Last night on American Idol the Top 8 girls of the season performed and thankfully they finally picked up the pace and sang like they were competing to win. Links below for full recaps and details:

• Small Screen Scoop – AMERICAN IDOL Best Performances of Tonight: DIDI BENAMI and CRYSTAL BOWERSOX
• American Idol Net – American Idol 2010: Let’s Hear it for the Girls
• MediaFiends – Top 8 Girls: Give Me One Reason
• Snark Raving Mad – AMERICAN IDOL 9 TOP 8 GIRLS. “IT’S WHAT I CALL A PEANUT SONG.”
• BuddyTV – ‘American Idol’ Top 8 Girls Recap: Ladies’ Night
• TV Squad – ‘American Idol’ – ‘Top 8 Girls Compete’ Recap
• My Reality Bit – Idol Top 8 Ladies Perform: Crystal Bowersox … Are you My Only Hope?

Don’t miss the Top 8 guys perform tonight, live on American Idol.

Corey Haim, the actor who starred in 80’s film such as “Lost Boys” and “License To Drive” and more recently in the reality series “The Two Corey’s” with fellow actor Corey Feldman, has died from an accidental overdose according to police.  Access Hollywood says “the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office confirmed the actor died at 2:15 AM on Wednesday at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank, California.

Haim was confronted about his drug problem during the second season of the reality show at which time Feldman stopped speaking to him and the show did not return for a third season. 

Haim was found unresponsive in his Oakwood Apartments and his mother was present at the time.

The Biggest Loser week 8 wrapped up last night on NBC. Check out the 2-minute recap video and commentary reviews below.

• Zap2It – ‘The Biggest Loser’: Working for the Man
• Houston Chronicle – Work week on The Biggest Loser
• EW – ‘The Biggest Loser’ recap: You’d Better Work

One of the police detective duos from The Amazing Race has been linked to a large cocaine ring.

The detective team came in first last Sunday on that leg of the race and if the spoilers are true, come in fourth overall. 

Can we PLEASE get some rock songs up in this bia?? I think they get too hung up on the slow, mellow songs! They probably feel they’ll really touch someone out there with a emotional song performance, but my thing is, let’s rock it up a little! Not just 1 or 2 people neither! I want to see like 5 rock songs being done…and when I say rock songs, I don’t mean classic rock, anything from 20 or 30 years ago doesn’t count! LOL…I wanna see some genuine, cool, modern, rock stuff tonight! Am I dreaming or what? LOL…

It would be nice to see if rock didn’t get alienated so much on AI! Forget the straight up metal, I can understand why anything metal wouldn’t be on there…I realize I’m not gonna hear any Slipknot, Disturbed or Mudvayne songs…OK fine…I get that, but not much rock neither? Come on now!! We can’t see any Shinedown, 3 Days Grace, or Linkin Park? SOMETHING in that vain?? The critics of the show always call it a glorified karaoke contest, well what better way to legitimize the show than to break a little bit away from the mainstream top 40, country and the oldies, including motown type stuff?

Before anyone hits me with the, “Michelle did Creed last week and she was voted off”, that had nothing to do with it! I didn’t like the song slow like that, but that could have been a great song if done the right way!

I seen last week they showed some of Soibahn’s pics, when she had a mohawk…it looked like she was in some crazy band! I guarantee you she could rock it up a bit! How about a little No doubt from her tonight? No? Am I setting myself up for disappointment? LOL…

You have a few people on the show that really could end up being legitimate artists! IMO, I think those same few people would fit in the rock catagory, best! I think that’s more of who they are! I think there’s way too many sappy slow songs, and not enough up tempo stuff…maybe it’s just me, but I have a hard time really being interested and taking it too seriously when I can’t get into the song itself! We’ll see what happens tonight…Ladies 1st!!