<![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:25:52 EST Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:25:52 EST http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4442994 david cook sucks balls. i hope he gets kicked off. what a tool.

archuletta is awesome, i dunno what you're talking about. you prolly just don't like him b/c he's the frontrunner (which is understandable). nevertheless, the guys suck in comparison to the girls (with the exception of castro and archuletta). i like noriega even tho he's flaming.

nightfloat

]]> 33:361268:c4442994 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:25:52 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4434381 I can't help it, David Archuletta is so effing cute I want to eat his head. And I think he has a pretty amazing voice. And, while I could die happily never hearing "Imagine" again, I don't think he ruined it at all. He was certainly a damn site better than most of the train wrecks on stage last night.

narymary

]]> 33:361268:c4434381 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:14:15 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4432497 Did I mention the Temp-fucking-tations?

Chris N.

]]> 33:361268:c4432497 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:18:21 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4430857 @Maura Johnston: Be proud of the George Michael mnemonic! That cover was the bomb -- way, way better than his hit Elton cover, and mashed up with Seal/Adamski's "Killer" to boot! No shame...

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:361268:c4430857 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:23:41 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4430796 Hey, I could bag on Archuleta until the cows come home, but he's also one of the few who appears to enjoy singing on stage.

My real hatred must be directed at Ricky Minor and the "Band"... Honestly, I wish their bus would flip. They are truly crap-tacular. They sucked the life out of almost every song last night.

It might be a "singing contest," but a dash of musical taste might help the medicine go down.

iheargood

]]> 33:361268:c4430796 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:17:57 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4428090 Maura, I'm with you on the crosswords and the Imagine mangling. Not with you on the George Michael comparisons.

The beauty of "Imagine" is its simplicity - if ever there was a song that begged not to be oversung, it is that one. I was shocked that none of the judges responded negatively. Maybe I shouldn't have been shocked, but I was shocked.

scott pgwp

]]> 33:361268:c4428090 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:49:08 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4425849 @extracrispy: It's this year's short-sleeves-and-tie-and-sweatervest!

Thierry

]]> 33:361268:c4425849 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:29:10 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4424902 @Thierry: Oh, that reminds me... is David Cook the one who wears all the goddamned scarves? Who the fuck wears a scarf with a t-shirt? And in LA?

extracrispy

]]> 33:361268:c4424902 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:50:08 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4424785 @Thierry: oh i thought simon's calling him out for liking crosswords, etc., was completely uncalled for, too. (hey, if you want to interpret lyrics, you should at least know your vocabulary, right?) honestly the more i think about it, the more i wonder if he wasn't done in by the arrangement of 'all right now'-- the end grew pretty tedious pretty quickly, sort of like when you're at karaoke and someone goes up to perform 'personal jesus' and forgets that the last minute of the song is basically the same two lines over and over and over again and they get sort of bored midway through and start making jokes about the song really being over soon, really.

anyway, david cook, if you're reading this, email me! we can compare notes on the later-in-the-week times crosswords. especially saturday, since i always get tangled up in those.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:361268:c4424785 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:45:04 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4424704 @Chris N.: i know, i know. it's a flaw. what can i say.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:361268:c4424704 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:42:19 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4424685 @extracrispy: I'm completely getting the robotic-pageant-kid vibe from Archuleta, too. Also, which 17y/o kid with a mind of his own lists Natalie Cole as his #1 influence???

[www.americanidol.com]

I'll admit to being rubbed the wrong way by how he cut the first verse of "Imagine" (surely it had nothing to do with its "Imagine there's no heaven/No hell below us" lines.......), and thus making the rest of it sound like a weird cult recruiting song.

I was (a bit) more impressed with David Cook than you Maura, and thought that Simon was being somewhat unfair in picking on him for his "hobby", since I can't imagine that contestants have much to say about how the clips AI show about them are edited.

Thierry

]]> 33:361268:c4424685 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:27 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4424548 "I'm always going to compare any version of this song to George Michael's cover..."

Rather than, say, the Temptations?

Chris N.

]]> 33:361268:c4424548 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:36:21 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4424165 @Audif Jackson Winters III: I sorta thought they might have cut the first verse because they wanted to steer clear of the hornets nest they might stir up with the no-heaven-and-no-hell lines.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:361268:c4424165 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:19:00 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4423972 I had the same reaction to the "Imagine" cover as Maura. I'm sure it was in part because the first verse was cut, and it reminded me of how irritating it is for a zillionaire to write and sing "Imagine no possessions."

Audif Jackson Winters III

]]> 33:361268:c4423972 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:07:38 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4423599 I enjoyed David Archuleta's version of "Imagine." But I agree with your assessment of him. He's starting to feel like a JonBenet-esque robot rather than a real performer. I bet his mother picks his songs.

extracrispy

]]> 33:361268:c4423599 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:47:39 EST <![CDATA[David Hernandez And Chikezie Roll Through The '70s]]> http://idolator.com/361268/david-hernandez-and-chikezie-roll-through-the-70s#c4423494 I couldn't publish my thoughts because I lost my internet connection (?), and I don't have them with me, but your review is spot-on, and almost completely like mine. That Archuleta cover of "Imagine" was horrendous!

Also, I liked David Cook's "Free" better than you did. I had it in my "top 3" of the nite (with David H. and Chikezie).

And where was the testosterone last nite? That was waaaaaay too "Broadway" for my tastes.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:361268:c4423494 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:41:13 EST