Originally Posted by Jicket  I'll have to disagree just a little. David Cook's rendition of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" rocked. Simon picked a make or break song for him and he aced it. By far the best performance all night with all the pitch changes and his own originality with the mixing. I like him more as a rocker, but he did a great job on this tough number. I think he'll win the whole thing based on that performance alone. Tough for a guy to sing Roberta Flack but he nailed it. |
Agree to disagree, I wasn't a fan of that one. I thought Archuleta had the best performance in the first round, and David Cook had the "best" (nobody was particularly good after that, IMO) performances of the next two rounds. In the mind of full disclosure, I'm a Billy Joel fanatic.