Kristy’s American Idol Scrapbook

David Cook in his underwear!!!!
The Guitar Hero commercial
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The next American Idol is…. David Cook. He won by 12 million votes. And is Crying! He walks around the stage and keeps crying. Cook says he started the season as the word nerd and is at a loss for ords. He thanks his fans. His mom 7 Brother hugs him onstage. Cook sings “Time of My Life” Fireworks come down Confetti drops. David Cook wins and I got to see him in his underwear. This is the best Finale ever!
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Ryan says the winner recieved 56% of the votes, while the other David got 44%.
Mikalah Gordon is covering David Cook’s hometown party. Matt Rodgers host the Energy Solutions Arena Party! Ryan introduces the stars of “So You Think You Can Dance” The Top 12 performing “Get Ready” all in white. David Cook performs “Hero” by Chad Kroeger/Josey Scott. It’s a duet with Archie! Syesha Mercado, wearing a gray dress sings performs”Waiting For You” a duet with Seal .

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It is being reported that just 97.5 million votes. were cast on yesterday’s finale!! Smashed the record by over 23 million! Who is crowned American Idol winner is about 3 hours away now! The show airs (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) (7:00-9:00 PM MST tape-delayed) scroll down for spoiliers on tonights rumored guests, performances, alumni.

In the closing four minutes of the two-hour show (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed)
(7:00-9:00 PM MST tape-delayed), the David, the American Idol Season 7 Winner will sing the winning song in the second American Idol Songwriter contest winner in the.

Regie Hamm’s “Time of My Life”

Buy David Cook’s Full Length Recording of “Time of My Life” Single on iTunes

The big surprise guest performer during the American Idol finale tomorrow
night will be “Freedom” hit-maker George Michael, a source has exclusively revealed.

Earlier this week, producer Nigel Lythgoe refused to reveal who the artist
would be, only saying that the “biggest star in the world” was coming to Idol.

You can vote for 4 hours tonight!

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Official Song Spoilers for American Idol Season Seven Finale
Spoiliers after the jump for those who dont want to know

Tuesday Night
Murray High School is supporting Utah’s favorite American Idol Idol tonight by throwing an open to the public viewing party.

Wednesday Night
Thousands of Utahns to Get Sneak-Peek of Archuleta’s Fate

Pep rally at the Energy Solutions Center.
Doors open at 4:30 show via the LIVE Broadcast at 6:00 MST an hour earlier than the local broadcast of the show. This is free to attend!

It is confirmed that Adam Cook will be in the audience Wednesday Night. He’s David’s older brother who is stricken with brain cancer. He traveled to a live show on a donated medic plane. Groups have been trying to raise the money to get Adam back out to Hollywood for the finale.

My Favorite show of the year. It’s so bitter sweet. It’s always the best show of the year…
but its the last on of the year as well. So here is a quick run down of what is known/rumored about tomorrow nights show. The show airs (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) (7:00-9:00 PM MST tape-delayed)

Read the AI Finalé Rumors/Spoiliers after the jump

Season 7 Finalists David Cook & David Archuleta will compete for the Idol Crown in the American Idol Finalé Season 7 Tonight ((8:00-9:02 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) (7:00-8:02 PM MST tape-delayed)) at the Nokia Theater this is a little about what has been uncovered so far about tonights show as well as Wednesdays Results show when we will finally know the who is the winner of Americann Idol!

I’ll be updating with official song list after rehearsal later this after oon.

Personal song choices

Song Writer Competition
The Davids picked their own coronation song from the 10 most popular songs in the list of 20 that were available for online voting.

Clive Davis song choice for the Davids.

Rumors about Wednesdays Nights Show:

American Idol Finalé will have the Fianl Two singing three songs. Theses songs will be as follows
Clive David’s song + AI Song contest winner + Encore OR New contestant song. David Archuleta won the coin toss and selected to go second.

Season 7 Finalists were announced David Cook & David Archuleta will compete for the Idol Crown in the American Idol Finalé Season 7 May 20-21 at the Nokia Theater next week

Ryan Seacreast opens tonight show by putting his arm on David A. and Syesha, but not David C. He called David A. a high school student, Syesha an actress and DC a bartender (before AI). Ryan says the judges’ choices are first. Archie’s song choice by Paula is shown in a video read by his mayor at his hometown welcoming. Paula says she wanted to showcase his vocals and the melody is difficult and it will showcase his timbre. Archie begins “And So it Goes” standing centerstage wearing a black leather jacket and tie. It is all a capella at the beginning, then the violins come in, then the piano. David’s dad shown in the audience. Paula & Randy Like it Simon says its ok not outstanding.

Randy says he chose “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys for Syesha because he had a feeling she would like it cause she’s young and hot and he could see her singing this kind of record. She begins centerstage holding a mic, all dressed up in a silver and gold glittered dress with huge gold earings. Piano on stage too. Judges liked it overall. Simon wished she did more with it but that she looked nice

Simon says he chose the song, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face“, for David C because so many girlfriends love it and he wanted to challenge David, unlike Randy. Cookie opens standing at micstand centerstage. Only piano accompanying. He sounds very strong. Starts picking up halfway through the song. Starts to rock it up.Hits a few high notes. Ends on a very high note and holds it. Lots of applause.

Archie says he chose “With You” by Chris Brown [lots of applause] because it’s something he hasn’t done yet. Says it wasn’t easy to learn. Ryan confuses him about starting the performance. And he begins centerstage holding the mic. Archie includes “boo” in the lyrics. Wearing a brown t-shirt and brown pants. He’s very into the performance. Lots of audience interaction. Judges didn’t like it much. But Simon compliments David on not selecting a ballad

Syesha, wearing a short silvery dress, sits with Ryan at stools, she says she chose “Fever” by Peggy Lee. She says there’s a chair involved and she wants to walk around it and work it a bit. Her strong performance was very sultry as she flirted with various band members. The judges were way too hard on Syesha(like last week with Jason Castro). Randy thought she sang amazingly well. Paula said she didn’t understand the song choice as is wasn’t Syesha. Simon Said she would regret the perfomance tommarrow as it was “quite a lame cabaret performance”

Cookie says he went with “Dare You to Move” by Switchfoot, said coming from a bartender it seemed like the appropriate song for the appropriate moment. David begins centerstage playing guitar. Other instruments come in during the second verse. Randy thought is was the perfect song choice but performance wise it wasn’t Cook’s best. A little pitchy. Paula thought it didn’t last long enough. Simon said it was ok but expected & not a very melodic song. Hmmm… I love this song… and I loved Cookie singing it to me too!

David A comes out to perform “Longer” by Dan Fogelberg. Wearing a blue dress shirt, his vocals are strong but eyes are closed. All three judges thought he sang it well Simon thought the song lyrics were gooey. More for a 70 year than a 17 year old.

Syesha performs “Hit Me Up” by Gia Farrell. She begins stage left, wearing a silver top and black pants, moves around the stage, dancing around. Three back up singers. She sounds pretty good considering the song isn’t great. All three judges were let down by her performance. Paula is worried it will not be enough to keep her in the competition…. is there really anything she can do at this point to stay in? LOL

Cookie will end the night by performing “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith. Strings are accompanying him, nothing else. He’s smiling at the camera, skips the first chorus, goes into the bridge. His raspyness is coming out, Sounds good, he goes up into the chorus and hits a high note. Rock elements kick in, still standing at micstand, but electric guitars sound good. Ends on high note. Awesome! Randy: “For me, I love the song, it was ok for me [massive boos] very predictable.” Paula: “This is an amazing song. David…see ya in the finals!” Simon: “One of the great songs of all time. And I have to tell you, David Cook wins the night.“

David Cook American Idol Songs List