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I have to admit that I am no different from the millions of women that have been crazily been a fan of David Cook.  I have seen some clips of him during Hollywood week but my attention wasn’t really caught until I heard that he did Billy Jean (I didn’t even get to watch that).  Week after week after that he just gets better and better until  his performance is the only thing I look forward to every single week.  I could probably peg it to the Mariah Carey week when I realize that I was doing just that.  When I heard that he’s going to do “Always Be My Baby”, I thought to myself, “This I gotta see…”.  True enough I was clutching on my husband’s shoulders while watching we were both stunned on how he actually turned this around.  Super super talented, need I say more??

Aside from the talent, he’s not bad looking too.  There are a lot of people with talent and looks too.  But I guess the reason women are swooning over him (this writer being guilty of that and admits of secretly viewing david cook youtube clips all night) and what sets him apart is that he’s actually smart, funny, humble and mature in taking on problems and criticisms.  How perfect could that be? Being a hot rockstar just became a plus, I guess. 

So there…I have professed my dear love to Mr. Cook.   He looks very promising and I don’t think the hype about him is going away as quickly as other Idol winners have (it’s been two weeks and I’m still swooning, so go figure…)

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I have been an American Idol follower since Season 4 when I was staying up at 10pm to catch up on performance and results show even as I was pregnant.  Carrie Underwood won that season.  I thought she was great but I wasn’t really rooting for her then.  For me that season was the best since when it all came down to top 8, it was very difficult to pinpoint who’s going to go next because everybody was doing very good (except for that one guy who was being pimped by votefortheworst).  That season had the best I’ve seen:  Anwar Robinson, Constatine Maroulis, Bo Bice, Vonzel Solomon.

For me this is still nostalgic:  Carrie Underwood’s “Alone” is still being talked about until now and all performances of Alone are still compared to that.  Bo Bice (my bet that season) was absolutely cool and awesome.  Before guitars were ever allowed to be played on stage, Bo started that rockstar move where he would do acrobatics with the mic stand while he was belting “Vehicle”.  Anwar Robinson is a personal favorite of mine.  Albeit being underrated and  illogically eliminated early in the competition (which I still can’t understand why), he’s still one of the most creative, most powerful singers I have heard.  He has the most awesome version of Moon River and What a Wonderful World I have ever heard, and what a voice that was.

It was a close fight too between Bo and Carrie.  I was crushed that Bo lost  but Carrie is not bad either and is apparently more marketable…as what we’ve seen so far.

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The succeeding two seasons were a blah for me.

Season 5…frankly I stopped watching after Daughtry got eliminated.  It didn’t make sense at all. 

Season 6… I was probably too busy trying to stabilize my new life to even bother following Idol…or maybe I didn’t think it was interesting enough to follow.  I was liking Melinda Doolittle and was thinking she was going to make it to the finals being as consistent and as endearing as she is…but I guess that didn’t work.   

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 Which brings us back to Season 7…

Although I don’t think this season is as talented as season 4, I think that the last two guys standing are among the very best among all Idol finalists. 

And also finally the guy who won was who I was actually rooting for.  Yey Cook! 

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 Would you believe Coleen knows David Cook and his music?  She sees his picture and she knows who he is!  How cool is that?

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 Hubby knows I'm crushing on David Cook...and I don't think he cares =)  Hahaha