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American Idol names David their Seventh Winner
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 American Idol picked their seventh season winner tonight. Long predicted as a battle of the Davids, both David Cook and David Archuleta fought the good fight right down to the finish. Ryan Seacrest informed the public that the record for most votes was smashed last night, as they received over 23 million more votes than ever before. A whopping 97.5 million votes came in, with the winner taking a mere 56% of the votes.
  Naturally we have correspondents in the hometowns of Cookie and Archie. Mikalah Gordon is in Cookie's hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, while Matt Rogers traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah near Archie's hometown.
The Top 12 return for a group performance of "Get Ready." They are all dressed in white, and joined by the stars of So You Think You Can Dance. It was a great performance but I wish the dancers had a bit more of a chance to shine. 
After the break, there's no introduction and you can hear someone speaking. It sounds like they're saying "where is he." Not sure if Seacrest was supposed to be there or not, but Cookie comes out singing Chad Kroeger's "Hero." He's then joined by Archie. They sound good together.
 Then we get a nice long, but funny, promo for "The Love Guru" which stars Mike Myers as Guru Pitka. The Davids meet him. Guru tells Cookie to shave, then pokes fun at Archie's young age. Ryan has Guru Pitka come out onstage, on a motorized pillow. He tells the judges he loves them, then predicts the winner will be a US citizen, aged 16-28 and named David. After he leaves, Ryan rides on the motorized pillow, nearly driving off the stage.
 Syesha Mercado comes out to sing "Waiting for You" with Seal. It was a nice performance, but nothing really that special about it. The next performance was by Jason Castro. Ryan says that interviewing him was like pulling teeth. Jason sings "Hallelujah" again, with no guest performer, just himself. I really missed him even if it was just two weeks.
The Ford commercial this week just recaps the other commercials. Then Ryan presents the Davids with a Ford Escape Hybrid for each of them, from the Ford company of course. 
The girls perform a medley of Donna Summer hits, then they are joined by Donna Summer herself to sing her new song "Stamp Your Feet." Donna was helped down the steps by the Davids as the dancers returned to dance.  At one point Ryan is even onstage dancing. Dusty and I are heavily annoyed by Amanda Overmyer. She clearly doesn't want to be there and is just pouting and walking where she is supposed to. Thank God she didn't last any longer than she did.
Ryan then introduces two people who left before their time - Carly Smithson and Michael Johns. They sing "The Letter" together, sounding very good.
Jimmy Kimmel comes out to poke fun at everyone. He asks how much he should tip Sanjaya for valet parking. We then get a clip of Simon's mean comments, set to music. 
The Top 6 guys do a group performance. The bottom 4 guys sing "The Summer of '69." The two Davids then sing "Heaven" before introducing Bryan Adams who comes out to sing a couple of his songs. I liked the guys performance better than the girls, but then I like Bryan Adams better than Donna Summer too.
 Jordin Sparks pimps the AI attraction at Disney World. Then David Cook performs "Sharp Dressed Man" with ZZ Top. He's even playing guitar. I'm sure Cookie was thrilled with the performance, he looked like he had fun. It was great. Then we went back to Kansas City with Mikalah who had Cookie's music teacher with her now.
Brooke White and Graham Nash performed "Teach Your Children" together. They sounded great. They picked the perfect guest performer for her.
The Jonas Brothers perform their hit song "S.O.S." The one brother has a Sanjaya-like haircut, don't know their names, but it was the one without a guitar. He has Sanjaya eyebrows too.  After their performance, we get a clip of the worst singers from the auditions, including Alexis, the warped record guy, and Reynaldo Lapuz, aka "I am Your Brother." They even have Reynaldo come out to sing his song, he's joined by a marching band. His song actually sounds good by the marching band. Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul join him onstage at the end.
One Republic comes to perform their hit song "Apologize." They have the orchestra playing along and everything. David Archuleta comes out to join in. They sound very good together. Then we throw it over to Matt back in Salt Lake City where his grandparents are present at the party.
 Jordin returns to sing "One Step at a Time." She's gained weight since she was on the show just a few weeks ago. That dress isn't very flattering for her either.
 Ryan introduces a clip of Gladys Knight and the Pips. He says it's an audition of Pips from 1972. It's actually an old clip of Gladys with Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr as the Pips. The money raised from downloading that clip on iTunes will go to charity.
Carrie Underwood returns to sing "Last Name." Wow that skirt she's wearing is teeny tiny. I think even Mariah Carey wore a longer skirt.  So she's singing about being a loose woman and dressing like one now too. Or am I getting the wrong message in there somewhere?
As a side note, during this particular commercial break there was a Guitar Hero commercial featuring a kid doing a Tom Cruise impression from that movie where he's in his underwear in the living room playing air guitar. The kid in question was David Archuleta. Apparently there was a David Cook version earlier that I missed while running to the kitchen. Cookie's commercial was better I think.
 The Top 12 then perform a George Michael medley. The girls start off with "Faith" then the guys do "Father Figure." All of them break into "Freedom" to be joined by George Michael who sings "Praying for Time."
Ryan throws to the judges for final thoughts. Randy said he is happy for them as they are both winners. Paula tells them this is the beginning of their careers, not a finale. Simon congratulates both of them, then apologizes to Cookie, as he was verging on disrespectful to him last night. He doesn't care who wins, they've both done terrific.
 By 12 million votes, David Cook is named the winner. He cries as Ryan congratulates him and then lets him thank his fans. He then sings the winning crappy, sappy song "Time of My Life."
I'm happy that Cookie won, if only to give a big old FU to those who were going on about how it was clear that David Archuleta would win. I still would have liked to see AI have to deal with Pappa Archuleta as the AI winner's dad, but we know he'll be a pain even as runner-up.
 I was very happy with the finale this year. Normally the two hours drags on as we get just one guest performance after another. Apparently the producers decided that they had enough talent in the Top 12 to get some great performances out of them instead of bringing in too many guests.
So that's it for another season of American Idol. After all the hype, I think it mostly lived up to expectations. The problem with being good out of the gate is that we expect it every week. There were some dull moments, but this season's idols are overall a very good crop. This may turn out to be the most successful year yet. Only time will give us that answer.
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Did you know that the Coronation song that David Cook sang tonight was from a songwriting contest that american idol said was writen by an "amateur"? They said.... "All of the top 20 2008 songwriting finalist are "AMATEURS". So would someone please, please find one amateur in this bunch, ok? [...]
[note from dusty: You don't have to keep repeating this over and over with each american idol article, thank you.]
edit: dusty - 2008-05-21 23:19:21 GMT -
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Darn...I TIVO'd it and missed the commercials because I Fast Forwarded through them...and I already deleted it! I hope they're up on YouTube tomorrow!
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Finally, America gets it right!
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What a pleasent surprise. I kinda thought Cookie might win. They were pushing Archie a wee bit too hard.
And I was pleasently surprised with the finale! Okay I will be honest, once Bryan Adams took the stage this became the best finale in AI history. Bryan Adams could "sing the phonebook" as far as I am concerned. That man is AWESOME! (enough school girl)
I sure hope our boy Will did not miss Carrie. That was his kinda of dress. (Bet Ben liked it too...wink wink!)
I guess as a whole it has been a good year. All the Idols sounded great tonight...except Amanda, who came because she had to come!
Curlio once again you have done an outstanding job with your reporting. My hats off to you. Thanks for all you and Dusty do here!
So, who is up for many weeks of SYTAYCD?
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If you can't be a good example, then be a horrible warning!
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lol, cookie cried. archie'll probably get a record deal anyway. no loss there.
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for all the bitching i've done about this season i must say that this is the most satisfying ai final ever. not unlike simon, when i re-watched last nights show i actually came away going it was deemed the wrong david's night. when the 2 david's sang next to each other tonight it became crystal clear who was and is far and away the most talented. in some ways he may be the most talented ever. singer and musician. america really did get it right.
thank you curlio for being here and giving us this place to rant. your writing this season was and is exceptional - as always.
-- best to all toad.
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My jaw dropped when I heard Simon apologize to Cookie. Not that I needed any validation, but I usually agree with Simon and he got his assessment totally wrong last night.
They'll both have good careers, and I'm betting as long as they don't give Cook the Bice treatment, he'll easily beat the last two winners in first week sales.
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im dissappointed. i think archuletta was the rightful winner, and the audience is lame.
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I'm quite satisfied with the results (though I was rooting for archie a bit, but I like cookie as well... really torn between the two), Cookie really deserved to win and I know that both of them will have outstanding careers. It was truly a humdinger of a finals , one for the history books!
I really hated amanda beofre, and she made me hate her more, she looked so pathetic on stage!
I was really surprised that simon knew how to make apologies.. it was really a touching moment, and to say the least I agree with him that I don't really care who won, they we're both spectacular! PEACE :P
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Hey... At least this is a real talent this year... and is alot better then last year.... Everyone will agree with me when I say... " Thank God we didn't have to hear some Yahoo yell.... ( Soul Patrol ) "
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She who thinks!
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 shellybean said:
So, who is up for many weeks of SYTAYCD?
I'm ready for ya', girlfriend!
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She who thinks!
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Random thoughts -
1) What in the heck has happened to Jordin? Her body is gone but her voice seems to be mostly back. One guess - steroids to reduce the inflamation on her vocal cords would explain both. Someone should shoot whomever picked out that dress for her.
2) God help Cookie with his existing high blood pressure - with the stress and pressure from AI, he'll be in a hypertensive crisis before the year is over.
3) We've all been anticipating the struggle between Jeff Archuleta and 19M, but we all forget that 19M already had an AI who behaved like this all on his own...by many accounts, Taylor Hicks defined "prima donna".
4) George Michaels is the biggest star there is? In what universe?
5) Cookie was having a great time with ZZ Top, but did anyone else think that the rest of the band looked like they were just going through the motions? Somehow, ZZ Top without the vintage cars and synchronized guitar swaying just felt wrong...
6) Carrie is certainly no longer the small-town girl who won four years ago. Who'd ever thought that the wooden Barbie doll with a good voice could command a stage like that?
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Well well well ,
So Capn Cook won in the end eh? Hmm .... dont really care who won actually, but I guess in the long run, " les hommes"( is that french?  ) voted for whom they thought was THE BEST to win the El Prestigious Superbus Magnus Grandus ( that'd be my sad version of latin. dont let the mafia know ) show.
OMG!!! I had a David Choochooleta moment wen i saw my Mikalah on the show. I was like "WOW. Mommy mommy. !!! She's back and shes still gorgeous. I need a cookie .....". SOrry for that sickening love-fest moment. She was my (believe it or not) favourite contestant in season 4.
LOL. Curlio seems to be luvin the fact that her fav Capn Cooksie won the show in the end. I guess after yesterdays pretty, no, very late response im one of the "prestigious" few for ur FU guys hitlist. :).
Well ickle wickle sweety peety David Archuleta( did i actually spell his name in full without glamourising it with my own extremely inventive names?) is runner up and i hope he seriously boosts his self confidence and stops giving this, "It wasnt me mommy. I swear i didnt eat the cookie" look of awe and shock and actually start speaking wen spoken to. And for Christ's sakes WHAT IS THIS FATHER THINGY ABOUT "ickle sweety davi-dums"? SOMEONE PLS SHARE ........
As for Cookster, U can officially start giving that "ur talkin to me?" look without ANYONE( well, atleast me) saying THAT much about it. Welcome to HOLLYWOOD and the MUSIC INDUSTRY and get a freakin record for ur millions of "FAns" without those stupid "i just wonna lov " or "whats my life" songs that rock wonnabees ususally churn out in the nausiating millions.
DOES THIS MEAN I CANT WRITE NO MORE? CURLIO OR SHENOVA ....... ANY OTHER MUSICISH SHOW COMING SOON THAT I CAN COMMENT ON ANY TIME SOON. WAH !!!!!!! I WONNA WRITE MORE ..........
Sigh
Au revoir
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Btw ... .anyone here a fan of Enigma? Sorry to change the topic ...... just wanted to know .....
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YATTA!
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zayralover said:
DOES THIS MEAN I CANT WRITE NO MORE? CURLIO OR SHENOVA ....... ANY OTHER MUSICISH SHOW COMING SOON THAT I CAN COMMENT ON ANY TIME SOON. WAH !!!!!!! I WONNA WRITE MORE ..........
We're going to cover So You Think You Can Dance - but I'm not sure I want to cover the audition rounds so it might start once we've got the actual competition going. I'll have my laptop in front of me tonight. This is a show I'll actually watch, then type up - so the reviews will be later than AI. (You sorta have to WATCH dancing, I can get away with listening to AI).
As for music shows, Nashville Star begins soon (June 9th), and Gone Country 2 begins in August. Gone Country will have Mikalah in it this year, so you'll want to watch it I assume?
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"Now you know why lions eat their young" Capt. Phil Harris
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Oh i so will ....... YAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im having another David Achoo moment ........ :). Don't pinch me ...... I dont want to leave thios dream come tru . LOL
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Taylor Hicks prima donna? What planet are you on, he was the most humble winner ever. Come back to reality, it's not so bad.
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Two talented singers - two different audiences - two record contract$ - you go guys! Live it for all it is worth - just beware of all the pitfalls.............
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1. Yes Shenova. Carrie Underwood. Purr-ah. She has definitely transcended American Idol.
2. I agree with Toad that when the Davids sang the first duet, it was clear as day who the superior singer was. Cookie's win hurt Archie a lot more than if it were the other way around. I think Archie will now have a harder time making a hit album.
3. George Michael totally had a superstar presence there last night. I don't know if it was the outfit or what, but my wife and I were like, "whoa".
4. You are right curlio on Amanda. She was not down with the county fair groupsing. I hope American Idol does away with this Brady Bunch "Keep on Movin"crap next year. They need to do more duets instead.
5. Speaking of duets. Brooke and Graham Nash, as well has Carley and Michael, sounded great. I love me a good duet.
6. Thanks again Curlio. I love me a good rant too!
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Waiting for the real show to start...
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She who thinks!
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Guest said:
Taylor Hicks prima donna? What planet are you on, he was the most humble winner ever. Come back to reality, it's not so bad.
I suggest you go read either TMZ or Entertainment Weekly's extensive coverage of his backstage antics.
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I am glad that david cook won
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Another season has ended, and once agian I want to thank the hosts of this web site for allowing the free flow of exchanges from the many subscribers.
Until next season, happy postings.
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David Cook sucks
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America did get it right! i loved david cook and he was by far the most talented of this season. i can't wait to go buy one of his CD's that will come out.
As for the rest of the show, i thought that jason sucked as usual. amanda wasn't the greatest either.. syesha was amazing... michael johns and carly were fantastic together.. they should be in a group together...! :)
Jordin was by far amazing. Love her! even though she did look like she put on a little weight, she is still amazing and looks really good! at least she doesn't look like a person that doesn't eat!
Seal and Syesha's song was hot. Bryan Adams's was ok.. i didn't see anything spectacular there.
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I still consider it a tie. Archie won on Tuesday, Cookie won on Wednesday. They are both great!
edit: winona1717 - 2008-05-22 14:02:52 GMT -
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