Eight women enter, six women leave! Not to go all Mad Max on you so soon after listening to the mellifluous sounds of American Idol 's eight remaining female semifinalists, but in the immortal words of Bruce Hornsby, " that's just the way it is ." Yep, thanks to Ken Warwick & Co.'s obsesh with gender parity, we must spend the next 48 hours ...

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES If the " American Idol " judges hold sway over viewers, contestants Katie Stevens, Paige Miles and Katelyn Epperly should be nervous about making it into the top 12.