(david cook) i am pissed off.
written: 1:52 p.m. on Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008

I don't see how/why it's controversial for David to be selling Analog Heart on amazon.com when:

1. It was self-produced, meaning he was not attached to any record label and he was basically a college student then bartender writing the songs and looking for his own financial backing to put out the album;

2. Michael Johns and Carly Smithson (and maybe KLC, I don't know, whatever) are both selling their albums on Amazon;

3. Carly Smithson had a record deal in 2001 and she released an album that only sold a grand total of 378 copies, and yes, this is an exact number; and

4. He's not the first Idol contestant to have had pre-Idol experience (see: Taylor Hicks, winner of Season 5) and he won't be the last.

Hours after the Faux Fox News article was published, followed by a couple of others that basically said the same thing and created this whole fanfare over NOTHING, Analog Heart got pulled from Amazon.com.

Analog Heart got pulled from Amazon.com. The last I checked David was still the #1 mp3 artist, but Analog Heart wasn't charting anymore, and all the songs were not available.

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK.

This bullshit makes me so angry because there's really no rational or logical basis for any of this. Maybe it just solidifies David's status as front-runner, but if NumberOneAlbumgate (you know, Watergate, etc) somehow ruins his chances of making the finals, the fucker who wrote that irresponsibly-researched "article" is going to get it from me. First he called David's CD "David Cook", then in the next article it suddenly became "Analog Heart". Last I checked, David had ONE solo CD and it was (and still is) called Analog Heart. Then the hack said that David was friends with Chris Daughtry which had to be the most hilariously untrue shit I've ever heard. Nothing wrong with being friends with Daughtry, but if the fact that David watched Daughtry's audition before he went for his own somehow (probably only in the warped alternate universe of the fucker's mind) made them friends, then yeah, I suppose they are friends.

And what the fuck, David isn't from Omaha; he only auditioned in Omaha. Like he's said a million times on the show, he's from bloody Missouri. Blue Springs, to be exact. No idea where that is, but I know for a fact that it is not Omaha.

Also? That moron cannot write a proper sentence to save his worthless life. A few samples from his masterpiece:

"It sure didn�t seem like Cook had a big career already � albeit regionally. He�d already appeared on a couple albums with a local group, and there was some vague mention of a solo album that he�d made himself."

WTF does that even mean? Was he trying to say that David had a "big career" already, but it was only within his own region? Or was he trying to say that...I don't know, David didn't have a "big career" before Idol, even within his own region? But the latter doesn't support the stuff he "wrote" in the next sentence about David's "appearances" in local bands (hello, he FRONTED Axium and they had FIVE CDs you moron, and he can only properly to be said to have "appeared" on Midwest King's EP) and some reference to Analog Heart which logic says is supposed to...you know what, I don't even know. This fucker cannot write. Just look at the next bit:

"But if "Analog Heart" is now being offered officially to proper downloading services � and not on just mysterious indie platforms � then Cook has to be behind it. That�s a first: an album out from an "Idol" contestant before the contest has concluded. What if he doesn�t win?"

An album out from an Idol contestant before the contest is over. What if he doesn't win? HUH? What is he trying to insinuate here? Because I honestly don't get it. If he doesn't win Idol is somehow cast in a bad light (as if the show had any credibility to begin with)? But um, what has that got to with David?

And please, pray tell, WTF is "just mysterious indie platforms"?

That moron should do the world a favour and go fuck himself. And somehow insinuating that David was already a "discovered" talent must be the most stupid shit that has been written about David in the fucking media to date, trumping even Doxology and their "David stole our cover of Eleanor Rigby!" bullshit. If playing gigs in bars and recording your album from your friend's fucking living room somehow makes you a "discovered" talent, then I have nothing further to say.

Since when was it a crime to be outselling Mariah Carey and REM? Oh wait, David isn't supposed to show that he's better than the other contestants because he's still on American Idol. What the fuck? The only reason the same fuss hasn't been made over Carly and MJ's amazon.com products is because they are not topping the charts the way Analog Heart was before it got pulled. I have no idea why/how it disappeared; maybe David got wind of the stupid-ass controversy and decided to take it down. Maybe Idol forced him to take it down because...Idol is stupid? Clearly they are. Clearly they must be on fucking crack to sabotage DAVID COOK, who has proved to be the most interesting, consistent and talented contestant of the season. Do they honestly think that ARCHUBOT has even half the potential and star quality that David has? What's ArcbuBot going to release, an album's worth of soppy inspirational ballads? When was the last time anyone heard a soppy inspirational ballad while channel surfing MTV or flipping through the radio stations?

Have I mentioned that I'm pissed off? Because I think I'm kind of fuming. I wasn't even that annoyed when I first read the stupid Fox "article". Who cares what some half-assed "journalist" who can't even write to save his life is saying? Any publicity for Analog Heart is good publicity.

Then Analog Heart went poof on Amazon and now I'm just fucking pissed off.

Analog Heart is David's own blood and sweat and tears and pain and joy. It is his own effort. I don't even know the guy personally but knowing and listening to the amount of effort and love he put into that CD, and then seeing it sell the way it was selling on amazon.com, made me very proud of him. I can only hope to imagine how he must've felt when he got wind of the news that his CD was outselling Mariah Carey, et. al., and now that it's not even for sale anymore? It's just...I don't even have the words for it.

Blearh fucking shit.

On a more positive note, I've decided that David Cook is my soulmate. I have the biggest crush on him EVER and that can only mean that we're meant to be together. <3

before sunrise // before sunset

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I'm moving. - Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010
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What I want for my birthday... - Sunday, Jul. 04, 2010
On Roger's behalf. - Friday, Jul. 02, 2010