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SEACREST: The new American Idol¹, Kris Allen. Has it sunk in yet?

KRIS ALLEN, "AMERICAN IDOL" WINNER": No, it hasn't sunk in. All the way in. I think it's starting to a little bit.

SEACREST: The moment I will never forget and you won't forget it either. Let's take a look at the big announcement, Kris winning "Idol".

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEACREST: After the nationwide vote of nearly 100 million, the winner of "American Idol" 2009 is -- Kris Allen.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SEACREST: All right. So we see your mouth wide open. What was going through your head at that point?

ALLEN: The funny thing was is watching it back, it didn't seem like it lasted that long. But when you said -- it was like you said K -- forever, but I thought you were going to go K-Adam Lambert.

SEACREST: You thought I was going to fake you out.

ALLEN: Exactly but you didn't. I think I was completely shocked. Adam's amazing. Adam's great. And to -- I didn't have any clue I was going to win.

SEACREST: So you were surprised?

ALLEN: Yeah.

SEACREST: I think the first thing you said was Adam's great. Actually on the air, you were complimenting him at the moment you should be complimenting yourself.

ALLEN: I think that's kind of how I am. Seriously, we're really good friends and he's amazing. He's been probably the most consistent performer this year. And just overall probably one of the best performers that's ever been on the "Idol" stage.

SEACREST: So aside from getting more votes, an incredible number of votes too. Why do you think you won?

ALLEN: I don't know. You know, I think it was, you know, a combination of a lot of stuff. It was maybe probably, you know, a little bit of personality, a little bit of - hopefully it was about the music, as well. I know that's not always the case on "American Idol". That's what I care about the most the music and how I portray² it.

SEACREST: It's no secret that you're a man of faith, that you referred to the Christian³ thing as it were. The Christian thing. You didn't rely on the Christian vote. Do you think that played a part in your win, though?

ALLEN: I hope it didn't. Because I guess me and Adam were doing an interview before the show. Kris, do you think you're going to get the Christian vote now that Danny's gone? And that was rough, that was kind of upsetting, because the show's not about religion, we're not running for president. We are there to do music and there to sing and hopefully people vote on that.

SEACREST: Which is the hope. But it's so big, there's so many people involved, and I think there are a lot of factors that go into the voting. Like it or not.

ALLEN: Yeah, like it or not. I think that's the truth.

SEACREST: What was the toughest week for you, Kris?

ALLEN: I think for me the toughest week was the year of birth week. We - I had a hard time picking a song. And I think it showed, as well. I don't think the judges liked it very much. I was in that dang pit. The pit of death, don't do it.

SEACREST: When you talk about your home state of Arkansas, you say not a lot happens. Bill Clinton obviously from there, so there's a little bit of notoriety. But you're the next boy from home that's done good.

ALLEN: Yeah. There's like a lot of people who have done well from Arkansas. But this was on like a huge stage and Arkansas really rallies around what goes on in that state. And if someone from their state gets on the show, on any show, we go crazy about it.

SEACREST: What about strategy? I've seen the show 300 plus episodes ... ALLEN: Oh, really.

SEACREST: ... yeah, believe it or not. And i know that you have to develop some sort of strategy. So what was yours?

ALLEN: You know, I think my strategy throughout the whole thing was don't steer⁴ away from what you know how to do. And that's just go out there and be yourself. I went out there and I played my type of music. And I really wanted to change stuff up a little bit and be kind of bold in my music choices. And just do what I believed in.

SEACREST: People, some people don't know much about you. You're married to Katie. We talked about it on the radio the other day. Give us sort of the time line of how it all happened between the engagement, the marriage, and the "Idol".

ALLEN: Yeah, we got engaged probably a year before we got married. And then, you know, did all of the wedding plans and all that stuff and then got married in September and seriously we went to Jamaica and then flew back to Arkansas and then I immediately got on another plane to Hollywood week. So it was pretty nuts.

SEACREST: What has it been like for her not having you around?

ALLEN: You know, it's been rough. This is our first year of marriage. And I think this is -- I don't think a whole lot of people have gone through anything like this in their first year of marriage. And it's rough on us, but she's great and she's really understanding. And she's really supportive because she knows what this is what I wanted to do forever. And so ...

SEACREST: Does she ever get jealous?

ALLEN: No, absolutely not.

SEACREST: But you're a heart throb⁵ now, Kris, like it or not.

ALLEN: But she knows she has nothing to worry about, though. I don't think she's ever gotten jealous.

SEACREST: Who pushed you to audition⁶?

ALLEN: It was actually my brother. It was a couple days before, and he was like, I'm going to go try out for "American Idol", I want you to go with me.

SEACREST: He made it through one of the producer rounds.

ALLEN: Yeah, he made it pretty far. And did some flips⁷ and stuff. But, yeah.

SEACREST: How does he feel about you winning?

ALLEN: He's ecstatic. It's so funny because I was always known as his brother. His name is Daniel, I've been Daniel's brother. And now he's known as Kris Allen's little brother.

SEACREST: Idol's brother.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This show, season eight has been remarkable⁸.

COWELL: The whole idea about doing a show like this is you hope you can find a worldwide star.

RANDY JACKSON, TV HOST: We're down the wire, this is it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 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 duel⁹ competition going on here, and I love it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEACREST: After the nationwide vote of nearly 100 million, the winner of "American Idol" 2009 is Kris Allen!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SEACREST: All right. In that beat before I did the consonant¹⁰ 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 kudos¹¹ 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 contestants¹², 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 rehearsal¹³ 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 venue¹⁴ and that was different. The sound was different, the lighting¹⁵ 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 ledge¹⁶.

SEACREST: Now, on Wednesday night. There was a rumor¹⁷ 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.

1 idol   

n.偶像，红人，宠儿

参考例句：

• As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子，他是父母的宠儿。
• Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。

2 portray   

v.描写，描述；画(人物、景象等)

参考例句：

• It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
• Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗？

3 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

4 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。

5 throb   

v.震颤，颤动；(急速强烈地)跳动，搏动

参考例句：

• She felt her heart give a great throb.她感到自己的心怦地跳了一下。
• The drums seemed to throb in his ears.阵阵鼓声彷佛在他耳边震响。

6 audition   

n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)

参考例句：

• I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
• At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。

7 flips   

轻弹( flip的第三人称单数 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• Larry flips on the TV while he is on vacation in Budapest. 赖瑞在布达佩斯渡假时，打开电视收看节目。
• He flips through a book before making a decision. 他在决定买下一本书前总要先草草翻阅一下。

8 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

9 duel   

n./v.决斗；(双方的)斗争

参考例句：

• The two teams are locked in a duel for first place.两个队为争夺第一名打得难解难分。
• Duroy was forced to challenge his disparager to duel.杜洛瓦不得不向诋毁他的人提出决斗。

10 consonant   

n.辅音；adj.[音]符合的

参考例句：

• The quality of this suit isn't quite consonant with its price.这套衣服的质量和价钱不相称。
• These are common consonant clusters at the beginning of words.这些单词的开头有相同辅音组合。

11 kudos   

n.荣誉，名声

参考例句：

• He received kudos from everyone on his performance.他的表演受到大家的称赞。
• It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation.如果由于内心疑虑不安而在行动上举棋不定，是得不到荣誉的。

12 contestants   

n.竞争者，参赛者( contestant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 rehearsal   

n.排练，排演；练习

参考例句：

• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
• You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。

14 venue   

n.犯罪地点，审判地，管辖地，发生地点，集合地点

参考例句：

• The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
• The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。

15 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

16 ledge   

n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁

参考例句：

• They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
• Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上，摔倒了。

17 rumor   

n.谣言，谣传，传说

参考例句：

• The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
• The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。