Because I know you all were desperate to know.
David Cook should win. David Archuleta should die in a fire. I'm not particularly invested in what order the other contestants get voted off, though I like Brooke, although I suspect I wouldn't if I knew more about her position on various issues -- does she hate gay people? I bet she does, although I also bet she's one of those people who only hates them in principle, and makes exceptions for the gay people she knows -- "Homosexuality is wrong and a sin, but Jeff is so nice, I can't imagine he's actually going to hell, I'm sure he'll see the error of his ways and repent." That kind of thing. Anyway.
David Cook has only once done something truly execrable -- Our Lady Peace's "Innocent," which is either just a really bad song or was a terrible performance. Most likely both. So emo. But he did a really credible version of "Music of the Night," which was surprising, and has been downright awesome in the past; I loved his emo-rock version of "Hello" and "Billie Jean." I wasn't too thrilled with his interpretation of "Eleanor Rigby," because I think all that emo snarling kind of misses the point of the song, but it sounded ok if you ignore the fact that he was supposed to be singing "Eleanor Rigby." I'm now tempted to discourse about my interpretation of "Eleanor Rigby" and how important it is for the music to reflect her quiet, obscure life and death, but, eh, I'll leave it at that.
I wish I liked Carly Smithson. I try to. I want to. She's so Irish and cute and I think she could sing well, but somehow she never quite does. She always gets shouty or off-key or just chooses a really bad song. There's always something disappointing; I think maybe she tries too hard. Although I really liked Her rendition of "Blackbird," which happens to be one of my favorite Beatles songs -- but I liked Brooke's "Let It Be" better (which might be my absolute favorite Beatles song, I'm not sure). I can see why her album flopped, for sure.
Let me see, who else do I have any feelings at all about -- Jason Castro. He mostly sucks, but every now and then, just when he needs to, he does something so truly awesome that you really want him to stick around, just on the off chance he might do it again. "Hallelujah," for example, which was really, really, really good, and his take on Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Over the Rainbow" which was quite good. He has maybe the weakest voice of all, but sometimes he just really does something with it -- unlike Carly Smithson; actually maybe the opposite of Carly.
Ok, ok, enough about that. I've exposed enough of my ridiculous Idol obsession (I, uh, bought Blake Lewis's album on iTunes; it kinda rocks, except it also kinda sucks). Yeah.