Tonight’s American Idol elimination show got off to a surprise start with Frankie Avalon, a star of the 50’s and 60’s, singing ‘Venus’ in honor of judge Simon Cowell’s birth year, 1959.  Yes, Simon turns 50 this year.

The group song tonight was ‘Can’t Get You Outta My Head’ and was rather non-memorable.

Rapper Flo Rida (pronounced Flow Rider) was the first guest celebrity performance of the night.  I was wondering what was up when he was announced to perform and I wonder even more know why the producers’ selected him to perform.  It is not every day that a one-hit rap wonder gets to perform on the biggest musical stage on television. I guess 95 South was unavailable and Sir-Mix-A-Lot was too busy making Burger King commercials.

Idol alum Kellie Pickler gave the second performance of the night and was much better than Flo Rida.  Kellie is not the best country singer on the planet but she is a first rate entertainer and looks extremely good.  Her extremely exposed legs are very top notch.  Kellie does remind me a whole lot of grizzled country star Lorrie Morgan.

The first contestant to be sent into the bottom three tonight was Anoop Desai. He was quickly followed by Scott MacIntyre and then Lil Rounds.

The bottom three was exactly as I had predicted last night at the conclusion of my live blog (view) with the addition of Lil Rounds.

Bottom Three: Anoop Desai, Scott MacIntyre, Lil Rounds

ELIMINATED: Scott MacIntyre

Remaining Contestants: Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Danny Gokey, Matt Giraud, Allison Iraheta, Anoop Desai, Lil Rounds

The judges debated a long time about using their judge’s save to keep Scott for another week. Simon said the vote was split two a piece. Finally Simon made the call and announced that this was the end of the road for Scott.

Perfect call this week on who was sent home. I think MacIntyre was mediocre at best every week and down right horrible most of them.  I think if he had not been legally blind that he would have been eliminated weeks ago. Yeah, there I said it, I believe he was getting a lot of sympathy votes.