Contestants eliminated from this season of American Idol will be serenaded by a familiar voice singing a remade version of an appropriately titled '80s classic.
David Cook, winner of season 7, has recorded a new version of the 1985 hit single "Don't You (Forget About Me)," by Simple Minds, made popular in the Brat Pack film The Breakfast Club. Cook's track will air each week as the latest Idol hopeful is shown the door, beginning March 8, when Idol's finalists perform for the first time on live TV.
The send-off tune will be available Thursday on Cook's Web site for those who pre-order his upcoming album. It will go on sale on iTunes and other digital providers on March 8.
Cook's highly anticipated sophomore record was produced by Matt Serletic (Rob Thomas, Matchbox Twenty, Collective Soul) and will be released by 19 Recordings/RCA Records later in the spring. Cook has a writing credit on all of the album's songs and collaborated with the likes of Ryan Tedder, David Hodges and his own bandmates Neal Tiemann and Andy Skib. His self-titled debut sold more than 1.4 million copies, and Cook's "American Idol" coronation single, "The Time of My Life," is the highest-selling in the show's history.
Bad Day, Home, .... they are all tacky. I mean what can we expect from a farewell song anyway?
I have seen a lot of emotional farewell songs (like Always by Bon Jovi!) even though I guess most of them have been sung by the person leaving (i.e. xfactor).
The main tacky thing is the whole having someone sing them off...like that's always been so weird to me
