clearly a micheal johns fan

Thanks for the review! I thought Michael was the best!!!

Thanks for the review. it is thorough and it shows that you really watched the concert. Indeed David Cook rocks!

we disagree..your comment especially on David Archuleta is just as good as a footnote! Accept the fact..he outshines the rest!

Well written and honestly spoken. I thought the review came across as someone who not only enjoyed the concert, but shared with us what stood out most to her, giving every artist their due.

Michael Johns is a cheeeeeesy lounge singer who is always constantly fighting for attention. He comes across extremely obnoxious and arrogant. It is beyond me how he gets away with some of the things he says.

"Leah" I agree with you there. I never understood MJ's appeal. He is unoriginal and runied so many classics, Dream On to name but one :S And PLEASE, if you are going to cover a Queen song, do it half it's justice at the very least! And yes, he is absolutely full of himself. I read only one interview last week and I was appalled at his arrogance & have since then discovered many more equally unattractive interviews/video interviews.

Cook; I dislike his onstage persona. It screams "wannabe". Who is he trying to fake with that guitar? Are you actually playing the thing Cook? He has a good sense of humour and a decent voice, if only he didn't try so damn hard to present what he thinks a 'rocker' should act like. & really, what's with the girly scraf hanging by his pants & the constant need to ASK the audience to cheer for him? Wow.

Just for the record - David Cook really does play the guitar. That is why he has it on stage with him.

I've met Michael Johns and talked to him a couple of times. He didn't seem arrogant at all. He was great to talk to actually.

*Correction: Who is he trying to KID [not 'fake'].

I watched a utube of Cook's performance, the one with him pouring water over his head (WTH LOL?)-- he took his hands off the guitar and the guitar was still playing. I assumed maybe it was the band, they wanted a stronger, double sound etc but he continued to 'play' and it sounded exactly the same. If he does play, he doesn't play very well. Just my opinion. His ONSTAGE persona comes across very rehearsed. It's so frustrating because I really like his offstage personality but as I said, he tries too hard to appear cool when he's up there.

MJ similarly, tries so hard-to be funny. He loves the attention & wants to be in the middle of it all the time. Perhaps he was personable when you met him and I'm not claiming he is a bad person but there is definitely also an arrogant side to him. ONE example; he has stated many, many times that he believed he should not have left when he did--you don't admit that in front of everyone! He places himself above everyone else, thinks he is a heaven-sent vocalist and performer--now, if he were a musical genius, I could dismiss the arrogance but, he's not. There is also always an obnoxious tone beneath his jokes. JMO...

I actually thought Brooke's set choice was a wise one. I thought it fitted her sound, her style perfectly. Carly's Crazy On You was great. She's a sexy woman. JC's awesome. Liked him on the show, still do. Archuleta's a good vocalist and seems like a really decent kid. I don't care much for the others.

Anyone who has met Michael Johns in person knows that he is not at all arrogant. People form opinions from their recliners with their beer in hand and think they know it all. Michael and David are both very talented and will do well after this tour.

What I find amusing is that people waste their time coming here to make nasty comments about people they don't even know. "He's arrogant, he's this or that". Give me a break. You don't know these people; and you can't make an assessment over an article that you read or a 10 minute snip-it of a video. I'm sure if someone met you for 5 minutes they would think you were a "tool"...but I'm sure you would say "You don't know me!" and that is true.

I could sit here and address each idol but just to make my point I'll pick Johns. As for the comments on Michael Johns arrogance...the same thing was said about Jim Morrison so I'm sure he's fine with that. Shoot, to this day people insult Elvis Presley; so I ignore the people who are clueless about art. I think you mistake his arrogance for confidence. He's a man in his 30's...and many of us by the time we reach that age have confidence because we "know who we are". You people expect "celebs" to act a certain way...and these(the idols) are "normal people" winged into the lime light; and they act like "normal people". If anything that is refreshing compared to the boxed up prepped stars we see daily(who are run by their teams on what to say or do).

However its not your fault people...I've learned over the years that "the boring" can't recognize sense of humor or "sarcasm"...or talent for that matter. People with a true ear for music(and those who really know the business have all had their eyes on Michael...BIG TIME people; not just some chump sitting in front of their computer spewing jealously because they have no talent or personality of their own to speak of).

Word of advice...if you don't like these guys; umm don't watch, listen to, or read about them. Also you may want to get a hobby other than bashing the personalities of people you have never even met; just an idea.

Did you just compare an AI contestant to Jim Morrison and Elvis Presley? ugh.

Come on Chris - I think the person's point was that even beloved supertars like Elvis or well respected singer/songwriters like Jim Morrison had their detractors.

There was no direct comparison to them as far as being on the same level.

To your point -- talent can come from anywhere. Why dismiss someone simply because they were on American Idol? People need to get a break somewhere.

Only time will tell what the future holds for any of the contestants.

Are the snobs not so sure Elvis didn't appear in any talent contests as a young performer and besides look what did happen to Elvis, Colonel Parker makes 19 Entertainment seem like creative geniuses.....

And the people nagging on MJ and Cook, I hope those aren't Archuleta fans but I suspect so because David A exhibits so much more class than they do, in that case, please get over the bitterness that David A did not win because frankly I think he was relieved he didn't win, AI has been giving him almost as much exposure as DC anyway and he has been very classy about the whole thing.

The fact is if he is as good as his rabid fans think, neither he nor his fans have a thing to worry about as he will be pumping out records for decades to come....and that is all the matters in the end. Once the tour is over, it is every man and woman for him or herself and who won doesn't matter that much.

I have never been so impressed with a singer as I am with MJ. He has got it all, including my heart!

This comment for the win:


What I find amusing is that people waste their time coming here to make nasty comments about people they don't even know. "He's arrogant, he's this or that". Give me a break. You don't know these people; and you can't make an assessment over an article that you read or a 10 minute snip-it of a video. I'm sure if someone met you for 5 minutes they would think you were a "tool"...but I'm sure you would say "You don't know me!" and that is true.

I could sit here and address each idol but just to make my point I'll pick Johns. As for the comments on Michael Johns arrogance...the same thing was said about Jim Morrison so I'm sure he's fine with that. Shoot, to this day people insult Elvis Presley; so I ignore the people who are clueless about art. I think you mistake his arrogance for confidence. He's a man in his 30's...and many of us by the time we reach that age have confidence because we "know who we are". You people expect "celebs" to act a certain way...and these(the idols) are "normal people" winged into the lime light; and they act like "normal people". If anything that is refreshing compared to the boxed up prepped stars we see daily(who are run by their teams on what to say or do).

However its not your fault people...I've learned over the years that "the boring" can't recognize sense of humor or "sarcasm"...or talent for that matter. People with a true ear for music(and those who really know the business have all had their eyes on Michael...BIG TIME people; not just some chump sitting in front of their computer spewing jealously because they have no talent or personality of their own to speak of).

Word of advice...if you don't like these guys; umm don't watch, listen to, or read about them. Also you may want to get a hobby other than bashing the personalities of people you have never even met; just an idea.




Now everyone needs to STFU because Michael will rule the World, K?

July 26 ...Hello Toronto!!!!

All the top TEN were amazing, the girls were sexy, the boys were HOT. Outfits worn by the girls were of excellent taste! Air Canada Centre full packed. The $800 tickets I bought for 4 were absolutely worth! I like the cutest of them all....Ramiele Malubay so cutie. If only I have the $$$$, I shall sponsor a concert for her!!!

Well done...Rochester...

They all looked relaxed, even without make up they all look charming, very gracious to fans.
Surprisingly, Ramiele was taller than I am!. I like her accent so sweet. Ramiele....you did a fantastic show. You were so graceful dancing and walking through that stage. I like your outfit both in the finale and when you were singing your 3 fav. songs.

Well done...Rochester...

They all looked relaxed, even without make up they all look charming, very gracious to fans.
Surprisingly, Ramiele was taller than I am!. I like her accent so sweet. Ramiele....you did a fantastic show. You were so graceful dancing and walking through that stage. I like your outfit both in the finale and when you were singing your 3 fav. songs.

I was never a fan of American Idols till I saw them performed at Air Canada Centre. I fall in love with Ramiele. So pretty, now firs thing I do before I start work is go the Idol website and just stare at pictures of Ramiele. I love you Ramie>>>>>>>>>>>

Just back from the Houston leg of the tour, which I'm sorry to report was not just disappointing but actually bordered on boring.

This was not the fault of the performers but of a stage set that was as unimaginative as it was and insultingly cheap, a split level affair made of plywood, painted flat black. The performers accessed the stage from behind and below stage level, climbing up a set of aluminum chutes of the variety that are used to control long lines of people in line buying tickets.

In fact, that's exactly how it appeared: that the same chutes used for crowd control earlier later doubled as the the principle part of the set.

Jason Castro stole the show. The guy is not a great singer, but he is mesmerizing in an unusual kind of way. He doesn't do well in the higher registers, yet he insists doing that thing he does at the end of songs, seriously damaging the otherwise enjoyable performance he puts in. He wants to be a better singer than he is, and gets credit for trying to be, but he doesn't understand we don't care about his voice. It's him we like. He could've won this thing if he'd just understood that.

Carly was a close second and easily has the best understanding of communicating with an audience. She showed a mastery of covering the whole stage while exhibiting ownership of it and absolute total poise. She loved it, we knew it, and we loved her. Contestants, take heed! Everyone has something to learn from Carly's control of a stage -- and the audience.

I didn't believe it was possible for Archuleta to be anything but spectacular, and on one number he did sing the b***S off some tune (a new one, I didn't recognize, perhaps "Crush," his first single?), but he seemed frankly exhausted and somewhere else than aware of the 12,000 screaming adoring fans who gave him arguably the single largest ovation of the night, which registered 12 descibles above the absolute maximum threshold of pain.

In another moment of the poorest stage direction I've ever witnessed at any concert, Archuleta rose from below -- behind a grand piano; this magical and magnificent kid, a one-of-a-kind of the variety we get once every 20 years, who placed no less than #2 in the competition, spends his first 6 minutes absolutely hidden from the crowd.

All show long, 12,000 screaming fans, mostly waiting to see him and Cooke, get to see Archie at last -- but only his head, and that, just barely.

This very anti-climatic oversight, if it was one, was unforgivable. Frankly, it seemed intentional to me, designed to minimize his time on stage in preparation for Cooke's appearance which followed, and whose entrance by comparison was prefaced by a fanfare that seemed almost to herald all but the second coming.

Cooke, meanwhile, who can suffer the attacks of arrogance, suffered his worst ever.

Unlike Archuleta, he did know where he was -- exactly -- in front of 12,000 screaming Idol fans. Incredibly, he threw a monkey wrench into the whole rhythm of the show, stopping it to ask that the house lights to be turned on so he could video screams "for posterity" (and more than just a little for his ego), then pausing no fewer than 3 additional times to drink cola (long night, ya know, 4 long songs to sing, whew, did we actually expect him to get through 4 grueling tunes and no cola?).

He was also his usual unkempt self, appearing in a t-shirt that looked like he'd had it on since the tour began several weeks ago. I left during his outrageous video stunt, the onus for which I also put on the stage director who allowed it. I was totally disgusted that what should have been the top 2 performances had been dashed first by poor stage direction that played down Archuleta's initial appearance, a cheap set, and then a quick downward spiral as the champ proceeded to dethrone himself.

Others were leaving too -- and Cooke noticed. He was foolish to call it to the attention of the rest of the audience. Let's hope it serves as a wake up call to Cooke, who'd have been wiser to say nothing and reflect instead on why it happened.

An agent -- if Cooke is able to condescend to hiring one -- will correct his stage attitude and put his future focus where it belongs -> on the audience instead of on himself.

I loved Sayesha. She and Brooke and Chekezie were delights and were the glue of the show, Brook and Chekezie especially. Sayesha's got it all...great beauty, great pipes, and that knock-out figure, but she needs a voice instructor who will teach her to soften up. When you mostly belt it exhausts the listener, hard to explain. Hope she'll get a coach that corrects this because when she's on her game, she's up there close to Archuleta and Cooke.

Finally, to you, American Idol, you disappointed big time. You let your cast down. The set was appalling ugly. The sparkles and other background stuff you ran on the rear projection screens was garbage, plain and simple. Your cast deserved more -- a great deal more.

You should be ashamed to be collecting the monies you're raking in and then sending out your ambassadors to extol you on such a pittance. Sound crew did a great job and, as always, the musicians were tops.

i think that david A. should have won instead of david cook. i mean he dosent have the greatest voice and does he have any emmotions? if he does he doesnt show it very well.
even though u didnt win i still luv u david A. <3333