Who am I kidding here… Idol edition
May 9th, 2008
I would like to pretend that I am not interested in American Idol and that I just watch it as a spectator from the fence, but c’mon. The other night Mike was even on the edge of his seat in anticipation… maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but he does have a favorite and he wants to see her take it to the end. I’ve got my sights set on this guy:
David Cook. Not surprisingly I always go for the rocker or the guy/gal who can actually sing. I’m not taken with the kid who is all prepared for this, like they’ve been groomed for their first 16 years by Mom and Dad to “become” famous. I like this guy because he is honestly behind his music and that is pretty hard to get through to people when you are paraded around a stage by Ryan Seacrest and made to sing a bland cross-section of pop music. But this guy does it and does it well.
Sure I had/have a love affair with Chris Daughtry (4th place runner up on season 5) and I won’t lie, I still do. I’m a sucker for the lovelorn, raspy voiced, hardened, soulful and honest all-American rocker and I won’t apologize for it. Like Daughtry, I hope David Cook doesn’t win and I know that sounds crazy… crazy like a fox. I look at it this way, this guy has it made, he’s got all it takes and he just needed to be seen. He has done all he can to put himself out there and the venue has done its job. So many artists come out of Idol and they are almost forced to put out these contrived cookie-cutter albums right out of the gate. I don’t want that to happen with this guy, it shouldn’t happen with this guy. He’s probably got original songs coming out of his ears he has just been sitting on waiting for his big break.
Do I want him to win: yes and no. I would love to see someone with lots of talent and for lack of any better reason, because I dig him, beat out that crappy kid who makes me want to punch Muppets. The other David, the favorite to win, leaves me empty. Sure he’s adorable and a prodigy but he’s also annoying and predictable. I guess if I was 13 or 76 I would prefer him. But I’m not. I care about what new music is being made and I want to see this guy make albums, lots of albums.*
*I know, I still refer to them as “albums”, I should really get over that. As a matter of fact, I downloaded for the first time today 5 tracks from iTunes. I’m a serious Mac user now. Obviously they were David Cook tracks.
Need another reason to like this guy: he’s hot.
The album will always be my delivery method of choice. It’s nice to have the option to grab specific songs (it’s awesome, actually), and I am a big fan of the mix, but at the end of the day, the album is still a vital and important art form. The people who consistently put out good ones are the people who will be remembered long after the one-hitters have been forgotten.
I call them records! Which is weird considering I never listened to “records”
But he is one hunky slice of beef cake! I Loved “Always Be My Baby” and “Music of the Night”. 2 favorite song that have been sung by him by FAR!
Peace, <3 and pencaps!
I call them albums too, or records.
he is hot, I don’t watch Idol though…I have to pick and choose my tv or I will be watching everything….which would not be a problem but we have no way to record things, so I have to choose…one show a night
David Cook iS HOT! I have a huge crush on him too but will never admit it! Lol!
He is the next Idol!