'Oh, to be a boy' on 'American Idol'

Given that three of the four remaining finalists on "American Idol" are male, logic might suggest that the only remaining female contestant would be safe when the vote is tallied this week.

Of course, as we've seen in all seven "Idol" seasons, logic doesn't rule the voting. Or much of anything else that goes on with the show.

And the most recently eliminated finalist, Brooke White, indicated somewhat inadvertently that there's a good chance the final three will be David Archuleta, Jason Castro and David Cook, with Syesha Mercado bidding them and the rest of America farewell on Wednesday night.

"Well, you know what? The boys are awfully popular this year," White told critics in a conference call. "And I know that because their fan mail came in great, humongous stacks.

"And us girls got, like, three a day," she said with a laugh.

(Before anybody starts claiming that White is bitter and jealous, she said all of this without the slightest tinge of either bitterness or jealousy.)

This is not, of course, a clear indication of how the voting will go tonight. Archuleta, Castro, Cook and Mercado haven't even performed yet, and one of them could be particularly good or particularly bad.

And you never know what the judges are going to say, given that what they have to say sometimes seems to have no real relationship to what America has just seen and heard.

(And, in the case of Paula Abdul, what she says sometimes seems to have no real relationship to anything on the planet Earth.)

But the viewers who send fan mail are the same group most likely to vote — teenage girls, in large part. And the remaining three male contestants all have more than their share of teenage girl fans.

"The boys are very talented and very charming," White said. "And, oh, to be a boy this year! It probably would have been helpful."

Not that she's conceding that the male finalists have been better than the female contestants this season.

"They're great, but so are the girls," White said.

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White's husband, David Ray, apparently really was trying the whole Samson thing while she was on the show.

He really did refuse to get his hair cut, somehow believing that this would bring her luck.

"Yes, it's true," White said.

But now that she's been eliminated, some of her husband's hair will be eliminated, too.

"Dave, when are you planning on cutting your hair?" White asked her hubby as critics breathlessly waited on the other end of phone lines.

(OK, maybe not so breathlessly.)