Yeah. I don't like PPhhiilllliipps' personality, but at least there's something there to dislike. Ryan Seacrest is there for a reason - all you have to do is look LESS like a robot than he does, and you win. And Jessica hasn't won yet.

I wanted to watch this show, because even though I wish we had a different top three, I have to admit that each of them does have something going on, and occasionally turns out a gem.

"after we lost Colton, Elise, and Skylar in one straight, miserable shot"

My guess is that Elise knew there was no way she was surviving this week, and her song choice was totally based on that.

I thought Elise did a fantastic job on I Want It All. I'm pleasantly surprised she got as far as she did; she deserved to make it further, but yeah.

Rain Dogs was my introduction. I was really lucky, I caught just the first three tracks in a friend's car, and then got to let them rattle around in my head for a while before I listened to the whole album. Singapore, in particularly, really grew on me based on that one hearing.

Ronin converted me from "all vehicular mayhem looks essentially identical" to "holy shit where can I get more of this."

Yeah, she was totally freaked out - especially when you consider that if she were not in a state of shock, she'd have realized that Steven had basically told her outright "IT'S YOU, JESSICA, WE'RE USING THE SAVE ON YOU."

The complaints about the show being too dark and angsty would make more sense to me if it weren't for the same reviewer complaining in the review of episode 2 that the problem with the show was that the main characters were all too nice, and needed to get in touch with their dark side in order to save the show.

I know this makes me objectively wrong, but From the Inside is my favorite Alice Cooper album. I loved Trash when it came out, then got heavy into the whole "two guitars and a trap set" aesthetic and stopped liking it, but when Groove Coverage convinced me to revisit it with their fantastic cover of Poison, I realized…

Nora's arc is making a lot of sense to me. Even without the abuse, she's suddenly and traumatically come unmoored from who she was, and she's looking for an anchor to build a new identity around. She has two choices asserting themselves in her life, the douchebag twins and Josh. Josh's path involves a lot of work to…

It was all worth it
for "haven't you been listening?" / "No."