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Kris Allen wins
May 20, 2009 | vanity

Posted on 05/20/2009 7:24:51 PM PDT by jmaroneps37

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To: jmaroneps37

Who gives a crap? The gay guy was in the bottom three a couple of times. He might have talent but he wasn’t that popular.


21 posted on 05/20/2009 7:34:31 PM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: jmaroneps37

I watched a grand total of 10 minutes this year. I used to watch this but it just doesn’t occur to me to watch it this year.


22 posted on 05/20/2009 7:34:39 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: jmaroneps37

shocked at the outcome. Adam was great. Several others were really good, including Kris. I thought Adam for sure. I wonder if the media creation of red state/blue state didn’t end up bringing him down. I never would have considered it before it was brought up. Like most people here, I probably evaluate based on talent, performance, etc.

Adam was a tremendous performer, regardless of what he does on the weekends. It may not be all bad for him to lose. Now the Idol producers don’t ‘own’ him for his first album. He can do what he wants with it.


23 posted on 05/20/2009 7:34:41 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: CheneyChick

Adam was theatrical........nice voice and stage presence, but he fails the all-round appeal. do women really want to hear him sing love songs? no. he would do well in the theater I suspect.


24 posted on 05/20/2009 7:36:13 PM PDT by tioga
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To: jmaroneps37

If Adam hadn’t screeched his way through the final, he might have won. Kris outperformed him. What’s more, Adam’s rendition of Kara’s song was off key! I had to put my fingers in my earholes.


25 posted on 05/20/2009 7:37:23 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: jmaroneps37

You mean the voting is over? The show is still an half hour from starting on the pacific coast.


26 posted on 05/20/2009 7:38:01 PM PDT by svcw (The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God ... is knowing you need it.)
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To: CheneyChick
I'm glad Kris won...weeeeeeeee !

It took them 30 seconds to announce the winner...the other hour and 59.30 was a waste of time.


27 posted on 05/20/2009 7:38:29 PM PDT by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: jmaroneps37

I think the right man won. The tide started turning against Adam after the Carrie Prejean fiasco, which I think had a lot to do with Adam loosing. He was way to theatrical, Kris’s style was more marketable and it didn’t help to have Adam declared the winner practically from the beginning. I think Kris is great. He’s no David Cook, but he’s the next best thing. I’m happy Kris won.


28 posted on 05/20/2009 7:38:40 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (1`)
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To: jmaroneps37

I thought their talent was pretty close, although Allen played the guitar and piano. I thought it could go either waay based on talent. Lambert was a little smug at times and claimed he was “born to do this”; Alleen was pretty humble throughout. Maybe the humble thing sold better to the people. Maybe young girls — who account for a lot of the voting — were more attracted to Allen, who is a bit more homespun and cute, and apparently heterosexual.


29 posted on 05/20/2009 7:39:25 PM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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To: georgia peach
“Adam has a great voice but I think alot of people may have been turned off by the screaming.I was.”

Exactly!

30 posted on 05/20/2009 7:41:13 PM PDT by TexasBeth
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To: tioga
It's all about market niche. The people that run this competition aren't stupid. That, and Kris was proficient in at least three instruments: voice, piano and guitar. Even Kris does not realize how rare this combo actually is in this day and age.
31 posted on 05/20/2009 7:41:24 PM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: jmaroneps37

Kris won, but guess who’ll be the bigger star?


32 posted on 05/20/2009 7:41:34 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: jmaroneps37

Why does everything have to be so political or plitically correct I find it insulting and this is what the media does all the time If Kris won that is great if Adam one that is great as well but do not over think this because the media alludes to the Red state blue state crap. I also think it takes away from the winner


33 posted on 05/20/2009 7:43:08 PM PDT by bzybee
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To: SouthDixie
"waste of time"?

I liked seeing KISS, Rod Stewart, et al. on stage performing live. Haven't had a decent live variety show like that in decades. (Rod Stewart's voice is pretty shot, though. But, as with Tony Bennett, I still enjoy his singing.)

34 posted on 05/20/2009 7:43:24 PM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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To: jmaroneps37

Do you think you could have put something else in the title? And maybe added a spoiler alert? The show’s not over here - thanks.

Just because you have a question and have to rush to post a vanity over it you didn’t bother to think about those of us that watched this show from the beginning who now have the suspense taken out of the ending.


35 posted on 05/20/2009 7:43:28 PM PDT by leapfrog0202
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To: khnyny

Kris was solid. that’s for sure. Adam is talented, but he will do better without such control as they seem to exert on the winner. Adam will have a nice career.


36 posted on 05/20/2009 7:44:36 PM PDT by tioga
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To: clamper1797

Idol voters tend to go for the clean cut boy/girl next door type. Adam is a superstar. The stuff he did tonight with Kiss and Queen is right where he needs to be. I think Adam can bring back rock. He has one of the great rock voices of all time.


37 posted on 05/20/2009 7:46:19 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: fkabuckeyesrule

Like most things, it’s probably fixed anyway.


38 posted on 05/20/2009 7:47:01 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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To: jmaroneps37

Adam and his over applied cover girl make-up creeped me out . There I have said it.


39 posted on 05/20/2009 7:47:05 PM PDT by linn37
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To: dfwgator

Actually I think it may be OK afdter all ... Main stream America is tell Hollyweird ... it;s American Idol ... not American Homo


40 posted on 05/20/2009 7:47:08 PM PDT by clamper1797 (FUBO ... protege of the unholy union of Karl Marx and affirmative action)
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