Keep watching for updates…
Caffiend made it into rehearsal…I’ll be hearing from her…
Here’s what we have so far:
Song Spoilers:
Personal song choices
- David Archuleta will reprise “Imagine”
- David Cook will perform a new song, U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”.
If Cookie arranges his song well and sings the hell out of it, it could be the performance of the night. Archie is has already had his moment with this song. Lightening doesn’t often strike twice.
The Davids picked their own coronation song from the 10 most popular songs in the list of 20 that were available for online voting.
- David Archuleta - “Here I Am” rumor, waiting for confirmation - This is a by-the-numbers coronation song. Stick a bunch of typical words and phrases into a software program, and it could spit out this song.
- David Cook - “No Turning Back” rumor, waiting for confirmation - Better than “Here I Am” but still pretty lame, as far as pop rock goes.
Archie probably has the advantage in this round. David can sing the hell out of a big sappy ballad. He’ll be all cute and earnest with his arm-reach thingy as he belts out “Here I am”. Folks who love the big sappy ballads will go nuts. For Cookie, turning a mediocre pop-rock song into a moment is going to be a tall order.
Clive Davis chose a song for the Davids. There are rumors swirling about, but there are no clear choices yet.
- David Archuleta - “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me” by Elton John is a choice I keep hearing, but this is still a rumor. Bad for Archie if it’s true. It’s been done to death.
- David Cook - No rumors yet…
I’ll be posting info as it becomes available. Caffiend is attending tonight’s dress rehearsal. I should have the complete rundown by 7 pm ET…
ETA: Access Hollywood is reporting that Adam Cook will be in the audience tonight. He’s David’s older brother who is stricken with brain cancer. He traveled to the live show on a donated medic plane. Groups have been trying to raise the money to get Adam back out to Hollywood for the finale.
More For Wednesday:
- David Cook and Mariah Carey will duet on “Always Be my Baby”
- David Archuleta and Neil Diamond will duet on “America” (this is still a rumor)
- While many of the ex-Idols have been invited back for the finale, many in the Top 24 have not…
- Seal will perform, according to the FOX report.
- Donna Summer and ZZ Top are performing according to this. Yay?
- “Other rumors include a performance by the Jonas Brothers and perhaps a gift from his pop holiness, Kanye West. We’ll see…” From here.
- Jason Castro has a clue for one of the guest stars, he says that one was known as “codename Virgin Airlines”
- Uhm. The biggest star in the world is George Michael. WTF?
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yesterday on the idol forums there was a rumor that the Clive song for Archie may be a song originally done by Michael Bolton titled “Go The Distance: If that is true I hope he does the Lucas Grabeel version…its more uptempo and less nauseating.
If things go like last week and that is true Lythgoe will make him sing the Bolton version
They have given Archie crap to sing again…Cook will shine tonight no doubt
yesterday on the idol forums there was a rumor that the Clive song for Archie may be a song originally done by Michael Bolton titled “Go The Distance: If that is true I hope he does the Lucas Grabeel version…its more uptempo and less nauseating.
If things go like last week and that is true Lythgoe will make him sing the Bolton version
They have given Archie crap to sing again…Cook will shine tonight no doubt
if Archie gets tagged with another shitty song from the producers I will flip a mf’ing sh*t
The U2 song got cleared? *excited*
Now I just hope he sings the crap out of it.
I am going to read my Great Expectations tonight when Archie is on. Yes, I find Dickens to be more exciting than little D right now.
Isnt Clives Song for Archie “Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me”? I think so.
The only song we dont have a clue on is Clives song for Cook
Problem with loggin into this website.
Don’t know why, but I have been unable to connect to this website for the last hour??
Dying to know the latest and keep trying. Finally got through.
Anyone else?
Jason Castro has a clue for one of the guest stars, he says that one was known as “codename Virgin Airlines”
MADONNA!
just to comment on the gf bit… if i were her, i would be SUPER pissed after the phone in eppy where he said, “which camera? YES i am single!”
regardless, if its true, i hate her. =)
Has anyone posted this yet? I tried to post earlier but couldn’t get on the site.
George Michael on Idol tomorrow night.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b138263_george_michael_bringing_freedom_idol.html
Well, Nigel, I wouldn’t say George Michael is the “biggest star in the world”, but I will admit that the guy is uber-talented and really had the charisma thing going back in the Father Figure/Faith days when I was a teen. I am interested in seeing him tomorrow night.