David Cook, a rocker from Missouri, was declared the winner of the 2008 American Idol. Having sung songs by Seal, U2, Aerosmith, The Who & Our Lady Peace, Cook got the maximum number of votes in the final to beat his 17 year old competitor David Archuleta. Finally a rocker gets the big one! To be fair, I thought that Cook’s rendition of Billie Jean had sealed the deal for him many days ago. The rest were just formalities. Although I think Bo Bice, Chris Daughtry & Constantine were better than him, its good to see a rocker snag the win. Go Cook!
He was the one I rooted for since the top 24, I kid you not. I’m sooo good at this now, LOL!
I stopped watching the show a couple of years back. I usually only like one or two singers and can’t be bothered to sit through the remaining ‘Mariah’ & ‘Whitney’ wannabes and the usual cliched songs. I watched David’s clips on Youtube because of other rocker-bloggers raving about him.