American Idol 2010 — not a mom

How bad does it sound to say that because she is a mom, I’m glad Crystal Bowersox didn’t win American Idol? That’s not completely true. I just wondered how bad it would sound to say it.

Make no mistake, I was and am a Crystal fan. I think she’s amazingly talented, so damn centered, and really someone I would love to have a beer with (metaphorically anyway. My best drinking days days were winding down when she was still a preschooler). But I’m kind of relieved for her that she didn’t win, the same way I was relieved for Adam Lambert. As Lisa deMoraes of the Washington Post put it this article, Crystal “escapes the whole ‘American Idol’ beauty pageant syndrome — shilling for Ford, etc.” She will still go out on the summer concert and have the backing of the AI machine, but there’s a bunch of stuff she won’t have to do since she’s not the winner. For someone as clear about who she is as Crystal (same goes for Adam Lambert), I think it sounds like a relief to have a lighter load of product endorsements and the like, especially since she’s got a young son.

I don’t think her career or her ego needed for her to win, and it sounds like she agrees from the “don’t cry for me” comments she made after Lee Dewyze won the competition.

Read the rest of this entry at DC Metro Moms Blog.