#162 - does posting this make me crazy?

check out this video... yeah, i know american idol is over, but i think this group of people really do have a future, and, more importantly, i am actually interested in what these people do after the show is over (which demonstrates the true success of the show huh?).

anyway, this is a clip of david archuleta singing "crazy" by gnarls barkley. what's funny is that this is his first audition song from the hollywood round and all the judges and producers thought this was one of the best auditions, but they couldn't get the clearance for the song in time for the television show, so no one ever saw it. but now, jason castro is singing this song on the american idol tour... i youtube-ed his performance and, yup, it's pretty crappy, haha. but i love archuleta's version of it. if you listen past "crazy" on the clip, he also sings "heaven" again, and then at the very end he tries to talk to the audience and ends up sounding like a total dork. but in a funny way, so it's all good.

it's too bad they weren't allowed to sing songs like this on the show. i mean, the main critizism of a lot of the contestants is that they sing all old, generic songs and don't sound contemporary enough. but look at archuleta here, i think that's a pretty darn good re-take on a current song, but no one got to see it. oh well, i hope this is more of the direction that these people go in after the show, i mean, first they use archuleta's imagine on "so you think you can dance" and now this, the boy's going through a revival eh? haha.

ps - i'm getting closer and closer to buying an ipod for the first time ever. i've been anti-apple for the longest time, but i've been buying music on itunes (i just found a whole crapload of piano music from japanese composers that i can't find anywhere else, so that increased the temptation) and work is starting up again next week so... it might come down to this: surrendering to apple. buying an ipod. hmm...