Big Sky Cairn

I haven’t watched American Idol this year mostly because the show stopped being about the artists and started being about the editing. But I caught a few minutes of tonight’s show including David Cook’s version of Micheal Jackson’s Billy Jean.

Wow.

It took a few seconds to figure out what song he was singing because he did so much of his own reworking (slowed it down, changed the cadence, altered some of the melody), but if Eddie Vedder did Billy Jean I’m not sure it would have been this good. Lay that track down David Cook - and I’ll buy my first CD in 5 years.

Update: Turns out his composition was close to Chris Cornell’s acoustic version. I think Cook did it better though and it was different enough for me to give him some credit.