Wow. Two things in seven months. America voted Obama into the White House...and voted Kris Allen in as their new American Idol.
All I can say is...thank God.
I haven't been super blog posting lately...but I can recall in two of my blog posts a certain disdain for Adam Lambert -- starting from the moment the Top 13 hit the stage.
Let me clear this first...I didn't dislike Lambert because he was so obviously gay. That's a moot point, as far as I'm concerned. If anything bothered me about his sexual orientation...it was that he wasn't open about it throughout the competition. If that's a part of who he is and he can own up to how wonderful he is at other things...just admit it. And be proud of who you are. Gay, straight, I honestly don't care. But for someone who claimed to be such an "individual" and so "comfortable in their own skin." Meh.
No. My problem with Mr. Lambert was in the fact that whenever you watched him onstage...you just didn't feel it. Oh sure, his theatrics made him fun to watch. I can't say I was a fan of the screeching/screaming that was constantly coming out of his mouth...or the way he was considered a "genius" for slowing down Tears for Fears' "Mad World" (um...Gary Jules' cover from "Donnie Darko" anyone???). That...and the fact that he was obviously born to perform on a theatre stage. He's so musical theatre that I doubted his whole "rock" persona. Going to school with those musical theatre kids...you see them transform themselves all the time. That's not necessarily who they are (some of them are...I can see the controversy starting at about this point in what I'm saying). What I am saying is that a lot of actors hone their craft to one part so that they excel in it greatly.
And that's the feeling that I always got from Adam Lambert.
He'd be better suited on Broadway than he would being this glam rock star for the rest of his life. Something tells me that his vocal cords would agree with me there.
But alas, this post is not about Adam Lambert...though I have finished my rant there.
It's about the genius that is Kris Allen that I've slowly been falling in love with all season.
Where Adam did strange versions of songs...Kris did them as well...and to me, they were more suited to blast through my car stereo.
I have to admit. From the start...I couldn't remember Kris. I was all about Danny and 16/17 year old Allison. But he slowly started to win me over. Choosing "Falling Slowly" during Movies week when everyone else was picking Billboard Topping anthems you wish they would stop playing..."Ain't No Sunshine" anyone? But it was during disco week when he took Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money" and turnedit into an acoustic jam fest? It was then that I knew this guy had something. When it came down to the final four...I would have been perfectly fine with Allison, Danny or Kris winning. Then Allison left. Then Kris performed Kanye West's "Heartless" (absolutely incredible) and Danny left.
And then it was down to the final two.
I've read countless posts this morning from fan girls saying this thing was rigged. That Adam will have a better career than Kris. And honestly, good luck to him. I probably won't be buying the CD.
I'd rather get it from the guy who you can feel LOVES what he's doing on stage. A guy who's comfortable behind a piano and a guitar. A guy who's been shy all season and didn't think he was going to win (because people kept thrusting Adam into their faces). A guy who deserves the Idol title.
So congratulations Kris Allen. You honestly deserved to win. Don't let the haters tell you any different.
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