May 21, 2009

It’s been an Idol kind of day…

Katie May 21, 2009 0Comment

This morning I got an email notification that Kris and Adam would be on the Today Show next week. I decided to try my luck and enter for VIP Tickets (My friend Lauren and I hoped to get to the city last year to see the Davids, but it never worked out) Shortly after, I got an email response that I had a VIP Pass for each of us for the performance.

The downside – we have to be there NO LATER THAN 6am. Which means, we either risk the 4:22 train and get into the city at 5:47 – or find a place to crash the night before and leave there around 5am. Anyone got a floor in NYC we can crash on? Or know of a super cheap hotel?

I continued on my day and doing my work… When my phone rings just after 5pm. It was KC101 and I won a Meet and Greet to meet DAVID COOK on Sunday before his concert here (that I’m also going to) I am sooo freaking excited, you don’t even understand. That is all going down Sunday afternoon – so there will be MAJOR updates on Sunday about Cook (luckily Monday is a holiday!) Andddd it seems fairly certain I will finally get a picture with someone who did not come in 2nd place on Idol.

And yes, I did go to Oklahoma over the weekend, and yes, a post about that is coming… at some point. Perhaps tomorrow.. or later tonight if I can get my act together.

American Idol

Katie May 21, 2009 0Comment

Kris won and I am thrilled. I tweeted about getting tix to both CT shows if he wins.. but I’m not sure if I’m gonna end up doing that lol Though I definitely plan to go to the venues the day off to try and meet the Idols, something I’ve never done before.

I am hoping to get tix to the Bridgeport show though – I’m just being incredibly picky about what seats I want, especially since they’re going to cost me something like $85.

What I do want to talk about here is how all the Adam fans are quick to jump to conclusions that anyone who voted for Kris did so because Adam is gay. Here’s the deal. I voted for Kris. A lot. I have no problems with Adam except for that I DON’T LIKE HIS SINGING. (Actually – let’s rephrase that – I don’t like his SCREECHING. I listened to some of his studio recordings on my flight to Oklahoma last weekend and he actually isn’t that bad – but I still like Kris more)

This is a singing competition, right? So I should be voting for who I think is the better singer – and I think that is/was Kris Allen.

The Adam fans looking for any excuse as to why their beloved didn’t win, need to calm down. Adam will do *fine* without the Idol crown. Of this I am sure. Could he even outsell Kris? I believe he can. (And not only because his super fans will buy multiple copies of his album to MAKE him sell more)

I think Kris needed that extra “boost” that being crowned the American Idol will give him. Adam did not. Will not.

So everyone just stop accusing half of America of being homophobic. While that might have played into some of the votes, I really don’t think anyone voting solely because Adam was gay and Kris is christian and married stuck to it for the whole 4 hours like the real fans did.

Both Adam and Kris (and heck, even a few others of the Top 13) will do FINE with their careers.