So, you see Idol wanna-bees…here’s the thing. If you’ve been doing musical theater all your life, we don’t want you. If you’ve cut albums on second rate labels in the past, we don’t want you. If you’ve had personal voice coaches since you could walk, we don’t want you. If you’ve been groomed by your parents for a life in the spot light, we don’t want you. What we want is a good story. We want the down home, girl/guy next door who can sing like crazy but hasn’t been discovered. That’s why Kelly Clarkson won. That’s why Fantasia and Carrie Underwood won. That’s why Taylor Hicks and David Cook won. And that’s why Kris Allen won. It’s also exactly why Adam Lambert didn’t win. We don’t want the make-up and the dramatic lighting…and we dont want Kat McPhee and Trenyce and Syesha Mercado. America wants a feel good story. And American got one last night. Congrats Kris!
Filed under: All Performances, Finals, First Auditions | Tagged: Adam Lambert, carrie underwood, David Cook, fantasia, Katherine McPhee, Kelly Clarkson, Kris Allen, Syesha, Taylor Hicks, Trenyce
