Malaya Watson, Through the Fire (Chaka Khan)

Malaya Watson, Through the Fire (Chaka Khan). Watson has tons of potential, but she needs more than that to pull off this song. Instead, her performance

shows that she really needs another five or six years to mature into the kind of performer who could win a competition like this. Her high notes sound

shrill. This could be it for her. "There's never any doubt in your vocal ability," Urban says, but he wants her to lay back into the song a little more

instead of anticipating the big notes. Lopez tells her she needs to relax. Connick said she sacrificed some of the early part of the song to set up the big

notes. Grade: C+

C.J. Harris, Free Fallin' (Tom Petty). I can't figure out if C.J. just can't quite get to the sound he's hearing in his head or if what he's hearing in his

head just isn't very good. I can hear good ideas in his arrangement, but the execution, for the most part, is horrendous. I want it to sound so much better

than it does. "There's never been a contestant I've rooted for note for note like I root for you," Lopez says. Connick recognizes the connection he has with

the song and the audience but says that he still struggles with pitch issues. For Urban, "that was a great rendition of that song. … You've got a survivor

tone in your voice. … That's the bit in your voice that I love." Grade: C

And the duets:

Jena Irene and Caleb Johnson, It's Only Love (Bryan Adams and Tina Turner). Unlike Sam Woolf and Alex Preston, Irene and Johnson look like they're enjoying

their song, singing directly to each other. They're not the combination that Johnson and Jessica Meuse were last week, but they're not bad. Of course,

Connick completely stole the show by going into the audience and putting a young girl on his shoulders, then returning to the judges' table with her still

there. Grade: B