American Idol Season 9 Contestant to Watch Out For: Katie Stevens

Oh. My God. I love Katie Stevens. How many times have you seen a down to earth, non-hardcore girl with a guitar on American Idol? I can't remember any. She's the female version of the Kris Allen type. I think she's amazing and I really hope she goes far. The only flaw is she looks kind of boring. I think in order to do well in this competition she needs to show more of her personality. Simon will probably rip her to shreds if she doesn't. lol.


Listen to a cover of her singing "Bubbly" by Colbie Calliat below. Thoughts?

Is Justin Williams a Modern Day Beach Boy?

Ever since I was little I've loved the beach boys for their distinct sound. I never once thought I'd ever hear another music artist with a similar sound...until I heard Justin Williams.

Justin Williams allegedly made it to Hollywood week this season. He also made it through last season and got cut just before the top 32 was chosen. However, I can't for the life of me remember him from last year. I think that he has a lot of potential to go far though if he got that far last season. Kind of reminds me of how Gina Glocksen auditioned 3 times before making it to the top 12.

I think he's amazing, but he won't win because American Idol is trying to find a winner that goes beyond the singing with a guitar. They had that last year with Kris Allen.

Below is a video of Williams singing "Fly Me to the Moon". Thoughts?

American Idol Contestant to Watch Out For: Katelyn Clampett

Katelyn Clampett is definitely one of the most polished, professional alleged-Hollywood-round contestants to be liked thus far for Season 9 of American Idol. She is definitely a very talented singer and I definitely seeing her making it into the top 6 of the compeitition, but I'm not sure that she has what it takes to win the compeition. Although she is a very good, natural singer, she lacks personality. She seems really, really boring, and after having Kris Allen win last year, American Idol is not going to want to have another boring winner. Another thing that bothers me with Clampett is her apperance. She looks too made up. Actually, she reminds me of Carrie Prejean. It doesn't look right with her video, either. A makeover will definitely be needed.

Listen to Katelyn Clampett's original song, Water Them Down below:


Thoughts?

American Idol Contestant to Watch Out For: Tim Urban

Another alleged Hollywood-round contestant that Votefortheworst.com has leaked is Tim Urban. In this video, his friend's drumming can be a little over-powering, but from what I can hear, Urban seems to have some serious chops. His voice sounds very natural and pure. He reminds me of the kind of guy that would sing acoustically a lot on the show. He reminds me a lot of Kris Allen and Jason Castro. His voice isn't the best of the allegedly season 9 contestants that I've heard so far, but I think he could at least make it into the top 24, possibly the top 12 as well.

Here is a video of an original song by Tim Urban. I wonder if his friend is a singer, too, and if he tried out for Idol?

American Idol Contestant to Watch For: Daniel Murillo

Votefortheworst.com has recently posted a video of an alleged Hollywood-round American Idol contestant, Daniel Murillo. Murillo is most noted for being a member of the rock band, Hollywood Undead. In this video, he is singing a cover of Maroon 5's hit, "Sunday Morning" and it is AMAZING! If this guy continues to sing this well on the show I think that we'll be seeing him a lot. His voice is similar to Kris Allen, but less boring. He seems to be a more contemporary version of Allen, which will hopefully mean that he will share greater success. He is also pretty similar to Season 7 contestant, Jason Castro. The ladies will love Murillo.

Listen to Murillo's take on Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning" below:


"Sunday Morning" Maroon 5 Cover

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Kris Allen's Debut Single Released, But It's a Disappointment.

Here's a youtube video featuring 2009 American Idol Champ, Kris Allen's debut single for the re-make of the song, "Live Like You're Dying".

I like the song, but I certainly don't LOVE it. It's nothing compared to Allen's re-make of Kanye West's "Heartless".


The original version of the song was done by a band called The Scripts.

Kris Allen's still untitled debut album will be available for purchase on November 17th.

What do you think of his new song? Will you buy his album when it comes out?

There will be "No Boundaries" on Idol tour...

Literary! The first single of Kris Allen, which Idol judge Kara Dioguardi has carelessly written, is so terrible that it is now being discarded from the remaining Idol tour dates! The winner's first single is usually the biggest part of the show! Kara truly screwed this job up! I wonder what the replacement song will be...

Kris Allen Proves Why He's Our American Idol!

There's been a lot of controversy today about the American Idol results last week. Apparently some AT&T representatives attended a party in Arkansas and handed out cell phones and gave lessons on how to text. It's being said that the representatives even taught party-goers how to cheat and send multiple text vote at once. Since Arkansas is Kris Allen's home town, many people believe that this cheating could have been the reason why Allen won.

However, the American Idol spokespeople have stated that Kris won fair and square, and he apparently won by a mile.

If the sales number of the final 2 contestant's singles are any indicator, Kris Allen is America's favorite choice.

Kris Allen has sold a total of 134,458 copies of his version of "No Boundaries" this week, while runner-up Adam Lambert has only sold a mere 35,948 copies. Ouch! Burn Lambert, Burn!

American Idol Season 8 Finale Part 1-Review

Adam Lambert opened up the finale by performing "Mad World" for his fan favorite song. It wasn't as painful as the first time he performed it. He didn't screach as much, but he made the weird faces which ruined it. I hate the trench coat he wore. It looks like he's a puppy trying to be a big dog...or Adam Lambert trying to be Marilyn Manson...it just didn't work. The judges were luke-warm to it. Randy and Kara loved it. Paula said it was theatrical, but I think she meant it as a compliment? And Simon said it was too theatrical.

Kris Allen's fan favorite song was "Ain't No Sunshine". He performed it with the piano and I loved it. This is probably my favorite song that Kris performs. It's beautiful. All of the judges loved it and Simon declared that round one went to Kris.

For the producer's choice song Adam got stuck singing "A Change is Gonna Come". To me it wasn't really any different from "Mad World". Adam didn't screech as much but he still made those weird faces. He looked like he was going to bust out crying any minute. The judges all loved it and Paula said it was her favorite performance.

The producers chose "What's Going On" for Kris Allen's second performance. He sang with an acoustic guitar, bongos, and few other instruments. I thought it was pretty good. I don't think it was the greatest song in the world for him to sing, but he didn't have a choice. I think he did about the most he could've done with the song. Kara and Paula seemed to like it, but Randy and Simon did not. Simon went as far as to say "It was like three guys in a bed room". Round 2 clearly went to Adam.

Round three was the worst. The contestants sang the same song...the song that will be their first single if they win. The song was written by American Idol judge Kara. It is called "No Bondaries" and it proves that when it comes to awful song writing, Kara has "No Boundaries". The song is truely awful. Both Kris and Adam sounded terrible. I guess it would be less painful to here Kris' version, but either one would be radio suicide. I think Kris and Adam tied on this one?

So if they tied in round three, that means it's an overall tie.

The show closed with Carrie Underwood singing "Home". Her performance was by far the best performance of the night. It's too bad she can't re-win the compeition. lol.

So who does everyone think will win? Adam Lambert is the favored winner by far, but according to dialidol.com, Kris Allen is in the lead with 66% of the votes. Well, that sure makes things more interesting...

Not everyone loves Adam Lambert...

All throughout this season of American Idol Adam Lambert has practically been worshipped as a God. I can't remember the last time he was criticized by any of the judges for his performance. Was he ever even criticized? Just last week Simon begged voters to vote for Adam (not that he really needed the judges to beg the viewers to vote for him...) and Katy Perry lost a large amount of my respect for her by pimping out Adam Lambert as she wore a cape with his name on it during her performance on Idol.

With this being said it makes perfect sense that Adam Lambert is in the finale. As Simon Cowell says, he's a "ding-dong". He will inevitably win American Idol season 8 because everyone loves him, right?

Maybe not.

Chris Daughtry, lead singer of the band, Daughtry and past Idol contestant (whom many will argue should have won season 6) is not rooting for Adam Lambert.

The highly sucessful platinum-selling artist admitted that he is not into Adam Lambert and is instead rooting for Kris Allen to win Season 8 of American Idol. TMZ has a video where Chris Daughtry explains that Adam Lambert isn't his "type".

I guess Adam Lambert is too "GLAM" for Daughtry...