brother, you nailed it...I wrote on my blog that I thought Kris eked out a victory and deserves to win. I think he won the first round, Adam won the second round, and Kris barely won the third round.

And I have two thoughts on Kara's craptastic song. One, it's easily the worst finale song this show has ever produced, even worse than (I'm cringing now) "This is My Now." Two, Adam was so off-pitch and screechy with the song, and Paula and Simon still trip over themselves to praise him? Fuck them, and fuck the producers. My middle finger will be raised high tonight to this show when Seacrest announces Kris as the winner.

Someone here had it absolutely right, Kara had written this song for Gokey, plain and simple. She's been gagging to bounce on his pole all season long and several times she was an inch away from either crawling up onto the stage and blowing him right then and there or flat out saying, "You're coming home with me tonight." I also think that Simon Fuller picked the songs for them with Gokey in mind as well. Take note, every single time a song has been chosen for them (i.e when the judges picked them before), there is some kind of explanation offered as to why they chose that song. This time, zero explanation as to why R&;B songs were chosen for two very UN-R&;B sings. The only R&;B singer in the last several weeks has been Gokey. Gee, think maybe Fuller wanted him to win as well?

AI has just gotten steadily worse and worse each year (Although I do have to admit that I thought David Cook was great last year and his album isn't that bad). I watched TMZ last night and they had Ruben coming out of the airport. He's performing at the finale so get your earplugs ready. The funny part? AI didn't pay shit for his flight out to perform and probably isn't paying for his hotel either. The coup de gras: Ruben just came out with a new album, brand new, and it's starting price at Walmart is $9.99 and $9.98 at Target. Oh yeah, American Idol sure can make you a superstar.

Adam's songs: "Mad World" -- My problem was that it was not as good as the first time. The element of surprise was gone. And who put that damn hammer-striking-anvil noise in the arrangement.

"Change Is Gonna Come" -- Soul is not in Adam's repertoire. That is a song that should make you cry. Gideon from a couple season's ago did it much better. "No Boundaries" -- Crappy coronation song that seemed to be written for Adam.

Kris' songs: "Ain't No Sunshine" -- Actually a great version from Mr. Wonder Bread. "What's Going On" -- Obviously the theme tonight was "songs played in the key of dull" and Kris had a chance to put a dagger in Eddie Munster's heart but did just OK with it. "No Boundaries" -- I actually could hear the words when Kris sang the song as opposed to Adam's scream-o style, but that was the PROBLEM...I heard the words.

Kris won on DialIdol by more than 1.2 percent with a margin of error of about 1.5 percent...meaning if you split the difference (.75 percent), the producers can name whomever the hell they want as winner and you needn't know more! BUT...Simon and 19 Entertainment are so orgasmic over Adam and they want to get Adam "product" out there for sale yesterday, they will put the tiara on Adam tonight.

For Adam's fans...It doesn't say much when the next Elvis, Jesus, Beatles has to possibly be rigged into winning one lousy competition against a dull-as-a-butterknife yokel.

funniest line: It took THREE people to write that shit ???

Listen to Mad World without watching - it is shear brilliance. It doesn't make Kris bad - he's not - he's pretty good - just not great.

The thing that pissed me off most about last night was the last song.

First of all, it was crap. It sounded like that Miley Cyrus song... do either of them look like they should be singing Miley Cyrus crap?

Second of all, it was performed in a key that was perfect for Adam's range (you know, the high, shrilly range), yet it was obviously way too high for Kris. The judges mentioned it themselves. As "musicians" though, shouldn't at least Randy, Kara and Paula know that you can easily put a song into anybody's comfortable range by simply transposing the whole thing?! Kara, at the very least, as a "song writer" (and I use that term very loosely) should be well experienced in transposing to meet the ideal vocal range of the musician.

Kris deserves the crown, if only for the fact that he had to constantly deal with this kind of crap from the producers and judges.

I gotta completely disagree with the previous poster regarding Ruben Studdard. Ruben had one of the best voices ever on Idol. I happened to be on youtube the other day looking up some singer from when I was a teen. I happened to notice a Ruben Studdard video on there and re-watched alot of his Idol performances. He had a tremendous amount of great performances on Idol and his voice, imo, is gorgeous. Very much Luther Vandross-like. His personality was also very likable on the show, imo.

I guess people have very different tastes, which I can understand, but to act as if he was an awful singer is very undeserving.

Just because someone doesn't make it big shouldn't take away the fact that they were a good singer on Idol.

I think Ruben is the one idol that gets the most undeserved put-downs about his singing.

I lost all respect for Adam when he thanked Kara for writing such a beautiful song.

I lost all respect for Kara (ok, I never had any) when Simon mocked her about "mountains and hurrakins" and she retorted "Yeah, Yeah, I know".

Glad you pointed out they write the coronation song with the annointed one in mind. Happens year after year after year. All the more annoying that they couldn't let Kris sing the tune in a more comfortable key? Any competent group of musicians could easily have accomodated.

Both of these goobers will be dissapearing from national conciousness very soon. Lambert has a 1 way ticket to Broadway, Kris will move from Conway to Little Rock.

I think you might have misunderstood me. I wasn't putting Ruben down at all. In fact, I've never listened to any of his songs nor do I have any plans to. I have no clue how good or bad a singer is and frankly I don't care. My comments were aimed squarely at the sham that is AI (the judges, producers the record label, etc.) and how they wouldn't even pay to fly him in for their show. As far as his pathetic CD price tag, I'm assuming he's still under AI's record contract so I'm once again blasting them, not him. If he's under some other label, well, they fucked up big time.

No one will ever convince me that both of those singers heard that song and really thought it was good.

Adam DOES NOT think it's 'a beautiful song'. He is trying to be gracious. He's been in show business long enough to know he has to kiss ass. Kris, on the other hand, had absolutely no comment on the song. Wouldn't you just love to hear what they really thought of it?

It was, by far, one of the worst songs I ever heard.

I don't know baby, I don't know dawg. I tend to agree with you, but not this time. Adam's 2nd performance of that Sam Cooke song (that was completely out of his comfort zone) was a hot lava bomb, yo.

And you're totally giving Kara's song too much credit. It's The Worst Song I've Heard Since The History of Ever.