Sure, the album doesn’t actually come out for a few more hours (or possibly more, depending on your local retailers’ stocking policies), but with secret song snippets and streaming media and the Do the Wright Thing Gala performance, it seems like half of America has heard it already. But I have thoughts, which I reserve the right to change given a) the full studio effect of the songs, b) more time, and c) actually being able to read the lyrics. These thoughts are ridiculously long, so if you’d rather just watch DCook and DWright be each other’s crush with eyeliner, knock yourself out.

This jump is less about alienating people and more about not being a persuasion

At last night’s Glamour Women of the Year Awards:

And to top off the night, none other than the trailblazer herself, Hillary Clinton. Friend Mary Steenburgen presented the American Idol fan with a surprise, a one-on-one serenade from David Cook with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”

In other news, Carnegie Hall exploded.
Performance and sartorial snarking after the jump

With all due respect to Indexed:

See what the fuss is about below. It is remarkably fun to watch. But you should know that you only get the “Mah brainz, let me show you them” shot in the official video.

Besides stopping off to perform for corporate behemoths Walmart (available Nov. 15) and AOL (available Nov. 28), David Cook has decided to enter the brave new world of application extensions for singles.

The Light On lighter app will let iPhone and iPod Touch users turn their devices into virtual lighters for a buck more than the standalone single. Apparently the call for people to turn on their “light-up things” on the AI summer tour was a prelude for thousands of computer-generated flames during next year’s band tour.

Cook states: “I am really stoked about this application. I think it gives a different dynamic to the single and it is much safer than practicing pyromania. Not to mention, you won’t burn your thumb!”

Sweet that you’re thinking about the fans’ health and safety there, Cook, but given the reported dangers of mobile-phone cognitive capture, we might have been better off if you had told us to just turn off the damn phones.

Heh.

And now, on the David Cook Endorsement Watch:

• Gibson guitars. He’s playing them, of course, but also has been photographed with a very prominent guitar strap announcing the brand on several occasions.
• Patrón tequila. In a recent Blender profile, Cook apparently calmed some jitters with a few shots. The first ad in the print issue of this magazine? One guess.
• Suave haircare products. Sponsors of the aforementioned Walmart Soundcheck, and an excellent choice. After all, this band has had more people talking about its members’ hair than perhaps any other since the 80s.
• Skechers shoes. The one that started it all. He appears to actually be wearing the brand in publicity photos for that little gig known as SNL. (Which, for the record? Rocked.)