I lurve Kris, but Adam should have won it. Even Kris said so.

That said, I expected this result. For these reasons:

One, there is a significant number of people, kids included, who simply don't like, don't get, the whole glam-rock/guyliner thing; it's too threatening, too confrontational, too scary. No way in this universe was Danny Gokey's (apparently enormous) fan base going to start backing Adam Fucking Lambert.

Two, the people who win or do extremely well on AI are generally the ones who start out under the radar but get better and better through the competition. They're the ones who pick up the votes that would have gone to people who have been eliminated because they keep on pulling out surprises and raising their game every week. Think Kelly Clarkson, Clay Gaykin, Elliott Yamin, and our own adored Cookie. Kris did that. People who start out very strong, and consistently stay that way throughout the competition (Tamyra Grey, Chris Daughtry, Melinda Doolittle), start out with a huge fan base, but just don't gather new fans because they've started out with the bar set so high that no one is surprised at anything they do.

That's my impression, anyway.




Edited 1 time by princesspeach May 20 09 10:44 PM.