Cheryle and I had the exact same reaction to Lady Ga Ga, Ghost. And was she trying to dance? And what was with the pink bubble filled piano? The one that did a pretty good job of hiding her from the camera. Does anybody think that this gal could fill a 20,000 seat arena? When are the record companies going to wake up?

It doesn't surprise me that your daughter didn't know her. I've done a lot of work in a lot of homes in my area. When I go into a kid's room I always glance at books and cd's. Wanna' know what most of them are listening to? It's The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Led Zepplin, Elton John, David Bowie---the stuff that we were listening to when we were in high school. The young people that don't listen to classic rock listen to country music. I commented on this year's Oscars here on the Board that the current state of the music industry was pretty much summed up by the fact that the Best Song category only had three nominees, not the usual five.

I don't think Li'l will last as long as you seem to. I think that she has a bit of a matronly look to her. Not big, matronly. I think that is going to hurt her over the next couple of weeks.

I got the impression that Megan's cawing was an inside joke between her and Allison. Allison aped her when she landed in the bottom three. I also thought it was interesting that part of a segment was spent on getting the contestants to ham it up with each other and do impressions of each other. I think that the producers realize that none of the contestants is exhibiting a lot of personality and they wanted to showcase a little bit of monkey business between the contestants.