Who Will Be the 2009 American Idol: Adam or Chris?

This is a quiz designed to test your ability to judge who you think people are rooting for just by looking at them. Adam, the emo-style dresser with the gorgeous falsetto or Chris, the doll-faced singer with the smooth, light melodies?

1. In this first one you have to guess within the first 15 seconds. The others don't reveal their true colors until the moment the name is announced.

If you got 2/3, you won! If you got less than that, you need to work on your demographic perception skills.

Analysis

You would not believe how difficult it was for me to find a video of people cheering for Chris. I still have no idea how he won. Some Christian Coalition must have been backing him and he managed to get 50,000,001 votes out of the 100,000,000. Seriously, they need to hire multiple independent agencies to count and verify those votes. Whose to say, Simon doesn't secretly pick the winner from the start?

This is my first season watching 'Idol'. Before, I wasn't able to justify 2-3 hours of televion a week for just one show. If I watch TV, I watch it in fast-forward, "Bryan-style", and can pack in 3 shows per hour.

This season, I only watched the last three episode:

3. Adam, Chris and Danny
2. Adam and Chris
1. Final show

But I'll tell you what. I was surprised to find that I loved watching it for two reasons - one, conventional and one, less conventional.

a. I feel inspired to sing and play guitar after watching; two things that I love to do. Watching the really good artists put their souls into their music inspires me to do the same for me and mine.

b. I love to study the psychology behind what the judges say. Each week, I'm sure Simon lectures his fellow adjudicators on what type of feedback he wants each of to give and in what attitude in order to solicit the maximum response from the American audience. I like to predict what each of the four is going to say and how they will say it. Simon is a freaking GENIUS when it comes to manipulating an audience. He knows precisely what to do in every scenario; he's a heartless, psychotic genius. Brilliant!

My Opinion on who should have won?

Danny Gokey, the soul singer whose wife past away, should have won. He was the second runner-up. It should have been Chris to have been kicked off in that episode instead of Danny; Chris did not perform well, but his boyish charm and passion carried him through. In the final showdown between Adam and Chris, it seemed evident to America, and the judges as well, that Adam would be the clear winner. And then, the unthinkable happen...In the end, even Chris was tempted to hand over his trophy.