Raine Maida Produced/Co-Write 4 Songs - David Cook Album

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 3/16/2009, 9:45 pm

Oh OK, I guess the video of it I watched back after it aired cut out that intro part. That's pretty cool, then.

I hate when artists get covered and never even get mentioned. *cough*GreenwheelbyMelissaEtheridge*cough*

barbasol · Post by **barbasol** » 3/17/2009, 7:04 am

That Innocent performance made me cringe. Of all the Our Lady Peace songs to choose...

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 3/17/2009, 10:09 am

Geeze, you guys are harsh. He had a bad performance. It happens. Give the guy a break.

BOAT · Post by **BOAT** » 3/17/2009, 2:30 pm

I just hope they don't write any adult contemporary music together... Cook has enough of that shit already.

We don't want another Lucas Rossi on our hands....... most of his fan base is older women. Sure some of them are hot... but they are also married.

-Kruno

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 3/17/2009, 6:16 pm

AnnieDreams wrote:Geeze, you guys are harsh. He had a bad performance. It happens. Give the guy a break.

Honestly, I didn't think he was all that great to begin with. Then to go on and butcher a song by his favorite band should have been humiliating. Instead, Raine CALLED him, and he got praised by the judges! It's stupid.

If I butcher Life on TV, do you think Raine will call me to tell me how awesome that was?

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 3/17/2009, 7:21 pm

Hahaha, I'd go on Canadian Idol and try to pull something like Car Crash or Under Zenith.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 3/17/2009, 8:53 pm

AnnieDreams wrote:Geeze, you guys are harsh. He had a bad performance. It happens. Give the guy a break.

Yeah I agree. I know he did better than what I would have done.

Its not hard to make a shitty song sound shitty though. Innocent is just a terrible song. And I liked a lot of Gravity.. It's just a boring bland radio song and that's what this guy is good at.

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 3/17/2009, 9:14 pm

I think if he really wanted to do OLP proud, he could have picked a better song, but instead he picked a shitty song and therefore deserves the ridicule for being a dumbass

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 3/17/2009, 9:58 pm

I'm pretty sure the show doesn't let them pick ANY song they want. They were probably like "Our Lady Who? *looks up Billboard history* OK, you can do Somewhere Out There or Innocent."

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 3/17/2009, 10:04 pm

They have a book of songs the contestants can choose from (you'll see it every now and then when they're doing the pre-performance videos and the contestants talk about song choice). I can't imagine having Innocent on there and not having a better OLP song in there too, especially with all the attention Raine seems to pay to AI... >___>;;

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 3/17/2009, 11:08 pm

Despite the fact that American Idol blows. Perhaps despite the fact that the vast majority of CM'ers wanted to toss after hearing David Cook cover OLP.

We should be glad OLP got some un-expected credit.

MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 3/17/2009, 11:23 pm

There is such a thing as bad publicity though.

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 3/18/2009, 1:52 am

I didn't see this as bad...

David Cook mentioned Our Lady Peace. On American Idol. A program watched mostly by OLP's smaller fan base.

Regardless of whether he blew the performance. Or not. There's the chance that David Cook fanboys/girls (you know theres 15 year old girls that watched it that want Cook's nuts) youtube'd or downloaded OLP songs. That's not a bad thing.

ivewaited · Post by **ivewaited** » 3/18/2009, 1:59 am

i downloaded david's album just for raines songs and they blew.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 3/18/2009, 11:38 am

myownsatellite wrote:
AnnieDreams wrote:Geeze, you guys are harsh. He had a bad performance. It happens. Give the guy a break.

Honestly, I didn't think he was all that great to begin with. Then to go on and butcher a song by his favorite band should have been humiliating. Instead, Raine CALLED him, and he got praised by the judges! It's stupid.

If I butcher Life on TV, do you think Raine will call me to tell me how awesome that was?

Precedent would indicate yes

I agree with whoever said that innocent was probably his only choice or close to it, in terms of OLP.
I don't know whether he's great or not, I've heard both ways, and really can't be bothered to research enough to get a good sense of it. But, performing live under pressure is hard. And when it comes to singing, your instrument is your entire body and the littlest thing can screw over your performance. I feel for the guy.

BOAT · Post by **BOAT** » 3/18/2009, 1:39 pm

in this situation... no publicity is bad publicity.

in any cas, if it worked that way... people would hate the Beatles after hearing a few drunk punks sing Hey Jude at a karaoke bar.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 3/18/2009, 5:17 pm

nikki4982 wrote:I'm pretty sure the show doesn't let them pick ANY song they want. They were probably like "Our Lady Who? *looks up Billboard history* OK, you can do Somewhere Out There or Innocent."

Haha. I actually remember Cook saying that he chose the song because he thought it represented the good in everyone, and that there is an innocence and the power to do good, etc, etc... it was the week where everything was supposed to be meaningful.

MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 3/18/2009, 5:20 pm

And Life doesn't do that? While Life isn't their best, it's a better choice than Innocent.

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 3/18/2009, 5:21 pm

Hey hey hey, don't hate the me for it! *Hides.*

I don't know why David Cook chose that song. In his mind, it was probably, "Well, I love the band, and I should probably get something people would know..."

MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 3/18/2009, 6:13 pm

I wasn't trying to be hostile, lol. I was just saying.