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I'm excited!! Melissa's Mom and brother are in the audience tonight as well as some of our friends...I can barely wait to see what happens...Have fun everyone!

It's almost time!!!!

Go Ashlee Go!!!!

Go Ashlee Go!!!!

YAY! I'm with Doll on that, but good luck to everybody, Melissa too for sure.

Did anyone notice on the NBC website they are featuring Shawn, poster girl for the show. I think this may be a deciding night for who ever does the best. Now is not the time to be off. Ashlee, who i like, seems to be slipping vocally.

Don't say that I liked her performance last week it was one of my favorites.

35 mins and counting

I'm hoping that Laura and Sophie changed their somg choice. I want them to do "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", and sing it EXACTLY like Flatt and Scruggs.

I say Go Melissa, Gabe, Ashlee and Shawn!!!! Lets see the COUNTRY artists duke it out!!!

Yehaw Piano guy! Go girls!!!

That should be the top 4 after tonight is over

I agree it should be... but I wonder .. with that massive fan base that Coffey has from myspace... just never know, lol

I'm down with that for sure, but like has been said, I wouldn't be surprised to see Coffee as one of the 4 left, or, honestly, even Laura & Sophie with how the voting has gone so far.

Realityodds.com has Coffey and L&S going home this week. But who knows with america's voters.

If Ashlee gets voted off tonight I'm kicking the screen on my monitor in

I didnt realize last week that they were calling them in any particular order, I thought they just randomly picked someone til they got down to the loser. Then when I heard Ashlee was in the bottom two I knew something had gone terribly amok in the voting system.

Here are the odds for tonights episode:

Gabe 2-1
Ashlee 4-1
Melissa 6-1
Shawn 10-1
L&S 12-1
Coffey 15-1

I agree with this as the top four. Let's keep hoping that country will win out after all, and it would be really great and send a message to TPTB.

Lets all try to be ladies and gentlemen tonight....



*lights a candle*

I'm still not convinced that they aren't randomly picked for one of the 2 last to perform, except for the actual act to leave. If it is the case, remember that she is not the first of those that most see as the front runners to be in that position. It usually seems to actually benefit those that should be a front runner to be in that position as the voter seem to get busy making sure they are not there the following week.

Yeah that's true, and I'm right with you on not being convinced.

Yay Ashlee's still in it! "When I'm singing this song today, maybe my future cowboy is watching." That's me! haha I'm kidding.
Now Melissa next!

Hard to understand her words, too much country licks as JS says
Ashlee, overall i rate it B

OMG!!!! Tell me my rock n roll ears distorted that and it didnt sound as bad as I thought it did!!!! Tell me was it good???

Oh, my goodness....I have always liked her, but she sounded HORRIBLE on my tv.....it must sound MUCH better live.........

Honestly I thought it was good. She did miss a few notes, but overall that's the type of song I love to hear Ashlee sing. Yeah it didn't sound GREAT, but it seems to be that way with everybody for me.

The most beautiful woman these eyes hav ever laid eyes on is Taylor Swift and tonight Ashley had that look going and her talent level was also very hot tonight.

you have to enuciate your words, she is falling short on that part. Other wise i like her. I need to
hear the words...that is what separates good singers from the great ones.

lol. Hence my response to her Cowboy comment.
I do understand the enunciation thing, and that is something she'll have to work on if a lot of people (not just those on here, but a lot of people overall) find the same problem. To me its not a big deal, b/c I know a lot of artists who aren't great at that but that I really enjoy. Still, it is a possible issue.

I know!!! It sounded really good to start out with, then all of the sudden everything went south fast!

Sorry DD, but she had some real pitch problems....for me that's a mark down.

Okay now its Gabe. So far, so good!

I love seeing Abe open up a little and talk about the EX.
Doing that song had to be hard if he still has those love feelings for her.

I like the way he did this song even if it was not nearly as good as the one we all know. I do not think this was his best but it was not bad by no means.

Gator I think we just lost our fight with MrDunder...have you noticed how much the co-host is speaking and BRC isn't?...haha!

Gabe is dope tonight!!!!

OMG, did Rich just say what I think he did about NBC?
YESSSS!!!!!!!
Gabe just killed it, at least compared to performances we've seen recently. I hate to say it but he definitely did better than Ashlee.
And yeah I noticed that Doll, but that's a GOOD thing.

Interesting comment, J......he must be reading this message board! (LOL)

Maybe it's because I am a huge fan and I mean a huge fan of B.R.C. so I am not getting what is so bad about him.

i guess NBC picked the talent

Hahaha!!! I knew John Rich's comments were gonna get him some points tonight with you guys! See he's not such a bad guy after all is he?

With NBC Picking the talent I now understand why this field was the weakest ever in this, shows run.

I simply don't like his comments too much. The long pauses he does at the end kill me, and some of his comments just seem to cheesy to me.

Yep, looks like that's right.

About John Rich as I posted on another thread I lost all respect for him when he did the last show because the person who won it was not nearly the best in the group.

I give Gabe a A

Wow-ie!! Gabe sure is doing something right, that performance was great!

Coffee? Damn, I'm okay with it as long as Melissa stays, but if she goes I'm gonna be really angry!
And so far I'm with Mushroom's grades.

OMG this is ear pain!

Oh, bless his heart.....I wonder if the judges will crucify him for it.........

When it comes to AMERICA voting and getting it right I should be use to her messing up. We as a country not once, but twice put Bush in the White house so moving coffey into another round of this contest is parr for the course.

I really used to like the song he tried to do.

Now we have the guys crying

I hope Melissa is still in....I was in tears when Coffey just sang.....Oh my goodness....that's so sad!

All these judges are hipocritters

I love the emotion Coffey showed and I'm glad that all 3 judges were both nice about it, but the fact remains that he didn't do great. That being said I can understand WHY he didn't do great.
And Jewel is completely right about music being healing.