They must be trying to pack the music in tonight -- the commercial breaks seem shorter than they have all season. Now we're back to easy-listening hits of the '80s, as Lee DeWyze and the rest of the guys do a Hall & Oates medley that starts with I Can't Go for That. Casey, of course, gets the first line of Maneater -- you knew that was coming. Have they panned to Kara yet?
Fortunately, we get the real thing for You Make My Dreams, and Daryl Hall injects a little true soul into the proceedings.
Ryan tosses back to Toledo, Ohio, and semifinalist Janell Wheeler is there. "Crystal! We love you so much, girl!" Janell says.
Back in the theater, Ryan introduces Crystal for her song. She didn't get Melissa Etheridge as a duet partner after all, but she got Alanis Morissette. Crystal does a verse of Ironic, then introduces Alanis and they launch into You Oughta Know. But it's the sanitized version -- Crystal wants to know if "she'll go down with" you. Crystal hangs in with Alanis -- never looking intimidated.
