Archie vs Cook: A Rated "Aaarrrggghhh" Finale
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The results are in and it’s official … America voted and decided to make David Cook this year’s American Idol.
I was never an Archuleta fan. Ever since the auditions, I have always rooted for non-R-rated-movie-watching nanny from Arkansas but watching everything from start to finish makes it seem like the finals this year had been written in stone ever before the top 12 had been decided. For the first time in years, America was dead on placing the best of the best on stage last night.
The Kiss of Death
For years, Idol has been known for shocking departures. I still remember Seacrest calling Latoya London’s name when it was pretty clear that Jasmine Trias should go. Three years later, Melinda Doolittle, who has never been in the bottom two or three position and who I think (together with the rest of the world) is the best singer to ever perform on the Idol stage would meet the same fate leaving the top two spots to Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks.
In my opinion, Simon Cowell is partly to blame for this (sorry). The kiss of death has been mentioned a few times during the competition which started when Carly Smithson was voted off the show after Cowell gave her a great review. David Cook even had a feeling the week after that he’s about to be voted off because the meanie brit gave him a raving review. For all we know, declaring David Archuleta last night’s winner by Knock Out sparked and urged America to vote for Cook simply to prove him wrong. After all, it wouldn’t really matter who won because at this point, both of them are definitely stars in their own right.
Meticulous to the bone paying attention to the nitty-gritty details of anything (or anyone) that piques his interest. He's terribly O.C. when he feels like it and other times he just leaves the mess as it is.
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