Oh David Number 3, you’re so cute and you sing so lovely. You’re gonna be around a while.
“Squish your head”? Seriously?
Any kid who likes John Lennon is OK by me.
Okay, Paula, hang him from your rearview mirror? That is seriously creepy.
Ew.
Was that snot under Paula’s nose?? Was I the only one that saw the light catching something shiny under her left nostril??
I too, would like to squoosh David Archuleta. And them perhaps bring him home and put him on my shelf. But hang him from the rearview mirror??
**THAT’S **just crazy-talk. 
Who do I think will should go? Southern Rocker and Jason. Who do I think will go? Jason and Cheezy.
Wow, David A is amazing! HE’S my new favorite and I want to pinch his cheeks.
So she’s on halucinogenics now?
That kid, David A, can **really ** sing. I thought that was a mature and heartfelt performance from someone so young.
Back to David Cook, and one of the earlier random guys, I have to say that it bugs me when the contestant argue with the judges. Yeah, Simon can be cranky, and sometimes mean, but he usually has a point. I’m much more impressed by the contestants who actually listen to what is being said.
Oh, and Jason Yeager, sooooo Up With People. He makes my teeth hurt.
Am I the only one who wishes he had not gone all crazy with the melodies on “Imagine”?
I think he improved upon the song, but I never really liked it to begin with, so YMMV. 
Well, at least the judges got “Spot the fake rocker” right. David Cook strikes me as legit. Boy band guy? No way. It’s like he’s trying to impersonate a rocker, and failing. I expect to see him throw around some devil horns next time and wag his tongue at the crowd to ‘step it up a notch’. And yeah, he had to be a drag racer, didn’t he?
The guy who doesn’t have to prove that he’s ‘rock’ is the one willing to admit he does crosswords for fun.
Does anyone else get the feeling that AI has been waiting for David Archuleto to be old enough to be on the show, and he’s going to be the heir apparent? It was a very good performance, but the judges were more than a little over the top. Randy said it’s the best performance he’s ever heard on the show? And Paula takes THAT up a notch and says it’s one of the most moving performances she’s ever seen in her life? What’s that all about?
All the rest of them were completely forgettable. I actually liked Jacuzzi, though. I’d keep him around. And I’d keep David Cook, Jason Castro, David A, and maybe Hernandez, and let the rest draw straws or something, because I don’t really care which one goes.
Pretty good performances tonight. Chikezie made a li’l comeback with a solid performance. I thought Danny was good. Robbie Carrico needs to get away from that “no, I really AM a rocker!” gig and start playing to his strengths. Luke Menard put me to sleep again, please send him home. The Jasons were meh. All the Davids were good, but Archuletta was pure win.
I thought Chikezie’s sass on Simon was clever. My mom called in the middle of Idol (it’s her birthday and she was calling me back because she missed my call earlier so I forgive her). I had to timeshift things so I wasn’t able to post on anything past Robbie in real time. 
I was all keeping track and everything, intending to post my usual letter grades. But then I thought what the hell. Nobody ever reads them anyway. And the simple fact of the matter is that there is David Archuleta — and then way below him a pile of others. It was simply an amazing rendition of a great world classic. John would have loved it, I believe.
Then again, maybe it’s my meds. I say that because I thought Pauler was surprisingly coherent tonight. She seemed sober, and she said things that made sense to me.
Really? Squishing David Archuleto and hanging him from her rear view mirror made SENSE to you?
It’s gotta be the meds.
It was different because she wasn’t in lockstep with Randy all night. On Dreadlock Guy, for instance, she pointed out how his playing guitar up front, bringing in the band later, and then pushing the band out at the end mirrored the projection of him as an artist. And she recommended that next week, he sing without his guitar. Now this is Pauler we’re talking about. Unless she’s had a brain transplant, it seemed unusual to me that she said something that was simultaneously correct, original, and useful.
And yes, I understood what she was saying about David. She’s been saying that with her body language all along. She clearly wishes he were a year or two older so she could bag him.
I’d forgotten all about him. Guess that shows you how memorable he was for me.
I still have another hour to go before the show comes on…
Also, I’d like to address this with a simple no, for my part. I’ve pegged him as the top of the heap ever since his audition in San Diego. I think that sometimes one could argue that AI picks someone and tries to push them off on people, but David is the one who has made David stand out. If AI is not pushing someone else, it is because they are not dumb enough to think they could get away with it. This guy is the Bianca Ryan of AI.
What’s this? The first horseman of the Archuleta backlash? Say it isn’t so!
Yeah, I’ll go out and be the first to say that I wasn’t all that impressed. I also feel like the judges are laying it on waaaaaay too thick. Yuck. I hate it when they announce the winner during the semis–it’s really, really irritating.
Anyway, the performance: Didn’t like the arrangement. And I hate that he sang the verse without any hint of controversy and then ducked the question. Yeah, I’m sure that wasn’t the reason he (or whomever) picked that verse. Lastly, booooring. I actually went back to studying while he was singing. Maybe I have ADD or don’t appreciate subtlety or I need flying monkeys to entertain me 24/7, but I find “sit on this stool, put on my emotional face, and sing a song that’s been done to death by hundreds of singers” to be pretty dull for this show.
Yes, he’s got a mature voice, and yes, he’s farther along with his interpretation and performance skills than most people his age. But tell me that if Luke Menard got up there and delivered the same performance, he wouldn’t have been lambasted for being forgettable. Oh, and one more pet peeve: “Imagine,” as sung by children, never comes off to me as people intend for it to come off. “Wow, children are wise beyond their years! We should listen to the children.” No, to me, it comes off as naive. Yeah, imagine all that great stuff!..wait, you can’t even imagine what it’s like to have FICA taken out of your first paycheck from Burger King.
(OK, that may be harsh. Kid, you’ve got a great voice and you know it, so stop the “aw shucks” stuff and maybe I won’t hold this one against you. Deal?)
Why do all the rock singers sound like they’re playing guitar hero on the “slow” setting?