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Lee DeWyze & Crystal Bowersox: 24 Hours Later

2010 May 27
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by TopIdol

It’s been almost 24 hours since Lee DeWyze was crowned the American Idol over Crystal Bowersox. And what a busy 24 hours its been.

Billboard reports both contestants have signed their respective record contracts. (Essentially, the only difference between winning and losing American Idol is…? You came there for a break in the music industry. Not to be on a silly Ford “commercial” only aired once. Well, maybe Michael Lynche came for that but he came in fourth.) Lee DeWyze on RCA and Crystal Bowersox on Jive. Yeah, uh…Bowersox on Jive? So will Max Martin and the guy from Train and Uncle Kracker be producing her songs?

Crystal told Seacrest that she and her boyfriend Tony broke up. Said it was mutual and happened on Monday. Poor Crystal. (Although she’s gotta be stoked she didn’t win American Idol! She’s a smart girl.) He wasn’t into the lifestyle. But he wore American flag pants and funny t-shirts! Ok, Crystal, don’t go all Hollywood on me now with this lifestyle talk. But Crystal being dumped Anyway, about two seconds after her admission on air with Seacrest, there was already speculation she had gotten down and dirty with Lee DeWyze because he was sniffing her hair as they awaited the results and then shouted that he loved her when they told him he won the damn thing. Yup. Of course they’re banging. And half of DeWyze’s fantards will ship Crystal and Lee while the other half will brand her a demonslutwhorejezebel. All I can say is DeWyze pulled a Henry Francis.

(Now if this is true, they should definitely do a sequel to From Justin to Kelly.)

Lee DeWheezy (I can’t call him Phil DeWheezy because I have a good friend named Phil who could pass for his brother.) also did a bunch of interviews, he being the winner and all. He said it was awesome. Winning is awesome. You know what else is awesome? Going to Disney World. Lee gets to spend 3 hours in the Magic Kingdom. (Who else hopes Aaron Kelly gets to do that at some point, too? After all, the kid actually made it to sixth place after winning one of those jazzy little golden tickets from the American Idol Experience.)

Right now, Simon is likely sunning himself on a yacht somewhere far away from this morass. He’s already forgotten these Lee and Crystal characters. Rickey Minor is still pissed no one cares that he’s leaving to go rub uglies with Jay Leno. Maybe its because he’s a pompous douchebag, but whatevia. Guess they could have said buy-bye Rickey or something, and to vocal coach Dorian Halley who is also going to Jay Leno. (There is no end to the depths of which Jay Leno can suck.) Now if Debbie the Stage Manager was about to leave this sinking ship, I would expect a three-hour prime time special chronicling her greatness. Because Debbie the Stage Manager is worth a three-hour prime time special.

So um…did you see this?

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  • Dickory Dock

    I am watching the Eurovision Song Contest right now. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a giant tub full of Velveeta with extra Kraft slices on top.

    Now I’m convinced Idol Season 9 was full of singing powerhouses.

  • On The Edge

    Son of a bitch. I can’t hate the guy anymore.

    On Kris:
    I actually, for the first time, sat down and listened to Kris’s album. I really dug it. He’s a cool guy. It was inspiring to me, because he got to do a lot of the things he wanted to do on his album. I want to get the chance to do the same thing.
    On David Cook:

    I got to talk to David Cook a little bit. He’s one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met in my life.

    Still think Crystal should’ve won, but I’m going to be easier on Lee. I’ll take a page from the sane Glamberts.

    • On The Edge

      DAMN it, I know I put his quote about Kris in block quotes! Why didn’t it take? It did the Cook quote right.

    • et

      I actually have softened on Lee quite a bit watching him after the show, even with his “I love you Crystal” right after he won… they are both so gracious and sweet about each other, it makes me like him better, heh. Plus he thinks my favorite Idols are great, so… he must have SOME taste, despite his Fireflies/Lips of an Angel crap. :)

      • et

        That should say *two of my favorite* ’cause I love me some Kelly and Bo Bice, too. Cook, of course, is my favoritest favorite. Kris is trying very hard to worm his way to the 2nd spot. Quit it, Who. I just try to keep my Cooktard flag semi-tucked in my jacket, thanks.

    • carmine2008

      That’s nice. :) I’m going to at least give his album a good listen. I DID pay attention to some of his performances more than most of the other contestants. So, there must be something resonating with me in some way.

      BTW, Cook and Allen are my favorite idols as well.

  • blah124

    Hey,
    This is luvadamlambert from mj’s (lol yeah,I know this isn’t exactly an Adam fansite…:p) Ive been reading TI for like a year,and I’m delurking to say topidol,your recaps are hilarious.Especially the SYTYCD ones.I’m not even sure if this is the right thread but anyway thanks for all the laughs! :)

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Wow. Another one? Welcome LuvAdamLambert :) You don’t think I’m mean?

      I love it when Glamberts come into the fold. I will recap SYTYCD for you again, I promise. It’s always tough to do during the audition rounds.

      • blah124

        TI: Nope,you’re not mean at all.But I read VFTW and stuff,so I’m an odd glambert lol..You’re SYTYCD recaps are one of the best parts of the season

        Thanks Lauren-I love reading your posts.

        • Lauren

          Yayyy :D Not to creep you out but I have heard that you are one of the sane Glamberts over at MJs. Not being a typical Glambert can be a very good thing. xD

          So welcome!

    • Lauren

      Hiii!!!!!

      Your avi is pretty epic so you need to stay delurked!

    • et

      Hi, luv! Stay delurked, I love you over at MJs and I think you’ll find that most folks here are actually pretty cool and funny. I know I love the sane Glamberts that post here :)

  • deez

    I wonder if Lee and Crystal will do a GMA concert with Kris, like the Cook/Kris/Adam one last year? Something tells me no.

  • Kathy

    They actually showed that reaction video on either Way too Early or Morning Joe this morning. I was half asleep and don’t remember. Either way, I bet that kid is grounded for about 80 years.

  • tinawina

    How much does that kid have to hate his mother to put that video up on YouTube? Yikes. That was disturbing.

    I refuse to acknowledge the fact that Crystal is on Jive. It is not happening. Blah.

    • deez

      I’ve never followed Idol closely until last year, is Jive notorious? Should Crystal prepare to be “Allisoned”? (Ihave noticed RCA’s given Adam much more promo than Jive’s done for Allison or Kris, but I didn’t know if it’s par for the course…or just b/c they saw a “cash cow” in Adam?)

      • On The Edge

        I think it’s just that Jive is notoriously cheap. It almost seems like they don’t actively promote ANY of their artists…just send their singles to radio and hope something sticks.

        • sj

          I don’t know. Kris does a LOT of radio promotion. It seems to me
          they’re going the slow but sure and steady route. His summer tour
          schedule is shaping up very nicely. Maybe the strategy is to broaden
          and deepen his fan base and then promote the shit out of his second
          album, which will probably be much much better than the first.

        • jukejoint

          The much-repeated notion is that RCA does more promo and spends more, but is worse with singles and drops people quickly when they don’t recoup all the cash spent on all that promo and production. Jive is supposedly cheaper, with almost no promo, but they hang with people longer and give them more of a chance to develop.

          This was all bandied about when Cook went with RCA (and he made it sound like people from various Sony imprints pitched to him and he got to choose) and Archie got Jive. All, oooh, Archie got the better part of that deal because Jive will keep him and nurture him and give him big honkin’ singles like they did for Jordin blahblahblah. It was really part of Cook/Archie fanwars, with much crowing by Archie fans because they thought their boy got the better deal.

          But then when it was Kris with Jive and Adam with RCA, the arguments changed to RCA being better and Jive too cheap and blahblahblah.

          So I don’t honestly know what the difference is, since they are both under the same corporate umbrella, the guy who is in charge of the whole shebang since Clive Davis got booted came from the Jive side, and it seems to be a world of singles out there at the moment, so if your label is all about singles, that would seem to be a good thing in today’s world.

          More briefly, Jive seems to go more pop and RCA more rock, but neither of them has anybody like Crystal or Casey AFAIK. The more singular people seem to be on their own labels (like Sufjan Stevens and Jack Johnson) or Columbia/Warners/Universal (like Adele and Alannis and Duffy).

          To me, the perfect label for Crystal would be Rounder, part of the Concord Music group. They’re smaller, and they’re into roots and blues and folk. That’s where Alison Krauss is, and acts like the Bodeans, Laura Nyro and They Might Be Giants have done stuff.

      • On The Edge

        That, and with the exception of Idols most of their acts are urban/dance/pop.
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Jive_Records_artists

      • tinawina

        There is nothing wrong with Jive. They are a label like any other, I just think that they specialized in teen oriented pop and know nothing about the type of music Crystal is likely to put out.

        Or, what jukejoint said. :)

  • TankieGirlie

    So far my fav quote Re: Idol finale

    “But now the zeitgeist has “Gleefully” moved on. American Idol
    is no longer a phenomenon; it’s a franchise that Fox will keep alive at
    all costs. To them it’s the golden goose; to me it’s Terry Schiavo.” –Ken Levine (hold that image in your mind for just a moment)

    The future holds little BowerWyze babies. You know, the only thing I’ll miss about Idol, is reading Idol recaps. So, TI, do you by any chance watch SYTYCD? *pleaseohplease*

    I really wished you didn’t hate Glee, but one can’t have everything.

    Thanks for the entertainment these last 47 (?) weeks.

    • jazz

      …..or “DeSox babies”??

      • magnacarta

        or Crystalyze babies lol

        • jukejoint

          I was gonna offer Wysox, but then I thought, better yet, Crystal babies with someone else.

          Still think she and Casey should hook up. Their styles of music fit better, and then Bybee can be the Granny.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            And Bybee already loves the Little Bowersox!

          • Dickory Dock

            Do people really think Crystal and Lee should hook up? Good lord, but no. What if they ever had a fight? Lee would cry and cry. And then take four hours to make his point. Casey and Crystal would be much better, if for no other reason than Mama James already loves her baby. But did you know people are already “fans” of Casey and emotional basket case Didi as a thing? I don’t know, but I get a real Single White Female vibe from that one.

            Crystal is actually beautiful. She has a face like a painting of The Madonna – strong but peaceful and centered.

          • et

            Aw, Bybee would be a good Granny to Babysox. I don’t even care if Casey and Crystal hook up, can’t Bybee still be Granny? She’s so cool.

            Dickory Dock, I think Crystal is beautiful, too. She’s a woman I really admire, beautiful and strong. And I forget sometimes how young she is. She’s seen a lot in those 24 years, I think. Old soul.

          • Mithra

            I agree Crystal is very beautiful, and it says a lot about the sorts of people who call her ugly because she’s different in style.

            FANS of Casey want him to hook up this psycho bitch from hell DIDI? Really? That bitch is a bunny boiler. Even as Kara’s plant, Kara started to back off and gently toss her under the bus, and probably hired extra security when she did it. They probably wanted her to just make the tour so she wouldn’t go all apocalyptic batshit uzi on a rooftop shooting people at The Grove, but they are probably going to have to hire a shrink to go onboard 24/7 with a tranq gun, straight jacket, and lots of Thorazine on hand.

            If Casey’s fans want that for him, it’s a toss up between who’s going to have the craziest ones, him or Leelvis.

          • MaryS-NJ

            It’s embarrassing to admit that I can speak with some authority on the various Casey shipper factions. Some portion of Didi fans ship her with Casey. There are some who think Casey and Didi look pretty together so they ship them (those are some of the same who seem to ship CrystaLee based on visuals). There are some (self included) who thought there might be a mutual physical attraction between Casey and Didi based on some anecdotal evidence, but more recent evidence (such as Casey apparently fleeing from Didi when she crowds into his space at one point the IICD House) suggests otherwise. Here’s something on the CaseyXCrystal front:

            http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/05/27/crystal-bowersox-gets-over-her-split-with-a-little-help-from-casey-james/

            “Was Crystal Bowersox crying into her drink after losing both her boyfriend, Tony Kusian, and the Idol crown all in two days? No, she was not. In fact, she seemed downright happy at the uber-exclusive post-finale Idol party, where she was caught celebrating with none other than second runner-up Casey James!”

            The article doesn’t use the typical buzz word “i.e. “getting cozy” and it was probably harmless but there has been speculation that Casey’s “type” of women is brunette with a round face and curves (long story). Crystal’s not brunette but otherwise fits the type (so maybe Mama James will get a ready-made Grandbaby after all).

            Then there’s the budding Bromance between Casey and Big Mike…

        • TankieGirlie

          First girl Crystal Lee DeWyzeSox

      • TankieGirlie

        Photobucket

        DeWox…

        I was done playing, but then this pic came along!

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Do you see the top nav on my blog? Does one of those things say…SYTYCD?

      I will be blogging SYTYCD once again, although my recaps are probably not as fun as my Idol ones and this season, I won’t even be able to monitor the fill line of Mary Murphy’s cup. So I will be doing it, but hey, I took a night off last night. I told myself I deserved it ;)

      • TankieGirlie

        If I saw it would I have made an ass of myself?

        Wait…don’t answer that

      • jukejoint

        I love SYTYCD, but I almost never watch the auditions. They reek most of the time, and the people who seem fabulous to me get yelled at by Mia, while stupid blonde girls I hate have Nigel drooling all over them in an unseemly manner.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          while stupid blonde girls I hate have Nigel drooling all over them in an unseemly manner.

          Jukejoint…you have read my SYTYCD recaps, right? :)

          • jukejoint

            I remember you calling that one blonde Nigel drooled over Powder, which was awesome. And I don’t remember her real name, either.

            And, of course, I remember the Mollee hate, which was entirely right and proper.

  • et

    And oh boy, that video. Yikes, lady!

    • rockpaperscissors

      LOL, IKR. I just watched it – just wow. LOL

    • barado

      “My whole life is ruined.” Lady, you need to get out of the trailer once in a while.

    • sj

      I can’t watch it.

    • songkat7

      Video was truly disturbing. Not cute/hilarious as the little girls who lost their shit when Archie lost.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        That woman ate the little girls who lost their shit when Archie lost.

        • et

          Bwah, TI, I just scared my cat laughing out loud. She’s now, of course, licking her, um, parts to console herself. Cats!

  • rockpaperscissors

    TI, loved the recaps over the last few days – Lots of LOL’s, thanks.

    This season has been ok for me. Didn’t pay too much attention and I was not invested in any one contestant. I like Crystal and think she has a great voice – have to wait to see if she puts out an album I would like.
    Lee is ok when he is singing in tune. He’s kinda a Diet Cook or a Cook Zero though.

    Good luck to both of them :)

    TI, have you ever covered Big Brother or you not a fan? It’s kinda my summer crack :)

    • Dickory Dock

      Diet Cook is far too generous, implying some actual substance. Cook Zero fits much better. ;)

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        Remember New Cook? That was a complete flop so they had to bring back Cook Classic.

    • songkat7

      Diet Cook, CookZero, NewCook and Cook Classic – completely cracking me up this morning. Thank you!

  • Pandora

    When does Lee sing the national anthem somewhere? I can’t wait to see him try to do it a cappella. And will there be a choir with him at every performance he does?

    • jukejoint

      He can lip synch like Ashley Simpson and then do a little hoe-down dance when they play the wrong track.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      My coworker asked me if he was doing the Celtics game tonight…

      • On The Edge

        Are they in the finals yet (so sue me, I don’t follow pro b-ball)? The Idol usually does the NBA Finals. And it seems to always be a Lakers game.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          That’s exactly what I said :)

          • muzikizmi

            Oh geesh. Do they have a porta-auto-tune, that they can haul around in the Idol van? Lee singing the national anthem should be comedy gold, unless they find a way to manipulate the live sound.

          • Pandora

            I’m expecting it to be lip-synched.

  • Miz

    That video just creeps me out on too many levels. I could see a kid getting over-invested in a show like this, but not a grown woman. I’m also sad she’s a Crystal fan because I’ve read some of the vile things the trolls say about Crystal, and this would fit right into their arsenal.

    The good thing about Crystal being signed to Jive is she’ll be a label mate with Kris and maybe they’ll get to collaborate. I could see them doing some killer songs together. The bad thing is they really suck at promotion and marketing.

    Oh, TI, from the Ryan interview, Crystal’s BF hit the road on Tuesday morning, performance (competition) day. Small difference, but a little more sucky.

    • jazz

      Poor Crystal! My college boyfriend dumped me the night before I was supposed to start a new job, and I actually thought THAT was kinda bad! Breaking up the morning when you have to perform on the AI finale — just…wow.

      • et

        Yeah, I was pissed enough when my high school boyfriend dumped me the day we lost a big soccer championship. He’s got nothin’ on Tony’s timing.

    • sj

      Is Tony the father of Crystal’s baby? Isn’t her baby’s name Tony?

    • Sandy

      Considering the emotional stress Crystal must have felt that day, she still sang great that night and was so much better than Lee.

  • Mary

    sell***

    • Mary

      oh shit, this was supposed to go under my post. I was correcting myself. ughhh

  • deez

    Bwahahaha….I love how hubby stops looking bored and starts staring at her during Ryan’s stall tactics, then immediately offers “I told ya so!”

    Funny, still nowhere near as epic as all the videos from last year, maybe just due to the sheer quantity.

  • suew

    TI – Once again laughed out loud at the recap – especially the part about lee and crystal getting down and dirty.

    That video was all sorts of weirdness. And who posted it on the tube? Her son? How can somebody possibly get so emotionally invested in a tv show? Maybe the type that would spend the time writing a book about why someone came in second place. Volume II is coming – Crystal Bowersox, Second to None: How tweens and cougars stole the title away from the best singer on american idol ‘evah!

    • mozart4898

      Writing that book might actually help me. Seriously. That said, if I *did* write it, I definitely wouldn’t then try to sell it. Enough people already think I’m crazy…I don’t need to give them more evidence…

      • suew

        But who wins and comes in second is really irrelevant since they both get signed. Its clear that Idol is not looking for the ‘best’ singer technically speaking, but a decent singer with some sort of appeal to the masses.

        • mozart4898

          Yet it’s not really irrelevant because otherwise, why would they actually name a winner? And for that matter there was that article a while back about the differences in advances that the winner and runner up get – there clearly is a difference between winning and being the runner up.

          I dunno, by now since most people here it seems lurk on MJ’s, I’m sure people have realized I’ve pretty much gone through a meltdown since this whole thing happened. It’s mostly all as a result of the fact that it’s been so totally obvious who was the better of the two, and yet it just doesn’t matter to people. Why bother to be the best when clearly, it’s only about getting people to more or less feel sorry for you and/or like your story? Oh, and don’t forget that you better look the way they want you to look too. As I’ve said over there, it’s not just on this show, it’s in many parts of society. It just really disgusts me.

          And I’m actually no longer convinced, given the is she signed/isn’t she signed yet discussion and the fact that it sounds that Jive isn’t a logical label for Crystal, plus the fact that they probably already figure she’ll be hard to work with anyways, that they won’t just sandbag her and basically put out an album of crap and then just do nothing with her contract for a while before then finally just dropping her. Hopefully I’m wrong, but in America, nothing surprises me any more. Or at least it shouldn’t.

  • wino

    Simon Fuller is so full of himself, he probably took Ricky’s departure as a direct, personal diss. Hence the no on air mention. Ricky, get over it dude. Just be happy you jumped shipped before it was too late.

    • songkat7

      I kinda see Rickey Minor leaving AI as him switching from one tool to another.

  • blacklisted

    I loved Mom’s “My whole life is ruined!”. Judging from that livingroom and her old man….uh, no comment.

  • pattyluponey

    Well, at least someone was invested in this season…

    At least there’s no calling this winner a fraud, since even though Crystal is technically from Toledo, she lived in Chicago at the time of her audition…and Chik-fil-a couldn’t have been in on this conspiracy…they don’t exist in the Midwest.

    • Lauren

      It’s kind of hilarious. Lee is talking in this sweet voice about how grateful he is while the lady is screaming “SHUT UP! YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE!!!!!”

      Haha id Chick-fil-a isn’t blamed, they will find someone else. KFC perhaps?

      • blacklisted

        The lady is right though.

        • pattyluponey

          I’m terrified of that lady, but somehow that man comes across somewhat sensible in his shirtless, trailer-living way…

          • Lauren

            I think it’s just the juxtaposition. Anything seems sensible in comparison to that lady.

          • Borat83

            I’d love to see that lady and the God Warrior from Trading Spouses in a screaming match. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please google it. I’m a terrible failure at XHTML linking.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        He’s from Chicago, right? I bet Ed Debevic’s was behind all of it.

        • pattyluponey

          Those A**holes! You’re so right! Ed Debevic’s is behind every conspiracy in the past 40 years.

        • jukejoint

          1) McDonald’s national HQ and Hamburger U are in Oak Brook IL.

          2) Portillo’s Chicago Hot Dogs could be the culprit. People love that shit around here.

          3) Pizzeria Uno and Pizzeria Due (deep-dish pizza) are very Chicago, too.

          I would look to one of those. Or, you know, just the race track at Arlington Park. Although I don’t mind blaming all the ills of the world on the Cubs, either, and he DID throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field.

          (White Sox 4-Eva.)

        • jukejoint

          How could I be so stupid? It was Mayor Daley and the Chicago Machine.

          Everybody knows they rig everything.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            My grandmother used to claim we were related to Mayor Daley.

            My middle name is my mother’s maiden name. Daley. So clearly I was in on it.

    • jukejoint

      There’s Chick-Fil-A in my town and I live in Illinois. But it’s not for regular people. It’s for the employees of one large company because the stand/restaurant/kiosk/whatever the hell it is is inside their building and only their employees can eat there. It’s one of the nation’s largest insurance companies. So what exactly are Chick-Fil-A and an insurance company doing being in bed together in the middle of Illinois? Can we get an investigative reporter to look into that?

      • Lauren

        Nah, they are too busy with the Idol conspiracies!

    • mozart4898

      Ok, I don’t know exactly what Chick-Fil-A has to do with any conspiracies (if it hasn’t shown yet, I was new to the Idol blogosphere this year), but umm, yeah the mall that Crystal played her first gig in had/has (?) one. So they’re around here, definitely.

      That video was all sorts of disturbing. But for a reason that I’m really afraid to admit. Other than the “my life is ruined” that was pretty much exactly what went through my head after the announcement. I didn’t vocalize any of it, in fact, I pretty much stared catatonic at the TV for a good 15 minutes. This shit FUCKS WITH YOUR HEAD. I am really not ok with the idea of Lee winning this – in fact, I would have been better with, oh, let’s see, Casey, Mike, Aaron, Siobhan, or even freakin’ Tim beating Crystal more than Lee. We have to get all the way back to Andrew to get to someone that I think is less deserving than Lee of winning this thing this year. I kinda can understand how the Glamberts felt about Kris winning, except for one thing – Kris is actually a good singer. He’s not the most amazing thing I’ve heard (and again, this was the most into a season I’ve ever been, so to be honest, he was under my radar last year and I had to work the night of the finale, so I didn’t remember a single performance of his. My favorite was, ahem, Gokey), but after hearing him last night, at least there’s skill there. Lee is a joke as a winner. Just…sad. And it’s not like the choice was the lesser of two evils, or that they both tanked on the final performance night. Crystal probably was the best she’s been all season on the night of the finale. This show? Dead to me. Never again will I waste time watching it. And while I don’t know Lee personally and can’t say anything about him as a person, now I’m just like one of those stupid Glamberts who is going to have something to come back with every time someone says something positive about Lee. I think I’m already turning out to be the worst one over on MJ’s for that.

      I try to laugh at myself and say “wow dude, you need a support group or something.” But damn. This shit really fucked with my head. Just hit too close to home for a number of reasons.

      • saskin

        :)

        I keep saying that this show should come with a health warning for people like the woman in the video. It does a number to your head for sure. But you are OK. :)

      • Lamberkitten

        Anyone who has the teensiest sympathy for Golamberts has my gratitude :) . You are ‘right, this year’s result majorly sucked. Simon’s pimping worked. I think Simon had an evil plan to make this series the suckiest ever then scoop up all the desenchanted viewers when X Factor starts. Don’t be fooled folks – X factor can be shite too. But don’t worry bout Crystal, am sure she will do fine.

        • Lamberkitten

          Ha! typo Golamberts. Not unless there’s a cheerleeder section of minions called the Go-Lamberts!

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            Lamberkitty, I thought you made a new nickname. Since they do kind of glom onto the guy…:)

          • ross

            Maybe we could call Lee’s fans Golemberts?

            “The word golem is used in the Bible to refer to an embryonic or incomplete substance: Psalm 139:16 uses the word גלמי, meaning my unshaped form, which then passes into Yiddish as goylem.[2] The Mishnah uses the term for an uncultivated person…Similarly, golems are often used today in metaphor either as brainless lunks or as entities serving man under controlled conditions, but hostile to him in others. Similarly, it is a Yiddish slang insult for someone who is clumsy or slow.”

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            And its that thing that wants the damned ring, right?

          • mozart4898

            I wondered if Golemberts would have been the odd few that were fans of both Gokey and Lambert? Were there such people? I wasn’t crazy about Adam but I was ok with him at least, and I liked Gokey, so I was probably about as close as you could get. Anyways…

    • mozart4898

      And Crystal didn’t live in Chicago at the time of her audition. I know it said she did on the first show or two, but she had moved back here long before the auditions – she was playing gigs around here for a good year again before auditioning. Not that it matters really.

      Maybe that was all part of the conspiracy though…saying she was from Chicago at first. It was planned all along.

      (That was a joke. Ha. Ha.)

  • Rach

    That chick in the video is awesome. At first I couldn’t tell if she was happy or angry. Well I figured it out.

  • Stacy

    Crystal on Jive confuses me. I thought Jive was for the artists that tweentards love. And sorry, but Crystal is too good for tweentard love.

    Not that Rickey Minor has a right to be that pissed, but they should have said something. Even if it was just a “Say goodbye to RICKEY MINOR AND THE BAND” thing they do at the end of the performance shows.

    I also don’t understand the need to ship Lee with the girls. First it was Siobhan, because of a freaking picture (and I don’t care if it’s supposed to say 1000 words or all that crap. It was a goddamn picture.) And now Crystal, because they were “close.” She JUST broke up with her boyfriend. You people have crazy imaginations. Save it for the pathetic fan fiction that will, no doubt, be on the internet tomorrow.

    • On The Edge

      I highly suspect that there’s already an agreement that the winner and runner up aren’t put on the same label. One goes to RCA, the other to Jive, and they just hash it out. The past two years you had RCA-type artists (David C., Adam) and Jive-type artists (David A., Kris) in the top two so no big deal. Here you had TWO RCA-types, so did they flip a coin? Or did RCA say “Jive got the winner last year, so now it’s our turn?”

      • jukejoint

        I don’t think Crystal is an RCA type, either. Under the RCA/Jive umbrella, I’d go Arista with Annie Lennox and Sarah MacLachlan.

        • pattyluponey

          I think she’d agree! She’s such a different artist from what they’ve ever had to sign. I hope things work out for her, she’s very talented. I’m not sure there’s much market for her, right now, though. I would have been all about her in 1996, when I was in college.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            How much better would she have been than say, Paula Cole?

          • pattyluponey

            Well, I would say she wouldn’t have sold her song to be the Dawson’s Creek theme, but she did go on American Idol, so….

      • Mary

        Well aren’t RCA and Arista known for dropping Idol alums quickly? They expect their artists to seel big. RCA dropped McPhee and Arista dropped Taylor Hicks and Blake Lewis after only one album. Yah it might be wierd for Crystal to be signed to Jive but at least they won’t drop her and may have a long-term plan for her.