Aired May 25th
This is their second appearance on Larry King–Ryan Seacrest sitting in. Top 10 interviewed together. Their first appearance was May 22nd. Follow link above for their individual segments. Paula Abdul was in one with Kris and Adam.
Transcript
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
Part 3: Excited about tour, getting well compensated, not sure what show will be like, will Danny & Allison being a duo, Anoops want to act, Lil is asked if the judges take up too much of the show, Anoop and Kara conflict, Adam, Kris, Danny, Anoop & Scott found Kara helpful – especially in studio, group numbers, did they read about themselves on blogs, Adam found blogs helpful early on to see support – didn’t take nasty stuff personally, “Trouble” hard to sing, Megan on performing live, series of questions about whose the sloppiest etc, Adam most stylish, Anoop the brain, Kris finishes up with the “message” of the season: diversity and tolerance. Proven in reality — Kris and Adam were roommates and are genuinely close friends.
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SEACREST: There they are. Your Idol top ten group is here. The “American Idol’s” live tour kicks off and 50 cities. By the way, what do you know? What do you know about the tour? Do you know anything about it?
DESAI: Just that it’s going to be a fantastic experience. Yes. I was talking to David Cook and his family. And they just said, you know, pack underwear and socks, as many as you can, because you’re not going to be able to stop.
SEACREST: That is such profound advice.
DESAI: Yes. I know. That’s what I told him, too. I was really grateful for that. Just that it’s going to be a really intense experience, but really fun because I think we are all looking forward to the opportunity of performing without, you know, four people sitting in front of us.
SEACREST: Are there big numbers?
(CROSS TALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Going to be like the Idol show kicked up a notch. More lights, more everything, more people. I cannot wait.
SEACREST: Don’t forget the name of the city you are in. Have you ever been to a concert and someone comes out and they’re like, hello, Nashville? Ugh.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good advice.
SEACREST: The viewer questions here. Let’s see. Danny and Allison, will you guys be doing a duet on the tour?
GOKEY: I wouldn’t mind.
IRAHETA: I wouldn’t mind either.
SEACREST: So that’s a yes.
GOKEY: Can you imagine two super like soulful voices?
IRAHETA: We were talking about.
GOKEY: Our voices have a vocal punch to them.
IRAHETA: How we both sort of sound like guys.
SEACREST: Danny admitted to that?
GOKEY: Thanks, Ryan. One more time.
IRAHETA: Anyways.
SEACREST: What’s the perfect song for you two?
IRAHETA: I don’t know. No! Not — what?
GOKEY: Soul — very soulish, soul/rock song, because we both have a lot of soul in us.
IRAHETA: Do you want to do “Dream On?”
GOKEY: No. I want her to show me the scream at the end maybe.
SEACREST: Allison has an amazing voice. Incredible, your voice, the power in your voice.
GOKEY: I’m a fan.
SEACREST: Here’s a Tweet. Do you guys earn money during the “American Idol” tour? Is that how you pay them?
ALLEN: No. We’re doing it for free.
SEACREST: All right. Now, how much?
ALLEN: It’s nice. It’s very, very generous.
SEACREST: Everybody getting paid the same?
(CROSS TALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Matt negotiated.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I made the rate.
SEACREST: During the show, as well. This is news. So you do get paid. It is a good gig. And what happens after the tour? You don’t know?
(CROSS TALK)
SEACREST: You may or may not be on your own at that point.
GOKEY: Everything’s in limbo right now. Right now, we are just waiting to see what they’re going to do, because we’re — really that’s what we’re waiting on, waiting on them.
SEACREST: Do you make anything from iTune sales?
GOKEY: Yes.
ALLEN: Absolutely.
SEACREST: Write down the number. Anoop, blog question. Do you have any interest in acting?
DESAI: You know, it’s something that I — I did when I was in high school and stuff like that. I mean, I — I would love to. But, you know, my music is first, I mean, in my mind. I’m a singer first. And, you know, I would love to experiment with stuff. I mean, that’s –
SEACREST: Sounds like you’re losing your southern accent.
DESAI: I didn’t know I had one.
GOKEY: You had an accent?
IRAHETA: He never had one.
SEACREST: Just like it comes in and out.
DESAI: It comes out when I meet people from North Carolina and then it –
(CROSS TALK)
SEACREST: We’re back in 60 seconds with more of your questions here on LARRY KING LIVE.
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SEACREST: We are back. Your “American Idol” exclusive here with the top ten and your questions. Let’s see. Another Tweet for the group. Do you think the judges are too much of the focus on “American Idol?” Lil Rounds.
ROUNDS: Too much of the focus? I think that they play a good role, as far as, you know, they do take a bit of focus. But I don’t think not as much as the contestants. I mean, of course, it is still about who’s on there. It is about the talent. It’s about what you are doing.
And the judges, they give they critiques. They give — they think you did a good job or not. And I think America does listen to them. But I don’t think they get all of the focus, no.
SEACREST: Kris, did it bother you when sometimes you looked down and you see the judges trying to strangle each other and push each other and tease each other?
ALLEN: Sometimes I don’t feel like they’re paying attention enough. For the most part –
SEACREST: Do you see that when you’re singing?
ALLEN: When I’m singing. I think, for me, personally, when I’m singing, I don’t see a thing. I’m focused in on what I’m trying to do and I get lost in when’s going on.
SEACREST: Did you dread hearing from any of the judges at any point, Adam? Probably not you. But was there one that you felt like you didn’t connect with as much as the others?
LAMBERT: Well, I mean Simon’s always the one you’re like, did he like it? With the others, I could tell on their faces what was coming.
SEACREST: Yes.
LAMBERT: With Simon, he always likes to keep you guessing.
SEACREST: Yes. He like it is suspense. Anoop, there was a point during the season, I recall, where you and ara had a bit of friction. There was a moment there. What happened?
DESAI: Yes. Well, it was after I sang “Caught Up.” And she said something — she was, it seemed like your frat friends dared you to get on stage and sing that. And then I saw a camera in front of my four friends that were there, one of whom is an accountant, one of whom is a consultant, a doctoral student in music, and one is going into PR.
And I thought it was an unfair characterization of me and my friends to say that — I mean, I was never in a frat to begin with.
SEACREST: You took it personally?
DESAI: I mean, you know, I can deal with that. We got into this process and know we’re in the spotlight. And I can deal with people saying things to me. But when, you know, you bring my friends into — I was a little, you know, annoyed at that. But we — Cara and I talked through it. It’s fine. We have a fine relationship.
SEACREST: A fine relationship. Always such the perfect word to describe. ‘It’s fine.’ ‘You look fine.’
LAMBERT: I want to say something real quick about Kara. We haven’t really covered it. We got to work with her in the studio. And she is absolutely incredible, very creative, very, very giving person. And I don’t know. I think she is a little bit unfairly judged in like the press and stuff. I don’t know why everybody was so hard on her.
ALLEN: She’s great.
LAMBERT: I think her critiques were most of the time spot on. She had really good advice. I don’t understand why everybody was so hard on her.
SEACREST: I think it’s just there is somebody new and different, it takes a second to get a thought. What people should know, and if you don’t, this woman has been a part of hugely successful songs, hit records with big talents and has an amazing ability to, what you are saying, sit down and really understand an artist, bring out the best in an artist.
She’s done it with a lot of people that we know. I can’t remember who she’s working with.
LAMBERT: She’s worked with Pink, Christina.
(CROSS TALK)
MACINTYRE: I was so excited to when she came on the show, because, you know, I kind of thought in the back of my head, because I’m a songwriter, it would be really cool to meet this person. And she brings a whole element that the other judges don’t really touch on. She is always saying with the right song, you could do that. She looks at it from an industry perspective.
SEACREST: Unless she gives you a negative critique. And then we actually feel a little bit differently that week. Right? Unless she grills you on the air.
DESAI: She is a genuine — you know? she’ll — even if she gives you a negative critique –
SEACREST: Would you ever date her?
DESAI: Would I ever. She went to Duke, so –
SEACREST: We’ll be back with the Idols. Stay here.
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SEACREST: Oh, to watch the group numbers. Back with the top ten on “American Idol.” I think some weeks they were more enthused than other weeks about those group numbers. Would that be accurate?
GROUP: Yes.
MACINTYRE: That one was actually one of our favorites.
SEACREST: Was it? Why?
MACINTYRE: It was a great song. We had fun singing it.
SEACREST: Of course. That flat-top footage of randy in Journey. Before we get back to viewer questions, a lot of buzz about the show. Once you’re in, it’s on the radar. There are websites and blogs, some positive, some negative. How much does that affect you when you’re a contestant on the show? Do you pay attention to it? Michael?
SARVER: I think it’s actually up to you as an individual how much it affects you.
SEACREST: Did you? Did you read it?
SARVER: It didn’t affect me much because I kept my nose out of it. You know, there’s plenty of things for us to do in a day’s time on “American Idol.” To sit around and look at that, it’s up to you. So if it affects you –
SEACREST: There’s got to be a voice in your head that says, I want to know.
SARVER: Absolutely. I’m wondering all the time. I only looked at the fan ones. I didn’t want anything to do with the negative ones.
(CROSS TALK)
SEACREST: How about Kris and Adam, you guys competing in the finale? It’s a hugely, highly rated show, average 28 million people, two hours of television. You’re under the microscope. How much of the headlines did you read, the blogging did you read, Kris?
ALLEN: I really tried to keep my nose out of it, especially the past — or the final whatever.
LAMBERT: Yes.
ALLEN: Because I was, like, I don’t want anything to mess me up. I’m not going to lie. I probably read some things.
SEACREST: Did you take it personally, Adam?
LAMBERT: No. I kind of checked out what people were saying early on, because I wanted to see what the response was. It actually helped me a little bit. It gave me a sense of, oh, there’s support out there. People are liking what I’m doing.
I hate to say it, but there’s a lot of negative stuff, too. I don’t take it personally. We’re in this business and it comes with the territory.
SEACREST: When they stop talking about you, you’ve got a problem.
LAMBERT: Exactly.
SEACREST: Another viewer question. This is good, is there a song that you would ban from Idol if you could? Is there something that sticks out? This is the worst song for us to have to sing in the competition?
LAMBERT: “Trouble” during hero week.
SEACREST: Why? Why is that a bad one?
LAMBERT: There were so many words. We were, like –
SEACREST: A lot of lyrics. It’s risky because you might, what, stumble, forget them?
SARVER: It’s hard to sing and spell at the same time.
GIRAUD: Some of the songs were so cool with one person singing them. And with, like, 13 people singing them, there’s no way you can make it cool.
SEACREST: Allison, how about for you? Was there something that you cringed when you thought about or heard or wanted to avoid?
IRAHETA: Yes. I mean, I’ve got to agree with “Trouble.” I think there was a point of the song where the camera was right on me and I was, like — screwed up. It was trouble. It was terrible.
SEACREST: In that — see, I’m always impressed, though, with each year, especially you guys, the contestants, you may stumble in rehearsal. You may completely blank out in rehearsal. And generally speaking, when you get on the air, in show mode, and you get there. Somehow you just get there. What happens when you get into that live show, Megan?
JOY: I don’t know. It’s kind of — I mean, you can’t even describe. Just something comes over you. And you just do it. And then all of a sudden you come out of it. You’re, like, whoa, whoa, what did I just do?
SEACREST: Have any of you been in a song, and you’re thinking, oh, god, here comes the hard part. Oh, I got through it. You’re still — half of your brain is saying that and the other half is still moving?
MACINTYRE: Yes. At a certain point, you have to just let go and hope that it comes out OK. But I’ve actually — I’ve — you know, when I used to play classical piano, I have actually fallen asleep playing a song before. I was day dreaming and then I wake up. Did I already do that part?
SEACREST: You just kind of –
MACINTYRE: There’s something that kind of takes over sometimes. SARVER: For me, you know, there’s a certain point in the evening when we’re fixing to go on where I just let it go. I quit thinking about the lyrics. I quit trying to remember them and sing them to myself. There’s got to be a time when you let go of that. Right.
SEACREST: When you just relax, and you can get there.
MACINTYRE: You think about the emotion.
SEACREST: We’ll be back with more emotion, the top ten on LARRY KING LIVE, after this.
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SEACREST: The results are in. And America, you have chosen your top ten. Here they are. They’re going out on tour, 50 cities. So check them out in your town. Last year LARRY KING LIVE did class superlatives for the other Idols for that group, for that class. So we should do them for this group, the new group of 2009. Who would be the class clown in this group?
GOKEY: Matt G.
(CROSS TALK)
GIRAUD: I’m a silly dude. There’s a couple of us.
SEACREST: Class flirt?
IRAHETA: Matt.
GIRAUD: I’m going to take all the awards.
SEACREST: That’s why he clowns. I got you.
SEACREST: Most stylish?
GIRAUD: Adam Lambert.
(CROSSTALK)
SEACREST: How do you choose which fingers to paint?
LAMBERT: I just started scraping them off when I was fidgeting.
SEACREST: Who’s the class brain?
CROWD: Anoop.
SEACREST: He doesn’t argue that. Who is the class rebel?
(CROSSTALK)
SEACREST: Ah, yes. What was the cuckooing that week?
ROUNDS: She said, I don’t really care.
LAMBERT: That’s so cool.
SEACREST: Most likely to run for political office. Who would that be?
GOKEY: Anoop.
SEACREST: Anoop again.
DESAI: I’d like to.
SEACREST: Who would be voted the prom king and queen?
JOY: Lil and Kris.
IRAHETA: Lil and Kris.
SEACREST: That’s a cute couple. Except they are both, I think, are taken.
(CROSSTALK)
SEACREST: Let’s see. Final thought here. What do you think was the message of this season? Was there a theme when you sum up this season? Kris, I’ll give it to you.
ALLEN: I think, seriously, like, we are really all different. And we have gotten along, like, amazingly. And so I seriously think that’s a theme. You know, and society is dealing with weird stuff like that right now, you know. And you know, we need to pull together as a society.
SEACREST: So this should be an example?
ALLEN: Yes.
GIRAUD: Diversity.
SEACREST: You have been terrific. I’m proud of you, really proud of you. Congratulations. It’s been a pleasure to have worked with you.
IRAHETA: Love you, Ryan.
SEACREST: We’ll see you. Sorry to put you through those results shows, too.
ROUNDS: Oh, my god.
SEACREST: I know it’s painful. The full hour. Thanks for joining us and thank you, Mr. Larry King, my friend, for letting me sit in tonight. More news now on CNN.
