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stateofgrace -> RE: American Idol Season 7 (5/21/2008 12:50:31 PM)
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I think David C is good at putting a semi-alternative spin onto older songs, like Parton's "Little Sparrow" and the Who's "Baba O'Riley." He should have done more of that on "Hungry Like the Wolf."
One of his wrong choices was to pick so many semi-obscure songs that a lot of the audience wasn't familiar with (songs from Switchfoot, Collective Soul, and whoever did Innocent).
I would have suggested to David C for the finale that he do one song in the "performance" mode of Music of the Night, because when he did a straight ballad voice for a change on ALW night, he was really very good. That likely would have applied to the second song choice last night. His first choice was picked for him (U2) and while it might have been difficult to individualize that song, he should have tried. Maybe started out slower and more ballad-like and then cranked up. And for the third song, he should have picked one of the earlier songs that he knocked out of the ballbark.
If he had done that, he would have shown his creativity, met Archie on his own playing field (maybe not besting him, but showing he can play in that arena too), and showing his versatility, which Archie doesn't have.
At any rate, I've bought like 4 or 5 David Cook songs, one or two from Syesha, two from Carly, two from Michael Johns, and even gave in and bought a Jason one last night! But Archie's songs have no appeal for me. He's got a beautiful voice but everything is pretty much the same.
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