Hey there J-14ers!
What a journey this year's American Idol has been -- from the wacky Norman Gentle (aka Nick Mitchell) and sassy Megan Joy to the heart-tugging Danny Gokey and the err, interesting Tatiana Nicole Del Toro... and of course, the attention-grabbing Bikini Girl (heck, did anyone bother to learn her name?! Ha!).
But the entire way, the quietly charming Kris Allen was the little engine that could. And just hours ago the 23-year-old Conway, Arkansas, student captured the American Idol title that most people predicted would go to the 27-year-old San Diego showman, Adam Lambert.
And to be honest, I breathed a sigh of relief when Ryan Seacrest read out the name. (Okay, I shed a tear of joy too. ;) ). But it's not that I was on Team Kris because I was against Team Adam. In fact, Adam was one of my early favorites -- his unique take on anything and everything was so fearless that I admired him (and wished I could be like him!). He has that one-of-a-kind nature that Blake Lewis did on season six with the music -- plus he can work the stage like no other. I defy you to blink during any of his performances... Adam knows how to get your attention -- and keep it. And he's just so frickin' likable!
But there was just something about Kris from the first time I spotted him in one of those group numbers in the Hollywood round. Maybe it's because I always root for the underdog... or maybe it's because I tend to judge people on how they handle fame and Kris is 110% modest... but when it comes down to it, whether he planned it or not, Kris' strategy on the show was perfect: starting out slow and shy and transforming into a super star -- and that's what American Idol is all about.
Unlike most competitors who have their off weeks -- Kris grew every single week. Sure, he had his not-so-good performances, but his overall projectile was the perfect course and he peaked exactly when he needed to in order to capture that crown. (Seriously, have you ever seen the guy sing his heart out the way he did on Tuesday in "Ain't No Sunshine"?)
Kris comes as a package artist -- you already know the kind of music he's going to bring on his debut album. One part pop, one part rock, with that tinge of country. He'll give artists ranging from John Mayer and The Fray to fellow Idol alumni David Cook and David Archuleta a run for their money since his genre mixes them all together.
I have no doubt that Adam's album is going to be spectacular as well -- yet at the same time have no idea what to expect. Adam is all about the surprise, which is perfect for a show like American Idol, but may not translate so well post-Idol.
Both Kris and Adam are going to be super successful in the next year... we definitely have a Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood on our hands as opposed to, errrr, some other past winners I won't name. ;)
But perhaps the most appealing part of the season was the true friendship between Kris and Adam. Have you ever seen two contestants genuinely support each so much? David Cook definitely seemed to look out for David Archuleta like a big brother -- but this was different. Kris and Adam seemed to truly appreciate and understand each other's talent and be rooting for the other one. Kris even said on Tuesday night they weren't competing!
Yet when it comes down to it, Kris still didn't believe he could win. One of the first things he said after the results was "Adam deserves this! I don't know what to say, this is crazy!" Fellow finalist Alexis Grace confirmed, "[Kris] did look dumbfounded. He was definitely shocked. He thought Adam was going to win!"
And that's why Kris deserved to win... the little engine that could.
Congratulations, Kris on your American Idol win! And congrats to you too Adam on an amazing season!
What do you guys think of Kris Allen's win on American Idol?
Can't wait to hear from you!
Rachel
J-14 Editor
PS- How brilliant was the Jason Mraz, Anoop Desai and Alexis Grace trio sining "I'm Yours"? I would have died to be in Alexis' place! ;)
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I was like totally shocked when Kris' name was called. It was like, OMG! I voted for Kris becuase I liked his vocal range. When he hits the end of the note it changes and he looks like he is really enjoying himself. Adam screeched his way through some songs that I didn't like. Too rock n roll for my taste. But this was a shocker to me casue the way the audience always rooted for Adam and I thought he was crowned the winner weeks ago for sure. The look an Kris' face in the photo is priceless! Yay!
kris deserved to win cause he is awesome and totaly coool. And his voice well by goodness it is wonderful it was always for kris allen yeah.
I wish adam would have won!
i think he was way better than Kris!
o well
I wish adam would have won!
i think he was way better than Kris!
o well
I wish adam would have won!
i think he was way better than Kris!
o well
SHUTUP MIRANDA ADAM IS JUST A GAY RAINBOW LIKER WHO WANTS CASH I LOVE YOU KRISS YOU ARE AWSOME!!!!! OH AND YOU DONT SCREAM ALL THE TIME USE UR BRAIN MIRANDA!
I was go glad when Kris won!!!!!!!! Yayyy!!!!!!!!!!! :)
kris is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing i am soo glad he won i wanted david cook to win last year to so that's 2 in a row!!
love you kris
I LOVE KRIS!!!!
im so happy he won! he totally deserved it!
i love his vocal ability!!! :DDDDD
kris allen has the most amazing voice
he is way better than stupid adam hes gay
kris is so real
he is my american idol
and guess whatt!?
HE WON
ahhhh :DDDD
i love kris!!!!!!
He deserves it cause Adam was already a professional singer in brodway and was a lead singer in sold out shows.
TEAM KRIS! hes MINEEE
OH EM GEE! kris is awesome! lol
omg! i waz when ryen call out kris name i i scremed yes nd then i cry
cayse he is hot and he has a very nice voice
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So bummed that Kris Allen won!
Haaah wish Adam did.
=)
He did NOT deserve to win.
Adam did.
Adam Shouldve Won,,, Kris is good but adam is much better,, adam didnt win becuz hes gay ,, its gunna happne like davin cook and david archuletta .
david a. is more succesful the david. c. just like clay aiken was more succesful the rueben sturderd ,,,, and now their both washed upp winners Adam is gunna be WAY more succesful than kris becuz adam was excpected to win andkirs shoudlent havee [[ Idol Slipped Up Again ]]
Lissten marandia or wateveaadam is frickin amazing a whloe lot frikin better than Kriss so kis my@$$
Sorry miranda i meant alyssa SO SORRY GO ADAM
i wanted danny gokey to win. o well :( u have to admit though, kris did really well at the end.
i loveeeee Kris sooo much!! hes soooo cute!! hes kind of like the David Archuleta of this season.....but not as good!
OMG!!! im soooooooooo glad kris won!
He so deserved it!
When Ryan called his name i started crying haha
Im not saying Adam was bad I loved Adam
But Kris was just a better musician.
And frankly I got tired of Adam's screaming!
I have every song Kris sang this season on my iPod.
Have you heard him sing "Aint No Sunshine"
ahhhhhhh my heart melted.
Ut yea anyways Kris deserved it and his album will be
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!!!!!!
♥♥~TeAm KrIs~♥♥
I personally think both of them (Kris and Adam) had very talented voices but I have to say Adam was my favorite and we were shocked when Ryan announced "Kris Allen" as the winner. I kept imaginating Adam's picture on a CD in my hands. But Kris Allen I guess did deserve it in a way that I can't understand...
I am very very happy for Kris. I mean I would have been happy if anyone from the top 10 won. I think they ALL deserve it and this season was one of my favorite seasons. Both Kris Allen and Adam Lambert are winners and both did AMAZINGLY ELECTRIFYING this season. GOOD JOB KRIS!!!!! :)
(GO PAULA (ABDUL) !!!!!!!!)
I was sooo shocked and excited! I've been Team Kris ever since the beginning! I was sad 2 see Danny Gokey leave, but I always wanted Kris 2 win!
i like adam lambert but... i think that kris' album will sell better because the sound of his voice is what everyone is into and i'm sure that adam will get a contract even tho he didn't win
i really don't care who won i just want to make this
clear, I really don't like david that much.... i really don't know what speacial about him.....he kinda has a "high-pitched" voice for a guy.... okay, a really high pitched voice 4 a guy!!!! :)
LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kris cannot sing well. end of story. i am a professinal singer and i know talent when i see it. it is adam lambert. so what if kris is cute and adam is gay. you r sopposte to vote for the person with more talent
kris cannot sing well. end of story. i am a professinal singer and i know talent when i see it. it is adam lambert. so what if kris is cute and adam is gay. you r sopposte to vote for the person with more talent
I luv Kris Allen and am glad that he won! He is awesome! My fave performaneces that he did on AI was "Apologize" by: OneRepublic and "Heartless" by: Kanye West. He made Heartless actually sound good. I now love the song!
I LOVE Kris Allen! I am glad that he won! I always thought that he would win. My fave performances that he did on AI was "Apologize" by: OneRepublic and "Heartless" by: Kanye West. He made "Heartless" sound really good. (i hate the original) I LOVE Kris's version!
I HONESTLY DONT THINK KRIS SHOULD WON AND WHY GIRLS ARE FALLING ALL OVER HIM I MKEAN HELLO HES GOTTA WIFE
I DEFINETLY THINK ADAM SHOULDVE WON...HES GOT SUCH A UNIQUE VOOICE AND IS SOOOO EMOLICIOUS...LOL BUT SERIOUSLY!:)
haley your 100% correct
I love Kris Allen because he is totally hott and he is from arkansas! The best thing about it is that he is from Arkansas and I am too! He lives in Conway and I live in North Little Rock!! He is mine!!!
I was shocked when kris won, in a totally good way!!!!!!!!!!!
I was so excited I almost cried with joy!!!!!
He sings like an angel, I loved ALL of his songs.....All 3 of em! He deserved to win and I am gonna buy his 1st alubum!
cooooooool
To all those kris allen hataz out there......the compition is over and kris won so get urself on over it...."luv adam" you claim that you no talent but if you think that adam is better than kris than you clearly dont.He screeches in EVERY song that he sings..hate to break that to ya...sorry!!! so all of you can get over it because kris won and NOTHING you can do can change that....and another thing..."summer" what kind of botard would not think that david cook is totally awesome he has obviously proven himself to be an awesome artist,singer,and musician so back off...other than kris and carrie underwood, david cook is one of the best idols to perform on that stage. NUFF SAID!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
KRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ADAM ROX KRIS SUX BIG FUZZY BALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like both but Adam was more rock n' roll and Kris was more classical
i knew that kris was going to win because he was the best and the best has to win, but if alicean was still their she would have won! Also if adam would of one we would have a new screaming idol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but kris diserved it he went trought all of that togh work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He also did good siging No Bondaries!!!!!!!!!! when adams version was on the radio statio 20 on 20 it was a screaming tourter,not really it was good to!!!!!!!!!! also i would like to say something to kris Keep Righting SONGS LIKE NO BOUNDARIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think Kris deserved to win because number 1 he is great! Number 2 Adam's voice kinda sounds screachy,
That is just me! :D
Keep it up Kris!
i think Kris should of won and he did! Yea!
That is just me!
Kris really deserved it. Adam did have a great amount of talent, but could all of you really listen to a whole album of it? I know I couldn't. I could totally jam to Kris Allen's music though. It's just what I like to listen to and I think Kris is sooo cool.
I love kris and he really deserved to win!! Adam had such a weird voice and your supposed to vote for the talented one! Adam is no idol! i love kris allen!
This is the worst blog I have ver read. Kris was the best? Excuse me? Adam is pure genious!!! Kris wasn't terrible but he just did not deserve to win. Adam was the best. Who cares if American Idol is about climbing up and improving. Maybe, but who say? Simon Cowell said that it was about finding a star and that is ADAM! AND FOR PEOPLE WHO SAID KRIS'S VERSION OF NO BOUNDARIES WAS BETTER, HUH??? Adam put emotion in it! Kris's version was weak and robotic. Adam was clearly the better one, and the better singer should win!
Kris is really,really good but, I Adam should have won! He's still my idol! People voted him off cuz he's gay. That's just MEAN! And who cares? That just means he has a different way of loving others! Personally I think Adam will go much farther than Kris. To all you people out there who voted off Adam just because he's gay, think about it, what if everyone stopped liking you because you were different!? Adam is a human being! Treat him like it! It's ok if you didn't like his voice and that's why you voted him off(although he was AMAZING!) but if you voted him off cuz he's gay, that's just plain unfair! We should love people whether they're gay or straight!
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i think adom should of won. i was so shocked when i heared kris's name called i thought i was going to cry it was so sad because adom is an awesome singer and kris sounds like a dieing cow/duck. i think it was riged.
kris sucks adom rox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
******~~~~TEAM ADOM~~~~******
ok ppl. adam lambert didnt win cuz he was gay but if he shut up and waited till he won he would've won! adam is my fav!!!!!!!!!kris is ok but adam is WAY BETTER THAN HIM!!!!!!!!!! kris was even supprised. he didnt even kno he won. adam probably wanted kris to win cuz if he really wanted to win he would of shut up on the whole gay thing. so adam is the winner no matter wat. and last year i wanted david archuleta to win but he didnt... i kno i was shocked! now the samething here. adam was suppose to win but he was gay and ppl stop voting and david a. should of won but he was to young. see how it turns out.
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i believe this is the blog for if you wanted and are glad that kris allen won! go on the other blog for you all adam lambert (GAY!!) lovers!! kris will do more with winning than adam would if he won!! LUV YA KRIS!
When it was announced that Kris had won i was super happy! I have LOVED Kris from the beginning & voted for him a lot! He is talented & cute so naturally I loved him! I was happily surprised when Kris won cause Adam had a big fan base! Kris totally deserved the win!!!
I really love watching the last american idol finale, say its been a way, way done and had been in the history.. but I just cant help it.. I love Kris that much.. He really deserve that One.. being the AMERICAN IDOL..
I personally, absolutely HATE kris's voice! I don't know why, but I want to commit mass murder when ever I hear it! It is just so annoying, I have never hated someone's voice so much. Also I don't see why people go crazy about his looks, I think he is really ugly. I just get gag reflexes when I see him. I absolutley love Adam Lambert's voice, I would have loved to see him win, but I think Idol would have held him back if he won. I'm going to one of the tours (I have to remember to bring earplugs and a blindfold so I don't kill or vomit over kris though!)
ADAM LAMBERT, if you don't go out to sign autographs (in Providence, RI) like David Cook (in Worcester, MA) did last year, than I will track you down and kick your A$$ until you sign one for me! :)
(JK)
(Or mabye NOT JK)
Anyway..., you have to sign autographs in Providence, RI on the AI Tour or there will be consequences!
I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GLAD THAT KRIS WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE TOTALLY DESERVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of u ADAM fans are mad because u thought he had it in the bag. But he DIDN'T because KRIS WON!!!
I personally liked ADAM in the beginning, UNTIL he started SCREACHING in EVERY song he sang!!! It waz also REALLY annoying how everyone waz CRAZY over him!
Kris also won because he's SUPER HOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (even if he is married, he's still HOTT!)
I CAN'T WAIT TILL HIS CD COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE KRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wat ev. but i still LUUUUUVVVVVV ADAM for all u emo/cool/hardrock/ppl/goth ppl i hope u guys luv him 2 like i do. not the girls who only like him cuz he's hot which he's NOT!
PEACE!
Exactly ADAM'S NOT hot!
KRIS IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmg i cant belevie Kris won
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