I still love Blake, arrogance and all

Blake Lewis takes on the Zombies. He sings, "Time of the Season". I hope he downplays some of the arrogance that came through last week. He's great and interesting and I so enjoyed him up until he started getting too cocky and trying too hard to upstage everyone else.

Peter Noone tells him not to get too crazy with the beatboxing - that it can mess up the phrasing and entrances. Do you think Blake will take his advice? I'm thinking no, but let's see.

Of course... he didn't listen - starts the song with beatboxing. But thank God - he's back to just singing. I love it!!! He sounds fantastic - even with the beatboxing, He manages to get back to the beautiful sound he achieved the first week when he sang Keane. I feel really torn about him because I think he's awesome, but the arrogance annoys me. This week, though, the singing outweighs the cockiness. It was incredible - he just knows himself so well - knows exactly what to sing, what will sound good. He's a smart cookie.

Randy tells him he put together a massive 'yo-factor' version of the song. He told he made the song really current, that it was brilliant. Paula says he has raised the bar and Simon says it was a million times better than last week because this week, he found a way to make the song contemporary without messing with the melody.

What a great lady Lulu is - she really took the mentor thing seriously and went out of her way to help and guide the girls this week. After LaKisha Jones tells her that she is leaning toward singing "Diamonds Are Forever," instead of "You're My World," they show Lulu being interviewed about it and in the middle of the interview, she decides that she think LaKisha should do "You're My World" instead. So, she leaves the interview and sings the song to LaKisha, trying to convince her that she can really make that song her own. I mean, that's just a great thing to do, and above and beyond what she had to do for them.

Unfortunately, LaKisha doesn't take Lulu's advice and chooses to sing Shirley Bassey's "Diamonds Are Forever." Of course, she sings it beautifully, but I'm left wondering what she could have done with the other song. This one is kind of boring - too slow... and even the beauty of her voice doesn't make it interesting for me.

Randy tells her it wasn't his favorite - that there wasn't enough LaKisha in it. he says it was just all right for him. Paula thinks she picked the right song and talks about how she's wearing $1 million worth of diamonds. Simon says that they know she is a fantastic singer...however he thinks that the performance was Lakisha in 50 years - that it was too old fashioned.