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American Idol Season 7
sunshine26:
i ya! TL :-* thanks for posting that! i have Cook's cd it is called analong heart, it is GREAT......you know how some people will put out a cd and put it on the web to see if it can sell, well cook did that way before AI.....and AI had to pull it, why? cuz it was out-selling big time bands/singers......cook's songs he has done on AI have all been #1 on itunes [downloaded.....] he has already beat out some very big bands and singers as #1 on the itunes charts![David A has NEVER been #1 on the downloads at itunes] this guy just has to win this! i wish he could do a song from his cd [that he wrote ] but we all know that cant happen! i am tellin ya! the guy is great! if any of you guys get the chance go to youtube and type in david cook's analong heart and hear some GREAT songs from COOK! :yess:
Cook said in a intreview that he really wanted to win this, he said the by winning he really can get his music out faster! and he would be proud to win! when asked do you really want to win, David said sure, he said you cant help but to be humble by all this. i mean cook, has beat out itune downlaods over some very big people like M. Carey.....B..springsten..and many many more, Cook's brother [one of them] has brain cancer! that is why cook has AC on his coats etc etc...for his brother...the light tan braclet that he wears is from a news guy in FL..that went to hollywood to intreview cook..the guy that did the intreview his daughter has cancer also, her name is Linsley Rose! when cook found out that his daughter had cancer he said can i please have your braclet to wear on the show for Rose! the guy went on to say that he [cook] was Rose's favorite idol, and the guy said cook is just a nice guy! he said even I vote hundreds of times for cook!
he wears it on every show! i go to alot of sites that have intreviews and vids etc etc on cook! the guy is a very sweet guy! he loves his brother so much! Bruce Springten RAISED the money so his brother could go to the show one night [it was the night cook sung the M. Carey song [always be my baby] when he cried at the end of the song, he couldnt help it, his brother was there to watch him....its really sad, his brother didnt look very good but you could see how proud he is of his brother,cook said his brother is his HERO! but i hear his brother is doing wonderful! i pray that he recovers from this!
remember to ROCK the VOTE for the NEXT REAL IDOL DAVID COOK! :jam: one more day until showtime :wohoo: BLOW THE HOUSE DOWN! DC!!!!!!!!!!!
marigold:
--- Quote from: TexasLady on May 19, 2008, 08:39:10 AM ---(The article is too long to post, this is the most interesting part for me. Who knew he was a songwriter!)
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1586507/20080429/id_0.jhtml?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r3:c0.0891912
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Great article TL.
I also didn't know Cook had theater training and was active in drama in high school.
Also a long interview so I attached the link:
His teachers from Blues Springs, Mo., have spilled the beans on how much the adolescent David loved to belt out those Broadway show tunes.
For evidence, get thee to YouTube, where you can watch clips of the teenage Cookie playing Riff in a high-school staging of "West Side Story" and taking pratfalls ("Make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh ... ") in a student version of "Singin' in the Rain."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2004419958_davidcook17.html?syndication=rss
marigold:
... an interesting article: More than half of Idol's viewers are over the age 35
Those people still watching American Idol 7 are older than one might imagine: More than half of its viewers are over age 35, and David Archuleta’s presumed fan base, kids ages 2 to 17, are actually only 15 percent of the audience, Reuters reports, citing data from Nielsen.
That fits with previously reported data. This season has lost a significant number of women ages 18 to 34 and kids 2 to 11, and overall, is down to an average of 27 million viewers compared to 30 million last year. The slide stopped last week, though, as ratings rebounded slightly for the results show.
Nielsen also found that those who send text message votes do so an average of 38 times, and more of those voters are women. They did not track or survey those who vote via telephone, which would seem to be the more significant number, since that group is far less restricted (text voters have to be AT&T subscribers and pay for those messages).
Elsewhere in pre-American Idol finale coverage, today’s lesson in bad journalism—specifically how to pretend to write a journalistic story by assembling a thin group of sources to verify your beliefs rather than just writing what you think—comes from Associated Press writer Lynn Elber and her story about why show has been so boring despite its claims of talent. That’s a fairly interesting topic, but she fumbles it with thin reporting instead of just going for a full-on analytical commentary.
The first clue that something’s off are references to “some fans and observers,” and there’s also attribution such as “watchers say,” both of which are super-vague and sketchy. That’s confirmed when the story ends up citing just three sources to support its claims: “regular ‘Idol’ viewer Mike Anderson of Yakima, Wash,” “music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz (whose criticism doesn’t show up until the second-to-last paragraph), and fall-back source Dave Della Terza from Vote for the Worst, the site that’s funny and witty and sometimes breaks news, but has never managed to actually influence anything except the media’s perception of its influence.
It’s Mike Anderson and Dave Della Terza’s criticism that the story hangs on, because Lefsetz doesn’t show up until the end, and the three other people quoted in the story aren’t critics. They are Nigel Lythgoe, Taylor Hicks (who we’re told “remains upbeat about” the show despite how it, like, failed him), and Red Light Management’s Bruce Flohr, who’s identified as “an ‘Idol’ admirer” who doesn’t like the presence of fame-seekers.
So basically it’s Nigel Lythgoe versus Mike Anderson (who?!) and Dave Della Terza, who admits that he’s “sick of the show” and reports that his web site traffic has dropped in half since last season. That may be Elber’s most compelling piece of evidence, because when people stop caring enough to make fun of something, the target of their former scorn is in trouble.
Source: http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/american_idol_7/2008_May_19_age_votes_ap_story
sunshine26:
lol.... i forgot to add if you guys go to youtube and lookup a song from cook called [just in case] WOW! that song is so ready to be a hit on the radio right now! it is plain beautiful.. cook wrote the song, and it is one of my favorites you know when you hear a song and it just catches your ear, and you cant stop hearing it! well it is one of those songs, PLUS L. Richie is going to release HELLO from David Cook...
Richie said that song was a SMASH HIT and people wait to long to put great songs out! Richie called Cook, and went on to say David we CANT wait we got to put HELLO out right when AI is over [cuz AI will not let a idol release any song while still on the show] Richie went on to say that song was ALL COOK! he could not believe david arranged that song to a great rock ballad! i really hope Cook does this song[HELLO] for his favotie pick for the finale, cuz it was all Cook no one elses arrangment and it ROCKED....if you guys want to hear this intreview it was on kiss radio, ryan's morning radio talk show
L. Richie called in and told ryan that song, Hello. MUST be put out as soon as it can be, Richie went on to say that song was all COOK no L. Richie in it at all!.. that he knows that song would be a # 1 hit right now! :wohoo:
sunshine26:
--- Quote from: ca bb fan on May 19, 2008, 11:02:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: TexasLady on May 19, 2008, 08:39:10 AM ---(The article is too long to post, this is the most interesting part for me. Who knew he was a songwriter!)
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1586507/20080429/id_0.jhtml?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r3:c0.0891912
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Great article TL.
I also didn't know Cook had theater training and was active in drama in high school.
Also a long interview so I attached the link:
His teachers from Blues Springs, Mo., have spilled the beans on how much the adolescent David loved to belt out those Broadway show tunes.
For evidence, get thee to YouTube, where you can watch clips of the teenage Cookie playing Riff in a high-school staging of "West Side Story" and taking pratfalls ("Make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh ... ") in a student version of "Singin' in the Rain."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2004419958_davidcook17.html?syndication=rss
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hi ya! cc bb fan :-* how are you my friend :waves: yep! Cook said it during showtunes week with ALW.. when cook did music of the night, cook said he studyed musical theater as a young boy! this is why i think cook has so much control over his voice, the guy can nail low, middle and his high range, i watched idol extra the other night, they had one of the backup singer from AI on as a guest, she said cook just has IT! the guy can nail a song! the only thing she said about david A is that he is so cute i just want to hug him grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :pull i am really getting sick of that..i dont want someone to win cuz people think of them as a cute little puppy dog! plus i think cook is very good looking he is a HOTTIE! but more important he has the talent to win this!
i just hope [us] the ones in thier 20's-60's yep! cook even has fans in thier 60's one lady in her 60's votes non-stop everyweek for cook, she wrote on the AI boards that those young kids voting for DA dont know who they are messing with, :funny: she went out and got 3 AT&T go phones to text, plus her landlines plus her cells so she can vote on ALL of them for 4 straight hours. to make cook the winner, if she can do it, i can do it! :yess:
thanks you guys for all the great info you are posting :tup:
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