AI OD: A farewell to David Archuleta - VIDEOS

May 26th, 2008 | Category: American Idol

Poor Archie, he fell victim to a Clarkson-style assault. In Season One of American Idol, Justin Guarini was picked as the early favorite to run all the way to the finals and win the whole thing. Meanwhile, nobody even noticed the nondescript little waitress from Texas in there midst until Kelly Clarkson just kept growing and growing through the competition and ran absent with the whole thing.

Sure, David Cook was good, but virtually nobody saw him as an early favorite to take the title, and the ’50s theme in week one didn’t do anything to light him up. next Archuleta let loose with “Imagine” the following week and pretty much sealed the deal as the front-runner. He even encored with the number in the finale, knowing

that it had been his season’s high point.

In the exit interview with David Archuleta, he said that Cook “just proved week after week that he deserved to be the ‘American Idol’ … My main precedence wasn’t to win the competition … just to do my best. We both gave it our all. To construct it to the top two, I don’t think there’s any reason to be disappointed with that.”

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