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Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman.

He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV. Dale directs, writes and performs with Austin's Gag Reflex comedy ensemble, is a freelance illustrator and has contributed stories and reviews to Macworld magazine. He lives in Round Rock with his wife, two children and a dog named Apollo who barks whenever he hears another dog bark on television.

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By Dale Roe | Thursday, March 25, 2010, 01:04 AM

Buh-bye, Paige. As predicted, 24-year-old Houston native Paige Miles was rightly sent packing Wednesday night after she delivered the worst performance of this season on Tuesday, warbling through “Against All Odds” and not hitting a single note (which is a pretty amazing feat in itself when you think about it).

I have to say that it seemed excessively cruel for Simon, who once remarked that Paige had the best voice among all the girls, to take such joy in telling her flat out that she might as well not bother performing her exit song, because the judges had already decided that they would not even consider using their “save” option on her. Duh, but totally tactless and unnecessarily mean-spirited, you preening British tool.

Joining Paige in the bottom three were goofy Tim Urban and precocious Katie Stevens. I had expected to see Urban in the bottom three, but predicted that the tween-girl voting bloc would keep him safe. However, I was genuinely (and pleasantly!) surprised to see him joined by Stevens, who had also seemed to have developed a huge fan base. Maybe those fans didn’t bother voting after she delivered one of her better performances this week with a slightly (and finally) younger take on Fergie’s stupid “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”

Other lowlights? The lip-sync Top 11 performance of Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” and anything with Ryan Seacrest, Ellen Degeneres or Disney products Miley Cyrus, Joe Jonas or (to a lesser degree) Demi Lovato.

Next week? Usher schools the “Idol” summer tour performers in R&B/Soul. I predict we’ll see Tim and Katie in the bottom three again, Big Mike will excel and Andrew Garcia will rebound.

What do you think, ‘Idol’ fans? Sound off!

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By Barbara Johnson

March 26, 2010 7:53 AM | Link to this

Paige clearly no longer wanted to be there, it's probably as simple as that. Her performance was horrific. She was trying to do the Mariah Carey version - huh? What's up with that? She ruined that song, and it sealed her fate.

I can't figure out why Andrew Garcia hasn't ended up in the bottom three. He's voice is not that great. He seems like a nice guy and certainly takes the judge's criticism well. That's probably why he's stuck around.

By Ann

March 25, 2010 2:16 PM | Link to this

The only thing that keeps me even DVRing Idol this season is the new commercials for Glee.

By anonymous

March 25, 2010 1:51 PM | Link to this

We could just skip the next 8 weeks and go right to the finals between Big Mike and the hippie chick.