Droid, no doubt Archuletta can sing extremely well. And there are many great technical singers in the world - most whom go their entire lives with little or no fame at all. Will he have a long career in singing in some form or another? No question. Will he make tons of money at it and be hugely marketable? Time will tell. I think he needs some coaching and life experience. He's only 17 and very naive of the ways of the world. He also struggles with simple interview questions from Ryan Seacrest. The media will eat him alive unless he gets some folks and fast. And I'm not talking about his parents, especially his father who seems way too driven to turn his kid into a cash cow.

In the end I don't care who wins tonight.

As for the future, I have a couple folks from this season that I will seek out downloads and/or CD's when they come out. My wife's even downloaded a few of the performances from this season that she liked (some from Cooke, some from Casto and a couple from Smithson).

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