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It sounds like Adam is having fun and working with some great people, so thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s half the battle (if not more).

I wouldn’t be surprised if Kris is too, we’re just not hearing about it. I like the above post, because we can always hope.

Off to bed.

# @ xxxxx not sure who assuming same place as JTimberlake. Radio said why this amà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦about 1 hour ago from Twitterrific in reply to xxxx

girlygirl, not sure what this one was referring to, but I think Justin Timberlake recorded an album in Virginia Beach, at Timbaland’s Mosley studios. Could Kris have been in V.B. to work with Timbaland?

Then on to Chicago, to meet Kanye?? Too much to hope?

I may even go as far as to say even the artists that are tweeting about working w/Adam, shows nothing definite about his final album.

Correct. In the past, there has been a lot of comments about collaborations and such, but they don’t all make the record. And sometimes the label tries out one direction and it doesn’t pan out they way they thought so they change directions. And that was in the days (i.e. before this year) when people were twitting everything they are doing. I have to admit that it is kind of fun though.

It sounds like Adam is having fun and working with some great people, so that’s half the battle (if not more).

AC Jun 17th, 2009 at 12:18 am

yeah, they never release anything like this because nothing is ever definite about what is going to be on the album until the album is actually released.

I agree. I may even go as far as to say even the artists that are tweeting about working w/Adam, shows nothing definite about his final album. Right?

Virgina Beach and who claims her brother was on a flight with Kris from ORF (wherever that is) to Chicago.

ORF is the airport code for Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Virginia. All airports have three letter codes and you’ll see them encoded on your luggage (e.g. LAX for Los Angeles International Airport and LHR for London Heathrow). So, Kris would have flown from ORF to ORD. LOL.

Thanks for bringing those tweets here.

# @ xxxxx not sure who assuming same place as JTimberlake. Radio said why this am…about 1 hour ago from Twitterrific in reply to xxxx

# @ xxxxx kris was in va beach to record album & he went to The Frey concert last night…about 2 hours ago from Twitterrific in reply to xxxx

# My bro flew 1st class next to Kris Allen from ORF to Chicago! Lucky.about 7 hours ago from Twitterrific

Now, IF this is true (and I don’t know whether it is), if some local radio station in Virginia is reporting this…is there some reason 19/Jive couldn’t release this information to the public? It doesn’t have to be a big declaration — a short press release would be fine. I don’t think that’s too much to ask, is it?

“Just did some exercising and running on the treadmill! Woo! Feels good to work out my out-of-shape self once in a while haha.”

seriously david.. im SURE you are in alot better shape then most of us…

oh david… tweet:

“K, problem with treadmills: it moves the ground for you, and when you get off, your legs don’t want to move forward. Have any of you dealt with this?”

But that was before album sales collapsed and Taylor didn’t sell platinum. That said, I still expect Kris to do well. However, it’s never a good thing to have Simon be meh on your win. That’s usually a bad thing.

That worries me about Kris. I think Simon liked Cook and was sort of neutral on Jordin. The only two winners I’ve really heard him diss were Taylor and Kris.

Sharon was Josiah’s mom, and she fought a long, grueling battle with cancer. She wrote about it in detail on her blog.

This is so sad. She fought so hard to live.

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PerezHilton@MDMolinari Did you jokingly tell Adam Lambert I have a crush on him? You know he’s not my type! 19 minutes ago from web

Yup! Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s why heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s kind of the stealth/Obama guy in this race (I guess ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s still a race, huh?). Continually under-estimated, always surprising to those ready to write him off.

Yeah I think it’s still a race and I still like my tortoise and hare analogy.

Mj, I also hope your right! I have no problem with what seems to be lack of media attention right now for Kris, as long as he is promoted properly.

I also agree that that the media is the one seemingly grabbing up the press for Adam, not 19…I don’t think…

Before I came to Connecticut, I got to spend the night (and just for the night, not even day) in Utah. I couldn’t sleep, and I mentioned the cats on twitter… But I wrote a letter to a friend and put it in the mailbox that night, or I guess morning lol, so I wouldn’t forget to send it before I had to leave to CT. Well funny thing, when I turned the door knob it was locked. You can open it inside but not on the outside. I didn’t have my phone with me, and no one was answering the door. I tried throwing small pebbles at the window but that didn’t work either. So there I was in my PJ’s outside, without shoes, and cold! I ran down the street to keep the blood going and went to a friend’s house, hoping they’d be awake or more responsive than at my place haha. I knocked on the window that I thought was my friend’s room, but I’m guessing that I guessed wrong or he wasn’t awake, or something. I went back to the front and just knocked on the door, and thankfully his dad happened to be awake. So he opens the door and there I am standing in my PJ’s feeling stupid, but I was so glad to go inside somewhere warm! Anyway I eventually got back into the house, and headed to the airport a couple hours later heh.

more at the link

I think this is the second time I’ve heard him talk about locking himself out of the house. Haha!!

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/cbs-walls-off-neighborhood-for-reality-show.html

I think that they are both horrible.

I agree. The websites are both bad. What is that picture they have of Adam?? It doesn’t even look like him. lol

Yup! Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s why heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s kind of the stealth/Obama guy in this race (I guess ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s still a race, huh?). Continually under-estimated, always surprising to those ready to write him off.

Who is writing Kris off?? I just don’t get it. Everyone knows he won, but its not realistic to think the media, music industry, and people in general aren’t going to have interest in the other contestants. lol

Anyway, ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not in 19à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s interest to promote their runner-up over their winner. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s much better for the reputation of the show to have a winner who is successful. A successful winner and runner-up is even better. No reason they canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t promote both.

I completely agree MJ. It would be bad business not to promote Kris, and they’d be stupid not to promote both of them. In the end its all about the green.

It would be nice if they started with fixing his myspace so you can add him as a friend.

Rumors from fan forums? Yep, we shall see.

LOL. No. From TWoP and they claim not to be a fan site. It is from some dude who claims to know some insider at Jive and was the first person I saw leak that Allison was going to Jive. But, anybody can be an insider on the net. Jive was quite emphatic in their press release that they wanted Allison no matter what, so I don’t think she will get the KLC treatment.

And as far as Taylor is concerned, if his record had been a hit, Idol producers would have changed their tune pretty fast, I think.

I’m pretty sure that is true. Jennifer Hudson is the textbook case of that. I remember Simon just ragging on her and now he implies he was in her corner all along. I don’t think so. Plus, I do think that after Daughtry got the boot, the show started pimping Taylor during the cmopetition.

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t believe the conspiracy theories that TPTB were out to cut Taylor off at the knees.

I don’t think they were trying to cut him off at the knees either, but I also don’t think they were that interested in going out of their way to help him at that point either. He wasn’t signed to 19M and I think he may have already burned a lot of bridges.

And actually, according to the rumors I heard, Taylor might have been doing a pretty good job of that himself, starting with refusing to work on his album while he was on summer tourà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Yes, that certainly didn’t help. Reportedly (not from a fan site either) he was quite difficult to work with as well. That album was never going to outsell Daughtry, but I don’t think 19 was totally innocent in Taylor becoming a walking punchline (nor were his fans or Taylor himself completely innocent).

Yup! That’s why he’s kind of the stealth/Obama guy in this race (I guess it’s still a race, huh?). Continually under-estimated, always surprising to those ready to write him off.

But to me all this stuff is the sad underbelly of Idol. The dimensions of success are now measured against Carrie Underwood, a gifted but IMO totally bland artist, and Kelly Clarkson, who was almost plowed under herself after putting out “Breakaway,” until it gradually became successful.

I realize the goal of this show is to create “superstars,” but I guess that whole concept just seems emptier and emptier to me. I’ll be thrilled if Kris puts out an album I enjoy listening to again and again, gets booked into good venues, and keeps making records.

And by the way, I think Taylor got in his own way. It wasn’t just his music style, it was some poor choices of his own also. But the certainly hyped the heck out of him right after he won!

I may be overreacting a tadà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦but just look at the two guysà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ official websites à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’  Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s is updated and must better put together than is Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢.

I think that they are both horrible. Kris’ is light orange font on a white background, I did not even try to read anything on it because it is too irritating. Adam’s is not much better. They have this weird photo that doesn’t even look much like him (it looks like they photoshopped him to look like some teenage Twilight character). It has white font on a black background, so it’s still irritating to read but at least you can read it, if you want to. It appears to mainly be teenage girls talking dirty to each other about Adam’s pictures or starting “omg I got my autographed picture today!!!!!” threads. It’s nice for the girls I guess but it’s not very interesting reading. For some reason I always imagine Adam’s brother Neil reading that stuff and just rolling in the floor laughing. I bet he has had a lot of fun teasing Adam since this all started.

But Adam’s site was very poorly designed and implemented, so if Kris’ is even worse (I don’t know, not going to deal with that light orange font), that is truly sad.

Right. Taylor did get a nice list of talk shows and media exposure when his album dropped. What he never got – a music video to accompany any single from the release. That one still has me scratching my head..

I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t have helped.

He didn’t get a single before his album dropped, but neither did Daughtry.

Anyway, it’s not in 19’s interest to promote their runner-up over their winner. It’s much better for the reputation of the show to have a winner who is successful. A successful winner and runner-up is even better. No reason they can’t promote both. Actually, if we’re talking press releases, Simon Fuller has already said he plans to promote both, for whatever that’s worth.