{"id":1083,"date":"2008-05-20T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2008-05-20T21:33:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T02:33:17","slug":"ai-dave-vs-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2008\/05\/20\/ai-dave-vs-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: Dave Vs Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.\u00a0 The boxing announcement is just annoying.\u00a0 Though Cook got into it, Arch just didn&#8217;t seem to.\u00a0 At least the crowd seems to be pretty evenly split for the Davids.\u00a0 Oh my word, &#8220;Big David&#8221; and &#8220;Little David&#8221;?? Good grief.\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather they said Cook &amp; Arch.\u00a0 Seacrest is doing his best to build up the tension, but fo&#8217; real, just let the boyz get their sing on already, mkay?<\/p>\n<p>So, three rounds, Cook goes first.\u00a0 Randy says they have to bring everything they got tonite baby!\u00a0 Um.\u00a0 Yea.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that the case every week??\u00a0 I&#8217;m so fast forwarding through the crap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cook:<\/strong> Take 1 &#8211; &#8220;I still haven&#8217;t found what I&#8217;m looking for&#8221;\u00a0 Dude is hot.\u00a0 Really, this isn&#8217;t a fair comeptition.\u00a0 Cook is an awesome Rocker, and Archie is a ballad\/pop guy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to come down to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">what TPTB think they need to round out the Idol music house<\/span> which style of music gets more votes.\u00a0 Randy is stuck in a time warp and calls this the Duel of 2007.\u00a0 Paula is all hot and bothered.\u00a0 Simon says he&#8217;s phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arch:<\/strong> Take 1 &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t let the sun go down on me&#8221;\u00a0 Now see, Archie should have gone first.\u00a0 After the high energy rocker, this feels like a downer.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, he&#8217;s a sweetheart who can sing.\u00a0 But this is one of those lighter songs&#8230;\u00a0 you know what I mean??\u00a0 He young, and to me just doesn&#8217;t have the stage prescence of Cook.\u00a0 There he goes with the closing eyes again.\u00a0 Randy says it&#8217;s the best of the season.\u00a0 Paula needs a sweater cuz she&#8217;s got chills.\u00a0 Simon thought last week was OK, and tonight was the best he&#8217;s done so far.\u00a0\u00a0 And Tonight is the night that these guys really have to suck so hardcore in order to get a bad review, so of course they were all good reviews.\u00a0 But I disagree that round 1 goes to Arch.\u00a0 I think Cook did a much better job.<\/p>\n<p>Note to AI Producers:\u00a0 Enough with the boxing clips already.\u00a0 Ugh!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cook: <\/strong>Take 2 &#8211; &#8220;Dream Big&#8221;\u00a0 Dude.\u00a0 He freakin&#8217; rocks!\u00a0 I&#8217;m loving this!\u00a0 High energy, totally grooveable.\u00a0 I would so buy this song on Amazon.com (Note to AI PTB &#8211; I don&#8217;t do iTunes!\u00a0 Many of us don&#8217;t!)\u00a0 Randy says he sang his face off.\u00a0 Paula is all kittens and Sunshine, and Simon is trying to rain on everyone&#8217;s parade claiming it was a 6 1\/2 out of 10.\u00a0 Simon can kiss my ass.\u00a0 Cook rocked it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arch: <\/strong>Take 2 &#8211; &#8220;In the Moment&#8221;\u00a0 Again with the downer!\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 Guess it&#8217;s kinda obvious I&#8217;m more of a rocker huh?\u00a0 At least I am right now, my taste in music <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">varies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost by<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the hour<\/a>. Randy says he could sing the phone book, Paula craps a rainbow, and Simon says that despite the egotistical lyric, round 2 to the Arch.\u00a0 You know what, suck it Cowell.\u00a0 Cook rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Webber I think that is, says they both have to sing as if it&#8217;s their last night on the show &#8211; uhh&#8230; cuz it&#8217;s the finale!\u00a0 Duh!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cook: <\/strong>Take 3 &#8211; &#8220;The World I Know&#8221; It was good.\u00a0 Simon pulls his pants down and just craps all over Cook.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Dude!\u00a0 Hancock looks like a fun movie.\u00a0 I love me some Will Smith.\u00a0 Yum!\u00a0 *S*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arch: <\/strong>Take 3 &#8211; &#8220;Imagine&#8221;\u00a0 UGH!\u00a0 Again witht he slow ballad-y downers!\u00a0 AHHH!\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 he hit the note, let&#8217;s all cheer enthusiastically.\u00a0 Yes, I feel very sarcastic right now.\u00a0 With that last judgment against Cook, it&#8217;s clear to me that this kid is our winner no matter what.\u00a0 &#8220;take my hand and join us, and the world will live as one.&#8221;\u00a0 weep weep\u00a0 sob sob&#8230;\u00a0 touchy feel crap.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even pretend to like this.\u00a0 Randy all but admits that this Dave V Dave was planned.\u00a0 Paula is her usual.\u00a0 Simon says Arch is the &#8220;stahr&#8221; of the night, and perpetuates the boxing crap by saying Archie knocked &#8217;em out.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a cynic, but it&#8217;s clear to me that TPTB (The Powers That Be) wants Arch to win.\u00a0 For the first time ever in Idol history, I&#8217;ve cast a vote. Yes, I know, all this time and I&#8217;ve never voted.\u00a0 Honestly, I think the whole thing is rigged.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fun watch, but it&#8217;s rigged.\u00a0 Cook so deserves this.\u00a0 He did not deserve the massive dump Cowell laid on him.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, Cook will lose tomorrow, and then will probably have a bigger career then Arch because of being able to get out from under the 19 thumb early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.\u00a0 The boxing announcement is just annoying.\u00a0 Though Cook got into it, Arch just didn&#8217;t seem to.\u00a0 At least the crowd seems to be pretty evenly split for the Davids.\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-idol","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}