its COOK-ed

I am not such a huge fan of the American idol show. I do enjoy the auditions where i can laugh at all the eccentric people and egotistical ones who seem to think they are singers!!! Geez, frogs can croak better and even my dog Storm can howl a tune that's more pleasant to the ears!

This year tho, the talents improved and the finalists were pretty incredible. A whole range of different personalities which provided ample assortment of entertainment. But after the first 2 rounds, many seemed to get stagnant and didn't show improvement. In fact some started to get worse!!!! it was clear from then on that the 2 Davids would end up as the contenders for the most coveted title.

I have to admit that from the very start i rooted for the younger David! And then as the show progressed , he got boring. He only sings those slow ballads that after awhile your ear drums tend to beg for something different! He is young and lacks a lot of experience, he lacks charisma and personality too.

The older David tho is different. I didn't like the scruffy look at first. I thought he had a weird hair style which verged on baldness HAHAHAHA! But later on i warmed up to him. He is such a versatile singer, with a warm personality and a cute smile. Simon didn't like him in the beginning too. Words like "pompous" and "arrogant" seemed to spill out of Simon's mouth! Its probably cuz David C looks confident when he sings, he has the image of a rocker and before long i started to like him too. Gaya, lah!

When the finals came tho, his performances seemed to be shot down by the judges and he was out-shone by the younger David. He chose songs that were not too popular , so we couldn't really connect! I have to admit i was more impressed with the younger David that night!! And then Simon had to publicly announce that the young David stole the show away with every performance! oh dear, my heart sank!

When the results day came, i was hoping that Simon was playing reverse psychology and thus making all David C's fans vote for him even more. And the young David's fans probably would get over confident and vote just once! :) that was my silent prayer for Cook lah!

We even discussed and suspected that the show was rigged , since it was once rumored that it was so, esp. after Paula's little mess up! We said that maybe the better David ( hehehehe) was asked to make way for the weaker one and in doing so maybe he would be offered many more benefits like recording contracts and road shows etc! yeah , we got imaginative in our desperation! We recorded the live results show as we weren't home to watch it at the hour! And we got disappointed when the disc ran out of space and we didn't get to watch the results later that day ,sigh sigh sigh! But that added more spice into the suspense!!

Later in the night we got to watch the results and i gasped in excitement and happiness that my David had won!!!! Yayyyyy! For the 1st time in American idol history, my fave contestant won! Yayyyy! David COOK rocks!!!

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