Lee DeWyze, Ryan Seacrest, and Crystal Bowersox
Fox/Michael Becker
Last week, I raised an eyebrow when judges picked the sleepy John Mayer throwaway "Daughters" for Casey James, while their golden boy Lee DeWyze got his big "moment" with Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," complete with an eight-person choir and soon-to-be-Emmy-nominated stage lighting. And this week, when the final two, Lee and Crystal Bowersox, squared off in the finale, I raised
both brows when 19 Entertainment prez Simon Fuller handpicked the R.E.M. weeper "Everybody Hurts" for the blatantly favored Lee, while Crystal got the dated and monotonic one-hit-wonder "Black Velvet," by Alannah Myles (a song so lame it hadn't been performed on a live "Idol" show since Nikki McKibbin did it in Season 1).
Could it have been more obvious who Fuller wanted to win this year? Sheesh, why didn't he just let Simon Cowell pick the winner as some sort of goodbye gift and drop all pretention of "Idol" democracy?
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