Posted on 05/27/2010 6:54:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
American Idol announced the winner for 2010 this evening. The fan favorite, Lee DeWyze took home the win.
Lee DeWyze has had his ups and downs this season, but sometimes that is a good thing. Everyone loves an underdog and Lee DeWyze was the underdog for American Idol...at least he was after Tim Urban was voted off.
Lee suffered from a lack of confidence, which we all can relate to, most have been in that situation at some point in their life.
Lee did not have a lack talent, Lee has a wonderful voice, he just came across as being vulnerable at times during his performance. A quality which is endearing. This vulnerability tugged on heart strings and garnished Lee with a huge fan base. This fan base was the reason Lee DeWyze won American Idol.
Crystal Bowersox has the better voice of the two American Idol finalists. But Crystal did not possess a likability. Her confidence level was so strong that she came across as being smug at times. This over confidence is quite possibly the reason Crystal did not earn the American Idol win.
Crystal Bowersox is by no means a loser. That lady will make it. A talent like that will not go unrecognized.
Congratulations go out to Lee DeWyze, the American Idol winner. He deserves all the best.
Lee is nice, cute and unassuming.
Crystal has a bit of a chip on her shoulder...a defensive attitude covering some emotional pain, some "rough edges," IMO. I wonder where her mother is.
I think it's nice for both that they seem to have bonded...she said she had a crush on Lee early on.
They both are better off than this time last year. LOL!
This is the first season I ever watched. Much less to choose from since we cut back to bare bones. Simon wasn’t as bad as I expected him to be. He was actually pretty cool.
I’m happy with DeWyze winning. There were times when Crystal out performed him, and other times when he was stronger. I agree that she definitely did better on finale night.
I never saw Crystal as over confident or arrogant... Just strong and different. I hope that Lee gains confidence as his career progresses.
They’ll both do fine and I think others from the season will as well. I hope all of them are happy with themselves—I was impressed with how well they carried themselves.
Hopefully, Ms. Bowersox will find a record deal that will help her succeed. Only a couple of the American Idol winners have actually been huge successes.
She lost because no one wants to hear a whiny hippie sing about social justice. The days of Janis Joplin are past. People don’t want that crap anymore.
Debut Album sales of American Idol winners:
1. Carrie Underwood (Seas 4) 6,981,000
2. Kelly Clarkson (Seas 1) 2,739,000
3. Ruben Studdard (Seas 2) 1,790,000
4. Fantasia Barrino (Seas 3) 1,770,000
5. David Cook (seas 7) 1,300,000
6. Jordin Sparks (Seas 6) 1,077,000
7. Taylor Hick (Seas 5) 704,000
8. Kris Allen (Seas 8) 302,000
Other Notable Debut Albums:
Chris Daughtry (Seas 5 4th Place) 4,671,000
Clay Aiken (Seas 2 2nd Place) 2,780,000
Kellie Pickler (Seas 5 6th Place) 854,000
Jennifer Hudson (Seas 3 7th Place)798,000
David Archuletta (Seas 7 2nd Place) 758,000
Josh Gracin (Seas 2 4th Place) 701,000
Bo Bice (Seas 4 2nd Place) 672,000
Adam Lambert (Seas 8 2nd Place) 645,000
Elliot Yamin (Seas 5 3rd Place) 527,000
Bucky Covington (Seas 5 8th Place) 403,000
Katherine Mcphee (Seas 5 2nd Place) 350,000
I’m deeply saddened that there are so many FReepers that watch this crap.
Lee does not have stage presence, cute but not entertaining, in fact he was just a boring singer. I would never buy any of his recordings, his sound is a dime a dozen.
Whereas, Crystal's voice, yes I would purchase her records. I put her in the same class as Bette Midler, Dolly, who have that distince sound of gutsy soul, their look is always on the trashy side. I would prefer that women stop putting all that trash tattoos on their arms and backs, hate that part. Crystal is the real winner and will GO far, Lee not so much.
I stopped watching after Siobhan was cut. Technically, Crystal’s the better singer, but they could use autotune on Siobhan, and mix that up with her screaming and a pretty good record could come out. It should actually. I can’t imagine actually spending 2 minutes ever to download for free anything from any AI contestant ever, unless I was doing the website for a venue that an AI contestant was playing at and I had to put a song clip online, or if someone I knew pretty well was playing on the record, or mentioned on the record, but I really really did like Siobhan.
Wonder what was living and breeding in Bowersox’ ‘hair’?
Tatooed and looking like she was missing a couple of teeth- and those clothes! Did she shop in the Goodwill garbage bins?
It all made you just want to shave her head and scrub her down with lye soap.
She refused to be ‘glamorized’ by AI.
Serves her right.
Why!
It used to be the most popular show on TV. There are a lot of freepers. Bound to be some overlap. I’m a music person, I know someone really well who knows Daughtry pretty well, I think he was thanked on the last Daughtry album. So, I can’t avoid it, I suppose.
Well, I personally know one of the producers of Elliott Yamin’s first album and got a chance to meet the kid.
Nice kid, down to earth and doesn’t forget where he came from (he’s handicapped with diabetes and one bad ear he told me). And oh yeah, he’s got a great voice !
Didn’t watch it. Tried. Unless you’re rooting for someone, or trying to figure out who is gonna win, or have some intellectual reason to watch, you’re not gonna watch, because all AI is wall to wall suck pretty much. But it’s a show on the TV, and sometimes it’s the “best” show on TV. But when there are like 5 guys you don’t care about, and 1 girl who could sing who would be eliminated at some point, well, you figured out how it’s gonna go, and you knew that some dude would win. Most people on vftw figured on a Lee / Crystal final back a month and a half ago. I caught the last 10 minutes. Lee’s last song was absolutely awful. Probably due to the emotion or whatever, but atrocious.
This is why I turn off American Idol after the audition shows. It's too darn frustrating to watch true talent lose, almost without fail, to "cute" (or at least American Idol's strange idea of "cute") and "marketable." I can't stand to watch any show where the winner is decided by audience phone calls.
Well, I don’t want to dump on the guy, but when people are really talking about unmarketable, we’re talking about Yamin, but AI has often had a lot of guys that I have trouble hearing outside of something as light as AC, not even Hot AC. Not saying he’s bad, just that the only radio formats for him would be AC.
How's that work for ya Doc
(kidding)
She would need to become a man to win. Only men win now. Siobhan didn’t have the same problem Crystal did in letting the hair stylists and fashion coordinators play around with her image and look what help they were. Siobhan, a more interesting, prettier girl, is long gone and Crystal lasted as long as the girls can last since only middle aged women and preteen girls watch the show in any relevant numbers anymore.
I would say Crystal’s instincts with style were correct. She was “real” and that helped her. It didn’t hurt that she was the best singer.
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