.... when it's sang by the RUNNER-UP and played as if he was the American Idol winner!
Seriously, I was driving home today was I heard the American Idol coronation song "No Boundaries" play on the radio. Of course, since Kris Allen won the whole thing I was thinking that he was the one singing the song... but after listening for a while I thought the singer sounded strangely more like Adam Lambert. And I turned out to be right after the song finished and DJ said it was Adam.
Like yeah, I know practically the whole world, and including myself (well, almost... until the end when I heard Adam kill the coronation song) wanted Adam to win, ok, but he didn't, ok, so like why can't these guys let the AI winner's single be THE AI winner's single, and why the heck are they playing Adam's version instead of Kris??? I think this is the first time ever I've heard of the AI idol winner's first single being sang by the runner-up instead on air.
To Kara's credit, the recorded version of the song sounded much better than when Adam sang it live. The single cover for Adam (below) is pretty weird though. It's like supposed to be an inspirational song, but Adam looks like a character from the Addam's Family (which is probably the show that inspired his look in the first place. Lol!). I'm not a big fan of the song, but still love Adam and looking forward to see what he churns out.
... IMHO, Kris's version of the song sounds much better, even though the single cover looks like they slapped it together like a sandwich. More evidence that they didn't expect him to win.
I was also chatting with my pastor the other day about the AI results, and my pastor mentioned he was glad Kris Allen won, for the simple reason of his humility. When Kris Allen auditioned for American Idol, the first thing one of the judges, Kara, asked was "Are you the best singer out there?". Obviously this was to see his level of confidence, so the she was probably hoping for an answer along the lines of "Yeeaaaah! I'M SO the best singer out there, and I'm definitely the next American Idol!".
Instead he replied "Well, there's probably people that are better than me". To which Kara gave this "Hmm... okaaay..." kinda look, and later on Simon says that Kris' modesty is actually putting him off... and Simon gets annoyed with Kris' modesty several times throughout the show. In the end, when they announced Kris as the winner, Simon was so flabbergasted, he couldn't even get up to give him a standing ovation like the other judges. I guess he was thinking Kris could never win with such level of modesty and seemingly low self-confidence... but Kris showed that you don't have to be overly self-confident to be winner. You just need a lot of talent, and probably a lot of God... coz' Kris is a Christian too, by the way. I also didn't know that until my pastor mentioned it... but after he did, I'm pretty happy that Kris won by sticking to his beliefs, without trying to be someone he wasn't.
I hope Kris will keep on staying humble, living and performing for God. :) Looking forward to next round of Idol mania in 2010. Weeee!
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