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I agree with your take on the talent, and yes, J-Lo is a beautiful lady with a beautiful spirit, and she is bringing sparkle plus professional critique to the panel (that was hugely lacking in her counterpart). I confess, I knew little about her before she came on AI as a judge. I just considered her another big name recording star/Diva. She is so much more than that.

The first couple times I saw Steven do his thing on the panel I thought,.....yikes, they are going to have to reign him in! LOL. I love Randy's double-takes over some of the things that come out of Steven's mouth. He such an outrageous kick in the pants. But I loved how he interacted with that one contestant's wheelchair bound fiance. He has a big heart. But all that being said, he doesn't bring much "critique" to the panel. He's fun though.

I was glad to read your take on Jacob. I can hardly bear to listen to him sing. The judges just love him, but it just sounds like so much over-the-top screaming to me. I guess I don't have a refined "ear" for that type of singing. LOL. He might be good if he could just tone it down some.

Scotty is fabulous! The only criticism I would have is that he is maybe a bit locked in his genre. But the judges keep telling him that it's okay to stay with what he knows and what he does best.

I hope that Paul's disappointing performances were because of his cold. I really thought he had a lot of promise early on.

I am not real excited about many of the women this season, but, compared to some past seasons, the overall talent has been exceptional, I think.

Tomorrow night is "Motown" week, and I'm looking forward to how Scotty will do with that genre, but think he'll be fine. I'm also not too impressed with the girls - but really I never have enjoyed the girls' singing as much as the guys any year (except I did look forward to Fantasia every week! I've never bought one of her albums, but thought she was the best on Idol that year)

I expect the Top 5 to be 3 guys and 2 girls: Casey, James, Scotty, Pia and Lauren - not necessarily in that order, except that I think the 3 guys will be Top 3.

I hope Paul at least makes it this week, so he'll be in the Top 10 and get to go on the tour this summer.