Last night, the top 11 "American Idol" contestants sang the songs of Motown, and today, my Yahoo! Entertainment colleague Matt Whitfield and I have plenty of burning questions. Such as...

Didn't Nigel Lythgoe say there weren't going to be any show themes this season? Did Stefano Langone and Paul McDonald hurt their chances by covering songs so strongly associated with David Cook and Adam Lambert? Where did Naima Adedapo learn those hot dance moves? Does Steven Tyler have any other word in his vocabulary besides "beautiful"? When did Jennifer Lopez start being such an awesomely on-the-money judge? And most importantly, who's going home tonight, and who's going out on the Idols Live Tour this summer?

Check out our convo below--and be sure to join in by posting your comments, too!

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It has always puzzled that me that in 10 seasons, "American Idol" has never spawned a truly modern-sounding R&B male star. Sure, we had Ruben Studdard way back in Season 2, but he always brought to mind throwback soul stars like Luther Vandross (a comparison later earned by last year's Michael Lynche and this year's Jacob Lusk). This season offered two great "R&P" (rhythm & pop) male hopes, Jordan Dorsey and Jerome Bell, but Jordan infamously blew it the minute he hit the big stage, and Jerome inexplicably didn't make the top 24 at all.

Really now, in a pop age dominated by post-Chris Brown/Justin Timberlake/Usher types like Drake, Jason Derulo, Jay Sean, Taio Cruz, B.o.B., Bruno Mars, and even Justin Bieber, why has "Idol" never come up with an equivalent? Well, maybe Season 8's Anoop "Dogg" Desai will fill that "AI" void, now that he's finally releasing original music.

Making up for lost time since his "Idol" run ended in 2009, the ever-ambitious Anoop is planning a series of no

South By Southwest just ended and Coachella is right around the corner, but one of the awesomest musicfests took place this past Monday on the Logo Network. OK, so "RuPaul-A-Palooza" isn't a real festival. But it oughta be! 

This week on "RuPaul's Drag Race 3," the remaining six queens entered the studio with record producer Lucian "RevoLucian" Piane (the clear genius behind RuPaul's "Cover Girl" and "Jealous Of My Boogie" and Johnny Weir's musical debut "Dirty Love"), to record six stylistically different versions of RuPaul's latest single, "Superstar." Did it matter that none of them could really, um, sing? Not at all. What they lacked in vocal talent they more than made up for in attitude, baby, attitude--and AutoTune, of course!

My fave finalist, Raja (who in another life is known as Sutan, makeup artist for "America's Next Top Model" and Adam Lambert), rocked the house with his punky take on the tune, bringing total anarchy in the Ru-K to the stage in a Wendy O'Williams-worthy

When "American Idol" rock mama Crystal Bowersox performed Friday night at Austin's South By Southwest musicfest with special surprise guest John Popper, it was actually the first time they'd ever met in person. But you would've never guessed that judging from the instant rapport they shared onstage. These two truly seemed like they'd been performing as a duo--maybe as a comedy duo--for years.

The Idol and the Blues Traveler harp man struck up a friendship recently online, and when she invited him to wail on some harmonica during her SXSW showcase in the Driskill Hotel's Victorian Room, and he accepted, he was supposed to only play on one or two songs. But things went so swimmingly, Popper ended up sitting in on pretty much the entire set. And by the gig's end, he and Crystal were hugging, high-fiving, and even exchanging poop jokes between songs, like longtime BFFs.

"This girl is badass!" declared Popper, while Crystal said the excitement she felt standing next to John onstage