Love your site and what you do - lots of laughs over the years. I'm also an Idol fan and kinda genuinley sad that Adam didn't win.

Just wanted to say to everyone (worsters and Idol-lovers) - everyone is obsessing over this "100 million votes!" and "Only 1 million separated last week!" - Doesn't anyone stop to think that these numbers were presented to us by.... Idol?

They could come out and say "There was a ju-ba-jillion votes this week!!!! And only ONE VOTE separated the top two!" - and everyone would eat that shit up.

Just my thoughts on it.

Good year VFTW!

okay to sum it up as simon is fond of saying...america loves a train wreck. this is why we watch american idol in the first place. We love our normans..we love our tatitanna deltoros ( am I am the one that thinks shes hot?)..hell we even love our "improved" bikini girl..

Yet we bitch when the multimillion dollar show can't even turn on a microphone??

I think we love to bitch/whine/complain and yes blog...

The finally was actually pretty good..and this is coming from someone that doesn't like lionelle ritchie and his brand of music. There was a good mix between sob stories of the contestants/bad music numbers by the rest of the idol losers..yes I call them losers because there is a reason that the majority of them didn't finish in the top five.( little rounds?? please) and some comedy with those awards.

I think Kris will have an "okay" career...sure beat sitting home in arkansas picking his toes and playing for the college crowds. He will never be the teen heartrob..he will never be jack johnson/dave matthews. I think his success will lie in the help/promotion he receives from american idol each year.

I think adam is a mixed bag. He sounds like a rocker from the 70s...which is great and unique...yet when is the last time you heard a modern day "rocker" on the pop stations. there is a reason that brittney spears' nutty ass is still making $$$.

<FONT COLOR=RED>We won. But I am TOTALLY CONVINCED that it is EXACTLY what IDOL wanted too !<FONT COLOR=BLACK>

For whatever reason, they wanted Adam to lose and Kris to win. Their plan was hatched when:

1. They staged Adam in the bottom 3 - giving the impression that he was vulnerable.

2. They always picked Kris to go first to the safe seats - giving the impression that he was the leader, that he had a chance.

3. They made everyone believe that there was only a million votes between them last week.

4. They neglected to mention anything about the number of votes that separated the two last night - which back at the start - was something that added some measure of credibility.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING, THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL KRIS REALLY WON. EVERY SINGLE ONLINE PRE-IDOL POLL HAD ADAM LEADING BY 20 TO 30 PERCENTAGE POINTS. HIS DOWNLOADS WERE THROUGH THE ROOF - AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS - FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS.

WE GOT WHAT WE WANTED HERE - BUT IT IS THE SAME AS WHAT THEY WANTED TOO - THE WORST TO WIN.

EVERY SINGLE SHRED OF CREDIBILITY THEY HAD IS COMPLETELY GONE. UNLESS THEY INSTITUTE MORE VOTE COUNTING TRANSPARENCY THIS SHOW IS DOOMED.

REMINDS ME OF 2004 WHEN BUSH "WON" FLORIDA

vftw-FAN

You hit the nail on the head - there is NO credibility because there is NO transparency.

That is what sucks to me the most. The premise of the show is fine - give young people a chance to succeed in the music biz. But with producer and judge manipulation and no faith whatsoever that the votes are really counted fairly it ends up being a pile of crap.

Don't be hatin' on Kris. He may not wail like Adam but he has a nice, mellow voice that sounds good when they aren't forcing crap like "No Boundaries" on him. And he's an excellent musician. This was a contest of the performer (Adam) vs. the musician (Kris). And for once we didn't get a pimped planty winner.

I don't think Kris will go the way of Taylor Hicks. Kris has the kind of voice that will sound good on the radio and his musical style will fit with what they're playing on the radio. Hicks never had that. If the Evil Idol Producers are smart they'd put him together with a band with a cool name.

But they aren't that smart.

Adam will clearly be rushed into the nearest recording studio, so it's not like he really lost.

I was happy with the way it turned out. I adore Adam, but he would make it just fine without the shit the producers would give him for his album if he won. Kris needs that shit, and it will be funny when the shit makes a shitty album and no one buys it. I think that last night Adam basically said "fuck it" and was just himself. Aham, his awesome boots and sparkly makeup. That is the Adam we will be seeing more of, and the evils of Idol can't stop him.

Normund was my highlight. He brought a new round of tears that he did not make it further into the competition.

Great review Proffessor. I'm really gonna miss reading these. Is it January yet???

I agree with the comments about Kris here that most have had. Although he bores me to tears and I wouldn't walk across the street to see him perform free he had the cuteness factor and the fact that the younger tweens like him unlike Taylor who just had the fraus so he will do better. Still won't do good my guess along the line of Cook's career which I think you can put a fork in now.

When Queen came out all that kept going through my mind has the deal already been signed. They just parted ways with their lead singer and here they are on stage with Adam and Kris. Which made me think is Kris the next Freddy Mercury. :-)~ LOL

ya kris won

now i get 2 suk his cock

yummy

and to all the fantards

go fuk urself

u will watch next year n bitch like lil woman

adam can get gigs n gay bars

Why did Kris win? Never underestimate the texting power of a teenage girl. If there was a limit on the number of votes that could be made from a particular device, then perhaps the voting would have gone another way. But, since each vote represents buckage, don't expect integrity from Idol's producers!

I'm not the first to make this linkage, but Adam and Queen should try to work something out. It'd be interesting to see if he can work a crowd like Freddie Mercury.

Regardless, I'm happy Kris won. He'll do well once he's free of the Idol shackles.

YESSSS. VFTW WIN. hahaha

Best Finale Ever. all because of Tatiana, Kara's whoreness, Normund Gentle and THE FAILURE OF THE PRODUCERS. hahaha.

however, i wish you could give Cook's song a bit of respect, though.