Congratulations to American Idol winner Kris Allen! I didn’t pick him to win, but it was a great finale last night and when all the votes were counted, Kris came out on top and will reign as the new AI champion.
Probably the reason Kris won, besides his enormous talent, was because of the whole voting dynamic thing. When one idol leaves the show many times the votes they were getting aren’t split up evenly between the rest of the contestants. That’s why Allison Iraheta went from being in the bottom 3 for three weeks in a row to being in the top 2 once Lil Rounds left. The female vote was going to Lil amongst her and Allison and when Lil left the show, most of her votes went to Allison.
To take that further and explain why Kris won over Adam Lambert, when Danny Gokey left the show, since he was much more stylistically closer to Kris than Adam, a greater percentage of Danny’s votes ended up going to Kris and he ended up winning.
No big deal for Adam though because he is sure to get a recording contract with his utterly amazing voice. I don’t think I’ve ever hear a male singer able to reach the high notes Adam could. He is probably the perfect singer to replace Freddie Mercury in Queen because I don’t think anyone else can hit the high notes in Bohemian Rhapsody like Freddie could. Anyway, you know someone will pick up Adam and do a record deal with him. He has a long career ahead of himself.
Congratulations to all of the American Idols, this was definitely the most talented group of singers ever. And especially congratulations to Kris Allen. Way to go dude, you deserve it!
Tags: adam lambert, kris allen, danny gokey, american idol, allison iraheta
