Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - The American Idol Thread

I'm not sure if you were saying this in response to BDG and I saying that "no way David A would be in the bottom 3", but we were responding to Cromulent's prediction. Consfusing, no?:o
I know, I know. All my predictions have been wildly off the mark this season.

I know, I know. All my predictions have been wildly off the mark this season.

Hey, join the club!:D

I'm 0 for 3,476 this season.
I was responding to BDG, I think.

David Cooke 'He Ain't heavy, he's my brother' perfect song given the circumstances.

Who does 'Kentucky woman' ?
The Neil Diamond catalog is immense really.

Marty

I'm 0 for 3,476 this season.
I was responding to BDG, I think.



:lol: I was referring to cromulent's guess.

this is as confusing as this show has been!
carly leaving brought tears to my eyes, I did like her and enjoyed her personality which that is a trait that has been hard to come around this season.

you guys know how I feel about brooke, not too happy to see her sappy face one more week.

I missed most of last night’s show. The Tuesday night sprint ride started up a couple of weeks back, and this was my first time out with the group. I seriously needed a bike ride, y’all. I won two.

I heard Simon say it was a weird show, and I think he was referring to the contestants, though he might have been talking about Paula and her critique of performances that hadn’t happened yet. Maybe she’s a precog. It could happen. I caught the tail end of David Cook singing something, he sounded great. And I really only saw Syesha’s second performance. She was okay.

From the review clips it sounded like the show was horribly uneven – David A botched and bungled “Sweet Caroline” trying to turn it into a Stevie Wonder joint (which he tends to do with any song that goes slightly faster than a ballad). And as anyone who has spent any time in a Yale bar knows, this song should be sung loud, drunk, and with joyful irony. But he redeemed himself, at least in the judges eyes, with “America”. I thought it was more cartoony and pleading and had lost all of the grittiness that the original has - more "Fievel Goes West" than "The Jazz Singer" (actually "An American Tale" is a lot grittier than "The Jazz Singer"), but again, I didn’t see the whole thing.

Jason with “Forever in Bluejeans”. Good song choice for him - a happy, goofy, sweet song. He didn’t really do an awesome job with it, but nothing to go home about. I have no idea what his second song was.

Brooke either took some happy pills or took a nap because she looked almost radiant during “I’m a Believer”. A radiant dorky disaster made entirely of cheerful ****, but radiant none the less. Did y’all see “A Mighty Wind”? Give her a tambourine and she’d be a loving parody of a folk singer. And she totally could have been in that tribute show at the end of the movie. But she did a very, very nice job with “I am, I said”.

David Cooke killed both songs, but “I’m Alive” was much, much better than the second, no matter what Simon said.

Syesha was fine. Boring but good.

Going home? I have even less of an idea than usual. I’ll guess Brooke.

Thanks for the recap, Cromulent. I, too, was out for a spirited Tuesday night training ride. As much as it pains me to say it, the ride was far superior to Idol, though thankfully not as train-wreckish.

Well, there's always the train wreck of the results show to feed my addiction.

What an embarrassing disaster. If you've ever seen the David Hasselhoff drunk video (slurring and practically incoherent as he's eating a cheesburger off the floor), this was Paula's equivalent. As she began to talk about Jason's second song leaving her feeling "empty", that's when everything started to fall apart. I've read the spin this morning about how Paula accidentally started reading the notes to David C's performance while she was critiquing Jason, but it's all a lie.

After Paula had her moment, I watched the rest of the show, but it didn't feel the same. I felt co-dependent-y.

Jason and Syesha in bottom 2 - Jason going home.

Brooke either took some happy pills or took a nap because she looked almost radiant during “I’m a Believer”. A radiant dorky disaster made entirely of cheerful ****,

:lol:

WEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im guessing she is staying again for one more round just to drive me nuts..

Syesha is my guess as to who is going home tonight.

OK, well.. I sure didnt expect tearing up when she left but I sure did...

that was sad :(

Hey there BDG!! How are ya!?:D <waving hand>

The show was kinda wacky. The performances were all over the map, and Paula was more confused than ever. I can never tell who is going home. It's never really who you think. Sometimes that works out for the better....i.e Chris Daughtry. I guess why we watch though right?

Ryan’s hair approaches rhinoceros levels of spikiness. Don’t provoke the Seacrest or the Family, or he will gore you with product. Paula goofed, the rumors aren’t true, she cannot predict the future, and this show is a little bit rigged (ya think?). Simon remembers a human being from his distant past. And Natasha Bedingfield wants to take David Archuleta home with her in her purse like a teacup Norwich terrier. This! Is American Idol.

We begin as we always begin – with songs from our guest mentor. The guys are into it this week, as they should be. They know they’re not going anywhere. The girls – Brooke is trying too hard and Syesha has checked out for some reason. She’s got dreams of Broadway. Or just getting the hell out of there. She knows she isn’t going to win. She has to destroy the mighty fortress that is the Davids. And she has to get past the little dreadlocked kid sentinel out front guarding the place with a rainbow-colored pointy stick that is Jason Castro. Or maybe they forgot to turn on her mic. Whatever.

The kids muddle through the songs. It’s a medley! And you know how I love me a medley. Song medley, vegetable medley, doesn’t matter. Put a whole bunch of stuff together without a whole bunch of thought? Brilliant. I know they were Neil Diamond songs. I know I like those songs. But I can’t remember what they were. “Song Sung Blue” maybe. I think that was one of them. “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show” was another. "Cracklin' Rosie"? Was that the first one? Anyway it doesn’t matter because it’s a throwaway.

David A is out first. Ryan tries to create some tension, but even Archuleta isn’t buying it. He looks shocked and relieved. But maybe Ryan just told him that Santa is indeed real, and that David is on his Nice list.

Jason is out next. Couch of Safety or Stools of Doom? Couch of Safety. Hm… There’s another David back there who is not yet safe. Cook pretends to look worried. Like it matters anymore what they do to him. He’s going to be bigger than Daughtry once he gets out of there. In his head, anyway.

We must wait, though, because there’s some stuff we have to do. Like listen to Neil Diamond sing a new song. It’s nice, his voice is still completely awesome. And he’s gone to a kind of Jimmy Buffett place with this song. He sounds more like an 18-year-old blended whisky than a cheap margarita with a big blue plastic marlin swizzle stick leaping out of it, but it’s not a bad song. It’s not horribly memorable, it’s not going to be sung at a Red Sox game anytime soon, but it’s pleasant. And then Ryan and Neil try to impress us with how much they know each other.

Neil’s mom is in the audience, and I can’t make fun of that. *cough, Cliff Clavin, *cough. I kid, I kid. I love Neil’s mom. I love all moms. Mom’s are great.

Does the Ford commercial, sorry… music video, come next? Let’s say it does. Utter crap. Brooke looks stunning… unbelievably stunning, actually. David Archuleta can make flowers grow and cure leprosy in puppies and end global warming with just a smile and a wistful gaze. I hate this song. I used to think I loved this song, but I was wrong. It’s already in a commercial for some other environmental something or other – wind power, I think. The animation is crap, the direction is crap, the song is crap. Brooke? Still stunning.

Natasha Bedingfield is up. Hey! I didn’t know she could actually sing. I didn’t know she was actually a person. She looks a lot like Posh Spice’s little sister, which is to say completely hot in an annoying sucked-in-cheekbones chav kind of a way. And then she wants to take Archuleta home, and all the 10-year-old girls in the audience scream, and Ryan wants her to take David to prom, and David’s like, “Even though I only know how to interact with music, I’ll make an exception for you, tall lady.”

Then questions from the audience! Paula, because she's got to take her bitterness out on something, takes it out on a snotty 10-year-old kid who wants to know why she gives the contestants a break. The answer? Becausese this is hard, so shut it. And all our inner snotty 10-year-olds pause for a moment of reflection. Then a 49-year-old woman remembers being Simon’s first kiss. Aw. Even Simon is floored at that. I assumed that when he left home he burned his tiny little English village to the ground, leaving nothing but widows and orphans in his wake. But I guess someone remembers him fondly. Aw.

Okay, enough with the shenanigans. Let’s toss one of these kids overboard. Brooke or Syesha? Syesha doesn’t care anymore. Someone said Broadway to her and she went to the only happy place she knows. Brooke is a wreck, I think. That seems to be her center point these days so it’s hard to tell. And it’s… Brooke.

Tears… we knew they were coming. Wow, that was an emotional sing out. And she forgets the words again, which she almost laughs at. Good song to end it on too. So we say goodbye to Brooke White. Beautiful, talented, willowy, folksy when she needed to not be folksy, opinionated (mostly wrong), and mildly unhinged at times. But she gave us two of the most beautiful performances in the history of this show. And for that I say thank you, Brooke.

Neil’s mom is in the audience, and I can’t make fun of that. *cough, Cliff Clavin, *cough. I kid, I kid. I love Neil’s mom. I love all moms. Mom’s are great.

When Neil introduced his mom on-camera, I had a flashback to a couple of years ago. Clint Eastwood was on stage at the Oscars accepting an award for "Million Dollar Baby". One of the first people he acknowledged was his mother. HIS MOTHER?? She was in the audience, and she smilled and waved at the camera. Longevity rules!

The media has been buzzing about Paula's confusion on Tuesday night. I'd really like to see her booted off the show. Replace her with someone more coherent, like perhaps Macy Gray or Courtney Love. I hear that Gary Busey is also looking for some regular work. Amy Winehouse?

My personal choice for Paula's replacement would be Cromulent, but America's not ready for that. There'd be too many obscure historical, literary and cultural references. It would cause Wikipedia to crash. The studio audience, being accustomed to either cheering or booing the judges, would be left bewildered.

The media has been buzzing about Paula's confusion on Tuesday night. I'd really like to see her booted off the show. Replace her with someone more coherent, like perhaps Macy Gray or Courtney Love. I hear that Gary Busey is also looking for some regular work. Amy Winehouse?

My personal choice for Paula's replacement would be Cromulent, but America's not ready for that. There'd be too many obscure historical, literary and cultural references. It would cause Wikipedia to crash. The studio audience, being accustomed to either cheering or booing the judges, would be left bewildered.
I like Paula. Sure she's out of it and incoherent and focuses on rainbows and colors and textures, but she's Paula, you know. Replacing her would like be replacing your nice-but-crazy aunt who thinks everything you do is wonderful. And Courtney Love would probably critique performances that won't happen until the year 2032. :D

David C. - How did he not know that singing a song whose main lyrics are "doot do do do do do do do do do do do do doot do" would take away a big chunk of his coolness? And if he's going sing "Baba O'Riley", why did he not sing the best part - the SCREAM!!!

Jason Castro - Stoners are funny. They say crazy things and they sometimes forget stuff. Most humorous example: Simon - "Honestly, I don't know what you were thinking." Jason - "I was thinking Bob Marley! Yeah!" Performance suckitude aside, how can you not like someone who is so nonchalant about being ripped apart by the judges on America's most popular show? He doesn't care what the judges think. He probably doesn't even care if he lasts another week. Just give him a guitar and an ounce of some good buds and all is right with Jason Castro.

Syesha - The tears. She pulled out the tears at just the right time. When a performer brings out the tears and talks about how much they've grown during the AI experience, that will generate some massive audience support. Caveat: if you're a guy, you have to be a lot more judicious with the waterworks or it could backfire. Good performances, especially "Proud Mary". I heard that Ike Turner liked Syesha's performance so much, he wanted to punch her in the mouth.

David A. - A juggernaut that will not be stopped. I certainly didn't like his version of "Love Me Tender". Doesn't matter, though. He's going to be safe for another week.

Jason Castro deserves to go this week. But I'm thinking that his fans know that he's in serious danger and will rally to his support. And I think that Syesha has shown some real improvement in the last few weeks, and well, the tears. . .

So I'm going to go out on a limb and say that David Cook will be the one voted off this week. He certainly doesn't deserve it, but I think it will happen. If AI were fair, Melinda Doolittle would be queen and we'd all be saying "Jordin WHO?"

If AI were fair, Melinda Doolittle would be queen and we'd all be saying "Jordin WHO?"

Most of the country is saying that anyway.

At this point, Ryan’s hair needs an architectural consultant. How does it so magically defy gravity? Four are left. We. Must. Vote. We lost Daughtry this week oh those many years ago. We lost Tamyra Gray, and Elton John called us racist. So vote for the love of all that is holy and good. This! Is American Idol.

The theme? Rock and roll. Ironic? Whatever. Ryan geeks out for like an hour about Alan Freed and Ike Turner and Sam Phillips and Sun Records because at his coiffed core, this is who he is – a crazy radio, DJ, and music nerd. This is Ryan’s happy place, and you know he was backstage with the producers compulsively raising his hand and shouting, “I know, I know”, with the answers to the questions no one had asked yet.

We visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum because rock is dead and dead things go to Cleveland. Wait, no. Dead things go in a museum, hidden behind glass, and only occasionally taken out to be lovingly catalogued and restored. Ironic? Maybe. Is there an Irony Museum? Anyway, the kids get to pick from the 500 most influential rock songs in history. So you know they’re only going to screw this up on a massive scale.

Cook is up first, and he sings Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf”, which is not a song I understand. I mean I get it, I understand what the song is about. But I’m not sure why it needs to exist. And neither does David because he can’t get his brain around it. I think you have to go all in with this song. If you have any distance from it, if you don’t completely commit, it just sounds stupid. And he gives us a bit of the old Cook smugness that we’ve come to know and love, and it turns out to be kind of a mess.

Syesha Mercado is next and she’s singing “Proud Mary”. Well why the hell not. And it’s not horrible except for the dancing. She looks great, sounds okay, nothing to go home about. A bit Broadway, but so is she.

Jason Castro is up next with Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sherriff”. Lord, no. Just no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It’s not the dreads, it’s not the wretched Bob Marley impression (though that’s a big part of it). It’s not that it’s a song about shooting and killing another human being. It’s that it’s a song about friggin’ shooting and killing another human being, and Jason bops through it like he’s in Hanson Unplugged and gives it all the weight of a rainbow. This is beyond horrible. Beyond clueless. Beyond stupid. Songs have words and words have meaning. Songs have authors and authors have a context. Sure Clapton covered it (hate his cover, by the way), but at least he didn’t sound like a commercial for crayons. Idiot. Idiot, idiot, idiot. “It’s Bob Marley!”. Exactly, you ******. Do “One Love” or “No Woman No Cry” or even “Get Up, Stand Up”. But not that song. Not you. Not like that.

David Archuleta is up with “Stand By Me”, and because he is going to win this thing, he’s completely awesome. I couldn’t stand a single moment of it, but it was brilliant and very, very good.

Then we’re back with David Cook, and he’s singing the song I always thought was called “Teenage Wasteland”. But it’s not. And he does a fine job with it. He’s no The Who, but it’s okay. Teenagers are apparently a lot more bored and a lot less angry than they were 40 years ago or whatever but whatever. It was fine.

Syesha back again with “A Change is Gonna Come”, which Sam Cooke apparently wrote for her right before he was shot to death. Because it’s all about her and her personal growth. Can you even do that? Seriously, can you co-opt that song and turn it into your own personal theme song like you’re Ally McBeal? That song? Which is a prayer for destruction and rebirth – a song about everything in the universe colliding at the speed of light and the aftermath of the explosion and pain and tears and blood and hate and love and hope and the healing of everything. Two people in the history of this show could have done that song - Fantasia and Melinda. It was good, great even, had it been any other song.

And then Jason is back with another Bob and “Tambourine Man”. Dylan is not sacred to me, his fans are bizarre (Booing because he picked up an electric guitar? Get over yourself.) My favorite Bob Dylan song is “Simple Twist of Fate”. My least favorite is “Lay Lady Lay” and “Tambourine Man” falls in there somewhere. Other than botched lyrics it was fine. Kinda nice, actually, but I’m still mad at him so I’m cutting him no slack. Jason almost kinda mostly didn’t do a Bob Dylan impression, which doesn’t mean much. If Cate Blanchett can do it, so can he. At least he didn’t try “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”.

We close the show with David A. singing Elvis’s “Love me Tender” because he loves us tenderly and wants us to know it and it’s a little gross and pandering, but he kills it and it’s great and I hate it and he’s going to win.

Who’s going home? Jason should go home for “I Shot the Sheriff”. Actually for that, someone should invent a time machine and put him in it so he can go back and accidentally kill his grandfather.

Will go home? I’m worried about Cook. He just wasn’t good enough this week.

Thanks, Crom. I am now fully appreciative that the weather and sunset have had me at the Tuesday night group ride the last three weeks whilst the Idol has been on the television. And me with no TiVo/DVR. Praise Jah!

I'm glad someone mentioned the whole Sayesha this is about my struggle thing.
it really pissed me off that she could equate her so called growth on Idol with that song.
Yes I would have loved Melinda to have sung it, but Sayesha did a credible job. Ya know,
little by little she has been winning me over, there is something about her that both rankles
and charms (maybe it's the ability to take on Whitney, Tina et al. ), but in all seriousness
tonight's pronouncement was over the top, even for the diva wannabe that is Sayesha.

Cook will do fine, (and ultimately lose in the final) how could he not after the disaster that was Jason?

and then there's David A. what did he sing? something sweet and emo and lets all save the world and
buy em a coke. Oh yeah, Stand By Me, one of my all time favourite songs. I hated it, every saccharine
sweet, drippy line and stanza. Then he sang love me tender, and I went into diabetic shock, needed
insulin or a shot of cheap tequila (maybe both).

maybe I'm just getting old and cranky but I think I would have preferred a Tuesday night hammerfest
to this.

marty

I'm glad someone mentioned the whole Sayesha this is about my struggle thing.
it really pissed me off that she could equate her so called growth on Idol with that song.
Yes I would have loved Melinda to have sung it, but Sayesha did a credible job. Ya know,
little by little she has been winning me over, there is something about her that both rankles
and charms (maybe it's the ability to take on Whitney, Tina et al. ), but in all seriousness
tonight's pronouncement was over the top, even for the diva wannabe that is Sayesha.

Cook will do fine, (and ultimately lose in the final) how could he not after the disaster that was Jason?

and then there's David A. what did he sing? something sweet and emo and lets all save the world and
buy em a coke. Oh yeah, Stand By Me, one of my all time favourite songs. I hated it, every saccharine
sweet, drippy line and stanza. Then he sang love me tender, and I went into diabetic shock, needed
insulin or a shot of cheap tequila (maybe both).

maybe I'm just getting old and cranky but I think I would have preferred a Tuesday night hammerfest
to this.

marty


agreed.

later.

Well someone looked relieved to be voted out. Almost as if he threw the competition on purpose. Hm... Anyway, now that he's gone, I don't remember him ever being on this show. I don't remember what he sang. I don't particularly remember any of his performances. Which? Good. Because I could use the extra brain space.

See ya, Castro. Thanks for... something, I think.

David A's dad was kicked off the the back stage at American Idol. So without Dad picking the songs and controlling everything, we might see a very different David this week.

David A's dad was kicked off the the back stage at American Idol. So without Dad picking the songs and controlling everything, we might see a very different David this week.
From what I read, they kicked David's dad out because he inserted the lyrics of another song into "Stand By Me" and cost American Idol money. Maybe that's just the excuse they needed.

It will be interesting to see what happens. I think that kicking his dad out this late in the game might be a bit unsettling. Then again, my dad used to run up and down the sidelines of my soccer games and yell at me to do this and do that (though I was much, much younger than David at the time). When he stopped, I started to enjoy soccer a lot more. Maybe he stopped yelling because I figured out how to play soccer. Either way, it was more fun when he wasn't yelling at me. Hopefully David will have more fun out there.

C'mon, Cromulent!! You call that a post???

Get yer fingers out of your nose and back on the keyboard, son!!!

GAAHH!!!!

:troll:

C'mon, Cromulent!! You call that a post???

Get yer fingers out of your nose and back on the keyboard, son!!!

GAAHH!!!!

:troll:

best troll ever. I give this post the three billy goats gruff seal of approval.

If it were up to me David Cook would win based solely on his rendition
of "The first time ever I saw your face" words and music by Ewan Macoll .
I really like this song in it's original form, and as done by G. Lightfoot on his
debut album, I've never really cared for the Roberta Flack slowed down version until
last night.
Davids 2nd song was boring imho, at least right up until the end, bad choice.
3rd song, again not my favourite song but a good rendition.

David A. first song I think I slept through. 2nd song what did he sing? 3rd song Fogelberg's "Longer"
I have a confession, I was a huge fogelberg fan (especially his 1st 3 albums), and I like this song.
David A's continual need to add little runs kind of ruined this one for me, which kind of leads me to the
thought that this kid, who has a wonderful voice, has no clue as to how to sing a song without
adding flourishes that really don't add to the song.

Syesha, sorry girl but you've been outclassed by these two guys. It was a fun run and you got
further than I thought you would.

And what's with the Judges criticizing song choice for songs that the producers picked?
our 3 contestants had no choice in the matter. c'mon give em a break.


Marty

so David A. gets to pick his own song without the help of dear old Dad and he ends up singing about his "boo."

see ya, wouldnt want to be ya. :)

later.

I think Syesha, realizing that her time on Idol is quickly coming to an end, used last night as an extended interview for any off Broadway producers that may have been tuned in.

C'mon, Cromulent!! You call that a post???

Get yer fingers out of your nose and back on the keyboard, son!!!

GAAHH!!!!

:troll:
You want 9 pages about overbearing fathers? Really? :D

I went on the sprint ride last night, so I missed just over half the show. I missed the whole judges’ choice, contestants’ choice, producers’ choice thing. I forgot they did that. I missed the whole hometown love-fest party thing that the Idols have to endure with dorky, awkward mayors who appear to have never actually seen television and aren’t sure how it works.

I missed Archuleta singing “And So It Goes”, which is a lovely song if you keep it simple. I missed Syesha singing Alicia Keys, which whatever, I’m sure she did just fine. I missed David Cook singing “The First Time Ever I saw Your Face”, which I wish I would have seen, because from the rewind clips at the end it was the best of the night.

I walk in and David Archuleta is calling me his boo. Which? Not so much. I don’t recognize the song because I’m horribly, horribly old. The performance is a disaster by David A standards, but he looks like he’s having a good time because he knows he’s won this thing, and he’s going to prove that with his third song.

Syesha is up with “Fever”. Aaaaaand it’s awkward. Way too deliberate. And there’s a chair. The dress, the dancing… it’s as if she’s seen sexy once long ago, knows what it’s supposed to be, but is trying it out for the first time tonight, and she’s tripped over it and landed on her face. She sounds great, mostly, except for a couple of shouty bits. But it was cabaret, cabaret, cabaret. And I’m 100% sure that I do not give Syesha fever.

David C is next with a song that I know I’ve heard but can’t put the name and the band with it. Except that he’s told us it’s Switchfoot and “Dare You to Move”. Okay, I know this song. And… yeah. It’s okay. It starts out too low and he’s shaky, and it doesn’t quite get there… okay. There it is. Ended well.

So back again is David A. with “Longer Than”. I don’t love this song (sorry, lotek). To me it’s that song you hear when you’re camping with a bunch of friends, and you’ve invited that guy who always brings his guitar and sings because he doesn’t have any real way of communicating with girls. He knows like four Dave Matthews songs but not any of the good ones and a bunch of Simon and Garfunkle and “Rocky Mountain High” because we are friends around a campfire and, yes, everyone is high. And everything is fine until after six or eight beers he stumbles into “If” and “Longer Than” and starts to make moony-eyes at your friend’s girlfriend. That’s what this song reminds me of. And David A. is singing it well (except for the damn runs – right again, lotek). But it’s just so… pandering to the base. It’s good, great even, but so… as Simon put it… gooey. It’s a big puddle of goo.

And then there’s Syehsa with a song about dancing penguins. I first heard this song in a commercial for Nabisco Garden Salsa crackers or something. She’s okay… it’s a fun song and finally she looks like she’s just having a good time up there. But she’s behind the words, behind the beat, and she’s just a little flat. Meh.

Cook takes us home with “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”. It’s a horrible song and the only thing that makes it palatable is Steven Tyler and he doesn’t happen to be here singing it. But David tackles it with the usual Incubus, rock-god thing that he’s been selling us on (mostly successfully) the whole season. It’s good-ish. Okay, it’s great-ish.

So there we are, the final three. Battle of the Davids next week? Probably.

Cromulent,

I don't 'love' the song (longer than) either, I just like it, typical syrupy saccharine sweet Dan Fogelberg
number, so no apology needed.

Yes battle of the Davids, and Archuletta will win and the world will be all goofy kinda sweet and we
can add runs to Imagine and every other song he records. Josh Groban and Michael Bubbly have some
new competition.

Disney needs to sign both Davids to contracts and film the wacky madcap adventures of the older emo rocker teaching the bubbly saccharine boy wonder how to deal with the cold cruel world and his over bearing father. It could be called Welcome to Boomtown as an homage to another David duo from days gone by.

"Welcome to [the] Boomtown"
I would be all for any contestant singing this song on the show.

Well, the perfect set up for the Welcome to the Boomtown contest occurred. Lets keep our fingers crossed Cyclowe!

Well, the perfect set up for the Welcome to the Boomtown contest occurred. Lets keep our fingers crossed Cyclowe!

How awesome would it be to hear David A have to belt out:

Miss Christina drives a 9-4-4
Satisfaction oozes from her pores
She keeps rings on her fingers, Marble on her floor
Cocaine on her dresser, Bars on her doors


That song would be right in Cook's wheelhouse what with the brooding verses and crescendoing rock chorus, but the lyrics are just a little beyond the D.A.R.E. crowd that texts in their votes...

Handsome Kevin got a little off track
Took a year off of college And he never went back
Now he smokes too much He's got a permanent hack
Deals dope out of Denny's Keeps a table in the back

Dang.

Why is this thread on a bicycling forum at all? Just Google, Tiger Beat or something and move it there!

Why is this thread on a bicycling forum at all? Just Google, Tiger Beat or something and move it there!

Because jsharr has been banned from the Tiger Beat forums. Duh.

Why is this thread on a bicycling forum at all? Just Google, Tiger Beat or something and move it there!

Use the up arrow and go to the top of the page. Following the trail to the lounge, enter the books movies, music and entertainment sub forum. Look around a bit. Wow! Seems like a good place to have a thread about American Idol. ;)I consider myself a cyclist, but I have more interests that I enjoy discussing with my fellow bike riding mates. If you do not want to discuss American Idol, fine, but do not denigrate those of us who do. Thanks.

Why is this thread on a bicycling forum at all? Just Google, Tiger Beat or something and move it there!

for closet kelly clarkson fans. hello!!

later.

Well, the restraining order says I have to stay 500 feet away from their offices or associates.

I like Big Billy Goat Gruff. Remember what he did?

Back on Topic, when David and David were in the midst of their one hit wonder popularity, Gilbert Gottfried issued a hilarous line.

"David I like, David on the other hand, I do not like"

American idol belongs to girl teanagers and girl teanagers love David A. Mothers like myself also love David A cause we wish our teanagers girls would bring him home for dinner instead of that guy with the chain on his low rise jeans and boyliner under his eyes.
Teanager girls are making thier voice heard and for the first time in the history of american idol, I too will be voting next week, for David A........ why? because when he cries, I cry.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/blonduathlongrl/gosh.jpg
and also because as good as David Cook is.. he thinks he is winning and well, that arrogance bugs me.

Very well said BDG! And sadly (only because I like David C) I agree with you. David Cooke probably has more "artist" inside of him, but David Archuleta has cuteness on his side. Cute is a powerful weapon.

Cute is a powerful weapon.

And has a very limited shelf life. Here's hoping he knows how to put some of that money aside for later in life...

The kids go home to crazed fans, we see the fallen idols in the audience with someone who looks like Andrew Lloyd Weber, Fantasia proves that she’s both insane and awesome, and Randy Jackson proves that he’s completely useless. This! Is American Idol.

We rewind the video from last night. We talk to the judges. Randy falls all over himself to be relevant. Even Paula has been more substantive lately.

The group sing – “Ain’t no Stopping us Now”, which is only true if your name isn’t Syesha. Is it me, or did she just get really pretty? They sing, they dance, they walk out into the audience. I’m surprised Archuleta isn’t wielding a taser, but not one that hurts, one that makes you take a step back and love yourself. The Davids head back to the stage. Syesha stays out there. Hm… not portentous at all.

More shots of the fallen Idols. Michael Johns… seems like years since we’ve seen him.

Then it’s time for the Ford Commercial. “How Far is Heaven” by… Los Lonely Boys, I think. It’s okay. In my Father’s house there are many mansions, and they all have pools. And David Cook’s face is on at least one of them. And there are Fords. Tiny, tiny Fords. Because Jesus wants to you to have a phat crib and reduce your dependency on foreign oil.

Fantasia. Wow! This is absolutely brilliant and insane. Her hair is nuts, the makeup is nuts – she looks way too much like Eddie Izzard - but the song is incredible. She’s incredible. Cut to Simon who is completely staggered, like he got hit in the face with a bat made of crazy. The energy! The love of this thing! Why didn’t they bring her back when we started this season? This! Is Friggin American Idol. And then Fantasia and Ryan make out. Awesome.

And then the Idols go home. And there are motorcades. Archuleta gets more security than a megalomaniacal Third-World dictator. Then he goes to the mall and there is cheering and crying and falling out and lepers are healed and the lame can walk and the blind can see and the tone deaf can dream of showing up next season and give us all something to laugh at. David runs around crying and saying “Gosh” a lot like he’s Napoleon Dynamite.

Syesha’s crowd is not as enthusiastic – it’s more like they were promised free donuts and got Syesha instead, which is cool and all, but a cruller would’ve been just as acceptable. Then her dad says something sad and hopeful about staying clean, and I wish him very well. The mayor, the very, very old mayor, does a handstand, which I don’t get. Then Syesha wigs out over a helicopter ride and I start to love her a little bit and I realize that I will miss her next week.

David’s crowds are excited, he gives flowers to his old (very, very old) grade school music teacher, someone official declares it David Cook day throughout the land, he throws out the first pitch at a Royals game, and he looks very, very happy.

Tension! Drama! But not really. Syesha smiles at the inevitable and sings out well. See ya, Syesha. Any other season. Except the ones with Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood and Fantasia. So most any other season.

And has a very limited shelf life. Here's hoping he knows how to put some of that money aside for later in life...

Did someone hit you in the face with a bat made of crazy? Child stars do fine later in life. Look at how well the kids from Different Strokes are doing.

Did someone hit you in the face with a bat made of crazy? Child stars do fine later in life. Look at how well the kids from Different Strokes are doing.

totally agree. for example:

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later.

:lol:

Fantasia - I didn't know such a big booty could move so fast. I also didn't know that shade of red actually exists.

David A. - I think his mom is pretty. That kid would make a wonderful $tep$on (ka-ching!).

Syesha - With a father like hers, I'm sure it wasn't easy growing up. When they showed the two sitting side by side and the father was talking about how proud he is of Syesha - that looked really awkward.

David C. - Now I'm curious to hear how well his brother sings.

I hope the finale song is better this year than it was in prior years. Every year, it's been disgustingly sappy and cliche-ridden. One more week - we'll see. . .

I hope the finale song is better this year than it was in prior years. Every year, it's been disgustingly sappy and cliche-ridden. One more week - we'll see. . .
It should be fun. I'm writing it now:

Believe in yourself.
Believe in your dreams.
Your time is now.
Your time to shine.
Your journey begins.
To soar on high
High on eagles wings.
High on eagles wings.
To the rainbow's end.
To the end of the rainbow.
Your time is now.
Your time is now.

Chorus:
When we sing, when we believe,
It's a brand new day.
To start again, in a whole new world.
A brand new song, for a whole new world.

There's no looking back.
Take the love in your heart.
And hold it close.
Close to your dreams.
There's always a choice.
There's always a chance,
To start again.
Your time is now.
My time is now.
Our time is now.

(Chorus)

So here we are.
At the journey's end.
Our time is now.
Your time was then.
Turn your iPod up loud,
Use Garage Band on your Mac,
Drive a Ford till your dreams come home to you.
And drink a Coke,
Have a Coke with your dreams.
Once we found ourselves lost.
But we found ourselves again.
And now that we have, our hearts will soar
Our hearts will roar.

(Chorus)
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It's a bit Lion King-ish, and not much in the way of rhyming or being good, but I'm looking forward to hearing it on Tuesday night.

:roflmao: It's like you're channelling Diane Warren!

You forgot to mention Coca Cola in your song, otherwise, it is perfect.