You know how it goes.  There's always this long wait between the moment someone wins American Idol to the moment that someone releases a song that's not a studio version of a previous performance, or a previously-released obscurity, or a tour bootleg.  Same went with this year's final four, although that seems to have shrunk a bit: Kris Allen's got a new song.  And oddly, I haven't heard of it until it finally dropped.  So here goes another one of those roundups: two items, one about that song, and the other, well, the title should've said it all.

Number one: They're right.  It does sound like...  Surely you've heard "Live Like We're Dying" on the radio yesterday?  Or today?  The song's trademark Kris, and maybe a bit of the Script, if only because this song is actually a cover of an unreleased song from the Irish band.  Just what you expect from a pop song--like stuff you probably heard elsewhere, only with a different vocals.

Funny enough, some heard the song and thought the chorus was similar to "Macarena".  And indeed, they are correct.

"It was really cool," Kris told Z100 New York's Elvis Duran, where his song got its world premiere.  "You dream of this day, you dream of having a single out and having it on the radio, so this was a cool day."

Seems this song will be part of the Idol winner's first album, which'll be out on November 17.  Here's the full version as spotted on YouTube.  Thoughts?



Number two: There's got to be a pair-up, between Ellen and...  I don't know what Ryan Seacrest is thinking, but what he's expecting with Ellen DeGeneres joining the Idol fold: a "change [in] sexual tension".

"Simon and Paula had a specific sort of tension, but this will be quite different," he told Fox News.

Hrm.  I'm trying my best not to mention Ellen's sexuality here--shouldn't be a big deal--but I wonder what Ryan meant here.  Or better yet, to who should that tension be directed?





- Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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