[isthisnickcool]

When there were ten finalists I predicted that it would come down to McPhee and Hicks. I absolutely loved McPhee's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It was stunning. But it's the only stunning thing she has done so far. She will not beat Hicks. His following was/is too diverse and too large for her or anyone else to overcome. Hicks owns the American Idol message board and has posting numbers that equal about two thirds of the entire board for all the people in the competition. That's astounding and interpolates in to huge numbers when it comes to people following him.

No matter what happens several of the people on the show this year will do very well. Chris Daughtry will do especially well because he has the perfect commercial rock voice. Pickler will likely do some acting and Paris Bennette and Mandisa should be OK.

Hicks has a gift for entertainment and is going to be very interesting to watch.

Nice thread you have here. But it could use a little more cow bell.

[pissant]

LOL. NO COWBELLS. I've caught about 4 or 5 episodes of AI. I thought for sure the little balck gal (Paris?) was going to be it.

But it's good to see a guy who looks older than me still in the running.