"God Bless the Child" on Idol?

Haley is a fighter and is the remaining one who has improved the most during the season.

Kelly Clarkson is the only Idol winner I have taken to to any great degree over the years and Haley is not too far removed from KC.

I will not object to whoever wins this year though which is a change from most years past.

Amen Mapman, you stated everything I was thinking as well.

How about Haley throw caution to the wind if she makes it to next week and do Clarkson's "My Life Would S--- Without You".

I bet she would kill it!

I am ready to buy the first release from Haley. Have been sinve the top "8". She could cut an album tomorrow and and sell 100,000 copies before the end of the year!

I think Scotty and Lauren will become 'also rans' in the Country genre after their initial releases.

Having said the above I agree that I am completely happy with whomever wins this year. All were great!!!!

I'm not ready to write of long time commercial success for any of these three quite yet.

Scotty may be the perfect storm in terms of name recognition (resulting from "Idol"), talent, niche, and commercial appeal for the country music genre. And he's only what, 16?, for God's sake.

I could see Lauren achieving Carrie Underwood level success, which is nothing to sneeze at.

I might very well buy a Haley album or at least download a few cuts when it comes out.