PS: sorry but I realized there was too little hair discussion in this DC thread!

andyskib
@thedavidcook what is it again? Kyle…Teek?

thedavidcook
@andyskib Teek? Meek? Neek? Queek?

thedavidcook
@andyskib Steve Queek feels right. You know, our drummer, @stevequeek….

And then Steve Queek says…
stevequeek
@thedavidcook totally made me do this…

I also came back to finish reading the thread and just wanted to say *thank you* to those of you who got ON TASK and voted your fingers off for DC after “Innocent” and the finale. Without you guys I wouldn’t have seen that amazing AI commercial last year and felt compelled to check out the new record by this smoking hot intriguing guy David Cook, whom I’d never heard of before. And it’s totally your fault that I fell down the AI rabbit hole and never looked back. Well, and DC’s fault too. He had a little something to do with it.

Jolene
11/02/2009 at 5:18 pm
Also, sma11ie, you reminded me that the WordNerd video was also the standout DC moment for me prior to Hello. I remember finding that video of him a lot more charming and memorable than anything else I’ve seen of him up to that point. Goes to show how silly Simon was, thinking it did David a disservice.

Still can’t really get over Simon comparing that video unfavorably to, ummm, race car driving. Simon doesn’t know much about women apparently. ARN was the performance that made me notice Dave, and I probably would have said he was my favorite guy at that point, but ER was when he made me care. Has anybody ever shown that much joy on the stage after a performance, while at the same time making you so aware of how long and hard the journey had been to get there?

Raine and David were in the same frame for most of it, which I enjoyed. Ahem.

Hee, me too! So many handsome men, so many handsome men. *Sigh*

I am late returning to the party and I babbled a big “How I Got Hooked on Cookie” posting on DCO the other day but… I liked his voice at first but thought he (hangs head in shame) looked like the Joker. I don’t know why, looking back now… well, I sure don’t see him in the same way. Noticed him a bit on All Right Now, still liked Michael Johns best I think? Hello really did make me say HELLO?! My mom and I talk on the phone after Idol since nobody watches it with us at our houses (well, until my husband became an Allison fan this year) and I remember talking about that. Billie Jean was a WTF?! moment and I was blown away by the voice… Little Sparrow, however, I was completely in love with the guy AND the voice. And then it just got worse from there, heart-on-his-sleeve tearful Always Be My Baby Cookie, sad face earnest Innocent Cookie, I still am madly in love with All I Really Need Is You and TWIK which was the most gorgeous performance, then tears, then that *#(@*#(#(* Simon punched my Cookie in the gut and I voted my fingers off. And of course the couldn’t-be-better finale with the win, the tears, the Andrew “that’s my brother.” Five live shows each progressively more awesome, Race for Hope (I was there) which broke my heart and made me respect him more than ever all at the same time… well, here I am, still, looking for Cookie crumbs and watching every video that is fed to me. No wonder I had no energy to get invested in anyone this past season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O74L_PzquhI

Anyone else having trouble getting into any threads? I can’t get into the headlines or mediabase threads. Sigh.

Oh yeah, I loved it when Simon said the “word nerd” clip made David booooooooring. I thought Oh YOU are WRONG, mister! Us smart women like smart men. All that talent and being SMOKIN’ don’t hurt none neither. hee.

I got to the point where I added a text plan to my damn cell phone so I could vote for him 2 different ways, a phone in each hand. Geez. But I had SO MUCH FUN! And I still am having so much fun. Being a David Cook fan right now is great. Just great.

Also, sma11ie, you reminded me that the WordNerd video was also the standout DC moment for me prior to Hello. I remember finding that video of him a lot more charming and memorable than anything else I’ve seen of him up to that point. Goes to show how silly Simon was, thinking it did David a disservice.

And then I saw only bits of Hollywood week, and liked Carly, MJ, and Ramiele, and forgot all about DC. I watched the semi’s with detached interest. I think I like Ramiele for a sec, then became a Brooke fan. The only reason I remembered DC at all before Hello was for his somewhat endearing, somewhat embarrassing Word Nerd bit, and I felt BAAAD for him when he talked back to Simon and got reamed. I mean, his FACE! I could tell that this is a guy who, despite making a little bit of a wise-ass comment which got blown out of proportion, is not normally arrogant, and used to being quite respectful of others. They even played a little clip of him heading back stage during results night and he looked sooo remorseful.

But then I saw Hello and I was like, wow, kinda hot! But I still barely connected this guy to the auditioner I liked at first. Thought Eleanor Rigby was decent, but Billie Jean was another wow moment, though not “hot” so much as, “amazingly talented”. Then came Little Sparrow and the haircut, the scary story about his blood pressure, his adorable disappointment after Innocent, and before I knew it, I was reading everything I could about him online, realized what an awesome guy he was, and how talented he was, and I was sooo gone.

Week One: Okay, Michael Johns is hot. And Aussie. Which, you know, hot. But there’s something about this David Cook guy…

Week Two: Yeah, MJ, still hot. And Aussie. But David Cook is getting hotter by the week.

Week Mumblety something, Hello: Hmmm, MJ, I’m not feeling you as much. Is David Cook amazing or what?

Beatles Week: Awww, Across the Universe. Poor MJ, so underrated. Cook is a rawk stah!

Billie Jean Week: Oh hai MJ. HOLY David effing COOK! *trying not to flail*

Dolly Parton Week: Oh MY, MJ. I need a smoke. Oh noes, they cut Cook’s hair so shorrrrt. And dressed him like an elementary school teacher. Who is hot. But the acoustic guitar and falsetto = still awesome.

Innocent Week: ZOMG, my boys got harshed. Must. save. COOK! Did I just say that? Yes I did. Sorry mate. The heart wants what the heart wants.

Must find this Analog Heart and check it out. I hope it doesn’t suck….

Annnnd scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHd3DWtmXmM

And count me as another who Cook had at ARN. That performance changed Idol for me forever. I think it was the Les Paul. But it might have been the biceps. Or the upper lip dragging on the mic. Maybe.

By the way, during Season 7, Cook got my attention with ‘All Right Now.’ 

That was my first notice of him too — maybe it was the arms. lol. He just looked so confident… I wasn’t sure if I loved him yet, but I definitely took notice!

See: Handgate, David’s TWoP thread. I think at the time the consensus was that he most likely asked Carly or MJ to write it for him, which just made it all that much more adorable.

Thank heavens he didn’t have Carly’s husband do it, or it’d still be on there.

By the way, during Season 7, Cook got my attention with “All Right Now.” It just felt to me like I was watching a guy play a guitar, sing his heart out, and connect with an audience … and all of a sudden a reality show broke out. (I’t like that old saying, I was watching a fight and then a hockey game broke out.)

He did look sheepish and sad, but in the same token, didn’t back down in the face of Simon’s criticisms, really. I didn’t get the idea that he would take any of it back, the song selection or the Give Back, regardless of how it came off, and people interpretted that as arrogance but I liked the conviction.

Y’all were spurred to action by the sadface but for me it was all about the poor misunderstood Charlie hand. He was so damn earnest about it and my heart broke into a thousand little pieces when it became obvious that it would be the snark target du jour.

Oh, well for me the sadface effect was inextricably linked to the poor Not-Penny’s-Boat Charlie hand. He looked sad AND sheepish when Paula pointed it out again, like, crap, am I really that overly earnest? I realized I was invested cuz I just felt for him and couldn’t even snark (even though I did chuckle at the Not-Penny’s-Boat remarks on TWOP, etc.)

I’d love to hear new material, and testing it out on tour is SO the kind of organic thing I’d expect from DC and The Anthemic on the road… but will RCA allow it? Would big bad label let fans hear new songs before they get to plan some big, overly thought out, well marketed release? I dunno…

I had been into music to some degree pretty much all my life, since about age 9. I had lost interest though, drifting about through country, folky, etc, not finding anything I thought worth BUYING. Then…BAM!! I spent all kinds of $$$ on a new car stereo, iPod, iTunes, CDs, etc etc. I hadn’t been anywhere in years, but I went to 3 AI shows, 2 of them out of town…I had to see him LIVE ASAP! blahblahblah…anyway, here I still am. I traveled to one show this year, then I was down & out with a broken knee for MONTHS. I get to see them THIS WEEKEND again though! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO! I don’t know what he does to us. He’s one of those people I just FEEL GOOD seeing and hearing. I lub him. I’m glad I’m not a crazy person, all alone in my Cooklove. I KNOW I’m not! YAY!