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in response to Lefil001: Kris won because he got most votes. Plain and simple. Adam knows that Kris won outright. I'm a Adam fan and I know being a sore loser is lame. And not winning obviously didn't hurt Adam. Just let it go, Adam will still have a great career and I'm sure he doesn't want his fans to keep whining about Kris's winning.
in response to Lefil001:
Kris won because he got most votes. Plain and simple. Adam knows that Kris won outright. I'm a Adam fan and I know being a sore loser is lame. And not winning obviously didn't hurt Adam. Just let it go, Adam will still have a great career and I'm sure he doesn't want his fans to keep whining about Kris's winning.
I was being sarcastic. Sore loser is when someone loses fair and square but this was not fair and square. Kris got the most votes because of the power texts of Arkansas. 38 million votes for a state of 3 million. As I and others mentioned in a previous post, Adam has way more fans, as evident on his official site, the second largest Sony has in the world. He has way more in google trends, his twitter followers, etc. Most of the concert reviews say that it is the Adam Lambert show and concessioners say that his concert T-shirts sell more than all the other idols combined. Adam wanted to win and he deserved to win. American Idol has lost all its credibility when the most talented person in its history loses to someone that most people (including professionals in the music business) feel is mediocre.
in response to maggie_l: TheLambertLover: you mentioned my post about my husband's comments. What I left out was his impression of Kris' guitar skills. My hubbie is a guitarist and when he saw Kris play he said that he thought Kris learned how to play the guitar just for the show. I told him no, I think he's always played. And hubbie said it was really beginner strumming stuff that he was doing and nothing at all difficult. He also thought all the songs were sung the same with the same limited range of voice.
in response to maggie_l:
TheLambertLover: you mentioned my post about my husband's comments. What I left out was his impression of Kris' guitar skills. My hubbie is a guitarist and when he saw Kris play he said that he thought Kris learned how to play the guitar just for the show. I told him no, I think he's always played. And hubbie said it was really beginner strumming stuff that he was doing and nothing at all difficult. He also thought all the songs were sung the same with the same limited range of voice.
Thanks, maggie_l. Yeah, it bothers me whenever people say Kris is a great musician as if that makes him more worthy of the win over Adam. My husband also thought Kris was mediocre at guitar (but since my husband is not a guitarist, I didn't want to comment), but was even worse on piano, like he had just learned for the show also. Nice to hear a real guitarist's opinion. Both my husband and I have now attended two concerts and feel Kris's songs in his set all sounded alike, and not something you need to pay to see live (especially Hey Jude). So Kris has a limited range of voice, no stage presence, and is a mediocre musician - so how did he win?
Vickie,
It was everyone else who kept bothering Adam about his sexual orientation. If no one bothered him about it, he would not even mentioned it. He set the record straight in Rolling Stone and now wants to move on. I see him irritated in interviews whenever the question still keeps being brought up.
C_Blank, are you a musician? Because I continually see musicians (see maggie_l's post above) saying the Kris is mediocre musician. My husband is a pianist and he says Kris is a beginner pianist. Kris's voice is also mediocre (no character) and his range very limited.
From what I am reading from attendees, the crowd went wild for Adam. There is a reason why professional singers (including opera), voice teachers, musicians, producers are going nuts over Adam and comparing him to other greats like Elvis, MJ, and the Beatles. There are very few people in the world who have the vocal range Adam does (he does not scream, those are high notes, Danny screams) and combined with his looks, stage presence, dancing ability, etc., he is a superstar in the making.
Speaking of demographics, have you looked at the google trends for Adam Lambert and Kris Allen http://www.google.com/trends?q=adam+l...
Looks like only in Arkansas is Kris more popular than Adam. That seems to be reflected on tour also, so don't know why you are saying "American Idol" demographic is for Kris. Remember it was the power voting that won for Kris, not the number of fans because Adam has way more fans that Kris, as evident from their official websites, number of followers on twitter, etc.
