Kris or Adam?
I’m still reeling in the euphoria of last nights AI finale. Wondering if what I watched was real or staged (Much like Tattiana’s award situation). Rueben – that was a great look. LOL!
I read this article today and found it interesting. I’m sure there’s a lot of people on both extremes of the fence day. Really mad or Really happy.
Personally – I was really happy. For the first time ever I actually voted. (3 times for Kris). My wife and I were taunting each other just before the results. She was for the other competitor. The loser. I was for Kris. The winner.
I’ll be honest, I fully expected Adam to win. But I couldn’t let my wife know, so I held fast to my prediction of Kris stealing the crown from the would-be King.
When the announcement was made there was silence for what seemed like a half an hour in heaven my house. We stared at the TV screen in disbelief. I triumphantly shouted!
Reading the comments it seems like it was a love or hate thing for Adam. It was like that for our household. My whole family loved him. I hated him. To them Adam was the superstar and Kris was the adorable runner up. I never saw it that way.
Don’t get me wrong. Adam has a lot of talent. I really liked about three of the songs he did on idol. Usually the stripped back ones. But he lost me with his constant screeching. The first time he did it I was in awe like everyone else not many people can do that, but he never stopped. Almost every song, he would jump off the melody and went two or three steps or octaves above (just because he could). Note From Bono: “Simon – WTF was that!” I don’t blame Adam entirely. Everyone, judges and fans encouraged him the whole way. They practically handed him the title every week. (which made detractors of Adam even more emboldened in their hatred).
What it came down to for me was two things: Music Style and Performance Style
If I have the option of listening to a Kiss/Gun’s and Roses/Iron Maiden CD or a Seconhand Seranade/Daschboard confessional/John Mayer/James Taylor/Carey Brothers/etc… etc… I choose the later every time. I’m not a fan of heavy metal, hair band, eighties metal, screaming shouting rock. I like the singer song writer, acoustic, laid back easy going songs that have feeling and emotion.
The second thing. Every time I watched Adam I felt like I was front row at a show on the Vegas strip. Or watching a modern version of the Rocky horror show. It was a circus, a spectacle. It was not real. Never felt genuine. It didn’t seem to fit today. If this was circa 1985 he wins hands down, but it’s not. I felt like I was watching a guy made to be a broadway star trying to become a rock star. After the entire season of watching AI, I feel like I know nothing about the kind of person Adam is. I feel absolutely nothing for him.
Kris’ performance style was completely different. (Not necessarily better) I hope that’s clear for everyone I’ve completely pissed off right now. But it’s the style that I liked, the style I would choose. I feel invested in Kris. Connected to Kris. I feel like I know the kind of person he is. I feel like he is the person you see on the stage and I like that. He’s real. He’s genuine. I’ll never see him in Vegas. Maybe not in a huge stadium. But i could see him a small theatre in A^2 or maybe the DTE theatre. I would enjoy sitting down with him over coffee. Talking about life. Playing the guitar.
So Kris or Adam?
And whose CD will you buy when it comes out?
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I really wasn’t that disappointed that Kris won, he was great. I look at AI as a vocal contest and I felt Adam’s vocal ability was amazing. Kris is a good singer but to me he was the whole package; a true artist who can sing, compose, play various instruments, rearrange etc… Adam’s talents is his vocal range that, in my opinion, only comes around one in a million. I’m happy for both of them and I know they will both sign contracts which is what they wanted in the end anyway.