And Your Next American Idol Is … David

COOK!!!!
I’m so glad my prediction on this one was wrong. I love David Cook! And he was such a humble winner. I love that his audition was happenstance, and not something that he sought out. It’s so perfect. I just hope that the AI machine doesn’t stifle his creativity on [...]

American Idol: It’s Over for Overmyer

American Idol started out tonight’s results show by revealing this season’s mentors: Dolly Parton (hope she has her back problems straightened out), Mariah Carey (by the way, she’s a good friend of Randy’s), Andrew Lloyd Webber (Danny Noriega would have been perfect for Sir Andrew week. Why did he have to leave so soon?), [...]

American Idol aka the 2-Hour Long iTunes Commercial

The theme for the night was The Beatles, and to milk it for all it’s worth, Ryan spent the first 20 minutes of the program telling us about how awesome The Beatles were/are. This was especially helpful since the at least half of the contestants had never heard of them before.  Since last week’s [...]

American Idol: The Girls, Mutts, and Colors

Tonight, the American Idol girls stepped it up, but they are still not as good as the guys. I agree with Simon on that point.
My favorites of the night were Amanda Overmyer (vast improvement over last week), Carly Smithson (the girl who can do no wrong), and Brooke White (she’s growing on me a [...]