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Yes, it’s that time of the week again, can’t you smell it? It’s the smell of fear! For last night the Idols played and partied on stage, some of them even managed to sing in tune and now the time has come for Australia to speak, and for one of the Idol hopefuls to break down and cry as they’re told that no one loves them anymore and it’s time for them to go home.

You may recall that last night the judges dug into Dan Spillaine, congratulated Laura for singing mostly in tune, urged James to find his mojo, drooled over Dan England and begged Milly to show a little more spunk (or at the very least a little more skin). No one really got blasted, but a few left with the knowledge that their performance on the night wasn’t that fantastic, and that this might be their last time on stage… ever.

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Have you ever noticed that the Judges keep saying “pick modern songs

I'm almost tempted not to do this entry this week due to my dismal picks last week... but I'll do a quick post anyhow...

• Laura Gissara Will be singing Don't Play that Song

I don’t like Laura, her vocals just don’t cut it, she shouldn’t be there but as she is and since it seems that her family are voting like a pack of octopuses with mobiles in each tentacle I guess she’ll be there for another couple of weeks until the odds are stacked against her.

I guess this would be a great space to say that I wish that she didn’t sing this song, but I guess she will anyway and I’ll still have to listen to it…

Yeah yeah, I know I know, I've been slack this week...

Here are the song choices for tonight's gig...

• Laura Gissara Will be singing Don't Play that Song
• Daniel Spillane Will be singing I Feel Good
• Emily Williams Will be singing RESPECT
• Milly Edwards Will be singing Do You Love Me

I've just come up with a great idea for us to all make a little cash out of the Idol experience...

It's allready obvious that there are some people with some fairly large bank accounts backing Laura's Idol journey, and that they're not willing to see her fail... even if she's as boring as two planks of wood and sings like an echidna on speed.

So, here's my idea...

Centrebet has Laura down as 101.00 if she were to win that'd be some serious cash.

This would actually have the side benefit of causing some major damage to Channel Ten's smash hit tv show because there's no way in the world that Laura's CD sales would match or even compete with Anthony's or Guys, or heh, even Casey's... Possibly sending the show broke.

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Last night the top thirteen battled it out Idol-Style on the stage, one by one they stood up to the test, one by one they stood up to the judges and one by one they each had to take the judge’s comments on the chin.

Some survived with very few wounds while others received blinding blows to their egos and hopes to become the next Australian Idol. Some would have slept pretty confidently last night while others were probably suffering the jitters, and quite rightly so because their performances on the night weren’t up to scratch, or because their jeans were too tight, or, perhaps because their hair was too straight or because their song choice was crap…

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Bring out the shears and the sheep, the beer and the meat, the bbq and the sweet smell of mosquito repellant and release a thousand Australian flies because tonight the Idols get to slip on some sexy clothes, slop on some makeup and slap on an Akubra hat as they perform their favourite Aussie made songs.

No, there won’t be any crocodiles let loose on stage tonight (although that’d be one way to add some spice to Laura’s vocal performance) nor will there be any billy’s on the open fire, there won’t be any live cross-overs to the cricket and I’d be surprised if any kangaroos and wombats were let free to roam across the stage, but there will be a few hundred teenagers and crazed fans screaming for their favourite Idol finalist.

Tonight the top 13 will battle it out for the chance to perform for the live audience one more time, tonight they will sweat it out, singing to the largest audience of their short but sweet career, for people like Chris Luder the terrain will be slightly new as their audience is usually a lot younger than tonight's will be and for others, like Laura the experience will be hard as the realisation that they're not just singing to their family anymore.

I doubt thecritic will have the time to post his picks for tonight's gig, so I've taken the liberty to post mine...

• Roxane Lebrasse will be singing Forever Now

• Roxane Lebrasse will be singing Forever Now
• Anne Robertson will be singing I don't want to be with nobody but you
• Chris Luder will be singing Throw Your Arms Around Me
• Dan England will be singing Crying Shame

Yep, tonight is Inside Idol, who knows what will be screened, but whatever it is we'll get to see more of our 13 finalists than we have since the gig started...

Yippee for us!

Wildcard Recap:
Even before the curtains were raised for the Wildcard Verdict the stress and tension was apparent, tears from Roxane and James and others as the wildcards waited to learn if their performances from the other night would pay off.

After James was named the three stooges did a happy dance together with James wondering what happened to the three amigos…

Roxane was stressing out behind the scenes trying to keep it together, her friend Chris Luder was also backstage stressing about the decision that could rock her life. As the verdict was read we saw how Chris was disappointed by the vote, but as the judges told the world of their decision to let someone else through you could see him starting to pep up.