The Orange County register did an article today covering the Top 10 finalists about to hit the road for the 2009 American Idol Tour. While most articles push and Adam, self-proclaiming his "closest straightest" friend, this article but Kris and his friend Allison Iraheta together!
EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE:
BIG BROTHER, LITTLE SISTER
Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta move around the room with the easy comfort of siblings, joking around and poking gentle fun at each other.
"I think both of us have wanted to do this for a long time," says Allen, the soft-voiced 24-year-old from Conway, Ark. "For me since I was 13, and for Allison even longer."
As champion, he automatically gets the biggest career boost, and says he's currently working on picking songs for his debut album to come out later this year.
"We're pretty much in the beginning stages, but I feel like it's going to be a pop-rock thing, kind of what I did on the show," he says.
Iraheta, whom the judges seemed to pick at week after week, sometimes more for her quiet personality than her big rock 'n' roll voice, also has an album deal, and is following much the same course as Allen now.
"It's definitely going to have a rock edge to it," says Iraheta, the 17-year-old from Los Angeles who finished fourth. "It was really hard having themes each week, so the album is going to be a lot more of me."
The tour will take them out before more live fans than the show ever did, and both said the thought of that gives them a bit of anxiety from time to time.
"I'm scared," says Iraheta, who has added streaks of purple and magenta to her already insanely red-dyed hair. "I'm superexcited, but scared."
Allen, who could not be more down-to-earth if he was a farmer, says he's looking forward to the opening night for the memories it will create.
"I think it's going to be one of those moments that you'll never forget," he says. "Walking out there to all those people who are there to see you? It's going to be special."
What they'll sing: Allen says one of his songs in the show will be the Beatles' "Hey Jude," a switch from the version of "Come Together" which he did on the show. Iraheta says she'll be reprising her TV performance of Janis Joplin's "Cry Baby."
Read the rest of the article, where they talk about the Rocker Glam and Tattooed Ma'am (Adam and Meagan), The Piano Man and the Diva (Lil and Scott), The Roughneck and the Widower (Michael and Danny), and the Singing Survivors (Anoop and Matt). This article also gives several of their song selections.
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