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According to The New York Times, recently crowned champ Kris Allen may have had some help winning American Idol courtesy of corporate sponsor AT&T.
AT&T provided free phones for text messaging at two finale parties supporting Kris Allen in Arkansas. The phone company even showed guests how to "power text," which allows one to text 10 votes at the touch of a button and violates the show's rules.
No free texting services were offered to Adam Lambert supporters which has caused speculation that the competition was rigged!
Fox has not commented on the accusations but AT&T stated, "In Arkansas, we were invited to attend the local watch parties organized by the community. A few local employees brought a small number of demo phones with them and provided texting tutorials to those who were interested."
We don't buy it!
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hahaha. i will be so glad if they take away Kris's win. It was completely unfair, foul, and unsportsmanlike to do such a thing. I also think that Adam deserves to win so much more. I normally don't like Idol, but the one night I happened to watch it, they were doing something called "rock night". I was blown away by Adam's rendition of Whole Lotta Love. It wasn't as good as the original, naturally, but I still was spellbound. I watched Kris's performance, and searced some videos of him on the internet, and I must say, I don't like his music at all. Maybe I'm just more of a rock person. I always found it annoying that Idol always seemed to pick contestants that sang pop music. I love Kelly Clarkson (though her new stuff sorta sucks, her first 3 albums were great. she's one of my favorite artists. and I don't like many pop singers.). Rock and alternative and pop-punk and emo forever. btw, i am a 12-year old girl.
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