American Idols Live Concert

Kelly and I went to the American Idols Live concert last night and it was aweseome! It was at the Staples Center. We dropped Lucy off at Kelly's dad's house and got to the concert at about 6pm. Our seats were at the very front frow of our section on the aisle. They were very good seats because they were 1 step above the floor, which was high enough to see the stage without having to worry about a tall guy sitting in front of us. The singers played in the order they were eliminated.

10 - Chickeze: I thought he did really well but Kelly didn't like him that much. He was much better live than he was on the show. Not necessarily my style of music but entertaining either way.

9 - Ramiele Malubay: Compared to her performances on the show, she did very well. It was decent.

8 - Michael Johns: Other than the fact that all the women/girls in the audience would not shut up, he did amazing. He didn't make it far in the show but I think that's only because he didn't do what he was capable of. VERY good set by Michael Johns.

7 - Kristy Lee Cook: Other than with David Cook, Kelly and I were most impressed with Kristy Lee's performance. Her voice was right on. She did some songs from the show and some ones we hadn't heard her sing, but an amazing job by Krisy Lee.

6 - Carly Smithson: Her first song was by Evanescence and was incredible. The rest of her songs were just okay, but she did a pretty good job overall.

5 - Brooke White: Kelly and I were actually looking forward to Brooke because we like her sound but we were kind of disappointed. The highlight of her set was Yellow by Coldplay. She was kind of boring on stage but her voice was decent and Yellow was worth watching her whole set.

The 6 people that had played up to this point came out and sang a song that I really liked but can't remember what it was. Then there was an intermission so we could go to the bathroom, etc.

4 - Jason Castro: He was the least impressive performer in my opinion. He didn't bring anything new to his performance since the show and just seemed like he was there because he had to be. He was okay and his Somewhere Over the Rainbow song was really good, but I was expecting something a lot better from him.

3 - Syesha Mercado: Syesha did awesome as expected. She sang some hip hop song first (Kelly would be able to tell you the name of the song but I have no idea) and she did very well. She deserved to be in the top 3 because she was awesome.

2 - David Archuleta: His first song, Angels, was good but the rest of his set was not-so-much. He was everything you would have expected him to be... lame and full of "we're all so grateful" comments in between songs. Ugh...

1 - David Cook: By far, David Cook stole the show. He was absolutely amazing. He started his set with Hello by Lionel Richie, which he also performed on the show, and did amazing. He then played the lame song that has been his single since the finale of the show, Time of My Life. It was good but the song is lame and doesn't fit his style very well. After that he dedicated My Hero by the Foo Fighters to his brother (who I believe is dying of cancer) and it was one of the best songs of the entire night. He followed it up with I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith and even though that song is so played out, he did an amazing job with it. He got off the stage after that song, then came back and played an AMAZING rendition of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.
After David finished his set, they all came back and sang "Please Don't Stop the Music" (or something like that) by Rihanna (or someone like that). It was pretty good.

All in all it was a VERY good show and was worth the couple hundred bucks we paid for the tickets.