Even though this is word for word what you posted at FBG, I feel the need to comment.
1-4) I missed these singers. I have no comment exceptthat from the short clips they showed at the end of the show, your analyses seem pretty accurate.
5) Bucky... I enjoyed his song...fair to middlin
6) Melissa...BORING...forgot the lyrics...not like Stevie Wonder lyrics are complicated...buh bye...move your go home comment from Kevin to Melissa
7)Lisa...decent...she is usually better...thought she was pretty good at the time she sang, but after the last 4 singers she just wasn't up to snuff.
8)Kevin...say what you will but this geek has song...not as good as the last 4 but I like Kevin...Dude is just enjoying himself and cracking jokes along the way...called himself the sex symbol of the show...classic...He knows he's not going to win but is enjoying the ride...great to see a guy who is confident in himself as a person. He knows he's a geek and plays the hand he was dealt...'nuff said
Now for the last 4. (these should be the final 4 in my humble opinion.
9)Katharine...Nailed that song...could feel the energy of the whole show get turned up a notch...Now somebody learn how to dress her....stole my grandma's curtains to wrap around her while she sings...seriously, that dress made her look like she had no butt...Attn AI fashion designers: Girls are supposed to have curves
10)Taylor...Kept the energy at that higher level...totally the atypical American Idol stereotype loook/act/age...might just pull a Reuben Studdard and win this thing.
11)Paris...Wow Aretha Franklin is contacting Mike Meyers about getting permission to call her mini me...at 16 or 17...she's got pipes
12)Chris...Dude rocks. Plain and simple...class of the competition.