Sings "God Bless the Child". Is this in English? I don't understand the words. Another supermarket song--boring. Zzzzzzzz.
Simon: You have got to have an incredible voice and you haven't. It came over as very flat (yes) and interestingly, zero emotion. Pointless performance. Didn't get it.
Kara: I agree with Simon. There was no connection. It got a bit loungy at times. Indulgent. I don't know where you go. But you can sing. You have a voice there.
Randy: When you hit the bridge, the John I love came back. But you voice doesn't suit this kind of thing.
Ellen: That song isn't going to get a lot of young girls to vote for you. I liked the performance. I thought you sounded great. I just would have picked a different song. I want you to be in this competition.
Chatting with Seacrest, John plays the sympathy card, saying he chose the song because of his parents. "Money is something we have to worry about."