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FWIW--There were some 13 yo girls hanging out with my son yesterday, so when they came inside I decided to ask them if they were watching AI. Not really, or sometimes. Now these girls are the super athletes, and are pretty busy with sports and homework and downtime is pretty much spent hanging out with best friends or their larger group of friends, including boys. They all spend HOURS just sitting around and talking between after school and when practices start in the evening. By 13, the more mature kids have abandoned AI and I can't imagine them coming back for a long time--maybe in college if it's the thing to do on Tuesday nights. I've already mentioned that there is no way my son would sit and watch AI anymore, and when he heard "Innocent" he liked the music enough to download the OLP original, but wouldn't dl the DC version because of the AI stigma. The only way an AI winner is going to become popular with the 13 and up kids is if they like the music post-idol, especially if the song ends up on a future Guitar Hero game :) So it's got to be edgier and/or urban. Folk works on some level for them, too. And I am positive that the only two idol finalists who have a chance of being popular post idol are Cook and Castro. Anyone post idol who is wildly popular with kids 12 and under is lost to the older teens. Anyone popular with parents is tolerated only if the parents are into rock/alt/urban/metal. (Can't really speak about country--not big with the teens here in the NE, though the girls like Carrie and Taylor Swift.) Granted, this group tends to be on the mature side for their grade, and my son says he does know some girls who still like Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers. So, if TPTB don't want the franchise to collapse, they really better hope they end up with a winner who can rise to stardom like Kelly and Carrie and Daughtry, to an extent, who are still palatable to the teens girls I know. I don't think anyone but Cook can do that, though I do think Jason can produce some music that the teens and young adults will go for. If the winner of AI7 can become a superstar, the teens and young adults may tune in a bit more next season, at least in the beginning, to see if there is anyone interesting. I think AI lost this group with Taylor and the diva-heavy season 6. Plus they're developing social lives. And let's face it, many of us have loved rock our whole lives and wouldn't be remotely invested in this season at this point if it weren't for Cook. I'm not surprised at all that AI continues to lose viewers in their preferred demographic.

That was my point exactly--if they aren't going to buy into David Cook until he is well away from AI, they are NEVER going to go for Porkchop.

Okay--will someone please give me a quick walkthrough on posting images? I am not even seeing the option right now, but I know I've seen it before. Nevermind. Let me get out of safari and into firefox. That's probably what's wrong.