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UPDATE:  100,000 down, 2 to go.  This is the night, this is the audience (it’s pretty big!)  This is AmErican Idol.

UPDATE:  WTF IS RANDY WEARING?  IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, I DON’T EVEN KNOW…

UPDATE:  Paula broke her nose?  Ryan:  “Well at least we know the bitch is OK” – in reference to the dog Paula tripped over.  Ryan, getting edgy!

UPDATE:  Both Blake and Jordin made it through to Hollywood via the Seattle auditions.  I know there were a lot of awful people, but see Simon, Seattle does have some talent!

UPDATE:  The Coin Toss – Blake wins and chooses to go first.

UPDATE:  He starts with You Give Love a Bad Name!   HOTT!

UPDATE:  Randy says 10/10 on the beatboxing, but the singing was just alright.  Paula just looks awful.  Simon says I liked the performance, but it was flat in the middle.  Me:  I agree that the beatboxing was off the charts – the singing wasn’t quite as good as last time, but I don’t think it matters, the performance was so good.  Oh, and the ending rocked again.

UPDATE:  Did anyone notice that the mixing was off a bit on that song?  And the mic cut out at one point! 

UPDATE:  BTW, the contestants are all singing their favorite song, a song they haven’t performed before, and the song that won the American Idol Songwriter competition.

UPDATE:  Jordin doing Fighter.  She’s takin on Christina – that’s dangerous!

UPDATE:  So if you look past the sound dude continuing to not get the levels right, that still wasn’t anything amazing.  I’ll give Jordin props and say that I think she did better than most people could covering that song, it just didn’t come anywhere close to Christina.

UPDATE:  And the judges think… Randy:  “You were stellar… you sounded amazing.”  Paula:  “I knew this was gonna be the best finale ever.”  Simon: “I thought the vocals were a bit shrieky in the middle.  I’m gonna call Round 1 to Blake.”

UPDATE:  Ryan asks – Paula calls Round 1 a tie, Randy gives edgy performance to Blake, vocals to Jordin.

UPDATE:  Don’t give Blake a set of drums!

UPDATE:  Maroon 5′s She Will Be Loved.  And Blake sitting down – the softer side of Blake – nice.  Good use of falsetto – he’s even changing up some of the notes, that’s pretty cool.

UPDATE:  I liked it – you could really believe that performance.

UPDATE:  Randy: loved the vocal.  Paula:  relaxed… you were so great out there.  Simon:  “It was good, it was safe, it wasn’t as good as the first performance, and I actually wouldn’t have chosen that song in the final because I don’t think it makes that much of an impact.”

UPDATE:  Jordin’s video gets the cute vote.

UPDATE:  A Broken Wing.  This was good earlier in the season.

UPDATE:  Jordin is really very pretty with her hair down.   We don’t often see that, I feel.

UPDATE:  Great vocal!  And she knows it too

UPDATE:  Randy says better than the original.  Paula says she’s soaring.  Simon: “Now that was good!”

UPDATE:  We’ve got a battle going on!

UPDATE:  This is My Now – the winner of the songwriter competition.  And they’re from Seattle, too!

UPDATE:  Blake sitting on the video screen!

UPDATE:  The start of this song is a  good vocal for him.  Overall,  not perfect, but the quiet parts were really good, and I felt we really got to hear more of his range this time.  I liked it.

UPDATE:  Randy didn’t think it was awesome.  Paula said great job.  Simon said it was a little odd – not the type of song that he would normally sing.

UPDATE:  The middle was kind of bouncy – that was odd.  I think he really wanted to get upbeat with a boring song.  So in the end, I like Blake’s personality a lot, and his originality and stage presence is way above that of Jordin or any of the previous finalists I can remember.  Now we just have to see how well Jordin does with a song that is much more suited to her style.

UPDATE:  Ryan up in the balcony.  And Jordin’s up with the same song.

UPDATE:  I didn’t like her opening as much as Blake – I thought she had a little trouble with the lower notes.  But!  The middle is hot for her – she has a great voice for this song.  And overall, I think I can see Jordin making a record out of this song more than I can Blake.

UPDATE:  I’m noticing that they fixed the sound – did they call in a replacement dude in the middle of the show?

UPDATE:  Oooo – Jordin kinda faltered at the end there… she’s crying a bit.

UPDATE:  Randy: “You were the best singer tonight.”  Paula: blah blah blah.  Simon:  “Last week I didn’t think you were good enough to make the finals, and I want to say to you publicly, now, that I was wrong… You just wiped the floor with Blake on that one.”

UPDATE:  So we do the recap for the last time this season.  And I think Jordin will win.  Blake was still awesome, and he’s definitely a better performer, but Jordin’s vocals were hot.

UPDATE:  Simon says best individual performance was Blake with his first song, but overall vocals goes to Jordin.

UPDATE:  Daughtry performs  Home to close out the show.  Great song!

UPDATE:  Tomorrow is a 2-hr results show.  No, they don’t plan to drag it out at all…  I’m actually going to see a Robin Williams standup act tomorrow, so I won’t catch the show live, but I’ll be here later in the evening to bring you the last installment of this series of blogs.  I wouldn’t let you, my faithful readers down!

UPDATE:  Ugh!  I hate my DVR – it just cut off Chris’s performance so it could tape something else.  Yes, I just got Comcasted!