Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	Across the Universe - Michael Johns

american idol ends, pinoy idol begins
thank god david cook won! it's like sweet, sweet revenge for michael johns, haha! nah.. seriously, it's good that dc won instead of archuleta; he's gonna spice up the winning idol line-up who, except for taylor, have been pop-ish than any genre else (well, carrie's been built up as a country, but she's still more pop than taylor and dc).

it's also funny that simon apologized to dc and backtracked from his kinda harsh (and clearly biased) comments last night that archuleta won by a knock out - he admitted that after watching the tape last night, it wasn't as "clear cut" as he called it.

dc's 12 million lead was surprising. i'm thinking it was america's "daugthry after effect" and they don't wanna loose the chance of having a rocker crowned as the american idol. i started watching only on season four and it was kinda close to definitely say bo would beat carrie but daugthry getting the boot in season five was surprising since kath mcphee had worse performance that night (but i did want daugthry to get the boot. i find him to arrogant already then, so unlike bo and dc). and since season six didn't have a rocker, season seven got the voter's grace (seeing daughtry's success).

i think amanda would have been more of a rock icon though, but i guess she was too rock for modern tastes, hehe.. i feel kinda bad for her though, as well as for david hernandez, chikieze and ramiele. i think throughout the two-hour finale, they weren't given as much lime light as the rest, especially amanda who's voice drowns out whenever they're in a chorus and seemed kinda uncomfortable doing the production. it would be really nice to hear her do a rock duet with dc.

speaking of duets, i think carly and mj is a potential duo, "britishy" accent and all (just "britishy" since carly really has an irish accent and mj has an aussie one; their accents are technically different from simon). i enjoyed their performance and i missed hearing mj's crooner-crossover-soul-singer voice. there hasn't been any real crooner since david radford in season four (or was that five?) and mj's the next best thing to a crooner this season. carly's good to watch to now that she seems to be more comfortable singing; her "jesus christ superstar" version was really, really good.

renaldo lapuz's perfromance was not as good as his audition though. i think he was psyched more about being on stage than singing this time that his performance actually came off as a lame intermission. he was kinda screaming the song and it didn't harmonize with the band when they came in. his stint was also too short to actually make a dent on the two-hour show, but well, at least he's got fame.

on saturday, "pinoy idol's" top 24 will perform and at last, i'll be able to enjoy watching the show since the contestants will be given enough time to perform, thus giving the audience time to appreciate them. pi's editing during the auditions and manila week was really not good; its editing was messy and crammed a lot of auditions in very few episodes (having many commercials didn't do the show good too). i don't have a bet yet (unlike before when, from the start, i had my bet on a pau and yova finale, hehe..) but there were some contestants who caught my attention. i just hope raymond's a hell lot better on saturday, haha!