On the second half of the interview, at around 3:07, does anyone know what Kris says? I’ve listened to it three times and still can’t make it out.

I remember reading somewhere that the idols are going to join Kris on the chorus of Hey Jude.

SarahP- I canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t find the original Comcast link but hereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s the one to one of Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s fan site which has the interview there too

http://www.krisallenation.com/2008/06/comcast-livechat-full-transcript.html

thank youuu!!! now some of the questions i had in mind are answered

Maybe “Falling Slowly” will be on his album and that’s why he’s not doing it on tour. (?)

http://www.krisallenation.com/2008/06/comcast-livechat-full-transcript.html

she is the one who wrote the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  American got it wrongà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  article on Yahoo after the finale result ( and it got like 37k comments). So no wonder she was that bias.

That would explain why I didn’t remember her. I tried to avoid the “OMG Adam wuz robbed!!” articles after the finale.

No matter whose fan she was, I found her overall interview style annoying and somewhat patronizing. I liked hearing more about the music and tour in the second part though. Kris managed to make it a worthwhile interview.

Technically, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“weà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  tried to since a lot of these questions came up in his comcast interview. hehe..

link pls???

as a big kris fan, i dont really want to know about his personal life or about his relationship with katy. i want to know more about the MUSIC, and what influences his music and maybe a little more about the missionary work he did, and also some of krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s likes and dislikes, which noone asks about.

Technically, “we” tried to since a lot of these questions came up in his comcast interview. hehe..

Yeah, it was funny how he brushed off Adris. He knows that it’s all about Kradam- even though Adris would make more sense since Adam likes being on top. haha

Maybe once he goes off on his own away from the whole AI thing we’ll get to learn more about the music. Hopefully, if Kris becomes a successful solo artist, reporters won’t still be asking him mainly about AI and Kradam a few years down the road. I know all the former AI people like Kelly, Carrie and David still get asked about AI a little, but it’s no longer the focus of the reporters.

I was just happy to see any kind of extended interview with Kris. He’s become pretty good at dealing with the reporters — certainly much better than he was when he first made it into the Top 13.

Hmmmmà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦all the Adam questions donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t really bother me. (yes, Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m a Kris fan) I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think she treated Kris badly at all. As a fan, it DOES get annoying hearing basically the same stuff again and again. But honestly, there are questions heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not allowed to answerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦and I doubt heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s the type to reveal a lot about his personal life. People just donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t know that much about him to base good questions on, I think thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s why they ask about Adam.

as a big kris fan, i dont really want to know about his personal life or about his relationship with katy. i want to know more about the MUSIC, and what influences his music and maybe a little more about the missionary work he did, and also some of kris’s likes and dislikes, which noone asks about.

anyhow, i really cant blame lindsey cos she’s the reason why i discovered mj’s blog (i started reading the yahoo music blog when it appears in the yahoo home page, got bored of it after awhile and looked for alternative blogs) so have to thank lindsey for directing my path here :happy_tb:

One is that he dismissed (kind of) her combined name for Kris and Adam – ‘Adris’, as sounding like a robot.

Next, is that his “First Lady” is there to help him make sure he’s making all the right decisions. I love this!!! Go Katy!!!

Finally, Kris is Kris and doesn’t try to be anyone but himself and even as a fan, this continually amazes me. He knows who he is, that’s for sure.

I hope he is able to make the well respected album he so desires to make. I can’t wait!!!!

What bothers me about the woman is not that she wished Adam had won. But that sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s been so patronising about Kris in subsequent articles, saying how she feels sorry for him because the world (including Kris) knows Adam should have won. That really upsets me.

I never heard of her before, but if I’d read that stuff it would upset me too. Here, the thing that actually bothered me most was: she was surprised he was really modest and that it wasn’t some kind of act.

That seems to have been her assumption before meeting him. I thoouight that was kind of weird.

I know people are curious about him and Katy…but I think he’s purposefully standoffish concerning their relationship. I don’t get the idea there are skeletons in the closet either….and those are the things that people seem to want to know about, sadly enough. They could ask questions about his work after the tsunami, the time he almost died in Morocco, or the tumor, etc…but those things don’t involve drugs, alcohol, brushes with the law, or sex …so I guess they aren’t deemed interesting enough. GOOD news is no news!

So… we will be stuck with him getting questions about Adam (not that I’m not interested in Adam/Kradam, b/c I am!) unless of course, one of the others (Allison , Matt, Danny) steps up to the plate and does something “newsworthy”… then Kris will be asked about them too, LOL!!!

Yeah, I was waiting to hear about Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s songs! I bet heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll do Heartless too (roughly the equivalent of Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Mad World, which heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s doing), and then maybe the other songs will be new.

I’m guessing he’s probably only doing one other new song. I would think we’re getting NB (though I wish he could do FS instead), Heartless, Ain’t No Sunshine, Hey Jude and one more. We know the other new one was something he couldn’t get cleared on the show either, so I’m really interested to see what it is – and which week he would have sung it.

At least now we know for sure Kris is doing 5 songs, and we know 2 of them! No Boundaries and Hey Jude.

Yeah, I was waiting to hear about Kris’s songs! I bet he’ll do Heartless too (roughly the equivalent of Adam’s Mad World, which he’s doing), and then maybe the other songs will be new.

I love Hey, Jude, and think that’s a great choice! I think the Idol’s usually do a few “group” numbers toward the end. So maybe Hey, Jude will be the encore, and will start with Kris, then have everyone else come out, and segue into the group number finale.

I can see some of the Top 10 having some great riffing moments on the “na-na-na” part of Hey, Jude (riff-master Matt, for one :wink_wp:)

Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s her opinion. Kris was Lindseyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s 3rd favorite.

I have no problem with her having her own opinion at all, of course not. But she projects her opinion as fact implying we all, Kris included, know Adam should have won. She’s allowed to be biased, and the interview wasn’t as bad in that respect as I was expecting. She clearly likes Kris well enough. But her finale and post-finale blogs were far worse than just biased.

What bothers me about the woman is not that she wished Adam had won. But that sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s been so patronising about Kris in subsequent articles, saying how she feels sorry for him because the world (including Kris) knows Adam should have won.

That’s her opinion. Kris was Lindsey’s 3rd favorite.

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t really care whether sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s biased or not. Every interviewer has biases.

Yup. All blogs, interviewer, etc are biased. Some just show their biases more than others. She’s paid to show hers, just like Michael Slesak is.

Slezak may be biased, too (of course he is) but he still manages very credible interviews with both the people heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s fanboyish about (e.g. Alison) and the ones heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not (e.g. Matt).

Very, very, very true. Slezak is a GREAT interviewer, and he doesn’t rehash the same questions.

Slezak may be biased, too (of course he is) but he still manages very credible interviews with both the people he’s fanboyish about (e.g. Alison) and the ones he’s not (e.g. Matt). I have a clearer idea of who the person is after the interview than before. That is absolutely not true with this chick’s interviews. I do have a fair idea of who SHE is, though.

My conclusions, based on Adam’s and Kris’s interviews: She thinks she’s too cool for AI, likes rock and sneers at pop, thinks of herself as some high-falutin’ arbiter of taste and artistry, and in general, wants us all to know she considers herself superior to the hoi polloi who watch American Idol. She seems to want her picture on the internet next to these guys more than she wants to know who they really are.

she is the one who wrote the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  American got it wrongà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  article on Yahoo after the finale result ( and it got like 37k comments). So no wonder she was that bias.

I watched the first part on the Yahoo website (before going to an embedded version elsewhere for Pt2), and the link to that post was right next to the video. I tried to ignore it but it definitely did make it a little harder to be objective about the interviewer.

What bothers me about the woman is not that she wished Adam had won. But that she’s been so patronising about Kris in subsequent articles, saying how she feels sorry for him because the world (including Kris) knows Adam should have won. That really upsets me.

That said, I was expecting it to be worse. She asked some repetitive questions, but eventually we got to the music. And it was worth it just for Kris’s reaction to revealing his tour song, and to the ‘off limits’ comments about him and Adam.

On why à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‹Hey Judeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ may have not been cleared for the show. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s owned by Julian Lennon and is one of the very few things he has of his Dadà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s and he had to buy it at auction. (such a sad story) I can see why he may have been reluctant to clear it for AI to use it on the show.

Julian doesn’t own the copyright for “Hey Jude”. It’s owned by Sony/ATV like the rest of the Northern Songs catalog (Lennon and McCartney ended up losing control Northern Songs and that’s why they don’t own most of their catalog). Just do a ACE Title Search on “Come Together” and “Hey Jude” and you’ll see that they are both administered by SONY/ATV TUNES LLC/BEATLES.

What Julian purchased at auction was the recording notes for the song. The song was written by Paul McCartney for Julian to console him after his Dad left his Mom. It’s not one of the few things that Julian has of his Dad. It is true that at the same auction, Julian did buy some other items that did belong to his Dad because his Dad did leave him very few things.

It is a little odd that Sony/ATV would clear one and not the other. I thought Nigel said they cleared their entire catalog. Oh well, Kris won anyway without “Hey Jude” and now he gets to sing it on tour without having to repeat a show song, so it’s all good.

RemusL, I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think so, I wouldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t have clicked on that one. My criticism of it is not about Kris at all, I just have a very strong aversion to the song. The first time I heard it I was just a kid, and the lyrics and ominous tone just seriously creeped me out. I still have that reaction to it. Wouldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t matter who sang it, I hate that song. Especially for Kris, because I think of him as being so positive and all about good things, and to hear that awful song coming out of his mouth was not good. I like his other songs though, and I think he is so adorable.

Interesting. I’ve never felt this song was negative or ominous at all. There have been many discussions and analyses of the meanings of Beatles’ songs, including this one. Apparently, “Come Together” was written by John Lennon to for Timothy Leary to use on his prospective political campaign for governor (which never happened because Leary was subsequently jailed for marijuana possession). Others have interpreted the song to be about each member of the Beatles.

Rolling Stone also ranks the song #202 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. I have a feeling that Kris, being an avid fan of Paul McCartney and the Beatles, would have a pretty good grasp of the meanings behind their songs. I doubt he’d sing something if he were uncomfortable with its subject matter.

Kris did an amazing acoustic version of à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Come Togetherà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  at the Arkansas FOX tv station when he went back for his home visit. Did you get a chance to see that?

RemusL, I don’t think so, I wouldn’t have clicked on that one. My criticism of it is not about Kris at all, I just have a very strong aversion to the song. The first time I heard it I was just a kid, and the lyrics and ominous tone just seriously creeped me out. I still have that reaction to it. Wouldn’t matter who sang it, I hate that song. Especially for Kris, because I think of him as being so positive and all about good things, and to hear that awful song coming out of his mouth was not good. I like his other songs though, and I think he is so adorable.

For the Kris-only fans who insist on keeping count, his interview was significantly longer than Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s, plus most of the first half of Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s interview could be consider rehashed stale questions as well.

Lol, I’m probably not a big fan of Adam, but I don’t certainly keep count. I didn’t watch Adam’s interview, so I have no idea how short/long the interview was. Just that basing it on this interview alone, I found it extremely boring, and the only parts worth watching was the 2nd clip.

Maybe it’s because I have a bias against her. If it was any other interview, Regis/Kelly etc, I would’t probably have mind as those are like less than 10 minutes, it’s just directly after the finale, and those ppl probably don’t follow AI enough and just ask scripted questions. But for this interview, she has almost 20 minutes of interview time, is supposed to be an avid AI follower, and it’s almost a month after the finale! I don’t expect Slezak-level interview, but at least something substantially better than the casual TV interview. Yet she spend 7 minutes or 1/3rd of the time going through things which has been rehashed countless times over the month (Adam, confidence, winning AI, Christian etc.)

In fact, other than the Slezak interview, I’ve really liked the Jay Leno one and to an extent Jimmy Fallon as they asked out-of-the-box and chatted casually on off-topic things with Kris.

Though I know at this stage now that the media circuit is over, it’ll be pretty hard to see Kris stuff as often and it was nice to see Kris talking for about 20 minutes.

What a great interview. Kris is the ultimate zen-master… (chill-meister?)

THIS interview had – an attempting-to-be-professional Adam fan trying to rile up Kris, how he SUPPOSEDLY won Idol, questioning (repeatedly) his humility, talking bout Adam/Kradam (a lot) and being a Christian etc. All 7 minutes plus into the first interview and she has not asked a SINGLE question about music or mention any of his performances which you know, could be among the reasons why he won idol. You would think that as an avid AI follower, she could have come up with more interesting and relevant questions rather than rehash stale questions asked a gazillion times by none-the-wiser news journalists/columnists.

Well, every Idol blogger/writer has certain biases. For Slezak, it’s Allison, for Rushfield, it’s Carly. I’m sure Kris was perfectly aware that Lyndsey Parker is a huge Adam fan, yet I get the feeling she came out of this interview smitten with Kris as well. Yeah, she questioned his humility (in a humorous way, I thought) but came to the firm conclusion that he was the real deal.

For the Kris-only fans who insist on keeping count, his interview was significantly longer than Adam’s, plus most of the first half of Adam’s interview could be consider rehashed stale questions as well. Let’s face it, for dedicated fans, if one can glean a nugget or two of completely new information from an interview, that should be considered a good thing. For more casual fans and the rest of the public, much of the material covered here will not be that familiar to them. And I just love to hear Kris talk in relaxed, lengthy segments without concern for time constraints. His warm personality and good humour come shining through.

I think Kris won over the interviewer!

He did! Hehe.. I can’t remember exactly who it was now but there was another interviewer who said that exact thing too. I think people in the media are human too so they end up having favorites and get caught up in the AI experience, but afterwards, they start to think (a little) more clearly.

Also, I do believe Kris when he says he doesn’t mind the attention that Adam gets. I think he’s glad stuff for him is more concentrated on the music and he doesn’t seem to be doing this for the celebrity aspect. I do get a feeling from other contestants that this could be a stepping stone for something other than a music career but not for Kris (but that’s also because I don’t think he’ll be able to act/ hide his emotions. hehe)

When does Kris ever NOT look hot. I mean, seriouslyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

hehe….and has anyone noticed how small and cute and elvish his ears look?

Is it just me or did she seem to get friendlier towards Kris as the interview went on?

yeah i think she did get friendlier and sensibly focussed more on his music! but i think for someone who was that biased against kris, she was pretty ok (apart from the whole humble thing).

You really do get the sense of a deep love of music from these two guys, and it’s very infectious.