Please read! Tremendous Article that offers hope for the Social Divide!

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And please vote for Adam Lambert tonight!

http://www.calendarlive.com/music/la-et-americanidol19-2009may19,0,5703899.story


'American Idol's' bigger message
Finalists Adam Lambert and Kris Allen help illustrate how people with cultural differences can make beautiful music together.




By ANN POWERS, Pop Music Critic


Video: 'American Idol' roundtable talks
24 hours to showtime: Adam Lambert and Kris Allen offer final thoughts


The two-part finale of hit series "American Idol," which begins tonight, is the most talked-about thing in television right now, partly because this season's contenders, Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, are exciting performers. But it's also because they have done something unexpected: Their unlikely friendship has presented America with a new vision of itself, beyond the deepest divisions of the culture wars.

Lambert is a rocker from the liberal urban Southland with roots in musical theater and the Hollywood club scene. Allen is a collegiate evangelical Christian from Arkansas. Lambert has been compared to Queen's Freddie Mercury and Elvis Presley; Allen recalls John Mayer and the Jonas Brothers.


At a time when change is in the air but the old conflicts over religion, lifestyle and sexuality aren't going away, this eighth season of "American Idol" is vividly illustrating how people with cultural differences can make beautiful music together.

more at the link......

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1. My wife told me the other day

that she heard some news thing on the radio suggesting that Queen had approached Lambert. If true, I find that a good thing, since I've never understood how or why they'd have hooked up with Paul Rodgers.

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2. OMG, this crap has been dominating TV & the news & DU for EIGHT YEARS?

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3. Have you even read any othe the LATimes coverage of this? This "isn't about the

last 8 years! This is a social statement and it is about a tremedous talent "NOW".