We don't know why we agreed to this. Seattlest has given us another reason to be hopelessly addicted to the weirdness that is American Idol, and we've agreed to keep you updated on all things Fanjaya from here on out. Honestly, the only good thing to ever come from that show was Kelly Clarkson, and it's all been down hill from there. Until now.

Now there are two Seattlites (okay, Sanjaya is from Federal Way and Blake, aka Bshorty, is from the Eastsiiide) and one killer chick who auditioned in Seattle (Jordin Sparks, who just may take the whole thing one week when MindyDoo isn't looking). They're all huge contenders at this point—even Weirdjaya.

We were shocked when, watching an old episode of Ellen yesterday on TiVo, the first injustice of the season was featured—the incredible Stephanie Edwards (Georgia), who was the first of the top ten to be booted off, actually sat on Ellen's couch and said (something like), "If you're standing next to Sanjaya in the bottom two, you know you're going home, because he has all the girls voting for him."

As hard-core Jordin, Blake and MindyDoo fans, we can only come up with one solution: lock up your daughters. No, seriously. Tie them up in a closet, or something. Take away their cell phones and walkie-talkies—any means of communicating with the outside world.

We loved Sanjaya in his Seattle audition. "Now there's a kid that just may make it far," we said. That was before the hula, before the weird ponytail mohawk, before the lip-sync-into-his-hair-brush awfulness of "You Really Got Me." Before Sanjaya had become the Idol You Love to Hate. Which brings us back to what we said at the beginning. American Idol has been downhill since Kelly Clarkson. It's turned into a redundant parade of mediocre vocalists who should never have recording contracts.

Conversely, what's so fantastic about this year is that there are several contestants who, if they don't walk away with multi-million-dollar contracts, it will be a huge injustice. We've been musicians all our lives, so maybe we're just jaded; but we're gonna go out on a limb and say that Sanjaya isn't one of those artists. We seriously expect the kid to be "stage ready" by his mid-20s (ten years from now), but tuning in last night to see he didn't even make the bottom three was hugely disappointing (for those of you who care but didn't watch, it was funnyman Chris Sligh who went home last night). Bless his heart, though, we can't wait to see him do "Jenny From the Block," come J-Lo week.