Season 11 Episode 21

Last night, the Top 10 sang the songs of Billy Joel for our enjoyment — okay, or our lack of enjoyment, in a few cases. Tonight, Jennifer Lopez is wearing the brightest pink dress we’ve ever seen on a human (maybe not on a Barbie) and someone is going home.

Lana Del Ray and Haley Reinhart are both performing tonight. Double swoon!

First up: A group performance of “For the...

Although never quite a frontrunner in the competition, we expected Season 11’s Erika Van Pelt to last longer than she did. In a surprising turn of events, the 26-year-old singer/songwriter was sent packing after the Top 10 round — even after her Billy Joel cover received rave reviews from the judges. Did anyone see that coming?

For all you die-hard Erika fans, we’ve got her...

Like Jimmy Iovine, we thought Erika Van Pelt’s performance this week on American Idol was so great that she’d be spared the pain of sitting on the Stools of Shame. Unfortunately, the 26-year-old musician was not only part of the Bottom 3 (with Heejun Han and DeAndre Brackensick), she was the Bottom 1.

Do you think the newly-brunette crooner deserved to go home, or did America...

As the Season 11 Top 9 move into the American Idol mansion this week, Erika Van Pelt will not be among them. Even after her highly-praised Billy Joel performance, voters just didn’t rally behind her like she needed them to.

It’s Billy Joel night on American Idol! Yay! (That’s a completely non-ironic yay, by the way. We love him.) And in a totally logical turn of events, the person helping Jimmy Iovine mentor the contestants this week is Diddy, because when you hear “Billy Joel” the obvious mental leap is “Diddy.”

Well, let’s see how this goes, shall we?