Here's David's song sung by the original artist. I've never heard of him, I have never heard this song before. I thought it was Christian rock. I can't tell if it is...

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Youtube says this is from 1986, btw. So I wonder if David goofed. He couldn't have done Marky Mark? :-)

Or more probably - Seal.

Okay, that confused the hell out of me until I figured out which David.

Doesn't appear to be Christian rock - or he doesn't anyway, based on wikipedia. Bad song choice though, seriously.

(laughing) oh sorry.

yeah, he doesn't seem like Christian rock either. I just couldn't get with that song. WTF did he choose it?

brenda, the same thing happened to me. I thought, "How in the world could you turn Billie Jean into Christian rock? And I didn't like the song in the original version all that much either, though I do think with a mature voice, it was better.

I actually enjoyed the "Billie Jean" performance - more than I expected to.

I don't know about Kristy's performance - that seemed cynical in the extreme.

it's official that DCook is my guy this year.

i'm pretty sure this news story and his past couple of weeks of rocking it pushed me over the edge.

My random comments: I am rooting for Jason Castro because he is remarkably dumb-seeming. It is amazing to me, and I need more.

Brooke-- why didn't she pick a song from 1970? And, OMG, that cover was ridonk. Wow. That was horrifying.

Carly-- That song itself is ridonk, but her version of it was an imitation. I get what the judges were saying about how closed-off she is, but they missed how much the audience enjoyed it.

That Michael Johns performance just fails for not being Freddie Mercury. I know why Simon sees potential, but if you can't hit the notes, don't sing it.

David Cook never quite bugged me as much as he did this week. He really thinks a lot of himself, doesn't he? He thinks his remarks about the size of his head are charming, like the 19-year-old guy who is the only guy on the dorm hall to have Sartre on his bookshelf. He'll be interesting in ten years when he's sincerely self-deprecating.

I was shocked that Simon didn't see the shameless pandering of the Kristy Lee Cook performance, but of course he hasn't heard that song in context, really. It probably sounds fresh to him.

I think he did see the shameless pandering - he made a comment (that I can't recall) about Kristy's song choice.

I totally think he got the pandering, which was why he said something to Kristy Lee about that being one of the most perfect song choices in many a season. But Simon's all about the pandering as long as he can see dollar signs. He would sell these kids on toast if he thought it would turn a buck. Which is why I think he's the best judge of all. He knows a product when he sees one.

I am rooting for Jason Castro because he is remarkably dumb-seeming. It is amazing to me, and I need more.

This is the best thing I've ever read. Perfect!

STill hating David C. He's so pretentious and so in love with himself and how "cool" and "edgy" he is. How he's such a "risk taker". You know what, dude? You are on American Idol. Suck it up and embrace the cheese. Don't act like your above it or somehow elevating the competition because you deigned to bring your "keeping it real-ness" to the show. It's the same thing that I frikkin' hated about Daughtry.

Oh, and you're fug. Making jokes about it doesn't make it any less true.

I love and hate you people. I'm up till 1am watching Dance Crew. Now I'm bummed I missed the season.