Category American Idol
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As I have mentioned many times before, I am a pretty big American Idol fan. This year has been very interesting - for the most part, the person who is voted out each week is pretty much on par with what I thought should have happened. The only exception is Jason - I thought he should have been gone a couple of weeks before he was actually voted off. However, the two contestants that were left standing for the finals - David Cook and David Archuletta - are exactly who I thought should be there.

And the first night of the finals was held last night. Both contestants were fabulous, and I agree with Simon Cowell's statement that "this night will go down as one of the best in finals history" (or something to that effect). Both contestants were completely on their game - David Cook performed some inventive takes on U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", and Collective Soul's "The World I Know". David Cook also sang an original song submitted for the "Winner's Song" contest, "Dream Big". David Archuletta started with a stunning performance of Elton John's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", sang his pick from the "Winner's Song" contest called "In This Moment", and finished with a reprise of the John Lennon's "Imagine" - which happens to be his favorite song and is considered his best performance of the season when he first sang it.

As I said earlier, I think both contestants did their best - all of the songs were exceptional, and were well sung. However, David Archuletta may be the best technical singer ever to appear on Idol, and has consistently been flawless at a minimum, all the way to breathtakingly amazing at times. I believe that David Archuletta should be the winner, and the judges seemed to agree; however there is at least one site, DialIdol.com, has predicted that David Cook will actually be the winner that is announced tonight. They determined this by automated dialing and measuring how long each of the Idol's numbers were busy signals, and for how long. They claim that they are 87% accurate overall for an entire season - and has been 100% accurate on picking the finals - so it will be interesting to see if their prediction of such a huge upset is right.

In fact, here's what they actually said concerning their prediction this year:

Let's be clear - DialIdol is definitively predicting that David Cook will win American Idol. No ifs, ands or buts about it. No crazy margin of error claims or anything. The DialIdol scores are significantly different enough to wash all that out the window.

This comes as a bit of a surprise to me given that David Archuleta "knocked out" David Cook during the performance show so before you decide to skip the results show tonight you might want to consider that I myself will be watching with the usual uncertain anticipation that has become habit for me!

If you'd like to read a more comprehensive story on the final's proceedings, here's a good article at MTV.com.

In any case I would recommend tuning in for the Americal Idol final results show tonight (on FOX at 8PM EDT), so you can see how good these two are, and to find out this year's American Idol.

Rock