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Archuleta sets hens a-clucking

for you Mr. Pierce? What's the whole point behind your article? When I read it it looked like a jumbled mess of words with absolutely no meaning behind them. You gave everybody's opinion about David Archuleta but your own. Do you yourself or any of these other so-called jounralists even know the boy or have met him? Why is it the media have to go out and hammer a young boy and what he's doing? Is it cause it brings in money for you? For your info he isn't "a giant phony" he has alot of talent. I wish the media would give the kid a break!! Why don't you all go and attack one of your own.

I've liked him from the beginning. His voice is great and he performs pretty well. He's got to work on his stage anxiety/talking to people/taking compliments. I must say that I'm starting to get bored with him! Sorry, it's always the same and the judges always give the same feedback. Raise the bar!

Do all kids have to be edgy, jaded, and batted down with the horrors of the world or their crushing personal problems (that last about 5 minutes), in order to be considered normal?
I don't know of too many late teens having mature manners or without that scowl that indicates everyone around them is an idiot, but I'd like to think that some still exist.
I think David may very well be the exception to the rule.
BTW-Maybe one of the newspaper-types can explain to me why this guy was the only one ever to be titled with the name of the religion they belong too. I don't recall reading of that Baptist (or "Catholic," "Pentecostal," "Agnostic," or "Devil worshiper") boy David Cook. Is it automatically added to every artist, author, writer, singer, corporate CEO, college president, football player, name, if they are a member of the LDS Church as a mocking mechanism or to show that this person is an exception to the long held belief that Mormons are so darn weird and unworldly, they can't have talent. Sort of like the "one armed" baseball pitcher, I guess.

He is great! He is just a seventeen year old kid! Give him a break. He has talent and a beautiful voice.

It's no surprise that a Boston Globe writer can't accept that a Mormon can be genuine,humble, self-effacing, and enormously talented. After all, the Globe never accepted Mitt Romney, who is all of the above, always cynically searching for phoniness where only genuineness existed.

I don't think Davis A. was all that last night. He sounded like he wasn't having any fun at all.Brooke was not at all good on her first song, but got the jod done on her second one. I think both will be back next week. Perhaps this is Jason Castro's last night.David Cook is still the guy to beat.

I don't watch the show. Is he any good? Can the boy sing?

Why can't the critics believe there is a nice kid in the world--a teenager without an attitude?

it saddens me to read that people.... dont think much of david archuleta. i have been in music most of my life and david a has the most pure/quality voice left in the competition. all the finalists are talented..but after listening week after week..archuleta sings on pitch and he always seems to make the song his own. beautiful voice. people are just mean and want to find bad things about these singers. david cook is good but he is the same old rocker i have seen year after year. archuleta's voice is pure and beautiful! sorry to hear he has fallen into 3rd place.

u guys r just jealous because u cant sing and u r not a nice person! do u think jesus will say that about him, or would he focus on the more of life not the less.so for one day be nice, o yeah im only 13 and i know this stuff shouldent u no it by now!!

Is he really too good to be true or a phony as some of these critics seem to apply?

Really hard to see him as more than the good kid next door-who mows my lawn and feeds the cat when I am out of town.

I don't especially care for his dad (or any pushy stage dad or mom), but Davie seems to be the real deal.

Won't be disappointed if David Cook wins it-as his voice is much more mature.

Nonetheless very proud of this local boy making good in the cynical world of entertainment.

Would you want you daughter to marry a boy like David I absolutly 100% would! Go David and don't change for anybody!!!!!!!!!!!

I never knew David Archuleta before I saw him on Idol. Yet I know many kids like him here in the State of Utah. They are raised with an attitude of "Love, Patience, and true humility". It is obvious that those critics who bashed him have never felt what it is like to be really loved. David is what he is and we ought to be thrilled to see someone with his talent and humility in the music industry, as so many of his contemporaries are brash, immoral, self aggrandizing. To those critics who think he isn�t real, go pick on someone else, for me and my house we hope he goes on to have a great career and we WILL buy his music.

Heaven forbid someone could truly be nice, or sincere. Like it was said on "House" the other night, about Dr House believing a mans "niceness" was his main symptom. The Dr on the patients side, sarcasticly said, "He either has the flu, or good parenting."

Leave the kid alone people. From my experience, he is and always has been, just like that.

It's just American Idol, who cares? Your acting like its a political figure that we need to ridicule. The kid is still in high school for goodness sake. You can tell he is a genuine kid, but yeah the world now days would make that seem like thats a bad thing. I hope he wins it just to shut up all those people thinking he's fake.

maybe the mainstream media has never seen a "good" teenager who isn't drinking, into girls, into pop culture etc. I do believe he is sincere and he is incredible talented. Go David!

a critic is a person who knows the way but can't drive the car...something akin to a hypocrite. Journalism to me seems to be nothing more than living life on the sidelines watching others succeed, or fail, and then critiquing them on how they (the journalists) could have done it better.
Give the 17yr old "mormon" kid from Utah some credit for being able to sing, and sing well. Hopefully, when he wins, he still remembers that "modesty, and humility" that Britney Spears, J-lo, Miley Cyrus (however you spell her name), Rolling Stones, etc. - the list goes on - have forgotten. We finally have someone whose life isn't riddled with scandal succeed, and leave it to the Media to decide to break him down to be like everyone else. Some people (the media) seem to like the earth to still be flat at the end of the day, so that their world they built up doesn't come crashing down around them.

I asked my son who has known David for a couple of years,about Davids shy deer in the head lights look. He has informed that this is the real David he is quite and shy at school too. Face it with David what you see is what you get one very talented young man.

Who came up with this awful headline? Eeeeek. Or should I say, bawk, bawk.

I get a little bugged when people criticize Archuleta for being a little shy. When you were 17 how would you act performing in front of millions of people? I'd be a little shy too.

As far as criticizing his doubt of his own talent, that comment OBVIOUSLY came from someone who either has NO musical ability our who has never sought success in that industry. It is a HARD industry. People live in near poverty for good portions of their life trying to make a buck or two and get noticed by someone who has the power to take them to the top. You have no choice but to doubt yourself at times; it's the only way to improve.

So to the writers who sit behind closed doors and criticize those who dare to shine: Go back to junior high where you belong. Meanwhile I'll sit back and enjoy watching 5 people who are far more talented than myself and enjoy every second.