Like Balki Bartokomous...

...I literally did the Dance of Joy.

Ty. Was. Eliminated! I jumped from my seat, danced around the living room, and hooted and hollered like an idiot. Then, later, I danced some more. Subsequently, I began to feel quite guilty, as though I should not be celebrating another's disappointment in such gleeful manner; however, my fiance ensured me that someone had to be eliminated, and it's not like I'm cheering Ty's injury in, say, a car accident. So I stood up and danced yet again.

I mean, getting the chorus wrong to "The One Thing" three times in a row? I was cringing and reeling, and then I recalled that Brandon forgot the words to an INXS song when he was in the bottom three -- and they booted him for it. Based on historical precedence, then, INXS had no choice. (As if there were no other reasons to get rid of him.) Even thinking about it now makes me mad.

As if to add insult to injury, Ty intimated that he kept ending up in the bottom three because he is black, which is an unfair and unpleasant accusation to level at viewers. Understand that perhaps people saw right through your acting as a rock and roll singer. I take my rock light on the emoting, unless it comes from a natural, raw place. It is very easy to tell the difference. Your emotion was an effect. It was put on. And don't tell me that it's because you're just so comfortable on stage. There is a big difference between acting sincere and being sincere. You weren't the singer INXS was looking for.

Now, I can relax in the knowledge that while I certainly have my favorites (MiG), I would be relatively happy with any of the remaining five as the new lead singer of INXS. [exhale]