American Idol Top 7 - Best Performance

The Top 7 have performed and the night's mentor was Mariah Carey. The remaining contestants had to perform hits from the singer's career. My favorite was David Cook who sang a completely differently arranged version of "Always Be My Baby" and not far behind is Jason Castro, who also changed up the arrangement to "I Don't Wanna Cry" and did it great - those two will receive the most votes easily and move right on to the Top 6. The little rodent-looking kid, David Archuleta performed "When You Believe" the Mariah/Whitney duet. I didn't like it, but the judges did... so he'll move on to the Top 6 (boo!). My guess is that the Bottom 3 will be Carly Smithson who sang "Without You", Syesha Mercado who sang "Vanishing", and Brooke White who performed "Hero". I know, go figure... I feel like the thought of elimination has woken Kristy Lee Cook up because she seems to get better every week, Kristy performed "Forever" and did very well. But then again, America's votes are always unpredictable and the bottom 3 could be Carly, Kristy, Brooke; Carly, Kristy and Syesha; or Sysha, Kristy and Brooke - what I'm saying is that no matter what, the bottom three will be any three girls. While we wait for the results, check out David Cook's performance above.