Post from: Idol Stalker

Post from: Idol Stalker

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you deal with having to perform ”This Is My Now”? It seemed so… not you.

BLAKE LEWIS: [When I first heard it] I was like, really? All right. I gotta sing this song, shake hands with it, make friends with it. And hopefully perform it well. It’s definitely not my style. That track would never be on my album.

EW: Did you think about rearranging it?

Blake: They wouldn’t let me do that, because it was the song that won the contest. If it had been a song for me and a song for Jordin, I think that would’ve been a lot different. They could’ve picked two songwriters.

EW: Did you want to speak out?
Blake: I don’t care — it is what it is. You have your good, your bad, and your in-between.

EW: Moving on to the songs that you were allowed to rearrange: How did you decide to remix ”You Give Love a Bad Name”?

Blake: They say ”make it your own,” so from a producer’s standpoint I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it. I’d do that with my own songs, whether I was on Idol or not. After you’ve been singing for a couple years, you want to revamp them and make them fresh. So I just tried to be true to myself and let my creativity take hold.

EW: Do you think that taking those chances mostly helped you or hurt you during the competition?

Blake: I honestly never looked at it that way. I did what they told me. They told me to make a song my own, and that’s all I tried to do. So I don’t think it was taking a chance. See, they contradict themselves a lot, the judges. With ”You Keep Me Hanging On” [during Diana Ross week], I totally revamped it and kept the main ingredients of the song, but they gave me some criticism about that. So you never know — you can’t win, you can’t lose.

EW: So what’s next for you?

Blake: I did some work with Nick already — a song I had written and another that he and Kevin Griffin from Better Than Ezra put together for me and I improvised over — which is like a dream come true. [Producer] BT is my other main inspiration. If we could get together and create a song, I’d be like a kid in a candy store.

EW: One of the highlights of the finale was watching you and Doug E. Fresh together on stage…

Blake: Hip-hop on American Idol, you can’t beat that! The experience has been so amazing, I can’t even explain in words. It’s bittersweet right now, because it’s over. Two seconds before I got on stage, it was like, ”It’s done — this is the last time I’ll step on the Idol stage.” The journey was truly a blessing.

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JORDIN SPARKS WINS AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!

Wow. Congratulations, Jordin!!!! This was a tough season and it is great to have it come to an end. We’ll be looking for your single on the charts!

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“Jordin Sparks took lead early in voting. Blake voters, the most dedicated ever on American Idol, narrowed gap frequently with speed voting.”

Now as of 1:02 am MT, Zabasearch has named JORDIN SPARKS as the winner.

I have to admit – I am a bit confused. I have spent the last three hours on every message board I can think of and there are some Jordin supporters but by far, Blake fans outnumber hers. There are even neutral viewers who feel that Jordin has been “pimped” (yes, that’s the word they used) by the judges to win. Others have said that they found it unfair that Jordin, the daughter of a football star, is even in the competition. Some had the same complaint last year about Katharine McPhee, a native of Hollywood and the daughter of a producer. I don’t have a real opinion on that but I want to know two things:

Do you feel that Jordin was pushed on to American audiences and do you think that contestants who have “connections” should be allowed on the show? Be nice. Be fair. Vote once. No haters. There is nothing wrong with discussing this and, yes, I am aware of the fact that Blake is not as strong a singer.

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