My American Idol Finale Experience
Attending American Idol’s finale was a lot of fun! We left our houses a little before 9:00 a.m. It took almost three hours to get to the Nokia Theater with Los Angeles traffic. After finding parking, we had to stand in line to wait for tickets, but we only had to wait about an hour. We were given tickets with seats and this enabled us to go have some lunch and relax. That’s a break because sometimes they make you stand in line and wait and wait and wait.
Outside the Nokia theater were a number of tents set up for media interviews. I was able to see a lot of the old American Idol contestants. Amore, I finally saw Justin Guarini close up and he STILL is as cute as he was all those years ago when he was on Idol. I couldn’t take pictures because we weren’t allowed to bring cameras or cell phones and our car was too far away. I was also able to get to see close up Michael Lynche, Brooke White, Blake Lewis, Anoop Desai, Constantine Maroulis and Allison Iraheta.
We had good seats in the 26th row. I was surprised to see Justin Guarini sitting just a couple rows in front of us! The theater is huge! I was surprised at how big that place is. There were 7,000 fans packed in there!
I’m sure everyone watched the show, so I’m not going to review all the performances. A few things I noticed while in the audience…
When Lee sang his second song, Simon watched the entire number on the big screen to his right rather than straight ahead on the stage. I think he wanted to see how Lee came across while performing.
All the judges got up during every commercial and left the stage. One good thing was each one of them took the time to shake hands and greet fans.
It was disappointing that the other American Idol contestants walked in to the theater but not by way of the stage, so we weren’t able to get a good look at the them. At the very end of the show, all of them were called onto the stage, but they were bunched together and I still didn’t get a really good look. Casey does tower over everyone and he’s awfully cute in person.
Both Lee and Crystal sounded great in person. They have great personalities and take the time to connect with the audience.
Speaking of the audience, it seemed really mixed between Lee fans and Crystal fans. I did notice that Crystal’s fans were a bit more vocal!
This marks the first year that the final two contestants sang different songs (to be recorded). Word at the show was that it was NOT fair to have Lee sing a Bono song because he was competing with Bono and Crystal.
There were a lot of teases about who will appear on tomorrow’s show. Carrie Underwood is a definite. I’ve heard some murmurs about Lady Gaga, but I don’t know how true that is.
So if you want my personal opinion, Crystal Bowersox was the clear winner tonight, but that doesn’t mean that Lee Dewyze won’t be the next American Idol. We’ll see tomorrow…good night…Bloggergal
hmmmmm it is very hard.
May 26th, 2010 at 5:08 am
This competition is too close to call. But if I had to choose a winner from last night’s performances, I would have to say that Crystal will win it but i’ll be one close vote, it could go either way