Luke Menard 'American Idol' Interview
Do you think you made the wrong song choices?
I'm pretty satisfied with the '60s, '70s, and '80s song choices that I picked. I did a lot of research on those songs and tried to pick the songs that would fit my strength of my style of voice the best and I still think that I did that.
Did <a href='http://television.aol.com/celebrity/simon-cowell/329871' target='_blank'><FONT COLOR='#2864B4'>Simon's</font></a> 'girly' comment bother you?
You know what, Simon never gave me one compliment on camera, so I learned to really tune out his criticism. He didn't really give me much constructive criticism. It was pretty much degrading stuff. So I just took that with a grain of salt and I just kind of tuned him out.
You're an a capella singer. Did that make it harder to sing pop?
A capella music is such a wide variety of music and the group that I've been singing in, [has] always strived for taking any style of music and turning it into a capella. I think that if I had a chance to do maybe more a bit of modern music that I listen today, such as like Maroon 5's style ... maybe I'd still be on the show right now.
Who are the 'four horseman'?
[Michael Johns] and I are the two oldest in the competition, we're both 29, and then David Cook and then Jason Yeager, who actually got eliminated last week -- the four of us, ever since day one in Hollywood, the four of us really clicked and we hung out just about every day and we called ourselves "the four horsemen."
What will you do after 'Idol'?
I'm planning on maybe getting into some television and some acting or maybe pursuing a Broadway career. I'd just like to see all of the stuff that I might potentially be able to do after this.
Your wife went on 'The Price Is Right.' Did she win anything?
[My wife] and my sister decided to go to 'Price Is Right' downstairs at CBS and she got on. They called her up, she was the last contestant to come up. She played a game and she won three big prizes. And it was a week when I made it through the elimination round so it was a good week for her.
