David Cook
Innocent
The Canadian band Our Lady Peace may not be a familiar choice to Idol's audience—they won four Juno awards, people!—so it will need to be Idol fans' goodwill toward Cook that pull him through this week. Because the song he picked as his favorite ever was so dull I forgot it by the time he was halfway done singing. Still, he did write "GIVE BACK" on his palm and flashed it for the camera, so I guess we have to vote for him.
— by James Poniewozik