Ryan Seacrest: (Introduction. Chatting with Paris on the stools) Paris Bennett's in the house ladies and gentlemen!
Paris: (Waves with both hands) Hi everyone! (Cheers)
Ryan Seacrest: "Princess P"!
Paris: Hi.
Ryan Seacrest: A couple of songs tonight for yer. Let's talk about the first one. What are you doing?
Paris: I'm doin' Prince "Kiss"...
Ryan Seacrest: Mmm-hmm.
Paris: Um, tonight... um...
Ryan Seacrest: Why d'you go with that?
Paris: I went with it just because it'd be somethin' completely different for me and um... the song is not really a song that people can make a song, but I think I can and um... plus he's from Minnesota and I used to live there an... he's a God in Minnesota, like people wanna be him. (Laughs)
Ryan Seacrest: (To audience) And her birth year will depress a lot of us. Take a look at this...
Intro clip... Paris: I was born in Radford, Illinois, August 21st of 1988. As a child my mother loved to dress me in these really big ruffle dresses and being a tomboy back then, all I wanted to do was just take 'em off or get 'em all dirty. (Laughs)
Paris sings...
¯ You don't have to be beautiful ¯ To turn me on ¯ I just need your body baby ¯ From the dusk till dawn ¯ You don't need experience ¯ To turn me out ¯ Hey-ay-ay-ee ¯ Just leave it all up to me ¯ Cos I must show you what it's all about ¯ C'mon! Huh! ¯ You don't have to be rich ¯ To be my boy ¯ You don't have to be cool ¯ To rule my world ¯ Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with ¯ I just want your extra time and your ¯ Kiss ¯ Uh, I think I wanna dance ¯ (Don't have to) be rich ¯ To be my boy ¯ You don't have to be cool ¯ To rule my world ¯ Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with ¯ I just want your extra time and your ¯ Kiss ¯
(Cheers and applause)
Randy Jackson: All right, yo, so check it out. Nice to see you havin' a little fun, you know, showin' that 'youth' thing. At least Simon can't say this is an old song. (Laughter) Right Simon? (Simon shrugs impassively) Oh, right. Yeah, right. But I thought it was nice. I liked it.
Paris: Thank you. (Cheers)
Paula Abdul: Um, you know Paris, the whole country knows you can sing your butt off. I just... for me, I love when you sing songs from the past eras.
Paris: Thank you.
Simon Cowell: Er, screechy and annoying. (Boos. Paris smiles)
Randy Jackson: Oh, come on! Come on!... Ryan, help him out! Help him out.
Ryan Seacrest: (Joining Paris) Jackson! Jackson! ... Wait, wait, wait... So you like it, he says annoying. What gives?
Paula Abdul: (Pointing to Simon) He's annoying.
Randy Jackson: His ears hurt. I think his ears are... (muffled) ...he's got some problems.
Paris: I thank him.
Ryan Seacrest: What did you say?
Paris: I thank him.
Ryan Seacrest: You thank him?
Randy Jackson: No!
Ryan Seacrest: What are you thinkin', thankin' him?
Paris: I just thank him. I love all the opinions. (Laughs)
Ryan Seacrest: (Laughs, and points to Paris) A politician, ladies and gentlemen. (Gives out the voting numbers) All right Paris, we'll see you in a bit.
Paris: Okay!
Ryan Seacrest: Thank you very much.
Paris: (Smiles and waves to the audience)