Idol-Talk: Season 10 Top 8 Results Show

American Idol 10: Top 8 Results Show
Air Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 [8-9pm*]

*The episode ran a minute over, ending at 9:01pm.

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Over 53 million votes were cast this week.

Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery perform "American Honey."

Video: Behind-the-scenes of this week's music video, where they are turned into zombies.

Ford Music Video: "Animal"

Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart perform "Moaning." Out of all the group performances this year, this one is by far the best! I hope they are able to encore this song either at the finale or on tour, cause I just loved it!

The four that have performed face the results:

Scotty, Lauren and Casey are safe!

Haley Reinhart - Bottom 3 (Correct Prediction)

Video: Rob Reiner gives the Top 8 advice on movie songs.

Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson (!) perform their new hit single, "Don't You Wanna Stay." Jason was a little generic, but Kelly proved why she is our inaugural Idol and possibly the best as well.

Jacob Lusk, Paul McDonald, Stefano Langone and James Durbin perform "Sounds of Silence"/"Mrs. Robinson." I know we're not voting on these group songs, but they sounded terrible together. Sorry.

James and Jacob are both safe!

Stefano Langone - Bottom 3 (Correct Prediction)

Paul McDonald - Bottom 3 (Correct Prediction)

Rihanna performs "California King Bed."

The Bottom 3 find out their fate:

Both Haley and Stefano are safe!

Paul McDonald - Eliminated (Correct Prediction)

Jennifer Lopez requests that Paul sing "Maggie May." That seemed a little staged to me.

Finally, a guy is sent home! Haley broke the curse! Depending on how the next round of performances go, we may see a second guy going home (either Stefano or Jacob).

On Wednesday, the Top 7 will perform 21st Century Songs. And then season 7 champ David Cook will return to debut his brand-new single, "This Loud Morning," as well as a performance by Katy Perry, on Thursday. See ya then...