Posted by
Jason Cunningham on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:50:58 PM
I know that millions of teeny-bopper girls across America are disappointed, but the right David won this season's American Idol competition ... and you should be glad that Archuleta got within even 12 million votes of Cook.
Archuleta is a nice kid -- polite, humble, kind, sensitive. Musically, though, he's a one-trick pony: slow, sappy songs are all he does. If my memory serves me right, he sang only one song -- since the competition was narrowed to 12 -- that wasn't slow. And it wasn't even an above-average performance, Boo.
Cook, on the other hand, is, at this point, a musical dynamo: He hit every speed at one point or another (many of his songs included multiple speeds), and he hit them all well; he wrote new arrangements for several songs (including his killer "Billie Jean" rendition); he played an instrument (guitar) often and well; and he has a performer's persona (not to mention the look). Cook was, hands down, the show's best and most exciting performer this season (there weren't many great ones this season), and thus the most likely to sell a lot of records.