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Fuck all you at vftw. How did he steal Chris cornells version? Kristy stole Lee Greenwoods performance, Ramiele stole Anne Wilson's performance. They do covers, whats wrong with that? You guys just don't like David because he is good. He has an amazing voice and he's a really good guitarist too. The judges praised him for being original because that is a version of a classic 99% of earths population has never heard and he found that and did a great job with it. Also, if you didn't have your heads up each others asses all the time you might have heard ryan say "Here's David Cook doing Chris Cornells version of Billie Jean". Go fuck yourselves. Some of us here are trying to enjoy talent yet all you want is crap.

while the haters for haters sake will simply view this comment as praise for david cook, the real point of this comment is not as much praising david as it is pointing out the stupidity in so many posts that are knocking him.

on the other hand, several people have made comments with some pretty valid points.
first off, controversy not necessary at all. cook was introduced to be singing Chris Cornell's version of the song.

additionally, anyone who says he did a note for note cover of it is clearly tone-deaf. cook followed the same flow, did some of the sections note for note, or at least note for every-other note, but also threw in a melody tweak or two. he opted not to chase all of the notes cornell did in the accoustic version as well, and aside from missing a pretty unimportant note in the latter part of the song, he hit what he went for very well, and in my opinion went for the right notes out of what cornell did, and threw in a few of his own in good spots, like the last bit of the chorus when he kicked up higher on that draw-out before dropping it back down.

another good point... these people have a week. the smart thing to do is find a risky, obscure and kick-ass arrangement of a song, throw in your own flavor of tweaks here or there but keep it recognizable, and then work with the band on it, rehearse, and give it your best performance. i think he did all of that pretty well.

next, about the judges. as someone pointed out, randy didn't say he was original because he made that arrangement of the song up. he said that he was probably the most original and boldest contestant they'd had on the show, and that he could win the whole thing. if someone takes those statements, after the song was introduced to be a cover of SOMEONE ELSE'S COVER OF AN ORIGINAL SONG, and walks away thinking that he was just praised for writing an amazingly original arrangement, then THEY ARE THE ONE'S WHO ARE STUPID.

His choice of arrangements have been very original. the style that he's brought to those arrangements has been distinctly his own, and i think it is easy to watch him and get a feel for who he is as a musician even while he's performing other people's work. that's pretty much the point of the show

paula abdul said he is very smart, and very brave. hmmm... sounds like maybe she knew that he was doing someone else's version of the song other than the original. sounds like maybe she was commending him on his intelligent choices of songs and arrangements. choosing well known and well liked and powerful songs, and doing rocking arrangements of them while adding in his own tweaks, and doing that WELL.

and simon hit the nail on the head. you do any cornell version of anything... and this goes for cornell too, as we see in the live version... and you're gonna end with something that's totally insane, or amazing. and david cook did an amazing job of it with billie jean.

in other news...david archuletta would make a really nice christmas album. but you gotta feel for the kid. he's got amazing natural talent. quality tone, incredible control, great range, all that fun stuff. but he's had voice coaches and been "trained" exactly what notes to sing and how to sing them for like the past decade, and the kid's only 17! if someone would keep this kid's father, and anyone remotely resembling a voice coach AS FAR AWAY FROM HIM AS POSSIBLE for a few years, he'd have a chance to really develop and might just find that spark and figure out what he can really bring to the table as a musician. but as it stands they're doing every they can to just have him spit out replica versions of songs left and right.

Wasn't this "Songs from the year you were born" week? If David Cook was specifically introduced as doing Chris Cornell's "Billie Jean," then that would make him what, about 2 years old?

Add me to the David Cook isn't evil list. I like him quite a bit, to me he is the only one worth watching the show for now that Danny and Amanda are gone.

I also have to agree that the judges comments and lack of music knowledge aren't any of the contestant's faults, in fact, I think this season we have seen alot of WTF? faces on the contestants during the judges remarks because some of their comments are so out of touch with the music world today. And they didn't just miss on David's performance last night, even Paula claimed that there were alot of obscure songs chosen. And Randy's agreement that David Archuletta's original songs' singer was "amazing" was the worst offender, IMO, it was clear that he had absolutely no idea of who David A was talking about when he heard the name of the original artist.
I have maintained that each judge has a miniscule arena of music that they know and none knows outside of their little box and that's why we get some of the effed up judgements that we get, like last night. I have no doubt that Randy, Paula and Simon had no idea that Chris Cornell's version of that song ever existed, I would actually be surprised if even 1 of them knew that Chris Cornell was still around making music, I am almost positive that they thought he died along with the 90's. Sad isn't it?

In this instance I would really lay off all the contestants, they have no control over what the judges do and do not know about music. This is all Nigel's fault, IMO, for hiring 3 baboons and not giving them at least a cheat sheet of songs and their artists to refer to, but they should actually all be given a tape of the songs by the original artists so they can hear what they should sound like and compare to what the contestants do with them and be made to sit in a room with a grown-up to make sure they actually listen to the tape.

The thing is, this is a singing competition not a song writing competition. Yes, the contestants can change things up and perform the songs in their own style, but none of them are breaking any new ground and--let's face it--David Cook out-sings and out-performs the rest of the bunch on a consistent basis. It's not really his fault if the judges decide to call him creative & original, or if the fact that he's singing other artist's versions of the songs gets glazed over.

And the fact is, he is still bringing his own style and voice every week--and in my opinion he's doing a better job of singing the songs than the people he's "stealing" his performances from (not saying CC or Doxology are bad by any stretch of the imagination, I just think David really killed those performances).

Plus I'm pretty sure Chris Cornell & Doxology had more than a week to perfect their versions of these songs . . . how much can you really expect someone to do in a week as far as learning a new song AND messing around with the arrangement, and still sound polished and prepared?

Paula got it right tonight when she said this performance showed how smart he is. He's consistently picking interesting songs and arrangements that show off his talent--which you have to admit he has. I'd personally rather listen to someone who doesn't change things up constantly but gives a killer performance than someone who tries to be better and more creative than the have the talent to carry . . .

Can't believe I'm actually going to defend someone on this, but David is probably the only one whose performance I'm actually interested in hearing each week.

Cover or not, he actually sounds like he has some talent, and can perform.

Can't stand KKKristy, and almost puked at her song choice. Way to count on patriotism card, rather the VFTWers, to keep herself on the show.

Can't stand David Archuleta, and his constant swinging jaw & lip licking.

Jason Castro is really starting to remind me of Jar Jar Binks, with his creepy eye expressions and weird f'ing smile.

Brooke is so squeaky clean, can't wait to see her in porn in a year or so.

He should change his name to David Crook now that he keeps stealing other people's originality...

I knew it right away. I actually love Chris Cornell's version and I have it on one of my playlists on my iPod. It sounded exactly like it. Everything was to the note. Even when the instruments kicked in. I hated how they gave him credit for being original when he just took the arrangement from someone else. Isn't this the second time this has happened with him this season?

Yes...we had no doubt this was someone else's cover of the song. Ryan said it. What I'm impressed with; is that he had to pick a song from the year he was born, and chose to do it in way that suited him. Would you rather he had done it like Michael?!

It was a great move...the song rocked...the hair doesn't bother me so much anymore. It was the best part of tonight's show.

Kristy gives me the creeps. Way too phony acting. I can't watch her...she makes me uncomfortable (besides the fact that she can't sing).

I hate to say it... but it didn't suck. I've heard the original, and I am a big fan of Chris Cornell... but you have to give Cook this much--in a season full of complete crap, he at least can carry a tune, and seems to have semi-decent taste in the songs he chooses to steal... which is more than I can say for KKKristy. Someone put the poor girl out of her misery already! (Not that I won't vote for her. She's the hideously wonderful trainwreck you can't bring yourself to look away from...)

I'm not a fan...but don't blame the poor tool cuz the judges are apparently deaf and didn't listen to his intro that clearly stated he was doing the Chris Cornell version of Billie Jean.

That he covered that song is not the problem, since Ryan mentioned it. But:
1. Some on the VFTW forum called it even before song choices were leaked; so predictable.
2. He sang it note for note and the judges criticized other contestants for this; instead they pimped David C. to heaven since they had no clue what the original cover was like.