The "American Idol" emotions got all spun around tonight.

The group number proclaimed "tonight's gonna be a good, good night." Danny Gokey -- hugely upbeat, even by Danny Gokey standards -- sang "my best days are ahead of me."

Still, we knew that for four people, the best days are behind them and tonight was going to be a bad, bad night. Departing were:

OK, I'm still digesting the news that Jermain Sellers knows he won't be cut from "American Idol" because: "I know God; that's my homeboy."

It doesn't seem fair to line up influential homies. Will someone else counter with Mother Teresa or Jim Morrison? Is that fair to the guy who only has a couple of aunts and his music teacher?