Live Blogging: American Idol

Welcome to the final AI live blog of the season. I have my bottle of Andre popped because this is clearly an occasion worthy of celebration. Watching good slaughter def calls for cheap champagne.

8:00pm - Clips of interviews from the pretty one and the god of eyeliner at their first auditions, scenes of past performances, yada yada. Did I mention Adam was my fav from the first audition? Yah, I so called this.

8:02pm - Ryan has dubbed this as "the guy next door vs the guyliner". Couldn't have said it better myself. Translation: boring vs exciting and FIERCE!

8:04pm - Both contestants come out and Kris looks nervous as hell. Well he should be! Ryan also announces that the three performance categories for the night will be a favorite previous performance from the season, a song chosen by creator Simon Fuller, and the new "Idol song" written by Kara. In other words, something boring and horrible about how far they've made it and how they're living their dreams.

8:05pm - Annnnnd we're already in a commercial before any performances have even happened. Cock teases.

8:10pm - Oh hells yes Adam just rose up from the floor wearing a total Neo coat for his "Mad World" performance! Good choice my friend. And he even switches up the vocals from his own performance. Bow down bitches!

8:12pm - Although he left out the big final note. I blame it on the smoke machine...and Kara.

8:15pm - Aren't we past the point where we call Adam's performances "theatrical" as criticism? What, like that's unexpected?

8:18pm - Kris sings "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" (while playing the piano obvi) and I'm pretty sure he's trying to lose on purpose. This could not be more boring and safe.

8:19pm - Could Randy maybe mix another print that doesn't match into his outfit tonight? 2 plaids and a polkadot just aren't enough.

8:21pm - Despite the judges being nice in their comments to Kris (stop, he's a big boy, he can handle the truth), I give round 1 to Adam...obvi.

8:25pm - Simon Fuller's pick for our favorite glamazon: "Change is Gonna Come". And he's giving great constipated face and rocking an amazing shiny silver suit.

8:27pm - Thank goodness he pulled out the big notes on this song, I think he may have needed it after Simon C gave round 1 to Kris (wtf?!)

8:29pm - The judges also seem to have their panties in a bunch over that performance (glad I'm not the only one who has this confusing reaction). They've pretty much agreed it was his best performance of the season!

8:35pm - Kris has been assigned "What's Going On". Unfortunately I think he's actually going to do really well with this. Dammit!

8:38pm - Ugh that was really good! Although it so isn't fair that Kris is hiding behind his guitar and piano all night. But what's up with all this talkity talk about social awareness in song choice tonight? I like my Idol better full of only fluff and rainbows. Round 2 Adam, but it was closer than I'd like to admit.

8:44pm - Adam is making this painful "No Boundaries" song by Kara actually tolerable. Don't love it, these songs written for the first Idol single are always pretty bad, but I can get behind this for what it is with Adam's wide range of vocals and emotion. Well done, and let's just hope that Kris's version is as boring as these songs usually are.

8:48pm - Simon just outright dissed Kara's song. Loves it! But don't love the less-than-enthusiastic critiques from the judges. Do they really think Kris can do any better with that garbage?

8:54pm - Kris, picking up the mic stand and thrusting about will still not make you or this song anything better than mediocre. Nice effort though, number 2.

8:57pm - Without saying so directly, the judges pretty much just told Kris that sucked, he has no shot at winning, and to just enjoy being on the stage while he can. Finally people have been snapped back to reality.

8:59pm - Clearly based on tonight and the whole season Adam deserves to win, but let's get serious for a moment and theorize about this. The interesting thing about the final two is that it's the only time in Idol voting where you can play defence. Throughout the season we vote offensively, voting for the person we like the best or want to save. Since the odds are now 50/50, if you truly dislike a contestant (and in this case I suspect there may be some Lambert-haters), you can vote for their opponent and that vote will directly impede the success of the person you don't like. Therefore, the results tonight really could swing either way, much like the contestants themselves (heh). Also, the fact that Kris has even made it this far, beating out several competitors who were probably more worthy, shows that he does have a an base and does have people voting for him. Tonight is truly an occasion where every vote counts.

That being said, we all know I'm a total Adam-hag, but I'm not sure I want him to win this shindig. Clearly he deserves to, but as an artiste winning may not be the best thing for his career. Simon Fuller basically owns the winner. You are his pet precious for like two years or something like that. You have to put out an album full of safe songs written by the likes of Kara. You have to come back next year and pretend to care. Do we really want that for Adam? Does he even want that? If he really does (which I think he actually may) then let's give it to him. Because if Adam can't be happy with me, well then I just want him to be happy.