Sorry, SleepinIn...what last song? Are you talking about Hedley?
Ha, sorry.. yes. Hedley - Jacob really since he sang it alone on guitar. He called it the Gyspy Song. Twas good.
I read a review of his NYE performance that called him a great entertainer, somebody who loves to perform, etc. This is a side of Kris that's going to surprise people who think of him only as an Idol perfomer doing one cover song a week.
I completely agree. Kris got labeled the nice Christian boy in the media to Adam's super amazing Glam god. Neither of which are true representations of them. Kris is nice and Christian, and Adam likes glam music (especially Lady Gaga.. seriously get that boy on her tour, they'll have a ball) but that isn't what makes them who they are as people. And to the media, who kept calling Kris the "safe choice" they didn't take into account the fact that Kris was amazing, and had an unflappable ability to stay true to himself, and make ballsy decisions about music on a show that will twist you into a musical equivalent of a pretzel. And Kris with C.R.A.C.K. are just plain great. It's pretty hard to believe that they've only played together in public since that Miami performance. And I've gone off on a tangent.. but I agree with you. People really still don't know how entertaining Kris is.
I can't judge Canadian media, not being there. I don't know how deeply they go into entertainment that isn't based in Canada. Where Adam and Kris are concerned, I've gotten the impression they don't understand that Kris is liked in the US. I think they judge things based on Rolling Stone's opinion of Adam, etc. -- thinking it represents popular opinion.
Ontario version: lol
Oh, they're all in. No doubt. We are immersed in US culture. I think the Rollingstone and Entertainment Weekly covers are a big part of it for sure. If you say things enough times people start to believe them. Not to mention "Adam is gay!" (Have you heard?) 20/20, AMA's, Details, 2012, etc.. Adam's a media lightning rod.
Of course, the show is watched in Canada, but nobody votes, and they're not invested in "their" Idol, so their reaction to the show and contestants may be different. A lot of Canadians may be more dispassionate about it, like I am, in a way, about who becomes the Canadian Idol
I think it's different though for you because for Canadian Idol you don't get the massive media explosion for CI - you have to search it out. And actually CI is different for us too - we get media but
nothing like AI. Most of the media for CI originates with CTV. For us - well me in Ontario - AI is
everywhere, they talk about it on the radio, it's on the news, they talk about it on every network, it's on the internet, twitter, blogs, it's total media saturation. There really is no show like Idol in terms of media domination.
It doesn't even matter than we can't actually vote.
So maybe it's just that people here prefered Adam, it might be as simple as that, and that fact didn't go unnoticed by some in the industry
A definite possibility. Plus, I don't think Canada cared all that much that Adam was gay, it wasn't shocking or anything.. they probably wouldn't have done a story on him just to announce that fact. And the whole "Adam was robbed thing" helped his sales I think.
Another possible explanation is that we have our own Canadian artists here that get airplay on the radio that they don't get in the US
True and there are actually a lot of Canadian acts doing really well right now,
I actually don't even know how David Cook did on the radio here in Canada.
I heard both David's all the time on the radio. But I don't know when that started since I didn't really follow that closely. So I don't know if there was a delay in their radio play in Canada. I tend to think that they played the songs as soon as they were available. I don't know why the hesitation with Kris since his music style is very similar to the type of music CHUM would play, so I almost think that they didn't really push Kris's music to Canada. But I don't know.
Something I thought you guys might enjoy
Yep, that's enjoyable. No puppies and rainbows there.
