My private message counter isn't working, so I just now, tonight, discovered I'd gotten a couple. Sorry if you hadn't heard back from me - I wasn't meaning to be unfriendly or anything! I was looking at a bug list and it said that sometimes the counter is off, so I figured I'd check just to be sure, even though it's never budged from "0" and there they were. Yeesh!

Rockstar was fun tonight. I was glad Jordis got the encore - she does SUCH a beautiful job with "The Man Who Sold the World".

Brandon, Ty and Tara were the bottom 3. I was a bit surprised about Brandon - I though he'd done pretty good with his song, and was, IMO, better than JD at the very least, but oh well. He was funny, though - you could tell he was scared constipated. He just went totally all out on his performance and got a bit over the top in places - plus the song was just too low for him. But he did ok.

Ty just rocked. He was fantastic. His performance of "Everlong" wasn't that great, but I think that was more of a fluke than anything. It was a song he didn't know, and it wasn't in a good range for him. If he'd had a "normal" amount of time to put together a performance (such as if he were actually doing a concert with the band), he would have had a lot more time to learn the song and to either get his voice able to handle the range of the song or to rekey the song to better fit his voice. Tonight's performance of INXS's "Kick", though, was a nice reminder of how good he can be.

And then there's Tara. She seems like such a nice woman, and she has a decent voice, but just not for this kind of music. When I hear her sing, I hear echoes of Shania Twain and Faith Hill - that kind of light pop-country. I think a lot of it is just how she pronounces her words, but whatever the cause, she just doesn't sound "rock". Tonight was her 3rd time in the bottom three, and so it wasn't much of a shock when she got cut.

I'm finding myself more and more torn between Jordis and MiG. Jordis EASILY has the best voice, and I think she could do a great job for INXS, but I think she could go so far on her own, too. MiG could probably do ok on his own, but he just has more of a "lead singer" vibe to him. His rendition of "We Will Rock You" was great - and dammitall, he's kinda cute, you know? I really hate when that's a factor, but there it is.

Oh dear - veering off on a tangent here (which, be warned, I'm prone to do) they're showing a REALLY old Wham U.K. (yes, Wham U.K. is how it's listed) video with an extremely young George Michael in it... kinda scary, really. He looks about 15.