"God Bless the Child" on Idol?

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.

Sheesh, Lauren really got to lay it on thick to close yesterday's show with that song about mothers (the GOOD kind).

I thought Scotty had it locked up with the Idol demographic, but maybe not now....

That show was just too aww shucks for me and this is least talented finale I can remember.

I agree. This season started with a lot of promise but went out with a whimper. May be the show is just getting old. Judges were/are as boring as the contestants. I predict Lauren will win and Scotty will have a far more succesful career.