David Cook Wins

Sometimes it is a choice between doing what you like, and doing what you think people will like.

I have never posted about American Idol in my whole bloggin history, cuz I didn't care much for it. But after watching filipina Ramiele Malubay getting in, i found my self watching almost the whole of season 7, right until it was a battle between David Archuleta and David Cook.

Archuleta is candy sweet and brimming with positive messages. His vocals are velvet. It also helped that he looked like someone Menudo would've recruited back then, side by side with Ricky Martin shaking their bon bons.

So, back to Cook. I am glad he won. He wasn't the obvious choice as painted by the judges during the showdown. Cook's voice was gruff deep and he had a penchant of doing obscure covers of mainstream songs. Which, I think, was a risk. Since almost always listeners are more critical if the cover version veered away too much from the original.

Cook became the exception, especially when he veered away from Mariah's style (thank God) when he did "Always be My Baby" and made it into mellow rock. It suited him just fine, cuz he's not Mariah. He's David Cook.

As I slide back into my corporate humdrum work mode, I am reminded again if I still have originality, and if it really matters to me now.

I'm sure when I get home, I'll be trying out the chords David Cook struck, and see what I can do with "Always be My Baby."


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