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By Dale Roe | Thursday, May 6, 2010, 11:31 AM

Boy, “Idol” was some bizarre, mixed-up deal this week.

Aaron Kelly and Mike Lynch — who turned in two of the best vocal performances out of the remaining five contestants — got the least votes from America. Meanwhile, Lee DeWyze skated through on the strength of his swagger and the appealingly smokey tone of his occasionally off-key voice. He was joined by still-frontrunner Crystal Bowersox (no matter what the judges say) who turned in a pleasant and pitch-perfect, if uninspired effort Tuesday night and Casey James, who — clearly out of his bluesy element (and sans guitar) — turned in the evening’s worst performance.

In the end, Kelly, the lone remaining teenybopper hopeful, was sent packing. He didn’t last as long as season 7 doppelganger David Archuleta, but he made it to the Top 5 and that’s nothing to sneeze at (unless you’re sinus-challenged Archuleta).

We also got performances from Lady Gaga and this week’s mentor Harry Connick Jr. and another lame Ford “video” in which DeWyze passed up a romantic moment with Bowersox in favor of a romantic moment with a Ford. The last 5 minutes of the video were Bowersox’s complaints to the judges about why DeWyze should have picked her.

I keed.

Next week ~~comedian~~ ~~actor~~ singer Jamie Foxx schools the final four in movie songs. I wish it were James Bond movie songs — I would love to hear Siobhan Magnus belt “Live and Let Die.” Oh, wait, Siobhan was already sent home.

Maybe that’s why this week was so boring.

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