Ryan Seacrest: (Introduction. Stool to stool with Paris) Say hi to Paris ladies and gentlemen. (Cheers)
Paris: (Waves) Hello.
Ryan Seacrest: So, how do you feel? How was your weekend?
Paris: My weekend was good. Um, Easter was here and I got an Easter basket from my mom, and um, I did some dancing with some friends and I went roller skatin'.
Ryan Seacrest: Simon dressed up in the bunny costume and laid eggs in my house on Sunday... (Laughter... but not from Simon!) ...But ah, how are you feeling about tonight's genre? Are you comfortable with this theme?
Paris: I think I'm pretty comfortable. Ahm, I like the songbook that we got to choose from. There was Nat King Cole and Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and... I'm excited.
Ryan Seacrest: You look very classy.
Paris: Thank you very much.
Ryan Seacrest: Take a look at Paris and Rod... Watch this...
Intro clip... Rod Stewart: (To camera) Paris, I felt probably has a jazz background somewhere. She... er, she slipped right into "Foolish Things" very nicely.
Paris: (Singing to Rod in rehearsals) ¯ Oh, how the ghost of you clings ¯ ...
Rod: (To camera) ...She has a touch of Billie about her. Billie Holiday that is...
Paris: (Singing) ... ¯ These foolish things ¯ Remind me of you ¯
Paris: (To camera) While I was singin' with Rod Stewart my mother was in the back of the room. Like always she was crying. The tears of joy, tears of happiness. She's proud that I've made it this far.
Rod: (To camera) You've either got raw emotion or you haven't and Paris has got it. For seventeen she's astounding. I couldn't have done that when I was seventeen. I was still digging graves when I was seventeen. (Laughs)
Paris sings...
¯ A cigarette that bares a lipstick's traces ¯ An airline ticket to romantic places ¯ And still my heart has wings ¯ These foolish things remind me of you ¯ A tinkling piano in the next apartment ¯ Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant ¯ A fairground's painted swings ¯ These foolish things ¯ Remind me of you ¯ You came ¯ You saw ¯ You conquered me ¯ When you did that to me ¯ I knew somehow this had to be ¯ The winds of march that made my heart a dancer ¯ A telephone that rings but who's to answer ¯ Oh, how the ghost of you clings ¯ These foolish things ¯ Remind me of you ¯
(Cheers and applause)
Randy Jackson: Yo... Paris, check it out... (Continuing applause) ...You should stand very proud up there tonight because I think this was your greatest night ever. It was so 'da bomb'... (Cheers)
Paris: (Smiling) Thank you very much.
Randy Jackson: So great... every note in tune. You sang the melody... You didn't veer off of it. This was a classy, great performance tonight.
Paris: Thank you Randy.
Paula Abdul: And what's brilliant about it is that you're seventeen and this, tonight's performance reminds me of how we all fell in love with you at your audition.
Randy Jackson: Yeah.
Paris: Thank you.
Paula Abdul: It's like you were born in that era... and don't get me wrong... I love all the styles, but I really do believe if you made an album in this genre it would blow up.
Randy Jackson: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Paris: (Smiling) Thank you. (Cheers)
Simon Cowell: Paris, it was stylish, it was cool. I mean you... you bewilder me. You talk like Minnie Mouse... (Paris laughs) ...and yet...
Paris: Thanks Simon.
Simon Cowell: ...well no, it's a compliment. And yet you sing in that very grown up way. It's like there's two sides of you and I prefer the singing to the talking... (Paris laughs) ...But I thought it was terrific.
Paris: Thank you.
Ryan Seacrest: (Approaches Simon at the judges' table. It looks like he's making for the glass of cola so Simon keeps hold of it) No, no... I'm not gonna throw it on you. (To Randy and Paula) What's in his cup tonight?
Randy Jackson: I think he might be drunk.
Ryan Seacrest: Simon is sipping the happy fuel ladies and gentlemen. (Ryan joins Paris onstage) Paris, well done!
Paris: Thank you.
Ryan Seacrest: Excellent. (Gives out the voting numbers) Congrats!
Paris: (Smiling) Thank you.