May 23, 2009
Runner-up Andam Lambert talks with Ryan Seacrest on Larry King.
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(video clip of finals)
RANDY JACKSON, TV HOST: We’re down the wire, this is it.
KARA: You are an incredible artist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was one of your best performances ever.
PAULA ABDUL, TV HOST: That was the best I’ve ever heard you sing, ever!
JACKSON: We’ve got ourselves a real live duel competition going on here, and I love it.
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SEACREST: That is right, my dawg. Back with Idol Kris Allen, joining us Adam Lambert, the runner-up. How you doing?
ADAM LAMBERT, “AMERICAN IDOL” RUNNER UP: I’m good. Trying to stay awake.
SEACREST: You guys have been through it. The question everyone wants an answer to. Finally I get to ask you. What kind of guy-liner do you wear?
LAMBERT: I don’t know, whatever the make-up artist puts on me, you know.
SEACREST: Let’s go back and take a look at the winning moment one more time. Watch this.
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[Split screen of Adam and the announcement of winner]
SEACREST: After the nationwide vote of nearly 100 million, the winner of “American Idol” 2009 is Kris Allen!
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SEACREST: All right. In that beat before I did the consonant Kuh, what were you thinking?
LAMBERT: I kind of figured, OK, it’s anyone’s game at this point. I knew it was going to be a close race. And actually in my head, believe it or not, I went, that’s so Kris, it’s so going to be Kris. I felt it.
SEACREST: You’re human, so you had to be let down a little bit.
LAMBERT: You know what? I honestly mentally prepared myself for any possibility. And we kind of kept telling each other, you know, it’s such an honor to be here. We had so much fun last night. And tonight we got to sing with Queen. The point is not a title. The point is the opportunity. And I feel like we got that opportunity.
SEACREST: So what do you think happened with the voting? The judges called you the darling throughout the course of the season. And then you didn’t get the first place votes. What happened?
LAMBERT: Well, I’m sure that when Danny was out of the competition, I think his fans probably would be more apt to go for Kris’ style.
SEACREST: That’s what a lot of people talked about. Is that something you thought about?
LAMBERT: Yeah. Of course I thought that.
ALLEN: I think a lot of people thought that too.
LAMBERT: I wasn’t worried. I just assumed that would be the case.
SEACREST: Why?
LAMBERT: Kris’ appeal is more like Danny’s appeal than mine. I just kind of figured.
SEACREST: You know, knowing Kris he probably felt guilty about it.
ALLEN: You know I did.
LAMBERT: Honestly, I keep saying it. It wasn’t about winning, it’s about just staying on the show as long as possible.
ALLEN: Does the fact that the judges pick you out early in the season, does that hurt in the long run? Or can that hurt in the long run?
LAMBERT: I kind of think it helped me because I think that because I’m something a little bit different, it allowed people at home to feel it was OK to root for me.
SEACREST: Did you think Kris was the one to beat? And Adam, did you think Kris was the one to beat?
LAMBERT: I had no idea. I had no idea how it was going to be. I was just kind of riding the wave as it was going.
SEACREST: Kris, how did you size up the rest of the competition?
ALLEN: Well, I think Adam and Danny were, I mean, very — I think they were the front runners for a long time. And they’re amazing. So kudos to them. I think they deserved it completely. But I never went out there to beat anyone. We talk about that a lot.
SEACREST: I can’t believe that totally. You never went out there to beat anyone ever?
ALLEN: No, how do you compare me or Adam or me or Danny or me or Matt or me or Allison.
SEACREST: At some stage when you have a large number of contestants, there is a similarity. When we have the top 13, top 10, there’s a little bit redundancy in terms of style.
ALLEN: I guess, was there anyone like Adam?
SEACREST: I’ve done the show for eight seasons and we’ve never seen anyone quite like Adam. That’s great. That’s the beauty I think in the show. It can continue to reinvent itself with the contestants.
LAMBERT: That’s why I felt it wasn’t a competition thing. I knew it was apples and oranges. The people are like, I like that guy, I like that guy, or I like that girl. To me, it was like go out there and do your best. That was the goal for me every week. Do something new, do something new to get people talking.
SEACREST: It never seemed stressful for you.
LAMBERT: You know, the only time I really had like a stress attack was in rehearsal for the final show. Because there were …
SEACREST: Meaning the Wednesday night? Or was it Tuesday …
LAMBERT: Tuesday.
SEACREST: The competition Tuesday night you had three songs each.
LAMBERT: It was just you know, there’s a lot to get done. And we were in a new venue and that was different. The sound was different, the lighting was different.
SEACREST: People who don’t know, the set moves to the Nokia Theater which is a huge theater in downtown Los Angeles with 7,000 people in the audience as opposed to 500 people at your normal soundstage which is a typical Hollywood soundstage. So you’re thrown off a little.
LAMBERT: Yeah. We had gotten really comfortable at the sound stage we’d been working at. We got into the Nokia and we started rehearsing and there were a lot of elements out of our control. So I kind of started feeling a little bit like panicked and i had to talk myself down off the ledge.
SEACREST: Now, on Wednesday night. There was a rumor that one of your boots was flown in via private jet because — check this out. Talk about — I don’t know if it’s a diva moment. You weren’t even responsible for it. It’s a great diva story.
LAMBERT: It’s a great diva story. I wish — I didn’t even know what boots I would be wearing.
SEACREST: Two left boots came to you and the right boots was flown via private jet from Antwerp.
LAMBERT: From Belgium, yeah, exactly. And it came moments before the beginning of the show.
SEACREST: In a recession, it seems a bit wasteful.
LAMBERT: Me too. I wasn’t responsible for any of that.
SEACREST: That wasn’t your fault.
LAMBERT: No, the stylist was like you’re wearing these shoes. OK, I’ll do what you say.
SEACREST: Let’s take a quick look back at the paths of these guys. Their journey on “American Idol.”
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(video clip of auditions and mentor)
KARA DIO GUARDIA: Are you the best singer out there.
KRIS ALLEN: There are probably people better than me.
COWELL: Your modesty is actually putting me off a little bit.
SEACREST (voiceover): But the humble college student grew as an artist.
SMOKIE ROBINSON: Kris, blew me away.
JAMIE FOXX: Is this whole thing don’t work out, we can do something my man.
KARA: You are truly a dark horse in this competition.
KARA to LAMBERT: Are you our next idol?
LAMBERT: I think so.
KARA: Yeah?
LAMBERT: Yeah.
SEACREST (VOICEOVER): And from the beginning, Adam was focused on his mission.
LAMBERT: The reason I want to be on the show is because I have a lot of ideas. I want to take a song we’ve heard a million times and twist it. And I will surprise you.
SEACREST: Keeping his promise, he astonished many.
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SEACREST: What’s your reaction to that when you watch it back?
LAMBERT: It’s surreal.
ALLEN: It seems like you’re watching the first audition and it seems like that was three years ago. It seems so long ago.
SEACREST: How much do you see yourself changing when you watch that back? You changed quite a bit both of you.
ALLEN: Absolutely. We’ve changed a lot.
SEACREST: Wardrobe budget.
ALLEN: That’s true.
LAMBERT: I look at it. When they asked me are you the next “American Idol”. I thought to myself, they’re testing me to see if I’m confident. I look back on that and like I guess I said what I was supposed to say for the package at the end of the show.
SEACREST: It fits in nicely when we edit it back together at the end of the season.
LAMBERT: Yeah, that’s very cool, yeah.
SEACREST: Coming up in 60 seconds, the one and only Paula Abdul joins us. Don’t go away.
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