Kristy Lee Cook — “8 Days a Week” — American Idol Top 12

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 09:22 PM | American Idol 7
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Kristy Lee Cook American Idol Top 12

Kristy Lee Cook performs “8 Days a Week” country-style on American Idol Top 12

Probably one of the worst performances on American Idol ever.

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33 Comments for Kristy Lee Cook — “8 Days a Week” — American Idol Top 12

1

ASIA’H AND ALAINA WENT HOME BEFORE THIS TRAIN WRECK?

cdb1025 on March 11, 2008 at 9:35 pm
2

Yeah, surely this performance will go down in the annals of AI as one of the (if not the) worst ever.

oOo on March 11, 2008 at 9:44 pm
3

Oh my lord.
Wow. If I could gouge my ears out I would.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go home tonight and NEVER do that again?

demonicsavior on March 11, 2008 at 9:46 pm
4

What musician in his or her right mind said “Yes, that’s a GREAT arrangement for 8 DAYS A WEEK. Go with it.” Did she not hear it? It was a disaster and she was chasing the lyrics and music. A bomb. Did not sound like a song at all.

Izzy on March 11, 2008 at 9:54 pm
5

Well… I’ll give her points for having the balls to do it that way.
But just wow… that was really REALLY bad bad bad bad bad bad.
I’ve always said she was a boring performer, which she was once again tonight, and then with the aweful arrangement of the song…. BLEH.

Pallaton on March 11, 2008 at 9:56 pm
6

OH MY GOD. that was the most horrifying thing i have EVER witnessed on idol. could someone not have talked her out of that mess? how did she possibly think that was a good idea? not even paula could sugarcoat that one. if she doesn’t go home after that, something is seriously wrong. WOW. i literally sat there with my jaw on the ground. i couldn’t turn away, lol. at one point i covered my eyes. unfortunately for her, the beatles didn’t sing amazing grace.

sprout on March 11, 2008 at 9:57 pm
7

Agree with everyone above. Horrible.

nugger on March 11, 2008 at 10:11 pm
8

I was cringing throughout her entire performance. By the end of the song I couldn’t believe I even stayed to listen to it.

Based on tonight’s performance, I think (actually, I hope)she will be going home tomorrow.

chrizane on March 11, 2008 at 10:30 pm
9

Paula certainly skirted Ryan’s attempts to get her to compliment Kristy, and all Paula could say is that she has lots of fans. Not a good sign …

ccsEscape on March 11, 2008 at 10:44 pm
10

This was awesomely bad! Unbelievable!

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ewgs on March 11, 2008 at 10:46 pm
11

I d-i-d not. like. the arrangement!

Chicago-48 on March 11, 2008 at 10:53 pm
12

Paula didn’t even buffer her negative sputterings with her traditional “The good news is you look great” blow softener.

Izzy on March 11, 2008 at 11:22 pm
13

A travesty. Way to ruin a great song. I can’t get past the hokey arrangement. Are we at a hoedown? Where’s my coveralls … gonna git me a piece a’ straw t’ chew on …

Listening as I type bc I can’t believe my ears …

OMG I just heard the FREAKIN’ ENDING. Kristy Lee Cook I hate you for what you did to this song.

hesterprune on March 11, 2008 at 11:39 pm
14

that was bad!

vegasbabe on March 11, 2008 at 11:43 pm
15

My goodness.

Bettysline on March 11, 2008 at 11:45 pm
16

She should have gone home last week. Asia’h would have done so much better than that, not to mention Alaina or even Alexandra. She’s GORGEOUS so that’s always gonna help her, but I think she deserves to go home after that.

oboeadam on March 11, 2008 at 11:48 pm
17

Every season’s gotta have one. Welcome the most memorable trainwreck of the season. Hahahaha

tennister on March 12, 2008 at 12:02 am
18

geez, i was actually offended by this arrangement of the song. it seemed like some kind of sick joke.

lesm32 on March 12, 2008 at 12:04 am
19

That was like a bad car wreck. It was horrible, but I just couldn’t look away.

PhilPhan on March 12, 2008 at 12:25 am
20

no.

shay on March 12, 2008 at 12:26 am
21

I dunno. I thought it was a pretty fun take. She has good tone. I don’t think she’ll go really far but someone will pick her up.

Interested Observer on March 12, 2008 at 12:28 am
22

she is only there because she is pretty and tonight she hopefully learned that. use your looks cause that’s all she has. i really really hope she leaves tomorrow night.

AZIdolFan on March 12, 2008 at 1:16 am
23

I still think Kristi Lee’s vocals are fantastic. No, she doesn’t have the vocal power of Carrie, but not every country singer does.

The arrangement was defnitely lame, however and she seemed to be in a race with the band to the finish.

I don’t think she was the worst last night and I really hope she is safe.

MargoK on March 12, 2008 at 6:37 am
24

Did everyone hear John Lennon sobbing after hearing that version of his song? Poor man.

JoviQueen on March 12, 2008 at 7:24 am
25

Ugh.
The guys will miss her (I think she sealed her fate with that one)

GirlyGirl45 on March 12, 2008 at 7:28 am
26

I with Alaina would have been the “country girl” in the top 12, because I think she was more talented.
That said, I HATED the arrangement of this song but Kristy’s vocals weren’t that bad. She should have sang the song in the original arrangement with a country twang only in her vocals rather than overloading the song with country-ness. The double-time fiddle-playing banjo stuff was way over-the-top and doesn’t even represent what is currently on the country charts. I read this elsewhere – but it was quite Hee Haw-ish.

Daisy on March 12, 2008 at 10:56 am
27

The judges told her to stick to country- this arrangement was not country- it was American Idol does Hee Haw! Such sacrilege can not be tolerated. The good news is that everyone else who had some small problems should be safe after this train wreck.

supernatural66 on March 12, 2008 at 1:29 pm
28

shes pretty much a WATERED DOWN version of carrie underwood.

nzkid18 on March 12, 2008 at 1:53 pm
29

The vocals aren’t that bad, but whoever arranged this, should be banned for making music again. I’m getting goosepumps – for the wrong reason!!

Luikero on March 12, 2008 at 2:58 pm
30

I couldn’t bear to hear it all, so I fast forwarded thru it – what did the judges say?

MindyLCK on March 12, 2008 at 3:09 pm
31

voice was okay. she tried her best to stay with the music which was too fast, to frantic, too – well, too bad.

MOMster on March 12, 2008 at 4:08 pm
32

I had high hopes for her after last week, especially since AI is lacking representation of country music this year. But lord, I think she just ruined her career with that one.

jennings on March 12, 2008 at 4:19 pm
33

LMAO! Yuk!

sweetbee on March 21, 2008 at 1:16 am