American Idol Chops Up The Beatles

I have been looking in on American Idol this week and last week with its paying special attention to the Beatles songbook and having all its contestants singing and in some cases Butchering Beatles songs like you cant believe. Some of them were actually decent. I liked the version of Elenor Rigby that was performed but even there came a little controversy because the dude that did it, David Cook, might have actually ripped it off from another band. It's just hard for me to watch these kids basically cut these great songs up, do sappy versions of them, forget the lyrics, or try and do these over the top performances of them and go totally overboard. The Beatles catolog has a ton of great music in it its true but they are not all great songs. Some of them are pretty sappy. Songs like "Octopus's Garden" "Honey Pie" "Lovely Rita Meter Maid" are all on the stupid side. A song on the White Album called "Goodnight" is some of the sappiest music you will ever listen to in your life. But there are like i said great songs in their songbook. "Get Back" "Hey Jude", "Lucy in the sky", "All you need is love", "Come together", "Here comes the sun" "Help" and a ton of others. So this whole thing in the end was worth doing but it was not that easy to watch these kids going over these songs and screwing them up the way they did most of the time. When the Beatles did it right it was great. Its just hard to improve on what they originally did and its kind of a set up for failure to see people try.