039;s just so good! Her voice is on point, as always, completely effortless and smooth, and I could just listen to her forever. I can&amp;#039;t wait to buy her record, so long as she doesn&amp;#039;t end up making some adult contemporary crap. Then I might think twice.  Mariah&amp;#039;s always amazed by Kree because she knows who she is as an artist and makes fantastic choices when it comes to her arrangements. She also chooses songs that are great for her voice and she always emotionally connects to them. Keith can feel Kree&amp;#039;s genuine compassion whenever she sings, along with her humanity and passion, and calls it her best performance yet. Nicki loves her &amp;quot;humble&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sweet&amp;quot; voice and the fact that it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;hella cocky&amp;quot; at the same time. She also predicts that Kree will be performing at the CMAs by next year because she&amp;#039;s not just ready for stardom, she&amp;#039;s already outta here and probably has producers lined up to give her material. Randy agrees with everyone else and adds that he loves how well she did after Lazaro&amp;#039;s disaster. Ouch.  Next, Janelle Arthur performs &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll Never Fall In Love Again&amp;#039;, which isn&amp;#039;t the worst thing tonight (because nothing can compare to Lazaro), but it&amp;#039;s nothing special. She puts her country spin on it and it&amp;#039;s great that she knows who she is artistically, but for the final six, it&amp;#039;s just not good enough, I don&amp;#039;t think. She tries to work the audience and it just comes off as awkward as she tries to sweep the hands of the young girls standing there and they kind of look at her blankly. Nice try, I suppose. This is not so great.  Keith likes that he always gets to see different sides to her every week and thought it was &amp;quot;very good&amp;quot;. Nicki compliments her on looking nice but admits that while she could be a &amp;quot;humungous commercial success&amp;quot;, she felt this performance was really boring. Agreed! As does Randy, who calls it &amp;quot;lacklustre&amp;quot; even though she found a few bright spots here and there. Mariah applauds her for doing &amp;quot;simple renditions&amp;quot; of songs regardless of genre and for always portraying her personality, but she wonders if this week was pushed a little rather than natural.    Candice Glover chooses &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t Make Me Over&amp;#039; - a great pick for her voice, which also comes across as effortless (I&amp;#039;m using that word a lot tonight) and crystal clear. Candice can sometimes be a bit shouty for my taste, but not tonight. No one can argue that this girl can&amp;#039;t sing her ass off, and it&amp;#039;s completely impressive. This is the type of music I can see her doing - albeit slightly more modern.  Nicki is wowed, saying that it didn&amp;#039;t at all sound old-fashioned (it sorta did, though) because she was committed so whole-heartedly and completely connected to the lyrics. She adds that her power to do so is a gift and proves that she was born to do this. Randy says that she&amp;#039;s what the show is all about, calling her performance the best vocal of the night because it started so simple but turned into something emotional and &amp;quot;so crazy good&amp;quot;. Mariah agrees 100%, calling out her ability to take a classic and make it current while still being herself and showing another side of who she is.  It&amp;#039;s on to round two, and Angie Miller wishes that she wrote... Kari Jobe&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Love Came Down&amp;#039;, which even she knows that no one will really know. Seriously, I&amp;#039;ve never heard of it, or the artist, so fair enough. For this performance, Angie is back at the piano, which is always a good move. Her voice sounds great and it&amp;#039;s definitely the type of music she&amp;#039;ll make when she gets a deal (it sounds quite a lot like her original song from Hollywood week). Nothing incredibly mindblowing, but definitely solid and she&amp;#039;ll be in the Top 5 for sure.  Randy loves it because it&amp;#039;s exactly who she is as an artist and because she was at the piano and was able to feel every word of the song. Mariah is also impressed, saying that Angie can never lose when she&amp;#039;s at the piano as it&amp;#039;s so organic and &amp;quot;perfect&amp;quot;. Keith agrees, saying that when she gets out and starts touring a lot she&amp;#039;ll get more comfortable with singing in front of a mic on her own with the passion she has in front of the piano. Nicki says this performance will help her be remembered at the top of the pack.    Amber Holcomb wishes she wrote &amp;#039;Love On Top&amp;#039; by Beyonc\u00E9. Really? I mean, it&amp;#039;s a damn good song, but of all the ones in the universe that you wish you&amp;#039;d written? Are you sure this isn&amp;#039;t just a chance to perform Beyonc\u00E9? Ah, whatever - Amber is great and probably the only singer in this competition that could pull off a Bey track. I&amp;#039;ve definitely heard her sing way better - the key this track is in is a bit weird - but it&amp;#039;s still really good and I can see her covering this at her own concert or something. There&amp;#039;s some pitchiness in places, but good for her for doing something a little different.  Mariah notes that America loves her and felt that she could see Amber was happy and enjoying herself, though it wasn&amp;#039;t her favourite performance. Still, she applauds the &amp;quot;star power growing within her&amp;quot;, so there&amp;#039;s that. Keith calls it &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; and a great song choice for her because it goes well with who she is. Nicki jokes that Beyonc\u00E9 had better look out because Amber has arrived in every sense of the word and gave her &amp;quot;everything [she] ever wanted in life&amp;quot;. Randy says she&amp;#039;s in it to win it. Wow, way to add something good, Randy. Next, Lazaro Arbos wishes he wrote Robbie Williams&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Angels&amp;#039;. Really? What a clich\u00E9. I mean, it&amp;#039;s a good song and all, but... eh. The vocal is slightly better for him because it&amp;#039;s quite a straightforward song, but it&amp;#039;s still not good enough for this competition. I hope he&amp;#039;s enjoying it, because it&amp;#039;s got to be his final performance on the show. I&amp;#039;m just done with him.  Keith is glad that he chose the song and says there were elements in that song made him realise why they originally loved him. However, the girls are &amp;quot;crazy good&amp;quot; and he&amp;#039;s just not stacking up. Nicki echoes what Keith said and doesn&amp;#039;t add anything else. Randy admits that it was better, but he&amp;#039;s with Keith, as well - it&amp;#039;s a girl&amp;#039;s competition this season and he&amp;#039;s out of it. Mariah thinks the range was better on this song but everyone knows it&amp;#039;s time for him to go.    &amp;#039;Help Me Make It Through The Night&amp;#039; by Kris Kristofferson is Kree Harrison&amp;#039;s pick for song she wish she had written herself. It&amp;#039;s very simple and understated, yet still powerful and emotional because that&amp;#039;s what Kree can do. Seriously, I just love her. I&amp;#039;m just going to keep saying that every time she sings because it&amp;#039;s all I really can say. She&amp;#039;s just so good.  Nicki appreciated the string arrangement and says that she&amp;#039;s at the head of the class. She also points out the differences between herself and Janelle - basically, Kree can sing whatever she wants because even if she doesn&amp;#039;t know it, she gets immersed in &amp;quot;the kree-dom&amp;quot;. The same can&amp;#039;t be said for Janelle. Randy gives her kudos for being a natural singer, while Mariah says that it&amp;#039;s how the song should be sung - simply and beautifully.  Janelle Arthur wishes she&amp;#039;d written Garth Brook&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;The Dance&amp;#039; - a track she thinks will go down in history. It&amp;#039;s totally in her wheelhouse and she does a good job with it. Perhaps she&amp;#039;d be a country hit, but she just doesn&amp;#039;t gel for me. She&amp;#039;s the least good of all the girls in the competition, so methinks after Lazaro, she&amp;#039;s the next one headed for the door. Sorry, girl!  Randy loves the song and thinks she did a good job, though it wasn&amp;#039;t her best performance ever. Still, he believes her story - that she loved the song since childhood. Mariah didn&amp;#039;t know the song before now and really appreciates it now, especially since Janelle&amp;#039;s rendition seemed &amp;quot;true&amp;quot;. Keith wishes Janelle would have played acoustic guitar with no other backing for this performance and urges her not to forget the power of that honesty, whatever that means, since it goes a long way. Nicki calls it a &amp;quot;sweet song&amp;quot; and thinks it was much better than Janelle&amp;#039;s first as she stepped it up vocally.    There&amp;#039;s one final performance, and it&amp;#039;s from Candice Glover. It&amp;#039;s a bit of a shock, but she wishes she&amp;#039;d written The Cure&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Love Song&amp;#039; - it&amp;#039;s a good one, and she does an incredible job with it, turning it into a stripped down piano ballad and absolutely killing the sexy, intimate side of it. Damn, is there anything this girl can&amp;#039;t do? I&amp;#039;m really, really impressed - it might be her best of the entire season.  Even the judges give her a standing ovation for this one, and Mariah runs up to the stage to toss a handful of glitter at Candice, who breaks down in tears before they&amp;#039;ve even started speaking. Randy speaks on behalf of them all, calling it one of the best performances in the entire history of Idol, and I have to agree. That&amp;#039;s all that needs to be said, apparently.  So that&amp;#039;s it - who will be going home? Tune in Thursday at 8/7c on Fox to find out!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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