3: Madison. What the hell was Luke talking about when he said Madison won the first round!!
Just because she is loud doesn't mean it was good. She missed many, MANY notes in that Shallow song. Luke is nutz. 3rd place is correct for Madison.
Totally agree. She was pitchy on the second song, too.
Judging by the coronation song, it was clearly meant for Laine. That song doesn't fit Alejandro's style. Even Madison would be a better fit for that song than Alejandro.
I wonder if Alejandro is relieved that he didn't win knowing that he would lose some creative control. I remember Blake Lewis and Bo Bice implied that they didn't want to win.
LOL! at Demetrius comment about Alejando that he sings at a volume of '3'.
Katy Perry sounded like Lacy in her duet with Jeremiah, especially at the beginning.
Well, it looked like the audience didn't listen to the judges. None of the judges said that Laine won the first round, yet he ended up being the winner.
I guess Alejandro made history by singing all original songs in the finale. That itself is already a winner, since no contestant has ever or been allowed to do that. On the contrary, I remember Bobby Bones advised Madison not to sing an original song in Hollywood b/c no one would be familiar with it.
Loved Demetrius' falsetto in his duet with Adam.
I wonder how close the votes were. Usually if it's close they would reveal the percentages in the past. I thought it was gonna be really close since Alejandro has many more fans than Laine. But I guess most of Alejandro fans don't/can't vote or Laine has more closet fans than Alejandro or the casual fan preferred Laine to Alejandro.
I still think Alyssa is a more well rounded singer than Madison, even though Madison has better vocals.
Congrats to Laine for being the first AI winner of Asian descent!
He should have tried out for that new Songland show where the point is to present new/original music, not American Idol where the point is to have a marketable winner. 
Lanie is the correct winner of this competition. They could put that 'winner' song on the radio today on either the Pop or Country channels and it works. I wish he woulda sung Hurricane again instead of Bring It On Home for his final song. 
