danny gokey - not a fan but loads of <3

Danny Gokey was eliminated from Idol tonight, which was sad because I really do like him, and I think he's mad talented vocally, and his rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "My Funny Valentine" were amazing. Rat Pack is definitely his genre. So, despite being a Kris Allen fan, I was really, really, really sad to see Danny Gokey go.

But why I support him is also because he, rather than Kris, is the dark horse of the competition. Nothing Danny does is right. If he talks about Sophia, he's "dead wife pimping", a term which I resent heavily due to the compeltely insensitivity. Meanwhile, if he so much as hugs another woman, he's "not grieving" and is "flirting" instead.

Cut the poor man a break. He can't do anything right. The public, so easily brainwashed by judgemental individuals, were so eager to pounce on somebody to bash this year, and it happened to be Danny Gokey.

If anything, anybody who claims that Danny uses his wife's name to "win him tickets" to the final is showing utmost disrespect to both Danny and Sophia. You can only say that when you know he doesn't feel any sort of grief for her death, and that all his upset is just an act. But how can you be so heartless as to accuse a man who's so recently lost his wife of something like that? You can only point the finger if you knew that for a fact, but certain people are just so ready to pick on whatever clue they have and accuse him of not mourning hard enough, or mourning too much.

And besides, it's the Idol producers and Danny's friends who are using Sophia's name more than he is. During the parade back in Milwaukee, he doesn't mention her name ONCE. Well, not in the coverage--if he did, Idol would've pounced on it and made a huge deal. But they didn't even mention the charity. He didn't mention it either. So how can you accuse Danny himself of using his dead wife's name, when it's more the fault of the Idol producers and the Gokey fanclan?

So Danny, I hope you stay strong, because your voice is better than Adam's (even though Adam has a range that nobody can beat), so I hope you make a record, and I, a Kris Allen fan, will be the first in line to get it.

<3