I figure I'm allowed to talk about American Idol on here, since Fox16 IS our sister station. Here's the thing. Every year, the contestants go into the final 2 pretty evenly matched. You're like, wow, they could both totally win. Then every year, one of the contestants crashes and burns, leaving a clear path for the winner. Of course the judges were playing favorites last night. They were treating David A like he was the second coming. It'll be nice that he's such a gracious winner and he really does deserve it, but why did everyone write off David C so quickly? I thought his rendition of Collective Soul was amazing.
And how about those original songs? Those were the best America came up with? FTW. David Cook's song, and I'm terribly sorry if you wrote it...was a monstrosity. It was cheesy and sappy and just awful. It sounded like it should have been sung by Miley Cyrus. Dream big! Do bigger! You can do anything! Not that David A's was any better, but at least it kind of sucked slightly less than Cook's.
Anyway, I'll be shocked if David Cook wins tonight, they set up Archuletta for the victory so I would expect nothing less. Of course, as my mother pointed out, we'd all rather Cook branch out and make a record seperate from American Idol. He's not exactly bubble gum pop. Blake Lewis didn't win and he was able to create an unbelievable album (that nobody bought, why? you suck!!) because he wasn't under the watchful eyes of AI. Not saying that Jordin Sparks' album wasn't good, because it was. But she was the cookie-cutter Idol mold, she fit the form and made a perfect record for them. Same thing that David A will do. Leave the real artists to do their own thing.
So we'll see how things turn out. I left this like an hour ago so I seriously just lost my train of thought.
