the performances were rather crappy:
Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood mailed their performances in. Basically, they were performing like two grammy award winning, multi-platinum album selling divas that had better things to do and were "gracing us with their presence".
Ruben sounded like he hadn't picked up a mic in years....which is probably true.
Sanjaya was horrible as ever...I don't think he got one note right. He's what would have happened had they let William Hung go through to the top 12.
Blake's beatboxing battle with Doug E. Fresh was a jumbled mess...it was all over the damn place and sounded like total garbage.
Jordin's just not good...Melinda was the best singer, but the Quasimodo look did her in. Perhaps in a few years, Jordin will develop her skills, but right now, no way. She IS better than Blake, though, so the right person won.
Bette Midler struggled through her song, it was rather torturous.
Green Party Day was there, as mentioned earlier...singing some depressing, sloooooow, boooooooring song...and they looked as thrilled as Kelly and Carrie did to be there.