JEFFREY REINHART jreinhart@LNPnews.com
Can’t believe I’m actually posting this, but what the hey …
OK, I’ll admit it: I’m a weenie.
In between covering everything from girls’ lacrosse games to boys’ volleyball games to going on a two-week cross-country vacation, my wife and I somehow found the time to watch every episode of American Idol this season.
Yeah, me. Who knew?
So here are my two quick observations before Ryan Seacrest tells the world who wins at the conclusion of tonight’s two-hour finale.
First, David Cook is the better performer. By a landslide. Give the guy a guitar and a mic stand and he’s a terrific on-stage presence who never gets rattled and always belts out a strong tune – regardless of what Simon says. Simon says — get it? Oh, I have a million of them. Am I a huge Cook fan? I dunno. If the guy puts out a CD I doubt I’d buy it. But as far as singing on stage and doing the whole rock-star thing, Cook is way better.
Second, that said, David Archuleta will win.
I’m not an Archuleta fan (probably because I’m sick of Seacrest calling him ‘Archie’ – ugh, gag me) because I’m not a big lovey-dovey, ballad fan. And that’s practically the only types of songs Archuleta has performed over the last couple of months.
Actually, I’m a U2 fan, if you must know.
Any time Archuleta had to perform any song with a beat, he looked uncomfortable on stage — painstakingly uncomfortable.
But give him a sappy love song, and he delivered.
I hated that Archuleta performed Imagine for his finale on Tuesday. He already sang that song one time, and here, for his final song – his choice, last song performed this season – he goes with something he already sang. Weak.
I loved it when Cook told the judges that “at least I’m not singing something I’ve already performed.”
What a dig towards Archuleta that was, eh?
Archuleta will get the teeny-bopper vote, and that’s why he’ll win – even though Cook is hands down the better performer.
I thought that’s what the show was supposed to be about – not about every 16-year-old girl with a cell phone in Utah calling to vote 100 times.
OK, enough American Idol chatter. Can’t believe I went on that long …
Diet update tomorrow – woo-hoo.
