In the second round, the finalists selected one of the ten favorite songs from the songwriting contest. For his second song, David Cook sang “Dream Big” by Emiley Shackelton. Randy Jackson said, “The song was just ok for me, but what really made it work was your voice.” Paula Abdul said, “This is a great way to take a song we don’t know and fall in love with it.” Simon Cowell said, “Using the boxing analogy, it was a bit of a lightweight I thought.”