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That kinda confirms our fears right? Ugh, I hate when labels do this. Guess that means I'm buying another copy. (I am a sucker like that) I'm going to wait til closer to the 17th to do it though...just in case they elaborate.

It just is apparent that whenever Kris is to be having some moment in the sun, there's usually something that happens the same day to distract people from the good thing that's happening, make him look ridiculous, create a controversy (remember Textgate?), whatever. Remember all those people who 'suddenly' were fans of the Script (and a song that was an obscure Asian B-side release) when Kris released his single? "It sounds just like The Script!" "It's a copy of The Script's version." "The Script did it better."

The GMA videos were stuff that flooded YouTube -- pages of videos, like 3 pages, at least -- at the very time people were trying to search "Kris Allen" on YouTube for the tailgate party videos. When you searched for Kris, these came up, suddenly, and they hadn't been there earlier. They were weeks old, they were just random, 10 second clips, in some cases -- it made no sense that someone would upload them at that time. Just coincidental, incredibly bad timing? Maybe, but it seemed like a nasty trick to a lot of people. Of course, YMMV, I have no problem with that.

I do agree the GMA thing was deliberate.. but there's no point in dwelling on it. Cause there is new stuff on the horizon. Haters to the left and all that.


@liveinvineyard Kris Allen at Miner fricken fantastic! On the way to Cliff Lede!

Picture from the vineyard
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That's a nice picture. What the heck does the message mean?

I'm having no luck putting a new pic on twitter...It says it may be too big. I doubt it...I don't get it, it should work...grrr.

Miner is a wine I think, since they tweeted about having a photo op with Kris. and Cliff Lede might be as well.

Here's another photo.. it's lunch

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Aw, his family is there! Nice!

Should we expect videos from tonight? The concerts are open to the public, no?

Am I playing alone here tonight?

Bah, I'll post my favorite picture as of right now to distract myself.

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Helllllooo, boys!

Are you guys still around? I was fixing my twitter page and got a little too involved. missaddicted, I don't think the concert was open to the public, was it? I think it was by invitation only. But there was someone on some forum who won tix and promised to take video. If possible.

ETA: NO, you're not alone...I'm here.

I'm here too.. kinda I've been listening to the return of the Strombo show on Radio 2. George. *sigh* He's playing me music about Hockey teeth at the moment. Whatta guy.

Guys -- this tweet:

# Everyone was standing for Kris at the end! Standing ovation.--1 minute ago from web

Word is he was the only performer to get one. (But maybe he went last. lol)

# lots of banter..had the whole room cracking up. brought daniel on stage and made fun of his lack of hair --half a minute ago from txt

He mashed up Heartless and Gangsta Paradise, as well as Falling Slowly and With Or Without You...! And performed Let It Rain, LLWD, and MITM.

I think I have some good stuff to look forward to at that Christmas show.

Wow, THAT sounds awesome! I hope we get some videos!

Still no album streaming? I can't wait!

It's streaming, but I can't listen in work....some very positive comments on the blog...mostly from Kris fans, of course, but some others, as well. People seem to love All Right With Me, so I guess we were right about that one! Anyhow, very gratifying responses.

I just listened to it once!!! And I LOVE it! Awesome work. I couldn't even name a favorite right now. Even songs that I wasn't sure about after the snippets, I now really like, like Bring It Back.

I admit I don't like a couple of the ballads as much (The Truth and Lifetime), they're a bit more bland sounding, but overall, STELLAR work. I'm so excited!

And I almost burst out crying in my office while listening to I Need to Know, oops!

*Bounce, bounce, Bounce*

YES!!!

I wasn't sure about Bring it Back either... and I freaking LOVE It!

I do like the Truth more than I did.. but 'Lifetime'.. eh, well still meh on that one. Lol, can't win them all. 'I Need to Know', I totally almost cried too, lol. I'm a lunatic.

I think it will be amazing!

I'm listening now...I'm in love with this album...and this kid can SING, holy moses. Even I'm shocked he's this good.

I haven't listened in order. So far I've heard All Right With Me, Heartless, Let It Rain, Before We Come Undone, Can't Stay Away...I'm on The Truth now. This one is a little over-orchestrated for me, but I think his voice cuts through it.

Kris's top 40 debut in pop is listed here on Billboard --

This is really funny. (Although I can't really understand what they're saying - lol)

Well, holy crap.. this is freaking amazing.

Kris's guitar player.

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I don't think his pants are tight enough, though.

LOL!

That was indeed freaking amazing!

LOL - good thing he can sing, eh?

and it's nice to finally know something about Andrew.

ross did you see that Worchester added Heartless this week? -- Pretty sure it's old version Heartless - but interesting.. guess they are gearing up for the concert - they played it 13 times last week.

So are you guys still here? Sort of anticlimactic, Kris's album finally here and we're hardly talking about it.

So it looks like Heartless was auto-added on that station (??) Um...why? (11/9/09.) And it's been played 13 times? I wonder what that's about?

You know, I feel the new Heartless was probably that version he did while on tour, right? And maybe they were thinking of releasing it, at that time (more likely that was just a rumor when people found out he was doing a new version). But now I wonder if it isn't there in order for them to have a song that can be a "dance" type single -- because it could easily have a club remix done to it.

I'm still here! You left me alone! LOL. I was going to go do something else, but I was still listening to the album, dancing around to Alright With Me and Heartless! And chillin' to I Need to Know and Bring It Back!

Popping back in quickly! Alright By Me is Awesome. Kinda here. (talking to you)

I agree Heartless was done to possibly release it during the summer. And yeah maybe as a dance/club thing. I actually really like it a lot. It's new.. it's shiny, I like it.

I'll dance to Alright With Me too.. it's totally bouncy fun.

Well, something happened to the chat function or something...I was there the whole time, but I wasn't seeing the responses. Then I refreshed, and got 15 responses! But by then, nobody was there. Sort of a comedy of errors.

I'm having a weird reaction to Kris's album. First, I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that here's this guy who we happened to like, who we really never thought had a shot but hoped had one, who we watched rise and rise every week and go all the way and win, who we watched on tour. And followed daily and nightly, literally. And all the time since May, when he won, almost all that time, anyway -- he has been working on this album. I mean, think about it -- the whole time we were watching those tour videos he was thinking about and worrying about this album, as well -- flying all over the country to collaborate with people, etc. -- and getting the flu, to boot. And then as soon as the tour was over he continued to work on this thing, flew to England, even.

So anyway, here's this kid who sang Man In The Mirror, and now he has put out an album that will be heard by people around the world. How did this happen? lol

Kris's mom re-tweeted this. Wow, I love this song. The middle part (of the song), I don't know, it gets weird, I don't get what happens. Know what I mean?

Hey, did you guys notice the song snippets did NOT have little disclaimers every half minute or so? I wonder why? Doesn't this make them easy to illegally...well, whatever it is that people illegally do, with songs?

SleepinIn, I see from the map that two more Ontario stations are playing LLWD.
Belleville and Peterborough. If you zoom in a little you can see the flags, and they stations are listed to the left. (Of course this doesn't say how much they've played the song. But they have played it.)

So, three in BC, three in Ontario, one in Quebec. Baby steps, right?

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