Time of MY Life and Those Damn Rainbows

I surrendered to the awesomeness that is David Cook and I downloaded Time of my Life on iTunes, even though I was totally against it. I have to say... I'm not crazy about it. I don't know if I actually like it, but my body is fighting it because I've been against all AI coronation songs since its conception or I actually hate it cause I hate it. Well, maybe I don't hate it, but come on...rainbows? Magic rainbows? Where are the pink hearts, green clovers and orange stars? And I'm not sure about the way he sang it. It just didn't have the same DC edge to it. Now I wouldn't mind if he was in the studio and he sang it like that because HE wanted to sing it like that, but what if executives and producers were telling him to sing that way? That I would have a problem with. David sweetie, don't be owned by the machine! You're better than that!