9. Phil Stacey – Phil in that white button down shirt was something out of a THX-1138 deleted scene. Or out of a rerun of Stargate: Atlantis. He has got to start mitigating the bald alien factor. Based on looks alone, he’s a two bloop guy every time. But judged on the voice he’s merely an intermittent one bloop. I love the big notes, yet I involuntarily twitch at the falsetto ones. He’ll be in the bottom three again, but for this week he’ll be okay. But dude, Phil, do NOT wear white again. I thought I was watching one of those bad X-Files episodes where the Duchovny was M.I.A. and Scully had to grin and bear it through another week of oak-acting Robert Patrick.

10. Stephanie Edwards – Stiff as a board + Dull/Beyonce voice, again? = the night’s first double bloop performance. Tactical error on Stephanie’s part, I think. She’ll never out-sing Melinda or Lakisha so slow, big vocal songs aren’t the way to go. She needs to be eclectic with her song choice and really dig her heels into a persona that no one else on the show is occupying. And she needs to find it fast because I’ve double blooped her for two straight weeks and have no intention of slowing down if she survives. I gotta feeling I won’t have to worry about it.

11. Sanjaya Malakar – I have to accept that as much as I triple the kid into oblivion, Sanjaya is the Scott Savol of season six, and as such, is going to be around for a while (after all, he made a little blonde girl cry Beatle-esque tears of joy. And little girls pick the winners on this show). But please God, someone please crush some singing pills into this kid’s Diet Coke. He yelled and screeched his way through a performance that would have gotten him laughed off the karaoke stage at his own birthday. It had energy and passion, I guess, but it was a full frontal assault on the ears. Good thing for me, my triple bloop meant I avoided any lasting trauma.

Bottom Three: Phil, Stephanie, and Sanjaya

My prediction for who gets the axe this week: Stephanie Edwards