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"During the first night of Hollywood week, the boys went through the group rounds and were cut down to only 43. Tonight, after the solo rounds, we&amp;#039;ll get rid of half of them. Looks like there might be some shocking exits, but who will go home and who is staying put? Let&amp;#039;s find out.  First to go in front of the judges is Paul Jolley, who is about to crack under the pressure, it seems. Somehow, he manages to pull it together long enough to perform a pretty mediocre version of Carrie Underwood&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Blown Away&amp;#039;, which is a great song but definitely not for him, I don&amp;#039;t think. The judges seem to like it, though.   Nicki was irritated by the fact that he walked out &amp;quot;so defeated&amp;quot; and urges him to give them some professionalism and hold it together for the one minute he&amp;#039;s on stage. He doesn&amp;#039;t get any other feedback but promises to do better before heading backstage to cry. Wow, this guy&amp;#039;s not a basketcase at all... Lazaro Arbos&amp;#039;s version of Lady GaGa&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;The Edge of Glory&amp;#039; is also fairly average, but at least he&amp;#039;s confident while singing it. Curtis Finch Jr tries Christina Perri&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Jar of Hearts&amp;#039; which is the best thing I&amp;#039;ve heard so far - he&amp;#039;s definitely one of the best male singers in the competition, even if the song choice is not my favourite. &amp;quot;Absolutely beautiful, as always,&amp;quot; Mariah tells him before he heads off.   Since the first eight singers have gone, the judges are ready to make their first cuts. The results weren&amp;#039;t unanimous but based on their collective performances. Lazaro, Curtis and Paul are called forward and are the only three in their group to make it to the next round.  Moving right along, it&amp;#039;s Devin Velez up next with &amp;#039;What a Wonderful World&amp;#039;. He absolutely kills it - where has he been throughout all this? Fantastic voice, great rendition... I&amp;#039;d listen to him sing again, and the judges seem to agree, since Keith tells him that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;born to sing&amp;quot;. Gurpreet Singh Surit also impresses with his version of &amp;#039;Georgia On My Mind&amp;#039;, during which he plays the guitar. He&amp;#039;s so good! Cortez Shaw pulls it together for his performance, as well, finally!  Next up, Matheus Fernandes is doing Kelly Clarkson&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Stronger&amp;#039; and it&amp;#039;s not very good at all. We get it, you&amp;#039;ve been marginalised, but the arrangement of the song is just terrible and the over-dramatic falling to his knees on stage is just too much. Mariah can tell that he&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;genuinely good person&amp;quot; and Nicki tells him that every time he performs, he constantly makes references to his height. &amp;quot;Sometimes things can go from inspiring to being you wanting a pity party,&amp;quot; she tells him, advising him not to &amp;quot;milk that&amp;quot; in the future.  The results are in for the next group, so let&amp;#039;s hear them. Devin, Gurpreet, Cortez and Adam Sanders are all through and the rest - including Matheus - are going home. He&amp;#039;s heartbroken, of course, and vows to go home and learn to sing with a band, as if that&amp;#039;s the only thing that held him back. The successful singers, however, are thrilled.   Nicholas Mathis performs Bruno Mars&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Locked Out of Heaven&amp;#039; and he wants it to be a big moment, but it&amp;#039;s just not - it&amp;#039;s less than stellar and pretty pitchy in areas, unfortunately, which is a shame because he seems like a nice guy. Keith knows there&amp;#039;s a lot that pulls at you in the industry and says that while Nicholas says he was chasing the dream, he was more chasing the song. Ouch.  Things aren&amp;#039;t going so well for Papa Peachez, either, who gives a really bizarre performance of Lady GaGa&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;You and I&amp;#039; that&amp;#039;s on about nine different keys and is not impressing Nicki one bit. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m pretty sure that flame is now completely burned out. I&amp;#039;m so disappointed. I don&amp;#039;t know why you would choose that song. I can&amp;#039;t believe you would allow this competition to just suck that amazing quality out of you,&amp;quot; she tells him. Papa Peachez apologises, but it may be too little, too late. Jimmy Smith steps up next and does a performance of Fleetwood Mac&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Landslide&amp;#039; that&amp;#039;s a bit too countrified but good enough, I guess.   Time for more results! In this heat, Nicholas and Papa Peachez are both heading home and the rest of the line (half of whom we didn&amp;#039;t even see) are going through. Vincent Powell and Johnny Keyser are among them, though, so we&amp;#039;ll be seeing them again. Nick Boddington made it to Vegas last year and he doesn&amp;#039;t want to repeat the experience this year, so he plays piano himself with the in house band to perform a Christina Perri track. His voice is great and he&amp;#039;s passionate, though I don&amp;#039;t particularly see him ever turning into a star, to be honest. Keith thinks that he &amp;quot;nailed it&amp;quot;, but we&amp;#039;ll have to wait and find out what happens.   No time to waste, and Charlie Askew, the most awkward teenager to live, is up next. He&amp;#039;s singing Gotye&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Somebody That I Used To Know&amp;#039;, complete with a spoken-word intro! The panel is wowed by him, with Nicki calling it &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; and telling him that she&amp;#039;s obsessed with him (&amp;quot;Baby, I could say the same thing,&amp;quot; he replies). He became an artist in her eyes as of today, so I think he&amp;#039;ll be safely through to the next round.  Indeed, Nick and Charlie are through, as are JDA and Matheny - the rest of the line is headed home.  Another &amp;#039;Jar of Hearts&amp;#039; performance comes from Burnell Taylor, who does a great job with it, even though I do hate this song. Marvin Calderon&amp;#039;s rendition is less impressive, but still good. Both of them are praised by the judges, and both of them get through to the next round.   But wait, Micah Johnson gets to go next and since I love him, I have the highest hopes for what he brings to the table. He&amp;#039;s doing Randy Travis&amp;#039; &amp;#039;I Told You So&amp;#039; and while I wish the song choice was more exciting, I just think he&amp;#039;s great. However, it didn&amp;#039;t work for them today - he gets sent home. No! Being the sweetie he is, though, he says that he&amp;#039;s disappointed but appreciative for having got this far. A few other favourites head home, as well, including Sanni M, Nate Tao and Gabe Brown. Damn, competition is tough!  The remaining guys are then called back to the stage by the judges for a special announcement. Next week they&amp;#039;ll see the girls, but then another eight boys are going to be cut.  Tune into American Idol next Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8/7c on Fox for the second part of Hollywood week!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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