American Idol Rankdown 2.0

[sublymonal]

  9 (tie). David Archuleta

Average Score:

12.00

Rankings:

@1234567890 - 2nd

@Zoey - 9th

@*Chris - 10th

@Elliott - 10th

Public - 10th

@Solaris - 12th

@NGM - 20th

@Alex95 - 23rd

    

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I ranked Archie 14th, which is probably higher than I would have ranked him during or after the Idol season. I definitely bought into the David vs. David hype and because I was a huge Cook fan, I felt like I couldn't like Archie. I also felt like compared to some of the older, more experienced contestants that season, Archie felt a bit amateurish at times, even if he turned in a handful of really good performances and was part of what made the season so interesting. Though, if I had my way, I would have had several contestants last longer than him.  Cue Victoria shading me for several pages again. Anyway, I've since grown to like Archie more. I like a lot of his original music and he seems like a nice guy, but I just like the contestants I ranked above him more. 

 

On 8/31/2020 at 10:30 PM, 1234567890 said:

 

David James Archuleta. I'm shocked this man made the finals because I thought for sure someone would cut him along the way. I am pleasantly surprised that he managed to make it the Top 24. David Archuleta was my favorite contestant from American Idol Season7 and and one point overtook Tamyra Gray as my #1 favorite contestant of all-time. I even chanced my username to David Archuleta. I was super young when American Idol Season 7 aired so naturally I had a crush on him but the boy could sing as well. He was the obvious front runner of this season and David Cook just managed to take the crown from him. They were both deserving imo. My favorite performance of David's will always be "Imagine" by John Lennon. It was such a moment for him. Since Idol he has released many albums and even had a #2 single with "Crush". He went on break to do a mission and came back with some more music and even released music this year. I've seen him the second amount in concert with the first being Kelly Clarkson. The YouTube video of him losing and those girls losing their minds will always be iconic to me maybe because at the time I could relate.

 

On 8/31/2020 at 9:52 PM, *Chris said:

DAVID ARCHULETA

 

Coming in #10 as a deal with Victoria, it is David Archuleta from the 7th season of American Idol aka one of my favourite season - this ranking was not difficult to make as I was a fan of David on the 7th season. In fact, I would consider David Archuleta as one of the contestant that would have been in my Top 4  which in part due to performances such as "Imagine", "Smoky Mountain Memories" and "Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me".

 

With that being said, I'm not too sure if I would have him as high as I did especially over Trent whom I know Victoria ranked low on her end. Congrats to him & Victoria for making it this far!

  

On 8/22/2020 at 6:07 PM, Alex95 said:

Not sure if this is one of my better kept secrets or if literally everyone knew this, but I very much do not like David Archuleta. I found his "Aww shucks" act on the show to be phony, I think the majority of his performance are boring/mediocre, a few of them are downright awful, and then very few of them I actually enjoy. I didn't target him for the majority of the game though because Victoria has been very nice to me lol (so now she's gonna hate me ). I genuinely enjoy the other 22 contestants more and I am afraid of Archie winning this whole thing so I stand by this ranking (and I don't consider it petty!) Anyways onto his time on the show. "Angels" was probably my favorite performance of his. I hadn't heard of that song before and I actually thought it was a very beautiful performance that he connected well too and it was the best performance of the night. "Imagine" is obviously his big moment and he definitely impressed me with that performance. I never considered it to be one of the all-time great performances, but I'm certainly a fan of it and he obviously sang the hell out of it. Other than those two performances, he doesn't have a single other performance that stands out in a positive way for me. He was just extremely bland and predictable performing ballad after ballad. But I guess I can't really blame him for sticking with ballads. Because when he attempted to go upbeat with performances like "We Can Work It Out", "Sweet Caroline", or "With You"......OR LORD! So many trainwrecks! I was frequently annoyed because Archie frequently skated by week after week despite boring me to tears or just being awful. While Michael and Carly were getting robbed and Syesha was becoming a bottom three queen, Archie was doing the bare minimum and thriving. I really thought we were heading to a David Archuleta victory, so David Cook snatching the crown at the last second was the highlight of the season for me. My favorite Archie moment is easily this though:

 

 

 

Edited September 28, 2020 by sublymonal

[1234567890]

I can live with this this placement,

[Elliott]

Not sure if this is one of my better kept secrets or if literally everyone knew this, but I very much do not like David Archuleta.

I hope @Alex95 isn’t serious...

 

We been knew.

[1234567890]

And Melinda has the same "Aww shucks" act on the show so don't be hypocritical, @Alex95.

[1234567890]

They really got rid of :bleh: but kept ! Wow.

[Weedy_Speedy]

Lol damn, I wanted to post the video of those girls freaking out over his loss lmfao. Still f*cking hilarious to this day.

 

I was actually an Archie fan in the beginning, he impressed me with "Heaven" in Hollywood and was one of my favorites going into the top 24. Other than that, you can basically copy/paste what Alex95 wrote for me as well. Deserved to make the top 12 but if it had been up to me, he would've been one of the first ones to go.

 

My favorite Archie performance was "And So It Goes" by the way.

[Elliott]

2 minutes ago, 1234567890 said:

And Melinda has the same "Aww shucks" act on the show so don't be hypocritical, @Alex95.

I momentarily thought Alex was a Jordin stan and was like “Why is he shading Archie’s terrible uptempo performances when Jordin also flopped at uptempo?” and then I remembered he isn’t a J-Speezy stan. 

Edited September 27, 2020 by Elliott

[Solaris]

Archie  

[sublymonal]

Also this means David Cook is our Season 7 winner! 

[1234567890]

Alex

 

01.

02.

03. Haley Reinhart

04.

05.

06. Elise Testone

07. Carly Smithson

08. Adam Lambert

09.

10.

11. Blake Lewis

12. Trent Harmon

13. Jennifer Hudson

14. Jurnee

15. Vonzell Solomon

16. Brooke White

17. Trenyce

18.

19.

20. Kimberley Locke

21. Kree Harrison

22.

23. David Archuleta

24. Lee DeWyze

 

Chris

 

01.

02. Brooke White

03. Kimberley Locke

04.

05.

06.

07.

08.

09. Kree Harrison

10. David Archuleta

11. Lee DeWyze

12. Trent Harmon

13.

14.

15. Carly Smithson

16. Elise Testone

17. Blake Lewis

18. Jennifer Hudson

19.

20. Adam Lambert

21. Vonzell Solomon

22. Trenyce

23. Jurnee

24. Haley Reinhart

 

Elliott

 

01. Lee DeWyze

02. Trent Harmon

03.

04. Blake Lewis

05.

06.

07. Carly Smithson

08.

09.

10. David Archuleta

11. Brooke White

12.

13. Elise Testone

14.

15. Kree Harrison

16. Kimberley Locke

17. Trenyce

18. Jennifer Hudson

19. Jurnee

20. Adam Lambert

21.

22. Vonzell Solmon

23.

24. Haley Reinhart

 

Nico

 

01.

02. Adam Lambert

03.

04.

05. Trent Harmon

06. Elise Testone

07.

08.

09.

10. Carly Smithson

11. Blake Lewis

12. Haley Reinhart

13. Jennifer Hudson

14. Trenyce

15. Kimberley Locke

16. Kree Harrison

17. Brooke White

18. Jurnee

19. Lee DeWyze

20. David Archuleta

21.

22.

23.

24. Vonzell Solomon

 

Public

 

01.

02.

03.

04.

05.

06.

07. Haley Reinhart

08.

09.

10. Trent Harmon / David Archuleta

11.

12.

13. Vonzell Solomon

14. Jennifer Hudson

15. Adam Lambert

16. Blake Lewis / Kimberley Locke

17.

18. Brooke White

19. Elise Testone

20. Trenyce / Kree Harrison

21.

22. Carly Smithson

23. Jurnee

24. Lee DeWyze

 

Sola

 

01.

02.

03. Haley Reinhart

04.

05. Jurnee

06.

07.

08.

09.

10. Kree Harrison

11. Vonzell Solomon

12. David Archuleta

13.

14. Carly Smithson

15. Jennifer Hudson

16. Lee DeWyze

17. Brooke White

18. Adam Lambert

19. Elise Testone

20. Blake Lewis

21. Kimberley Locke

22.

23. Trent Harmon

24. Trenyce

 

Victoria

 

01.

02. David Archuleta

03. Vonzell Solomon

04. Trenyce

05.

06.

07.

08. Kree Harrison

09.

10. Brooke White

11. Kimberley Locke

12.

13. Jennifer Hudson

14.

15.

16. Jurnee

17.

18. Carly Smithson

19. Adam Lambert

20. Blake Lewis

21. Trent Harmon

22. Elise Testone

23. Lee DeWyze

24. Haley Reinhart

 

Zoey

 

01. Vonzell Solomon

02.

03.

04.

05. Trenyce

06. Kree Harrison

07. Kimberley Locke

08. Jurnee

09. David Archuleta

10. Jennifer Hudson

11.

12. Brooke White

13. Carly Smithson

14. Blake Lewis

15.

16. Elise Testone

17. Trent Harmon

18. Haley Reinhart

19.

20.

21. Lee DeWyze

22.

23. Adam Lambert

24.

[1234567890]

2 minutes ago, Elliott said:

I momentarily thought Alex was a Jordin stan and was like “Why is he shading Archie’s terrible uptempo performances when Jordin also flopped at uptempo?” and then I remembered he isn’t a J-Speezy stan. 

[Elliott]

I was too lazy to do a write-up, but it would’ve just been those GIFs of his workout video tbh

[sublymonal]

Just now, Elliott said:

I was too lazy to do a write-up, but it would’ve just been those GIFs of his workout video tbh

[1234567890]

Just now, Elliott said:

I was too lazy to do a write-up, but it would’ve just been those GIFs of his workout video tbh

[1234567890]

1 minute ago, sublymonal said:

What a good husband.

[Weedy_Speedy]

I keep trying to get my roommate to lust over Archie as he did as a teenager, but he refuses.  I won't go into the reasons why (even though it's hilarious) but he doesn't trust mormons lmao.

[Elliott]

2 minutes ago, sublymonal said:

[Alex95]

I got tagged like three times and I thought a fave left but it's just Archie .

Edited September 27, 2020 by Alex95

[Alex95]

Why are we thirsting over Archie????

[Elliott]

4 minutes ago, Alex95 said:

Why are we thirsting over Archie????

[Deeee]

The way I stan @NGM and @Alex95

[1234567890]

18 minutes ago, Alex95 said:

I got tagged like three times and I thought a fave left but it's just Archie .

[NGM]

Cook won S7 I can leave this rankdown happy

(not really I'm literally so close to either succeeding or flopping in this it's hilarious )

[sublymonal]

Almost time for the second #9...

[1234567890]

25 minutes ago, Alex95 said:

Why are we thirsting over Archie????