Randy Jackson, American Idol Season 10 | featured news

Randy Jackson was right -- pop music was not the right direction for Jacob Lusk. America sent Jacob back to Compton on Thursday, the night after he disappointed Randy with his "corny" performance of the Jordin Sparks-Chris Brown duet "No Air."

Randy posed the same question to our Top Five he's been asking all season "Who's in it to win it?" "Songs from then and now" was the theme (Idol is definitely running out of theme ideas) and any first-half failures had a chance to redeem themselves in the second Meanwhile...

Let's just say that some members of the Top 13 were luckier than others on Wednesday night's "American Idol." Gorgeous Pia Toscano continued her ascent to front-runner status, following up last week's show-stopping performance of "I'll Stand By You" with a just-as-good-if-not-better performance of Celine Dion's "All by Myself." Randy called it "hot, dope and cool" -- and she looked good doing it.