Oh, I get what you meant, now. Yeah, they may be brutal about that. I wouldn't want to read or hear that stuff. But as long as Kris does well enough to establish a foothold, it's all good. He doesn't have to start out a megastar but he does have to prove he can sell records.
The press can be brutal in the USA. I guess I'd rather be underestimated by them at first than overestimated and then have to live up to the hype. Along those lines, they also have a habit of building someone up, then tearing them apart farther down the road. In a way, it's better, probably, to avoid either extreme and sort of build quietly step by step. Which is the Kris way, anyway, right?
I'll tell you my own feelings listening to the first cellcast from Portland. This is just me, now, and I'm biased. But the Glamberts had psyched me out and had me thinking Kris could not possibly follow Adam in concert. Then I heard Adam's set (admittedly it was audio only, no pictures), and I thought: "Oh, no problem." I thought Adam lacked something. Actually, I'm not sure what. Genuineness, I suppose. As a singer. As a performer he's great and as a singer he's superhuman in terms of notes and power, but he really has to learn to bring himself to it.
This is it exactly.