Paula Abdul Here for the Music; Slash, Adam, Kris, Danny, Allison Rock

Adam Lambert & Rest of the Boys Club Are Going Home as Heroes!

On American Idol's second night of rock and roll, Paula Abdul bestowed her judge seat to host Ryan Seacrest and took the stage singing 'Here For the Music' amid several sexy males dancing her signature Abdul moves along with her against pyrotechnic effects, real and pretend. Sparks rained down as a shimmering wall. And Paula's smooth voice burned as a slow fire searing still waters. At the end, her motto flashed on the big screen Love, Live, Sing, Dance, xoox, Paula. Imagine hearts in place of o's.

Post-performance, Paula said, "The most undeniable happy place to be (is) on the stage." Once an LA Laker Girl who choreographed the squad's cheerleading moves and then moved on to choreograph the stars, Paula herself became a star recording artist with over fifty-three million records sold and a gold star on Hollywood Boulevard.

But before Paula, there were Slash and the Top Four AI competitors. With amps turned up, Velvet Revolver's lead guitarist, Slash, played while the dueling songsters collaborated on 'School's Out'. The amps were turned up, the crowd was turned on, and the vocals were powerful, especially Adam's and Allison's.

The genre of rock and roll is a driving giant force of the music industry. This was the American Idol show's first real taste of its power. It began with Adam Lambert, who brought rock and roll to AI long before AI's rock and roll week. He also brought sex. It's about time.

Three chairs were lined up for the competitors who will go home as heroes after a record-high sixty-four-million-plus votes. The loner left without a musical chair will simply go home. Not necessarily the top-voted, Kris Allen was the first sent to safety. Adam Lambert was the second — how could he not be safe on rock and roll week of American Idol— and the third declared as safe was Danny Gokey, who's never been in the bottom three— we'll never know if he was in the bottom set tonight or was the top-voted.