Howard Cohen has been writing about pop music for The Miami Herald since 1991, and has written the Idol Watch column since 2005. His weekly critique of American Idol and its contestants runs throughout the popular series. In addition to his music duties, this former competitive swimmer covers health and fitness for the pages of The Miami Herald.
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Next Tuesday on American Idol, the top three finalists sing three songs apiece: judge's pick, producer's pick and their own choice.
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I saw on TMZ that Simon picked "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack for Cook.
WTF?
Posted by: Lane | May 09, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Makes no sense to me. Simon always complains when Cook tries to do a song that isn't from the rock genre. Either he's trying to see if Cook, at this stage, can do something outside his comfort zone, or Simon just has no conception of who he's dealing with. He also has no imagination. He keeps trotting out that overplayed song. He had his British girl, Leona Lewis do that song. It's on her new album. It's unlistenable. You have to have feeeling and maturity to pull that type of stylized song off.
Posted by: HoCo | May 09, 2008 at 04:02 PM
sounds like Simon may have a vested interest in that song... maybe he owns the rights.
Posted by: Lane | May 09, 2008 at 07:32 PM
Maybe simon realizes how steamy hot those lyrics will sound coming from DC's smexy vocal chords. Simon's song choices are never wrong...all Top 3 Week performances that I remember best where his choice. No need to worry about taking Cook out of his "comfort zone"...it's a pretty big zone.
Both David's choice and Simon's choice for him were revealed on the Kansas City Fox 4 morning show, where David made an appearance during his homecoming celebration. He even did the weather segment...very cute. You can check out highlights from David's visit home at: http://media.myfoxkc.com/idol/index.html
Great videos. He was on the morning show, various radio stations, performed two acoustic concerts (one in town, the other at his old highschool), then threw out the first pitch at the Royals game and sang the seventh inning stretch.
Posted by: annie702 | May 12, 2008 at 06:17 PM