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"Adam Lambert's 'swagger' will win 'American Idol,' Simon Cowell tells Oprah Winfrey"

"Adam Lambert vs. Danny Gokey in 'Idol' finals, Randy Jackson says"

"'American Idol' psychics: Kris Allen gone, Adam Lambert vs. Danny Gokey for title"

So now even the psychics have accepted large sums of money from 19Evil to get into the act, and declare it a Danny-Adam finale!

I can't believe how the judges have been out campaigning (well, Randy and Simon, anyhow. I don't know what Laverne and Shirley have been doing). Campaigning is just the best word I can think of for it. Now how can they be considered fair and impartial tonight as they give their critiques? I mean, not that they ever have been, but when they don't even care to give the appearance of it, I guess I don't...oh, well, I can't go on. See you tonight.

 

[SleepinIn]

Campaigning is a good word. They've never been fair and impartial, even in the first season - but that is why there are 3 (or four now) of them -- but yeah, I totally get your meaning -- an Oprah interview the next to last week would tend to leave a lasting impression on the viewership. But as we've seen the viewers don't have to listen. They can push all they want but it only takes them so far.

 

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Right, SleepinIn! Good points.

Spoilers are up on mj's blog. Sounds like good stuff.

 

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voting is really hard. I've only gotten through about seven times in 20 minutes.

 

[missaddicted]

OMG, Kris was brilliant with Heartless! Amazing. Just him and his guitar, no Bandzilla, thank you Kris! I rewound it so many times! LOVE! Right up there with Falling Slowly for me (for you, for me dawg).

I could've done without the judges' choices. Danny was bleh (as expected with that song), Kris was good, but not earthshattering, and while I liked the beginning of Adam's One, he should've stayed low key all the way through, it would've made it more powerful in my opinion.

Kara is an idiot. I'm actually glad that Kris did Apologize straight, since he was already doing Heartless. No need to rearrange both songs in my opinion. Kara had to know what he was doing for his second song. The judges were even more insufferable than ever, is possible, tonight. But in the end, I'm glad that they were pretty fair in their comments to Kris.

And yes, Randy, Kris is current. Danny, not so much. I'm sure Danny's fans ate up You Are So Beautiful and I have to admit that I almost enjoyed it, almost being the key word here. It doesn't erase "Scream On". It wasn't embarassing at least.

Adam's Cryin was also just OK for me. I don't know, Cryin is just not really an interesting song, I guess. He's always pretty great though, so I think I have the highest of expectations for him.

Simon had to actually beg people to vote for Adam... this is really a race to the finish line I guess, the three of them must have been really close in the votes.

On the David Cook forum where I hang out, people are repeating mantras of "Put the Go in Gokey" and "Vote for Kris". A few of them haven't voted this season yet, but they're voting for Kris tonight! Awesome!

Man, tomorrow night is going to be nervewracking! Can't wait to see the footage of the home visits.

Vote like there's no tomorrow, ross!!!

 

[missaddicted]

voting is really hard. I've only gotten through about seven times in 20 minutes.

Wow, even with the three lines?

Danny and Kris are pretty close on the Dialidol geopredictions...

 

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I'm voting, I'm voting!! missaddicted, I agree with your whole post. I KNEW Kris was going to kill Heartless, and I have to give the judges credit for giving him (at least partly) the raves he deserved. Simon could have been more effusive. Even he knew that was great. I wish Kris also could have nailed Apologize, but it was really good. He defended it later but wasn't on mic (he said he didn't want to do two acoustic performances, I think.) (Shut up, Kara, you twit.)

Adam was hardly "brilliant" as Simon said, but he did what he does best. A bit safe. The Aerosmith was actually unpleasant for me to listen to. I'm not crazy about his voice (I'm really not) but I have to say I can totally understand why people who love it are crazy about him.

I think I have to fall back on the cliche, and say that One sounded like "Adam Lambert in U2: The Musical" to me. What you said:

...he should've stayed low key all the way through, it would've made it more powerful in my opinion.

was so true. Yes! I think he's started to oversing, lately. Sometimes less is more, Adam. Even for you.

Hey, did you see Kris's blue thumbnail when he got the text in Arkansas at the AT&T store? Ha.

I'm sure Danny's fans ate up You Are So Beautiful and I have to admit that I almost enjoyed it, almost being the key word here. It doesn't erase "Scream On". It wasn't embarassing at least.

Ow. (My ear hurts from the phone.) Am getting through now, much more. (10:04 EST) "Thanks for voting for contestant 2. Watch American Idol tomorrow on Fox, sponsored in part by AT&T."

Gokey. The first song was like PYT revisited. Only not as good. I noticed his voice is hurting. Supposedly he's still recovering from the scream. Second song I think was purposely chosen because his voice is still rough (Joe Cocker, get it?). He did a good job with it. Like you, m.a., I almost liked it. It was actually one of his best performances, and made me question (not for the first time, actually) why he didn't do more ballads on the show (or did he? I forget. Endless Love, what else?). Yeah, that was good. Unfortunately!

Kara is an idiot. I'm actually glad that Kris did Apologize straight, since he was already doing Heartless. No need to rearrange both songs in my opinion. Kara had to know what he was doing for his second song. The judges were even more insufferable than ever, is possible, tonight. But in the end, I'm glad that they wore pretty fair in their comments to Kris.

Yes, though they seriously overpimped the other two. Somehow when Kris got a rave, though, it sounded like actual, fresh responses, not pre-written pimpage.

About Kara, yeah, they actually went to commercial with her saying she was excited about how Kris was going to change up Apologize, or some such nonsense, when she must have known how he was going to do it. Then in her critique, when she said she hoped he'd have come out and done Apologize acoustic, I knew (from mj's spoilers) that he was going to do that with Heartless, and I thought: come on, Kara, you know what he's doing next. But I also thought it set him up rather well to do just that.

I didn't really understand why Simon turned the critique segment after Apologize into a bitchfest criticizing Randy and Kara for not working with Kris on the arrangement. Is this what he did with Adam's arrangement? If so, I didn't like it!

The overpimpage just got to me so much tonight. U2 gladly gives permission for Adam to sing their song! Because it's Adam, you see. This just for starters.

On the David Cook forum where I hang out, people are repeating mantras of "Put the Go in Gokey" and "Vote for Kris". A few of them haven't voted this season yet, but they're voting for Kris tonight! Awesome!

Great!

 

[SleepinIn]

Vote, Ross, Vote.

Poor Danny got stuck with the Paula pick.. *shakes head* the other songs were so recognizable. And he gets that one. Terence Trent Darby does have songs I would recognize, that wasn't one of them.

Can I tell you how excited I was when Kris said he was doing Heartless? I loved Heartless. I do wonder about Kanye's reaction to Randy saying it was better than the original.. lmao. That won't go over well with Kanye - the versions are so different though and Kris's was a great version though. I have the Fray's version and I think Kris's is just as good if not better. I'll have to listen to them together.

Adam was great as usual - I just need less of the scream, and more of the song. But really the guy is talented and charismatic. This will really be a good final regardless... but I so hope Kris makes it.. go Kris, go Kris, go Kris.

 

[missaddicted]

"Thanks for voting for contestant 2. Watch American Idol tomorrow on Fox, sponsored in part by AT&T."

You know you don't have to listen to the whole message, right? LOL.

I didn't really understand why Simon turned the critique segment after Apologize to criticize Randy and Kara for not working with Kris on the arrangement. Is this what he did with Adam?

Yeah, I didn't really understand that either. I think he wanted to say that they should've chosen something else for him, a song which he could've done on the guitar like they wanted, but I think Simon just wanted to avoid talking about Kris' performance there. Whatever.

Did you notice that Simon had Paula's makeup on his shirt for almost all the show. It took me time to figure it out. I was like: "Is Simon bleeding under his shirt?". It at least gave me something to contemplate during the useless judging.

The overpimpage just got to me so much tonight. U2 gladly gives permission for Adam to sing their song! Because it's Adam, you see. This just for starters.

Cook sang U2 last year at the finale (better than Adam), so I don't know why it was such a big deal for Adam.

And yes, I felt that Adam was safe a bit tonight. Low on energy, perharps? I was reading the comments on TWoP and several thought that he was somewhat boring tonight. It was the first time that I actually found him boring. One was a mess though, the wailing was really not necessary.

ETA: Oh, and the backup singer pretty much ruined Cryin' for me. Her and Adam were not signing at the same time and she sounded like she was trying to out-scream him.

I have to add that I still think Adam is awesome in general, I just wasn't feeling him tonight.

 

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About twenty more minutes to vote!

Just rewatched Apologize but tried to watch it as if I never heard the song before.
It's just so familiar to me (I love the song). Now, re-watching it, I think he's great. It's just hard to do it the way Ryan does it and bring anything surprising to it. I hope there are people watching who never heard the song before (over a certain age, or whatever) who will think he was amazing doing this great "new" tune.

By the way, I asked this already, but where was the "bum note?" I didn't hear it and I've listened to the song twice now.

The phone message: I know I don't have to listen to the whole thing! Ha.
But, for a while, I did have to, actually. The call wasn't going through on the redial unless I let the whole message play, for some reason. That was only for a while, though. Also, I couldn't get through at all for the first 20 minuts or so. Maybe a few times, like 10. This happened a bit last week, too, not as much. Not busy, just a dead line. When the call volume was high, I guess.

Still got some busy signals right up to the end. Just finished voting now.

So. I had both my phones, and I had one set to redial one of Kris's lines and one to redial another, and when one line got busy I changed phones. I've been doing that for a couple of hours.

DialIdol is weird. Overall score has Kris last. But most of the graphs, Total Vote, etc., have Danny lower than the other two. The GeoPredictions, where you can
look at Predicted Loser or Winner, seem to indicate Danny as the loser, but the whole west hasn't been heard from yet.

ETA: SleepinIn and missaddicted (and anyone else out there): I was looking at twitter and Paula is going to be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. Might be interesting to hear her reactions.

ETA again: Looked at DialIdol GeoPredictions again. Predicted Loser: It surprised me that there are so many more blue (Adam) states now than an hour ago. Still, Danny has the most states. Predicted winner: This was Adam an hour ago, still is, but Kris is doing very well, too. Still not a lot of western states represented. (If you scroll over a state you can read the numbers.)

 

[missaddicted]

By the way, I asked this already, but where was the "bum note?" I didn't hear it and I've listened to the song twice now.

I think I know what she was referring to and I have to agree that it was not the most pleasant note. He wasn't singing lyrics, it was just an "ah" or "oh" or something, but it was loud and the note was not perfect. It wasn't horrible though, but I noticed it the first time around.

ETA: SleepinIn and missaddicted (and anyone else out there): I was looking at twitter and Paula is going to be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. Might be interesting to hear her reactions.

Yeah, but Paule lurves Danny and his sexy voice and she's probably been (surprisingly) the only judge to give Kris faint praise. Randy seems to really like him though (even though I guess he had to stick to the "script" this week during interviews).

 

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Maybe I shouldn't set too much store by this but...

GeoPredictions Winner, and Loser.

 

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These were nice to read.

'American Idol' 8: Kris Allen's big surprise (Week 9 Power Rankings) (Backstage Pass) - Newsday.com

Idol: Kris Allen’s ‘Heartless’ Gamble Pays Off - PEOPLE TV Watch

...nervous...

 

[SleepinIn]

I'm nervous too. eep.

I felt better this morning though as the morning radio show I listen to picked Kris to win, nevermind stay in tonight. And everyone at work loved both of Kris's songs while having issues with one or the other of Danny and Adams. But who knows how it will play out. *crossing fingers*

 

[missaddicted]

Very nervous too, the day seemed to last forever (and it was a slow day at work, which made it worst).

I guess I should be happy that he made it to top 3, after having no airtime almost prior to the semi-finals and without benefiting from TPTB's backing, but now I want more! He deserves it! Especially after last night!

Last week, I was 95% sure he was out, but right now, I have hope. And that scares me...

Less than three hours before the show...

 

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I'm glad I'm not alone! All day long I've been talking to myself: "Don't worry. He'll be fine." And then: "Whatever happens, he's had his chance to shine, and he's good, and he went out in a blaze of glory...no, no, damn it, he's going to be fine." Had a very slow day at work, as well, missaddicted. To tell the truth, I couldn't really concentrate, so it's just as well!

Hearing that about Kris on the radio must have helped. SleepinIn. I read today on one of the forums that someone heard Kris's version of Heartless on the radio this morning. The dj's playing it said they thought it was awesome.

(When Kanye was on the show is that what he sang? I forget.)

Did you guys see the USA Today article mj linked to (on the blog)? The backstage stuff with the three guys? Shopping at the Beverly Center with Adam, etc.? Kris is so laid back.

27 minutes to showtime.

 

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Eat it, Simon.

Kara's reaction: "Oh my God." Shock.

My reaction: not like last week. Not as much of a shock since all signs pointed to Adam/Kris. Not by a wide margin, but enough.

Then, after stressing all night and pacing the floor for an hour, I was mainly just exhausted.

Feels anticlimactic. Not sure why.

Isn't it great though that our two favorites from the beginning made it all the way?

Simon just doesn't get it. Kris isn't in the finale because of "his second song last night." That's part of it. But give the kid props for being great all season. He has been. So has Adam. They both totally deserve to be there. So it's going to be sooooo cool.

 

[missaddicted]

OMG! Yay! It didn't feel anticlimatic to me, I was about ready to throw up and I had exactly the same reaction as last week! I'm extatic right now!

Operation Put the Go in Gokey: completed!

And Ryan said that there were just a little bit more than a million votes between the two! That's just a bit more than 1% of of the 88 million votes! Adam isn't running away with this!

And Kris' homecoming video was the best, so emotional.

Simon just doesn't get it. Kris isn't in the finale because of "his second song last night." That's part of it. But give the kid props for being great all season. He has been. So has Adam. So it's going to be sooooo cool.

Yes, but I'm sure that Kris picked up a lot of casual votes with Heartless, so I'm at least glad that Simon didn't seem bitter that his prediction didn't come true. Randy seemed thrilled though!

This is going to be amazing!

ETA: What's a ding dong?

 

[SleepinIn]

*dances*

 

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And Ryan said that there were just a little bit more than a million votes between the two! That's just a bit more than 1% of of the 88 million votes! Adam isn't running away with this!

Right. But wait. Maybe Adam was the one with the 1 million fewer votes? I don't even think this is unlikely after seeing the GeoPredictions. Adam was ahead in the DialIdol numbers, but Kris's fans are known to be texters. Adam had an off night and Kris was at his best. Hey, anything's possible.

Well, who cares? KRADAM lives!

Do you guys get those mini-interviews with Simon and Randy on Fox News after the show? Do you get Fox News? (Probably not. Just as well. It sucks.) You probably see the show on CTV, right? So should I pay attention and see what they have to say and report back to you? It's just going to make me mad, you know.

I know what you're saying about Simon's comment, missaddicted, but, really, it's about time he gave Kris props. I mean, he's in the finale. Cripes.

Oh, well, not the time to complain, now! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!