And I couldn’t sleep till about 4.30am. How could Adam Lambert have landed in the bottom two pile on American Idol? His performance of Feeling Good was noteworthy on various levels: It was camp, it was different in that he was doing a slower song with a lot more pizzazz, and he displayed notes he hasn’t done before. He looked as beautiful as he always does and moved us as he always does. Bottom 2? Beyond belief.
And then I read the reactions. I read the AI Forum, I read the Rolling Stone site, I read bloggers, and my world righted itself a little more, although it’s still trembling with aftershocks. The people have spoken, and how. A 16-year-old gay boy has thanked this phenomenon for changing his bewildered life and bringing him back from the edge, a 40something woman says she is stunned at her strong reaction and stronger support for Adam after the AI humiliation, people have expressed outrage and anger at Seacrest for ‘manhandling’ their icon, a group has posted a logo with Adam’s downcast face as he waited to hear the result with the words Don’t let this happen again, Vote for Adam on it. In the history of Idol there has never been such an outpouring of emotion, not even when Daughtry got the axe. The show couldn’t have got better publicity if they had set the whole thing up – and we are of course all questioning whether they have done just that. But as Paula said, we feel your pain, Adam. Although in the end, really, we emerge feeling good: At least we live in a world with individuals like Adam Lambert in it.
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