Who chooses these themes? They didn’t do the leaders any favors with 70’s dance music, that’s for sure. Much maligned Anwar Robinson wound up as our top rated performer with “September” from Earth Wind and Fire, a song he said he’s familiar with. He seems to be getting more comfortable on stage and although he is tied for fifth on our cumulative ratings he is within a point of fourth now. Constantine Maroulis opened the show with “Nights on Broadway” from The Bee Gees and at the time it seemed pretty poor until everyone else performed. Bo Bice closed out the show in style with “The Vehicle” and cemented his #1 overall rating while certainly avoiding a repeat showing in the bottom three this week. Vonzell Solomon just keeps plugging along although she needs to stop taking on Whitney Houston after singing “I’m Every Woman” from Chaka Khan, a song the diva later covered. Carrie Underwood showed a lot of vocal skill with “Macarthur Park” from Donna Summer, but we didn’t like the overall result although she is still comfortably in our top 3 overall.

Anthony Fedorov grips every week and his performance of “Don’t Take Away the Music” left me hoping they will take away his microphone pretty soon. Scott Savol is firmly in our cumulative bottom spot and his butchering of “Everlasting Love” was another reason why.

WHO’S OUT? Scott and Anthony are so overdue it’s not even funny. Anwar and Vonzell seem to be singing well enough for viewers to question the clear top 3 (Carrie, Constantine, Bo if you’re stupid). This week I think there is a strong chance that Carrie finds herself in the “first safe” position so I’ll go ahead and predict that even with the entire South voting for her. That leaves Anthony sweating out another week and Scott leaving because I will predict this until it happens. He’s a thug who should be thrown off the tour.