Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have our season 10 American Idol winner! After over 122 million votes being cast, Scotty McCreery was crowned this season's American Idol. 
I have to say that I was not shocked by this one bit. I figured the overpraising of Lauren Alaina during Tuesday night's performance show would lead to a Scotty win, just based on how things have happened since season seven. David Archuleta, Adam Lambert, and Crystal Bowersox were all basically deemed the winner of their respective seasons during their final performance night, only to be revealed as the runner-up.
I think when you get to the Final 2 on Idol, it shows that those contestants deserve to be there. Or at the very least that their fans really want them there. Hats off to both Scotty and Lauren, but truth be told, I thought the right person won.
That said, I also thought Tuesday night's performance show was the most boring Idol episode of the season. I liked both Scotty and Lauren's personal choices, wasn't crazy about either of their second songs, and I could only roll my eyes at the songs picked to be their singles. Of course they were going to be country songs, that I knew, but oh goodness, these songs are cheesy. Scotty's "I Love You This Big" reminds me of a title of a children's book. And Lauren's "Like My Mother Does" was a track that can also be found on season seven Idol contestant Kristy Lee Cook's fail whale of an album, Why Wait.
Article comments
1 - Margs
Absolutely thrilled. Glad Scotty won. Lauren was very good but my vote was Scotty.
2 - jane
I don't think the judges were pimping Lauren so much and she lost because of that. Scotty was a top vote getter throughout the season. Plus most voters are female. They will never get a female winner. I am not a Country fan and probably won't buy his CD.
3 - handyguy
The performance show and the finale were bland, boring, bloated. [I did enjoy the campy Tom Jones medley.]
As has been pointed out, pairing Lauren and Scotty in duets with Underwood and McGraw just underlined how far these two nice kids have to go before they are real performers.