David Archuleta: American Idol

Hey, American Idol always makes sure it can capitalize on the winners’ successes as much as possible, so those album debuts are sure to be coming out soon.  Be on the lookout for David Archuleta’s first album and David Cook’s first album at a music store near you soon!

Wow, what an incredible finale, and man, a huge surprise!  Simon said it was knock out, and boy did he get it wrong.  David Cook beat David Archuleta by 12,000,000 votes.  Damn!  Ya gotta wonder how much the “underdog” syndrome took effect.  In any case, both David’s are absolutely amazing, no doubt.  Check out the last episode with the announcement, and David Cook’s performance of “Time of My Life”:

It’s round three, the last round of the American Idol Finale, and David’s going to go with the song that first blew everyone away, Imagine by John Lennon.  A pretty strong choice.  The judges basically fawn all over him!  See why:

So, it’s round 3, and both David’s get to choose their own song.  David Cook’s chosen a new song (Archuleta is singing “Imagine” again).  Kinda risky, let’s see what he does with “The World I Know” by Collective Soul…(Simon seemed not too keen…):

Round 2 continues, and David picks “In This Moment”.  It’s nice, but it’s a bit slow…  What do the judges think?  According to Simon, “Round 2 goes to David Archuleta.”  Nice!  Check out his performance:

It’s round 2, and David Cook needs something big to go up against David Archuleta.  He pulls out the electric guitar on this one, and rocks it pretty hard.  All judges loved it except, guess who, Simon. Check it out:

The second song of the finale, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” by Archuleta sounds fantatic.  The judges gave “Round 1″ to Archuleta.  See why:

Ok, because it’s the finale, the last episode of the season, I’m going to paste every single video of BOTH David Cook and David Archuleta.  Here’s the first song from the evening — I gotta admit, Cook does a great job on “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2:

Oh man, what a finale!  David Archuleta and David Cook are going head-to-head to become the American Idol for 2008.  Here are the songs that were sung in chronological order:

David Cook: “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
David Archuleta: “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”
David Cook: “Dream Big”
David Archuleta: “In This Moment”
David Cook: “The World I Know”
David Archuleta: “Imagine”

This is too big!!

Man, this will be quite a showdown between the two Davids.  It’s Archuleta vs. Cook.  Each contestant will sing two songs, a “Previous Song”, a “New Song”, and then the winner will sing a “Coronation Song”….or somethign like that, I always get it a little confused.  Don’t forget to vote this week, this is the big one!!!!