3 posts tagged “american idol”

So after listening to David Cook's cover of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" a few more times after last night's American Idol, I'm thinking I like that as much as anything he's done all season.  I think it's my favorite song of his since "Hello," which is saying a lot (because that performance was amazing, and was certainly the song that convinced me of David's talent).  I think I like "Looking For" equally as much.  I really do.  And watching him sing it, it makes it even better.  The (moronicasinineridiculous) judges like to talk about, you know, star-making moments and crap, and for me?  Watching David Cook completely own that audience during that performance, it was pretty great.  He looked like a veteran up there.  By comparison, David Archuleta, to me, wasn't even close.  The kid can sing.  He truly can.  I won't deny that he's a fine singer.  But he's just not as good as David Cook in any number of ways.  He's not as creative, his voice isn't as powerful, he's not as good of a performer, he's not as versatile, and he's just plain ol' dull.  I suspect that may be just what most Idol voters want.  He's a safe, boring choice.  But I don't see any way that David Cook won't be the more successful artist in five years.  If we're talking about David Archuleta in 2013, I'll be shocked.  I won't be surprised if we're still hearing Mr. Cook on the radio then.  On the radio we'll be listening to in our homes, because gas will be $17 a gallon then, and we still won't have cars fueled by anything other than gas, and no one will be able to afford to listen to the radio while driving around.  But I digress.

Yeah, I expect Little David to win tonight, but David Cook's the best this season.  One of the best in any season.  He's helped (with Brooke) restore my faith (or establish a little faith) in this show.  If he wins, it's extremely well-deserved.  I hope it happens.  And not just because he's a Royals fan (though that, of course, proves his awesomeness more than anything else, ha).

(Also, I think "Dream Big" wasn't bad at all last night.  I liked it.  I admit it.  And oh yeah, the judges SUCKED last night, did I say that?  They did.  Blech.)

I think it says a lot about how I feel about American Idol this season that, the day after watching David, David, Syesha and Jason perform as the top 4, I just spent fifteen minutes watching Brooke White talk to EW.com, and I spent another few minutes last night watching her talk to Carly Simon on Fox News (which was so awesome, and soooo aww-worthy; I loved that!).  I think, in some ways, a good half, maybe two-thirds of my enthusiasm for this season died with Brooke's departure last week.  She was THE one I wanted to win.  And YET, much as I feel like seeing someone like Noelle leave early on The Bachelor is a really, really good thing for Noelle (because "winning" that show is ... not usually such a great thing), I feel like Brooke being knocked out when she was was probably a very good thing for her, too.  There's more of a chance this way that she'll get to record her own kind of album without the Idol machine meddling and forcing her into some kind of watery pop radio slot.  This way, perhaps she'll get to do something really cool and, yes, Carly Simon-y or Carole King-y, which is who she is.  It's what she ought to be doing.  She's great at that kind of music.  BUT, still, not having her around this week is a bummer.  I do really like David Cook.  Not as much as I liked Brooke, but he's really, really good.  He'll be a hit on the radio.  I have no doubt.  He's inventive.  His "Baba O'Riley" was too short, but so good last night.  And it seems he may be a Royals fan, which is awesome!  Hee.  The other David, eh.  I think he's a nice kid, and he's a fine singer, but he just sings every song exactly the same, and it's just not interesting to me.  Syesha is a better performer than I realized, and she can certainly sing, but I can't really get excited about her, either.  She's like the one throwback idol this season, singing the kind of stuff we usually hear on the show (not my kind of music).  So while she's fine, again, eh.  I don't know.  And I've liked Jason since I first saw him, but the last two weeks, I've finally lost interest.  I've begun to feel annoyed by him.  I mean, I really, really did like him once.  His "Hallelujah" was great.  His "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," not bad at all.  But now he's phoning it in, I don't think he cares, the effort is lacking, and when I think of how Brooke or Michael Johns or Kristy Lee Cook or any number of other departed idols would have REALLY given it their all had they made it to the top 4, yeah, Jason's piddly twee crap just starts to bug.  So yep, this was all about Brooke for me, and it's just not the same now.  Oh, well.  Go David Cook!  If he were to go home (I don't think he will), I don't know if I could keep watching.

I do think it's amazing that someone who sings like Brooke (I loooooove her voice, everything about it) made it this far on American Idol.  I'll take Carly Simon any day of the week over Whitney Houston and Celine Dion.

Admittedly, I was watching the Niagara-Florida A&M game (my Jayhawks play the Purple Eagles on Friday, eeek!) and the 'Canes-Panthers game more closely, but gosh golly, I think there's actually one really good performer on American Idol now.  I'm not saying who, but she's not morbidly obese, and she has a neck.  Hmm!

And ... I think I'm gonna have to pre-order the new Joss Stone album, because I don't think I've heard two more ass-kicking songs than "Tell Me 'Bout It" and "Tell Me What We Gonna Do" in a looooooooooong time.  Whoa.