For weeks now, David Cook, the 25-year-old husky-voiced rock dude from Blue Springs, Missouri, has ensured his survival on the seventh season of "American Idol" by taking some fairly memorable pop and R&B hits, and putting his own sometimes-unique rock-and-roll stamp on them. It's been his proven formula for success, and one he's sticking to as the competition nears its May 21 finale.
Over the course of the last 10 weeks, David Cook has turned pop standards like Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" into bona fide rock cuts. He gave the same treatment to Lionel Richie's "Hello" and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" — all songs the general public knows, but not in the way Cook interpreted them.
With the exception of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," which was a blatant (and admitted) cop on Chris Cornell's cover of the song, Cook has been able to take these classics and make them his own. And the "Idol" audience has repeatedly rewarded him with enough votes to push him through to the next week. But the question is, can he sustain all of this?
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