Blake and his ego get put in their place

LaKisha Jones plans to sing "God Bless the Child," a Billie Holiday song that Diana Ross sang in one of her movies, and I'm planning to be blown away.

I'm a little confused about why Diana Ross is telling LaKisha what to wear - maybe she had nothing to critique in her voice.

Well, LaKisha took her advice and wore something long and simple and she looks stunning. Her voice is perfection, as always. I think this performance may be better than her "Dreamgirls" number. It wasn't over the top, it was just right on the money - simply sensational.

Randy tells her that he loves the song choice, loves her outfit and her vocals. Tells her it was unbelievable and actually uses a word I just typed not even a minute ago - sensational!! Paula tells her that her heart comes through when she sings and Simon tells her that she's got "it" and that she and Melinda are like in another league all together from the rest of the contestants. As if that wasn't already obvious...

So, last week after Sundance got voted off, he told Ryan Seacrest in an interview that there was a guy still on the show who felt that he had the competition in the bag. TMZ.com had a poll up about it, asking the public who they thought Sundance was talking about and the last time I checked it, like 52% of the people who voted thought he was talking about Blake Lewis.

I completely disagreed - until tonight. How arrogant to add different beats to someone's song to make it your own? You should be able to make a song your own simply by the way you sing it. But, I still love Blake, arrogance and all. He picks a great song, "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and Diana Ross actually likes that he's changed the song and made it fresh. Now, I happen to love Kim Wilde's 1987 version - that's fresh enough for me - but I'm willing to hear what Blake has done with it, too.

I don't like it... it's too slow and just boring overall. It's trying to be all modern and funky, and it would have succeeded if he had sped up the tempo. But you know, let's get to the core of this whole change-up. Is it possible that he went to all the trouble of changing up the beats and calling attention to it so that the viewers would be so focused on hearing the new arrangement that they wouldn't bother to listen to his voice? I think his voice is great, but not really tonight. It had no depth, which is odd because he's sounded so great in past weeks. I wonder if the judges were able to focus on his voice...

Randy caught it! Thank Goodness - he tells Blake that he needs to just watch the vocal - that he can sing better than he did tonight, that he shouldn't worry so much about Blake-izing everything he does. Paula says nothing of importance and Simon tells him that he didn't get it at all, that the arrangement wasn't great and that he didn't sound as good as he's sounded before.