American Idol results: Adam Lambert was robbed!

May 27, 2009 | Dean Takahashi | Comments | |

OK, just because I live in California doesn’t mean that I’m a fan of the eye-liner-wearing Adam Lambert, who lost out last week to Kris Allen of Arkansas in the American Idol finale.

But you have to love a good conspiracy theory. Lambert was the favorite going into the show, in spite of his ambiguous sexuality compared to the homespun, folksy and much more mainstream Allen. Allen himself was flabbergasted when Ryan Seacrest announced the winner. I wrote a “sore loser” post about how it might be possible that crowdsourcing failed us and 100 million votes might have gotten it wrong.

Now the New York Times reports that AT&T representatives may have inappropriately tilted the vote in favor of Allen. The story says that AT&T representatives in Arkansas were invited to attend two different Allen fan parties on the night of the voting. The representatives provided phones where fans could vote via text message an unlimited number of times for free. And they also taught the fans how to vote 10 times at once with single button push in what is known as a “power text.” There was no such AT&T collaboration with Lambert fans.

Could such a small number of people, even with automated voting technology, tip the scales in a contest where so many votes were cast? We can’t be certain. Fox Broadcasting said it was absolutely certain that the results came out right. AT&T said the pro-Allen activity was the work of a few local employees who were caught up in the excitement over Allen in Arkansas. But now the conspiracy fans have some real ammo.

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  • Becky
    Adam Lambert is the winner. He's a Super Star
  • The right thing to do
    American Idol is a fun show that and America needs fun they can believe in. AT&T says a few over excited employees got carried away. 1. They are a major Sponsor. 2. AT&T charges to vote per the rules of AI. 3.AT&T does not have small employees that can pull off that kind of program so did it come from a much higher level at AT&T? 4. Is AT&T going to refund the money to their customers, after all they broke the contest rules. 5. AI is right in that no individual affected the vote because it was a major corp and their big sponsor. 6. Is AI or AT&T going to provide the documentation to prove there strange statements are true. Adam is as good as I have seen in a very long time (Maybe since Elvis in time)and Chris is a very good guy. The truth with the facts would help Both Contestants, so if what AT&T says is true show it, it is that easy.
  • Felicia
    Kris ALLEN Kris ALLEN IS THE WINNER BITCHES ! ! ! !! DEAL WITH IT. We dont need that freak!
  • Dan Schent
    With such clear difference in fluid musical rendition, one can say that Adam Lambert was robbed.
  • Chip Gold
    It's very simple to see whether AT&T slanted the voting in AK. They need to release the demographics of the voting. How many votes from whcih states and which were text votes...etc....then we would have a much better idea if this had an influence. Personally speaking, Adam is by far the more talented singer and performer and he deserved to win but I think that he is bettr off - career wise -t o have come in 2nd place. The record cmpany that Allen has sucks and Adam is free to choose anything. He will certainly have options. Kris is limited at this point.
  • Mark
    I tried calling about 50 times over two hours to the three numbers for Adam Lambert and was unable to get through even once. ATT + FIX Broadcasting = Crooked.
  • Jack
    I agree. I think A T & T should hear from us. I have a family plan wireless account and I'm going to raise hell.
  • Adam does not need American Idol anyways! I was in his best interest not to win! Now, Adam can perform how he wants! They would have made him sing that aweful song, OMG! We will see alot of Adam! I heard on the radio this morning that Kiss invited Adam to sing anytime with them. Adam is the "Rock God!"
  • Dot Green
    Your right!!! Adam was robbed. Isn't that a conflict of interest on AT&T's part?
  • let Cris have It, the win that is. Adam really has the talent and charisma to take over the "Star Business. Cris has to sing that stupid song over and over. Feel sorry for him. Did you see Adam on Regis and Kathy Live? 5/27/09
  • Bill
    Um, if Idol has nothing to hide, why are they HIDING EVERYTHING? Why are the voting breakdowns not being released this year?
  • Melissa
    What I find it hard to believe is that none of my 800 text message votes for Adam were received and counted. Unlike the other weeks in which I received a one time text confirming that my votes for Adam were being received, I RECEIVED NOTHING for the final voting night. Now I was only planning on votin 100 times, but when I wasn't receiving a confirmation, I just kept texting away. 800 text votes later...STILL NOTHING. Now 800 votes compares to 100 million is peanuts....but I wonder...how many other people's votes went not counted that night? Not that Adam needs the title, but just a thought.......
  • lambert fan
    i got no confirmation on the text voting either....
  • Melissa
    Thanks for your reply lambert fan. I'm sure we're not alone. I know it's not Kris's fault, but it just disgusts me....I am done with Idol.
  • Lipstickinnd
    Well get this: NONE of my phone calls I placed to vote for Adam showed up on my phone bill...not my cell phone or my home phone!!! Why is THAT? I'd say that's kind of STRANGE, wouldn't you?!!!
  • Lindy
    What a shame that this year's American Idol is tainted by the voting fiasco. If the rumors are true and supported by the relese of the true voting tallies, Adam lost a truly great moment in his career- recognition of his hard work and talent. That being said, Adam Lambert will become a huge success. Not so sure about Kris Allen...will he ever feel like he truly earned the title?
  • BMG Rec
    This is completely ridiculous. Fox Needs to address this situation. This Power Voting is fradualent. How did this happen? Fox Broadcasting needs to let the American veiwers and voters know the EXACT number per contestant and if the exact number from Arkansas was 36 Million votes cast, something is wrong period.
  • angela
    I feel bad for both guys. This isn't Kris's fault. I wanted Adam to win but I feel bad that Kris is probably feeling pretty bad. Maybe he did win..maybe he didn't...but we will never really know. The voting system needs to change. Kris is a good guy and so is Adam they both deserve better.
  • Fierce and Fearless
    Why are AI producers NOT providing the actual voting results???
    Adam clearly is the winner...I feel sorry for Kris, he will always be second best even having been crowned #1.
    Adam was both the rise and fall of IDOL. Adam breathed life into a stale show, only I feel after this season no one will care who wins next year, as no one will be watching! I will never watch it again.
    Also, I have two cell phones one is Verizon Wireless and the other A.T. & T - I intended to cancel VW only after the fiassco with A.T. & T...they have enough subscribers in Arkansas so they don't need me!
  • EW
    28.8 million viewers for the final performances and 100 million votes - (I'm guessing 25 million per hour, 416,666 per minute) . I'd like to see the AT&T blockage report (attempts but not completed due to busy signals) for the three Adam Lambert lines. I'd like to know how many lines were available at any given time to each Idol contestant. The lines were continously busy when I tried to vote for Adam. I love Adam's voice. I can't wait to buy his CD. In the end, I believe Adam will end up the richer man. I wish Idol would release the count without the duplicates too.
  • Ali
    I tried to vote via phone for ADAM the entire 4 hours of the and only got through 18 times!!! The previous week I had no problems and logged about 200 calls. I've read this happened to others as well. Even Seacrest said something right before the final announcement about people not being able to get through. Well obviously the texters in Arkansas got through. At this point it doesn't matter, but the truth should come out. This is not being a sore loser because I think Adam will win in every respect. I also like Kris and wish him well. This is about finding out what really happened. It's the right thing to do if anyone cares.
  • Jason
    The most talented American Idol EVER!!!!!! Just got robbed!!! Shame on ATT and all you voters that voted against him cause his personal life. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!
  • lt
    Adam is MY IDol. He was clearly the bigger talent by far. I think he will go far and now he does not have to release that godawful song of Kara's. STILL he should have won. Our household is an older male, middle-aged female and 12-yr-old boy and we ALL LOVE Adam! We liked Kris but Adam is clearly a S*T*A*R!!!!!!!!!
  • Cloria
    I tried to vote for Adam a couple of times and got some sort of "trouble with the phone line" type of message, so I stopped thinking that non-AT&T subscribers were not allowed to vote. After reading this article, I now suspect that the phone company may have been obstructing the votes going for Adam nationwide, not just in Arkansas. And I had thought that the AI producers gave "it" to Allen because they wanted to end up with two winners instead of just one. But even under that scenario Adam Lambert was the one and only winner - a trillion times.
  • JM
    I live on the East coast. I couldn't get through to Adam's numbers for almost the first 3 hours. Same with my friends. We don't have AT&T, so maybe that was the problem? Or maybe all the gizmo that Krisallenation told fans to download was hogging up the system?
  • tij
    Adam Lambert does not mind losing American idol. But his fans do, because they spent 4 hours voting their butts off and thought they were doing everything right.
  • Sheena
    its very suspicious how Adam did not win...He is the real thing . .. The other wins by Arkansas cheaters? Yeah, that's the answer. ADAM IS THE REAL AMERICAN IDOL...The Honest man...This season its very obvious who the real winner is, so even AT&T denies it, many won't believe....Once the rumor comes out, usually there's a truth behind it...
  • Jason Randall
    I am real proud to be a supporter of Kris Allen in Arkansas being responsibal for over 10,000 votes myself as a part of 38 million votes casted in Arkansas. Adam may be immensely talented but his lifestyle does not represent the role model that AI should represent. Kris represents a wholesome American values that our nation derely needs.
  • Rory Jay
    American idol is about who is the better singer not what there religion is or if they have a family or what sex they like female or male or both i doesn't matter its about who will become the biggest star.And adam lambert should have the title and on the voting night i text vote over 80 times and never got any message back like i normally do saying it was counted and i could vote as many times as i wanted.I couldn't even get through till the last 30 minutes of voting its horrible if at&t really did block out all adams fans votes until the end i'm really pissed about that i sat there for 4 hours texting and trying to get through and nothing was counted poor adam and poor kris.
  • M Kendall
    I was just waiting for these type of comments to come out of the woodwork. You give the good people of Arkansas a bad name. Wholesome American values? Oh, you mean your values, right? What the h*** does values of any sort have to do with a singing competition? I could care less what orientation or gender or skin color or size any of the contenstants are on a show like American Idol. It is all about singing ability and star potential. Drop the bigoted rhotoric.
  • Snickering Rain
    Jason Randall...

    Seriously? You have a problem with what you casually refer to as Adam's alleged "lifestyle" (choice of words revealing much indeed) as inappropriate to represent "wholesome American values"

    Yet...cheating for a win...is something about which to be "real proud"?

    p.s.: r-e-s-p-o-n-s-i-b-l-e; d-e-a-r-l-y
  • SunStudio
    One of the parties attended by AT&T was at the University of Central Arkansas' Estes Stadium, with about 2,000 people in attendance, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported last week. The paper said display phones and company representatives were on hand to teach multiple "power texting" there, with phones and representatives also available at a watch party at the Peabody Little Rock hotel.

    The above was quoted just before on the internet. There was also a huge "Kris Allen Task Force" put up with who knows how many attendees and AT&T Power Texting phones & options. This is an outrage and a joke. Why doesnt Fox address this immediatley?
  • Devis
    Good job AT&T! Lets see what happens to American Idol's ratings next season. Adam is the real star and he will be much more successful!
  • Melissa
    I am not only done with Idol, but my AT&T contract is up and instead of renewing and upgrading, I'm switching to Verizon Wireless. So long Idol and AT&T.
  • David Niel
    Based on everything Adam has said (and I am a HUGE fan), he's thrilled to have come in 2nd, and in fact, I think is shunning this whole conspiracy theory (even if it's true) because while winning actually would have really been cool for those who are into him, it might not have been so good for his musical career -- I mean, he'd have to have that horrible "no boundaries" song as his first single. Ug... Anyway, while this texting thing AT&T thing is annoying, for Adam being 2nd hasn't hurt him a bit -- he's still getting the lion's share of the media spotlight and as I understand it, he'll have much more control over his contract and the production of his music and based on what I've seen, that's a good thing!
  • Kinmerly
    Jason Randall's confession proves that 38 million votes were casted from Arkansas..And he was able to cast 10K votes. Imagine that? One person can cast 10k votes...The news is valid true...The worst voting system in America...
  • Melissa
    Hmmm....Imagine...One person could get through 10,000 times while most of us Adam fans had a hard enough time getting through once in four hours.(I couldn't even get through once out of 800 attemptsw) Not to mention one little state accounts for 1/3 of the entire countries votes!!!??? Most definitely something wrong with that voting system. Fox, AT&T, and American Idol should be disgraced!
  • Sunshine
    Given the latest AT&T scandal, I think it is only fair to give BOTH Adam and Kris the American Idol title. While Adam does not need the title for his career, FOX should give it to him unless they can show concrete proof that Kris would have won without the "power text". It is only fair. The only reason for the 38 million votes from AK is that the "power text" instructions were passed onto other parties, and multiply exponetially. I think Kris is a nice guy so I don't want to rob him of the title, but I think Adam deserve it as well.
  • Gracie
    With Adam leading in I-Tune sales (by far) and his overall popularity, plus he is the most talented ever to perform on AI, it blew me away that he was not the winner. I voted by phone for 4 hours, but for the 1st three hours, I could not get thru. Either got dead air, or it would just ring & ring. So unfair by AT&T to make sure the person they wanted was the winner. Kris seems like a great guy and he does not deserve this scandel any more than Adam. Fox network, do the right thing and tell us where the votes came from and how the votes were received.
  • Adam has a beautiful soul
    The guy who is proud of voting 10,000 times for Kris Allen should be proud of being part of a SCAM voting system. Adam is the true talent and true winner. He was so gracious in interviews after the finale night and genuinely happy for Kris.

    American Idol needs to review their voting system and there should be a limited amount of votes per contestant on voting night. Adam is destined for a hugely successful career worldwide, and Kris Allen will fade away after a year to be found playing state fairs in the south.
  • JJ
    Adam or Kris, the real issue is that AT&T commited fraud.

    ALL of the text votes need to be discarded, and no one should pay a dime for their texted votes.

    After that, who ever wins, wins.
  • Josell
    If Adam does not care thats because he has a respect to the winner, & is a very good man. But this issue should not be neglected because its obviously cheating, injustice, hateful. AT&T hurt so many people. Guys, support Adam, support , support , him.
  • Rendy
    Adam should of Won!!!!! Icalled for 2 hours and got through maybe....10 times. Adam was the reason I got excited for Tuesday nights !!!!!!Next season will be so boring after Adam... I did'nt think the show would ever be exciting again after Bo Bice, loved him.... but then along came Adam and put the spark back into the show he was pure entertainment!!!!! And I really don't understand why they have Kara on there she's not an asset to the show at all !!! In fact the the show probably wouldnt run over time quite so often without her.
  • Paulina
    I'm not from America but followed AI from the beginning & have been rooting for Adam. I was really crushed when he didn't win. I don't even bothered to see the result show. Now I know why Adam lost ...
  • Julie
    Adam is MY idol....
  • Rita
    If you saw Fox News tonight, you would know they are sweeping this story under the rug so fast you can't see for the dust. They had confusing survey questions; phonied up Kris fan interviews; took only 2 statements from the blog that favored Fox; and presented skewed statistics. I have never seen such manipulation by a TV station. I think what Fox, AT & T and AI need is a good class action suit. I feel they misrepresented this whole voting thing. My vote didn't count. AT & T's vote counted. It's gone beyond Adam and Kris. And, by the way, they wouldn't let me post this comment on their blog. I wonder why. I can't let this go. They think they can fool the American public. Fox, AT & T and AI showed no remorse or gave no apology for their unethical behavior. Why aren't they accountable?
  • MK
    Maybe there is a conspiracy surrounding this after all? Fox is, as we all know, right wing, which is something that Adam did not represent. Jerry Randall above said something to the effect that Kris was the Idol with the proper values that America needed. Maybe he was the Idol that Fox needed.

    of course Im only kidding...
  • Dirt
    wtf? 40 comments on an American Idol post? Yet no comments on any of the other articles. wow
  • The Legend
    Arkansas was very well organized and had help from AT&T in hosting texting parties and power texts. This and the GIZMO software allowed Arkansas to get 38 million out of the 100 million votes. On group of 105 Arkansas voters bragged how they did over 410,000 votes with this technology.
    AT & T is being investigated as are some of the Arkansas groups for rules violation.

    The other main reason Adam lost is that every week in which a contestant got kicked off, it made Kris's voting club stronger. A Danny Gokey fan would gravitate towards the next reasonable similiar singer, which is Kris. Adam was the extreme opposite.

    Adam lost beacause a small state of 2.8 million people organized three universities, thousands of cell phones, sending thousands of text messages and Gokeys voters went towards the familiar instead of talent.
    This was not a singing contest it was a technology and popularity contest. Adam won over the audience and the judges. His CD sales, longevity of career , awards and sekk out oerformances will be mammoth over Kris Arkansas.
  • Flee
    Adam is confident and kind. A real talent. That with his Gift of a beautiful voice is a Winner in anybodies book, let alone the charisma, star quality looks and a great style, recognized the World over. Adam welcome to the World Idol Winner. Chris will be ok, he looked great with Keith Urban.
  • The primary point for me ties back to Dean's post last week that focused on the mechanism more than the outcome. The fact that crowd-sourcing can be 'gamed' to generate a false positive should generate cries of 'heresy' from the 'crowd' crowd, including Clay Shirkey, et al. But we know that voting systems can generate interesting outcomes, do we even need to be reminded of our lessons in 'hanging chads' in the 2000 Florida election?

    However, another key point that the NYTimes made clear is that ALL 8 Idol winners are from the south, so there's something to this unbeaten string more than just the AT&T parties in Arkansas. There's a clear bias in the competition toward talent from that part of the country. Why weren't there similar parties in other geographies generating volumes of votes for the local kid? It's simply not that important, I guess.

    So, Kris deserved to win. He's grew up in the part of the country that has figured out how to 'game' the competition. He won them over and they consolidated around him.
  • Julie
    I don't agree that all the 8 Idol winners are from the South. You've forgotten season 7 winner Adam Cook, who is originally from Blue Springs, Missouri(a suburb of Kansas City)....that's in the Mid-West, not the South. It's also a relatively small town compared to other parts of the country, so it's possible those small towns band together more than the larger areas. Don't get me wrong, I'm an Adam fan and I was shocked that Kris won! If votes were really not legitimate then is his title legitimate? There's got to be a better way, but I've always thought that Fox or American Idol could manipulate the votes and we would never know since they aren't published! Something has got to change!!
  • chibi Ranran
    no matter what the result, who's the winner... I still love u Lambert!! Go Lambert!!! You ROCKS!!!!
  • chibi Ranran
    No matter what the result was, I still love you, Lambert! Go Lambert!!!! You ROCKS!!!!
  • Salene
    I'm done with idol too. And I would recommend that we all BOYCOTT American Idol and AT&T. This is plain cheating and dishonesty. AT&T needs to explain why a state with fewer than 3 million people registered almost 40% of the votes (38 mil). Common on a*holes, do you think the public is stupid? We'll see how stupid they are when the ratings tumble next year. The public has a lot of power here. Also, if AI release the numbers, I think it'll all be a lie anyway, so why bother. They need to make it right for Adam and on principle, i.e. HONESTY!
  • jenny
  • CMC
    For those of you who actually think "Adam was robbed", you are being naive and just plain bitter. To think that AT&T handing out a handful of phones and instructing Allen fans on how to power vote, would have an impact on the results is just plain proposterous. American Idols reps have even stated that without a doubt, Allen clearly won. This leads me to believe that Kris won by a pretty wide margin (which was confirmed by Ryan Seacrest in his radio show).
    And for those silly people who commented on how Adam must have won because they attempted to vote for four straight hours for Lambert and only got through "X" numbers of times, well the same thing happened to me. But I was voting for Kris. In the end, more votes were placed for Kris Allen-who is extremely talented in his own right. Bitter Lambert fans really just need to move on.
  • CIPO
    Adam fans really need to wake up and realize that more people liked Kris and voted for him. This conspiracy theory is just plain stupid and if you believe it, you are either really niave or just plain grasping at straws.

    By the way, I happened to see a story on my local Fox news station about some woman who bought a bunch of AT&T phones and power voted for Lambert 52,000 times. SO it goes both ways guys. Bottom line, in NO WAY did AT&T influence the outcome of the results. I guarantee that is AI took away the votes that were made from those "handful of phones" Allen still would have won by a landslide.
  • Brucek99
    The easiest way to know for sure is just release how many votes Arkansas cast. They don't have to release anything else just that. If the rumor of 38 mil is true than yeah you have to wonder. Those text phones make a huge difference. Supposedly there were 50 phones at one party and 30 at another. 10 votes at a time and lets say it takes 5 seconds to push the send button (being really conservative here) thats almost 3 million votes and that's being conservative. But you know what. What is done is done and all it did was give more business to AT&T so when next season comes around more people will go out and buy the phones. Kris now has this bit of tarnish to his win, Adam may have been the true winner but he'll never know, the fans feel cheated but guess what AT&T is happy!! But what is really amazing is the friendship those two have forged. Two really different people with two really different styles and they so obviously really care for one another. I think that is remarkable. Adam could have been a jerk about the whole thing but he has been amazingly supportive of Kris and the same is said for Kris who keeps saying Adam should have won. I have nothing but utter respect and admiration for the both of them!!
  • Mariyas
    The big difference is the woman BOUGHT a BUNCH of AT&T phones why she cast 52.000 times a you say. She spent her own money to vote for Adam. That's credible because a Kris' fan from Arkansas stated she placed 45,000 votes for Kris. But what happened in Arkansas was that AT&T BROUGHT the phones and distributed them around already set up for power texting. And AT&T set them up to be able to vote in other time zones. Means, votes placed from Arkansas is not only 38 million but much much more! And this was for FREE!!!
  • yo momma
    And who said these power texting votes in Arkansas were ALL for Kris? Just because they were used in Arkansas, does it mean that none of them were for Adam?!... that's so dumb!

    He lost!!... the media, Simon and himself gave the impression to the viewers that there was no space for anyone else to win this year.

    By the way, I didn't like anyone of them, and didn't vote for them.
  • Brian
    im from sa and also a big fan of adam,we had the same thing with the sa idol,they crownd
    the wrong winner,then admitted the had made a mistake with the voting,then made both winners,they both got a contract and the same prizes
  • JM
    CIPO: You said more people like Kris. How do you know? Kris may have gotten more votes but that doesn't say anything about who has more fans. Also, people have a right to question a voting system that they see as flawed or maybe even broken. Maybe this attention will make it better and more fair for the contestants next year.
  • Rosalina
    Tjat's it! I'm done with AI.So phony.AI bacame alive because of Adam Lambert.After that stupid result, AI is slidding downhill.
  • MK
    I agree that AI is on its way out (the ratings were down this year, and you noticed that Seacrest-out! did not continuously tout the record breaking ratings this year as he has done in the past). Personally, I thought it had jumped the shark two seasons ago, and at the start of this season with the 4th judge (aka let's see if I can get my dress cut lower than Paula's), I wasn't expecting much. I was only planning to watch the first few weeks when the really horrible ones were auditioning, but I stayed with it and found Adam to be a fresh breath of life for a series that is about to enter life support. i give it 1, maybe 2 more years max.
  • Jerry
    Lambert was the favorite going in because that's what the media thought and God forbid they're ever wrong. Wait... They're stupid, stupid people with a self-righteousness.

    Anyway, here's what needs to happen for Lambert. Appeal to the California Supreme Court. Get a favorable ruling for a vote again to take place. Have California vote. When Lambert loses again, bring it back to the courts - Obviously people are stupid. But... What if the Supreme Court doesn't allow for another vote, since we've voted twice for pete's sake...

    Suckers. :)

    Anyway, as soon as Gokey went down, I knew it was going to be a blowout for Kris Allen. Most all his votes would go to Kris, and the typical liberal/media b*tchfest would commence.

    In the end, it's a reality TV show - Who gives a sh*t! Now go watch The Goode Family. ;)
  • JM
    Jerry, you're an idiot. Adam could care less about being runner-up. Some of his fans are upset and rightly so. They are entitled to be upset. It's a free country. I bet you never even watched AI. It's obvious you have no idea what is going on.
  • JLIP
    Adam will be an icon. Have been listening to Led Zeppelin and Queen. He sounds better than either of their past lead singers. Those studio versions of Adams performances that Idol is trying to sell sound terrible - all the gut wrenching feeling is missing from them. Can't wait till he gets a real job with a real rock band so I can buy the CDs.
  • yo momma
    First of all, shouldn't this AT&T power text option work for Adam too?... if he won, no one would ever notice the detail, but since America chose the little guy, then there's something fishy. So dumb!
    Second, I never saw a show giving the best options to just one of the competitors... The best performances and bands were for Adam. The best studio arrangements were for Adam. Adam had the chance to play with the best of the best... Slash, Kiss, etc., while Alan just sings with Keith Urban... come on!...
    Adam had the best voice, but Kris might not have a great voice, but had the music talent... he played not one, but two instruments perfectly well. He got the package.
    Besides that, Adam was "extremely" cocky through the whole show, showing an attitude of "I'm the best here, I'm the winner"... and I always heard everyone around saying... "I know he's the best, but I hate him, I want him to lose"...
    So, I'm not impressed that he lost, he deserved that deception at that very last moment, knowing that America didn't choose him, even though, I totally know that he'll have a great career, even better than Kris'.
  • MK
    Do you actually think that Kris would have been successful being paired up with acts such as Slash and Kiss? Absolutely not. He has a completely different style than Adam and would have been elimated from the competition early on had they attempted to fit him into the rock mould. The closest he comes to rock is maybe Coldplay, which isn't really rock music. So Kris needed to be paired up with a more diverse set of artists to stay competitive, and I think the producers were successful in doing this (actually, I don't have to think about it...he was successful as he ultimately won the competition). As far as the voting is concerned, if anyone here thinks that this whole thing from day 1 hasn't been skewed (and I mean day 1 from season 1), they are out of their minds. As we have seen in past political elections, voting fraud occurs, so why should we think otherwise for Idol. If not, someone like Sanjia (spelling?) could potentially make it through to the end of Idol and win the whole d*mn thing with enough votes from an organized group trying to upset the apple cart. Simon Fuller would not let this happen.
  • Brian
    I thought ADAM LAMBERT should have won as well. He is absolutely amazing!

    Whether you are an ADAM LAMBERT fan or a KRIS ALLEN fan, you still have to wonder:
    How on Earth, can 38 Million Votes out of a total of 100 Million come from ARKANSAS alone???????
    That in itself has to raise suspicions.
    One State of 2.8 million out of 300 Million in the entire US, registers 38% of the Vote.
    Even if every single vote out of ARKANSAS was for ADAM..............Something is definitely wrong.
    It defies any normal thought. Even only 10 Million votes would be suspicious, regardless of who they were for.
    C'mon people !!! Wake up !!!!