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Adam Lambert, San Diego.

Simon's choice: One by U2.

Wow to that song choice. Simon: I literally had a call Saturday from Bono, saying it would be their pleasure for Adam to sing this song.

Uh-oh, he's Adam-fying this from the giddyup. Just a solo piano and Adam in a smoky blue haze centerstage standing before a mic. But as he moves through the title line, I think I get where he's going with this. Oops, that's the second off-pitch painful note. Here comes the volume. Interesting choppy interpretation, as if they couldn't make up their mind whether they wanted a slow ballad or a moving ballad. It's just ... okay. Not a superior performance.

A 7, maybe.

Randy: You're definitely still in the zone. You're one of the hottest 3 in the competition. A little off with the melody though.
Simon: BOOO!
Kara: You're a strategist. An amazing strategist. You can take a song, do it in a completely different way and make it unnbelievable! You did your own version! See what I mean, Simon?
Paula: You don't know how miserable my life is, sitting next to Simon gloating. One brilliant song. One superb performance. One American Idol that I'm staring at right now.
Simon: May sound biased, but I thought that was a brilliant song choice. But kidding around, this is the point I tried to make earlier on. You took a great song, worked out what you wanted to do with it. If you're not in the Final next week, it'll be one of the biggest upsets, ever.