# American Idol 3/25, 26 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745 "2008-03-25T23:59:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745/281 "2008-03-30T19:05:56Z")
What I meant by saying I didn’t care what you think wasn’t that I was dismissing you, I simply meant that it didn’t affect my world or my opinion and I wasn’t bothered by it or wanting it changed or any of that. I was responding to your defensiveness. Sort of like if someone is at your house asks if it’s ok to use your computer to check their email, and you say “sure, I don’t care.” As for “how could such a creature ever please you?” the answer is quite simple: by showing some emotional depth to his performance. That’s my whole problem with him. His performances strike me as not much different from a person who phoenetically learns to sing a song in a foreign language. They may sing it very well, but they don’t understand the meaning, and so the emotion doesn’t come through. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745/282 "2008-03-30T19:10:24Z")
_Eleanor Rigby_ is on my short list for ‘favorite songs of all times’. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it and I’ve yet to hear a version I like better than the originals. I was lukewarm to David Cook’s version on the show and the [studio version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjC2xLGzKg) is absolutely dreadful. (I love Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin but didn’t really like either of their takes on the song.) I think that song _needs_ the full symphonic accompaniment. OTOH, if David Arch. were to take on the song, I’d have to hold his dog hostage until the tapes were destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745/283 "2008-03-30T20:36:28Z")
I definitely agree with that, **Sampiro**. It is a great song among great songs for so many reasons, and has earned the sports world equivalent of a retired jersey. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745/284 "2008-03-31T00:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I just thought to look this up… and is [this the arrangement](http://profile.imeem.com/rj0lvq/music/7fX-EBam/gimme_gimmes_hello/) you’re talking about? If so I see very little similarity to the hauntingly beautiful song that Cook sang… [/QUOTE] Well, that’s the band, and that claims to be from the album. Oddly enough, that version just sounds _off_ from my CD. As I said when he first sang it, it sounds like the same arrangement, but at half the speed. What week was that? Another poster, maybe **DDG** , agreed with me in that week’s thread. And, OMG, I got quoted! That might be a first for me! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745/285 "2008-03-31T23:07:20Z")
[QUOTE=wmulax93] \ And, OMG, I got quoted! That might be a first for me! [/QUOTE] Giving you a cheap thrill, just because I can. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-3-25-26/442745.md?page=14)