Kris Allen Talks About Album and Music

If you watched this past season of American Idol, then you’ll know how quiet the new winner, Kris Allen is.  He is not only quiet, actually, he seems very humble and some have even accused him of being unemotional (maybe during judging or results but surely people feel the emotions when he performs, right?  I do!). 

Kris recently addressed these comments and provided a little insight into what makes him tick: "I’ve been writing for probably six years or so," Kris said on a press conference call. "I love writing music. It’s the way that I express how I feel because I’m not a man of many words. I’m not very expressive or emotional or whatever, but it comes out in my music. And that’s kind of who I am. I don’t know how great I am at it, but I think I’m getting better."

When talking about his album, he said: "I felt like I did exactly what I wanted to do on the show that I would want to do on a record. I mean, maybe stray a little bit on some of the stuff. When I went on the show and I did ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ I felt that was the kind of stuff that I wanted to do, stuff that kind of moves people and has that feeling."

That’s good news because that is what made me like him in the first place.  I think that if he made an album in the style he adopted on Idol, he will probably do very, very well. 

Would he work with judge, Kara DioGuardi, again on a song (since she co-wrote that awful “No Boundaries” single – shudder)?  "Maybe so. If it’s in the cards and it works out. It was really fun working with her on the single. She was a blast, and I really respect what she does."  I think that, normally, she is a great songwriter but I really did not like that song. 

After all is said and done, there is just one thing that Kris desires – respect.  He said: "The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry. And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, that’s what I really want to do."

I hope he gets it!

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