Are you kidding? American Idol season six would last three episodes of the voting rounds if they instituted a fee. NOBODY would vote. Who's that serious about American Idol besides Simon?
I'm slightly surprised. I knew it was going to be between Kat and Chris but I figured, based on her horrible Tuesday, it would be Kat. But Chris has been in the bottom a few times. I don't think he's nearly as popular as people think he is. I'm not sure who's voting for Kat though. Like Paris (who's completely awful, Munk, sorry) she's too young.
She's about as smarmy as Taylor though. Chris was smarmy too. Elliot isn't smarmy but he's nothing special. I'm not sure about this best singer on the show business. He's not that amazing. This season sucks. Every season sucks. This show sucks.
JohnPopa has a point. The music biz is a fickle and cruel provider. I think Kellie Clarkson has been the only person from the show to be able to find a huge audience (everyone else seems to only succeed in niche markets). Either because she's the first or because she's a cookie cutter artist. She can sang, but she's still pretty cookie cutter. But they're all kind of cookie cutter. Clay, Ruben, and Taylor get points for being total freaks I guess.
I don't think anybody can succeed with a rock band if they were an American Idol second place winner/winner. It's almost sort of antithetical. This is probably the best thing for Chris. If he has any sort of talent as a musician I think he would do better to write some music, take the solo route with some kind of unknown backup band, move to LA and start building a fanbase--oh wait, American Idol OWNZ him for the next five years or something.
Apparently Constantine is working on such a thing (a solo album). If they were smart they'd get the American Idol people to option a song they write and use it :P
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