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Apparently, a few people sang on American Idol last night.

That’s what we’ve been told, at least. But forgive us by being distracted by Sanjaya Malakar; or, more specifically, his hair. If that’s what you can even call last night’s mohawk-like mop atop his head.

Maddie Poppe Wins American Idol
(ABC)

The contestant that actually manages to leave Simon Cowell speechless due to his poor performances attempted to make like a rock star last night. Instead, he made the blue hair on that loser, Perez Hilton, look cool.

In actual singing news from the show: Guest judge Gwen Stefani helped the Idols choose songs that were actually written in the last quarter century. A nice change of pace from previous editions.

As usual, Melinda Doolittle was impressive. And Blake Lewis cemented his status as the male to beat at least.

It’s hard to say who will get voted off tonight, but Haley Scarnato may be in trouble. If that’s the case, we have some advice for this American Idol cutie:

Show up topless. That seems to be the attention-grabbing strategy of former Idol hopeful, Alaina Alexander.