TheAllPurposeNothing

Out of curiosity, I saw the last ten minutes with Cook singing the idol song.

I knew Hootie and the Blowfish were due to have a comeback. Just don't know he'd be white this time.

Merkin Muffley

A congratulations to those who had the following words in their Winning Song Lameass Lyrics pool:

dreams
believe
magic
rainbow
horizon
moment
wings
heart

magiccmom

HELL YEAH! Think the right guy won. After watching the performances and Cook with ZZ top it sealed the deal for me. The guy is comfortable on stage, comfortable with interviews, and comfortable with himself. Archuletta needs to mature and stand on his own....and I liked Cooks Guitar Hero commercial better.

Mok

Glad Cook won, now his album I would buy.

nightwing82

Sorry, I'll correct myself: tweens and Claymates. The Claymates tend to be old and not text, thus I figured even with the text messages the troll doll wouldn't pull ahead of Cook's phone votes.

And for the record, I never said I didn't like the troll doll, I said I wasn't surprised. I've purchased two of his studio recordings on iTunes just like I did Cook and others from this season.

TheAllPurposeNothing

Au contraire. The wistfulness is part and parcel of the song. To remove it is to ignore its structure and meaning. Each progressive stanza, Lennon becomes less and less convinced that the dream of utopia is possible.
""Imagine there's no heaven...it's easy if you try"
"Imagine there's no countries...it isn't hard to do"
"Imagine no possessions...I wonder if you can"

There's still hope...it just becomes fainter.

To be honest, I don't buy the "youthful optimism" argument either. I just don't think David A. had the faintest understanding of the song or what it was a reaction to.

I can sing When a Man Loves a Woman as a peppy tune and it will be an original take. Doesn't mean the reinterpretation works, though.

ytrez

Old people have notoriously bad taste in music, y'know.

beesonosu

I was impartial to who won. Can't really understand the hate for either of them. There are a ton of successful musicians with better voices and just as many successful musicians with worse voices. I guess some people just like slinging shit in general and being on AI gives the contestants a big bullseye on their back.

Anyway, I'll 2nd the comment on Michael Johns. I enjoyed seeing him back and I personally enjoy hearing his singing voice more than both of the Davids. Carrie Underwood is hottttt, Amanda is still junk, and the bit with Jimmy Kimmel seemed out of place to me. I guess it was sort of funny. I'll be surprised if The Love Guru is a big success (surprised to see Colbert, though - I wonder how big his role is?) and I'm looking forward to Tropic Thunder. And George Michael's new(?) song was odd at first but by the end of his performance I was digging it. I had no idea that those kids were the Jonas Brothers, I assumed they were Panic! At The Disco or Arcade Fire as those were the only two bands I could think of. I obviously don't follow music. Right now I'm listening to Local H, Flight of the Conchords CD, and my brother's music.

Oh yeah, I'm also glad I'll have an extra 1.5 hours a week to do something else until the fall, I guess.

ytrez

My son set the recording and didn't allow for any spill over time and it cut off as Ryan said the winner was David...Coo[\end recording].

So did they show a reaction shot of Archie's dad?
Did Cook cry?
How did Giggles look?

wirebendr

Mine recording stopped as Ryan said "The winner is......" off. Arrhhhhh! I am so glad that Cook won. Justice paid off.

freshticles

Go out and pick it up. There's about 4 of them. His band is called "Nickelback".

I couldn't believe how much David C's version of the Spider-man song sounded exactly like the Nickelback original. I guarantee no one will be able to tell this guy's future swill from the swill of all the other underbite rock bands when they're listening to it on their radios.

Hulkabrgr

It was great seeing George Michael, but did anyone else think that he looked like Deniro at the end of Casino with those glasses?

Ranger

I really thought little David would win. But I think Cook had the better chance of being successful.

I'm just blown away how far this guy has come, from telling Simon "Fortunately for me, I don't to have win you over, just the viewers," to winning. Woo.

Jadzia

When ZZTop was playing I was wishing that they would brought back Haley "Legs" Scarnato to strut around while they sang.

Then when Carrie Underwood came out in that dress, I was like "Eat your legs out, Haley Scarnato!"

Kind of funny that church-boy Archuletta wore boxers in his Risky Business Guitar Hero commercial, while Cook wore the requisite tighty-whiteys.

I got a huge laugh at watching how disinterested Amanda Overmeyer was. She did the dance moves like she was just walking around the stage and I noticed she did not sing in the group numbers aside from her solo. I think they made her lip-synch so she wouldn't drown out the better singers.

FantasticVSDoom

I find it funny that my dvr recording cut off right before they announced the last name... Like I wanted to watch that entire suck-fest. Oh well.

pdutta2000

I'm super pissed at Fox right now. They waited till the last 30 seconds to announce the winner (smart move on their part) and then didn't even have the brains to show the winning song on the 10pm newscast that starts right after it. My DVR cut off right after the announcement and then went straight to news broadcast, meaning that those people just watching the show didn't even get to see David Cook's reaction. You watch a whoel f'ing season and then get 1 sec to see the winner??? WTF is FOX thinking? Oh that's right...it's FOX. Idiots!!

popatlaal

David Cook winning and performing his song:

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brainee

The George Michaels song was "Praying for Time" - it was a #1 hit in the US in 1990.

I had no idea who The Jonas Brothers were either. Though my fast forward button got some use during their performance.

Yes
Of course he did
The blank look of a robot

Mondo Kane

For real. This tour's gonna be extreme torture for her.

Brack

yep.

but not the better singer.

mwbmis

Thankfully she wasn't in the top ten so she doesn't get to go on the tour.

CertifiedTHX

I noticed that, too. She sort of went through the motions, but she seemed not to care. But then, I got the feeling when she was a contestant that she wasn't quite into the whole thing.

I returned for the season finale, but I stopped caring about the season what seems like long ago. Even with my one or two favorites still in contention, I still didn't care much for the season overall. Found it boring, really. Was far more interested in election coverage.

--THX

bluesix

Man every celebrity they brought in came off horribly! I know most of these people only bothered to show their faces because they had crap to promote but sheesh!

Mike Myers, very humorless and desperate to recapture the Austin Powers glory days. Strange character, not funny at all, kind of creepy actually. When your funniest moment is retelling the same stupid 'someone named David is going to win' joke we've all heard 10 times by now, your time has definitely passed.

Donna Summer, don't you have people on your staff that will tell you to fix your weave before you go out on stage in front of 50 million people? And do NOT release whatever that 80s era synthesizer rehash you threatened us with. Not only did she seem disinterested performing her own song, she looked like she only had 4 hours of sleep the night before. Does she really need to attempt a comeback at this point in her life? Even the Pointer Sisters knew when to call it a day

George Michael, what was up with the frantic gesticulating and weird vocal intonations. Since the last time we heard you sing these songs, you have confirmed to us what we all knew already, that you are gay, but does that mean you have to go all drama queen on us when you sing now? And get rid of those ugly sunglasses! Hiding some last minute botox or eyelift work before the big tour starts maybe?

And Paula Abdul, crying at the lyrics for 'Praying for Time'? Or GM's strange performance? Or was it the big orange glob on the scream melting into water? Really??? Maybe she just knew the cameraman standing 2 feet away aiming at her face would be certain to catch that tear slide down her cheek at just the right moment.

Hate to say it, but next to these has-beens the American Idol winners looked like the real stars.

Brack

^^^ I'm glad you didn't mention Seal. He sounded great as usual.

Josh-da-man

Okay... here's why American Idol blows.

During the competition, the judges were fawning all over Archie and shitting on Cook (particularly Simon). Simon said Archie delivered a "knockout."

Then tonight, right before the final vote is read, Simon backtracks and says that after he reviewed the performances, Cook was much better than they gave him credit for.

Hello?

Doesn't that make your opinion pretty much FUCKING WORTHLESS? You're sitting there judging the most important performances of the competition (and pulling not small paychecks, I would assume), and the next day you sit there and say that you got it wrong? Isn't that kind of your fucking job to be able to make those calls?

Did the judges actually review the performances, or just hit the DialIdol website? Or does AI let them know who's going to win in advance?