Cry more, crybabies. (It’s all for naught.)

The backlash over the American Idol results is deafening – I couldn’t get on any of the social networking sites last night without hearing about it one way or the other.  Myself – I haven’t been keeping track of Idol that closely this year; I’d pop in from time to time when the roommates were watching it, just to see who was who, but that was about it.  I had heard of Adam Lambert – mostly because I was pulled into our living room once to hear him completely butcher Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire”… and from that point on, I just couldn’t stand the kid.  (I mean c’mon, he completely ruined a genuinely good song – that’s hard to do!)  He had to lose – honestly,  I didn’t know if I’d be able to stand going to work if I had to spin an Adam Lambert single on the air ad nauseum.

So last night, the seemingly impossible happened – the underdog won.  And holy hell, the loser’s rabid fanbase is PISSED.

Honestly, I smile a little inside.  Who doesn’t like saying (or thinking) “I told you so!”?  Reading stuff like this (especially from someone I consider a friend) though… it just rubbed me the wrong way:

“I doubt Kiss & Queen would have came for anyone else but Adam.  America is such a homophobic country & stupid at that.”

…America is a homophobic and stupid country just because the loser happened to be gay?  You’re telling me that it couldn’t have possibly been the fact that he’s seemingly tone deaf and can’t sing a song without screaming half of it?  Or that *gasp* more people liked Kris Allen?  I don’t care how dedicated a fan you are, that’s just about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard someone say.  It’s both maddening and hilarious how stubborn and mindless some of the show’s fans can get.  Throughout the season, it’s nothing more than a talent show popularity contest, but when someone’s favorite contestant loses, it’s all of a sudden not because they’re the least talented popular.  It’s gotta be because the populous is prejudiced over any number of said loser’s personality traits or sexual orientation.  I mean, ADAM WUZ THE BEST THEREZ NO WAI THAT STOOPID OTHUR KID WUN, HE SUXORZ!  AMERIKUH MUST HAET THA GAY PEEPS!

My friend Shawn summed up perfectly in his blog: if you’re an Adam Lambert fan, you really should’ve been praying for him to lose.  Hoping upon hope.  (Unless you paid lots of money to vote – then sour grape it away.  Even though that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of to spend money on.)  Kris Allen has more radio appeal.  He’ll be easy to market to the Hot AC-types.  Adam Lambert’s sound is something that he’ll be able to sell WAY better if he’s not locked into a contract with Simon Fuller’s record company.  Plus, look at the track record of past winners of American Idol… there are really only two names that are still hugely successful – Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson.  Everyone else has already kind of hit the downward spiral into mediocrity, last year’s winner David Cook included.  Pretty sure Adam Lambert would’ve fallen victim to the same cycle.

So I guess what I’m saying is that the eyeliner kids just need to stop with the crying and the attacks on people who didn’t like your pick.  In the long run, Lambo will do better without the help of Idol.  If he doesn’t… they can’t cry “Homophobes!”, ’cause they’ll be the ones to blame.