This Season 7 final episode had it all. We saw the other finalists from this season, finalists from last season like Jordan Sparks and that beat boxin’ guy, ZZ Top, Bryan Adams and even George Michael (boy has that guy gotten old). We also saw some humorous commercials with both Davids in their underwear doing the Tom Cruise thing with a Guitar Hero guitar.

Tonight is the last night where just one contestant is picked as the winner of American Idol 2008 and David Cook takes home the award this year, winning by over 12 million votes leaving David Archuleta, the young man made for TV singing contests, as the runner up. Both of these guys deserved the win but we have to agree with this vote. David Cook was an underdog bartender that fans were able to relate and grow with throughout the season.

Congratulations David!

You don’t think we’d forget about Kristy Lee Cook though, do you? One last gratuitous pic:

It’s the voting episode of week six and coincidentally America’s votes bring the remaining American Idol contestants down to the last six as one gets voted off tonight. Throughout a series of performances and another puppet-themed Ford plug by the performers Ryan Seacrest weeded Carly Smithson, Jason Castro and Syesha Mercado into a small group of their own and another group consisting of David Cook, Kristy Lee Cook and Brook White across the stage. David Archuleta was held out to last since it would likely give away which group was the bottom three.

After some uncomfortable shuffling it ended up being Syesha, Brook and Kristi Lee as the three with the fewest votes for the week. I feel like none of these contestants should be in the bottom three overall, but it seems like a lot of voters go off solely the last performance which helps make a little sense of this weeks numbers. Also we need to remember that these people aren’t voted off, but are just not voted on as much as the others.

Unfortunately this time it was Kristy Lee Cooks time to go. Kristy had a shaky time earlier in the season but was really making a comeback in her performances each week but it just didn’t turn out to be enough to keep her going. I guess we knew it was going to happen eventually, but we’ll certainly miss seeing Kristy on the stage each week.

Well, it looks like we made it to the final 7 this year without having any type of embarrassment “vote for the worst” contestants on the stage. The loss of Michael Johns last week was a surprising result for everyone and actually added a little excitement to the show since this time it wasn’t as predictable as we were beginning to believe. (more…)

This week we have the top 8 American Idol contestants performing after the loss of Ramiele Malubay in last weeks voting. I guess they want to do something for everyone during the season and this episode sports some “inspirational songs” for the theme, which goes along with the extra special three-episode week.

Today we have the regular but “inspirational” performances which makes the show a little painful for us here, and on Thursday we’ll have the usual voting episode. But, for all of you hardcore AI fans tomorrow brings a special, extra-long 2.5 hour “Idol Gives Back” episode which goes along with all of the inspiration being belted out tonight. (more…)

Ramiele Malubay was the one that came up short with votes last night out of the nine remaining American Idol contestants for Season 7. She was joined in the bottom three by two other female performers - Kristy Lee Cook and Brooke White.

We had said early in the season when the guys and girls were split that once they get put together the female side of this competition would suffer the most blows early on and it looks like it’s happening. It was nice to see Jason Castro pulled things together and kept himself out of the bottom three. We really enjoy his carefree, stoner attitude and he brings the show back down to earth a little. I’m also glad to see that although Kristy was again in the bottom three, she didn’t get let go this time and I still have a good reason to watch and not just listen to the show. (more…)