American Idle

David Archuleta performed on the Fetch With Ruff Ruffman PBS float entitled “Starship Discovery” this morning at the 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. It was the 73^rd annual parade.

He sang his hit single “Crush” from his debut self-titled album, which was released two weeks ago! It looks like it’s pretty cold out there and with the economy being what it is (horrible), it’s nice to get back to something that can take our minds off of that.

Archuleta has not had the same level of success as his compatriot David Cook (the season 7 champion) and the critics have certainly not been as kind to Archuleta, but a performance like this on as grand a stage as this could change public perception.

And it’s still quite early to second-guess Archuleta’s numbers since season 8 will undoubtedly have him making at least one guest appearance…and probably many more!

Also, as a Turkey Day bonus, we have Clay Aiken interviewing with CBS for the “local” broadcast of the parade below. He talks a bit about the size of the parade-goers (Aiken estimates it at 25-deep) and about performing and being “stupid” during his Broadway run on Monty Python’s “Spamalot.“ Heh.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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