Maybe the audience had for some seconds a “WTF is that?” moment, P2 turning that classical carol, that I don’t particularly like it, into a carol-lullaby song, but it seems to me that people liked it and responded positively to his version though.

There could have been a really good R&B song among the three offered to her,

Could have been anything in there, we can’t know.  But we do know Jimmy was advising her to do “Performance Songs”…so were they both clueless as to what would appeal to the Idol audience?  Jimmy, at least, ought to have known better. And really, why weren’t all three songs good songs? What was that clunker doing in there in the first place?

Perhaps there is someone who has ever mentioned it with more than lukewarm praise – but I’ve never read it. I don’t even know when was the last time Jessica sang that turkey in public…maybe it was the Top Two Finale? Lucky girl.

Phillip’s song worked for him, as it was intended to do – Jessica’s song may have worked for her too – it just had a different purpose.

IMO. Of Course.