Idol Gives Back No More--Down to 4

So, the charity is over, and to make up for past generosity Idol kicks off two contestants this week. Sort of makes last week's most shocking results ever seem like pseudokindness. Anyway, Phil's gone not because he didn't rock Bon Jovi night, but because he waited until Tuesday to really bring it. And with so many excellent female singers there is only room for one guy, and it's Blake (obviously, after his amazing Tuesday performance), so sorry to Chris, but mad props for the effort he's put into this competition. With the extra rehearsals and work with professionals he could be quite entertaining on tour.

I have questions as always after the results show, and here they are:

1. Do we really need to bring back boogie and bring back Barry Gibbs? Haven't we all be Bee-Gee'd out?

2. Did anyone else think three other Idol winners would perform last night? Honestly, they could have flashed up that toll-free number and had a chimp mime someone making a phone call and it would have been at least as entertaining as watching Taylor plead for money. And shame on Ryan for actually comparing these three spots to last week's performances by Kelly and Carrie.

3. When did Bon Jovi get back together for this tour thing? I was actually very impressed by their performance last night. I could tell from Jon's work with the contestants that he does have quite a bit of musical talent.

4. How many other people got the willies from that Robin Thicke performance? When I saw him at first, I thought he was the guy from the back of my high school economics class who was always muttering something about computing odds ratios and mean values or something like that. We couldn't even understand the last bit of his song and were saying to each other what our best guess was. Then our daughter says in all sincerity, "Maybe it was a different language." Not a bat bet. Honestly, he didn't seem like a guy that could have a #1 R&B hit right now. (As an aside, I went to his website and found out that: (a)He doesn't always sing in falsetto, and (b)He has at least one song with the requisite "U" for "You" substitution to legitimize his claim as an R&B star.)

5. Was anyone else nervous that Phil was going to forget to sing with his wife? How would that have gone down when they got home?

6. Did Chris actually say he'd go home for Blake? I have a hard time believing that!

So, Boogie or Bee-Gees or Disco or some other crazy week next. At least only 4 people will have to sing it, but they'll probably do it twice! Here we go again . . .