Sometimes I hate being right all the time...

I knew it. Something inside myself was screaming, "This is just WRONG on so many levels" the other night when I was watching Idol. I was trying this whole "open-minded" thing out, and boy, was that a mistake!

I remember thinking to myself that Chris Daughtry sounded a lot like Ed Kowalczyk, the frontman for Live. I guess it was because he was singing a Johnny Cash cover that I was temporarily blinded. I started wondering what other covers had been done of it so I started digging through my collection and found Live's own cover of I Walk the Line, which doesn't just sound similar to Daughtry's version--it is Daughtry's version. Or rather, Daughtry's version was Live's. Man, I KNEW I'd heard that somewhere before.

Even that wouldn't have been so bad--it would have still left him at the top of the heap, or at least near it, except not as creative as he was making himself out to be. But no. He had his chance to give credit where credit was due, and he totally passed it off as his own. He can sing, all right, and he'll probably end up fronting some band that becomes one of Clearchannel's favorites. But he's totally lost my respect.

I'd give the judges more shit about it, but since I bought it myself for a day or so I guess that wouldn't really be fair. Although I will say that Simon at least should have had an inkling of where it came from. And I wish I'd done my homework before someone else beat me to the punch, although MSNBC still hasn't picked up on it.

So I reckon I'm back to watching Scrubs on Tuesdays now...