Willie says this is the biggest opportunity of his life, and says he refuses to go home to Shreveport. I'd love it if just one of these people would be like, "Yeah, easy come, easy go. I'll be happy either way." Willie joins Demi on her couch, where she talks about how unique and unexpected he is, but she senses an "inner battle" in his head between his country self and his R&B self. Pick a box for us to stuff you in, Willie! But he's okay for now, because he's in her final four. And the dorky dance he does while running down to meet Jennel is neither country nor R&B, so that's a whole other level of challenge now.

Okay, this is weird -- after the ads, I'm suddenly watching The Mindy Project Is that supposed to be happening? And then a baseball game? Have I fallen into a time warp or just my Fox affiliate? Oh right... it looks like that rain delay is over and so is The X Factor for tonight. Fortunately, Twitter exists and the show's account announces that the whole episode will be shown next Tuesday. So I guess I'll pick this up then, although by that time -- if you have CTV (or, you know, Twitter) -- you'll already know what happened. Just humor me, okay?

M. Giant is a Minneapolis-based writer with a wife, a son, and a number of cats that seems to have settled at around two. Learn waaaay too much about him at Velcrometer, follow him on Twitter, or just e-mail him at m.giant[at]gmail.com.

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