American Idol Tour Show Comes to SLC: FOX 13 Interviews Adam, Megan, Michael
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Thousands of American Idol fans gathered at the E Center on Tuesday night to see their favorite Idols perform at the American Idols Live! tour show in Salt Lake City. The show marked the seventh stop of the 51 city American Idol concert tour. The show showcased songs from the top 10 American Idol finalists from the 2009 season, including Utah's own Megan Joy.
Megan Joy talked to FOX 13 and said she is excited to finally be performing in her hometown.
Budah Previews the American Idols Live Tour
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The American Idols Live Tour 2009 is making a stop at The E Center in West Valley City Tuesday. Among the performers Tuesday night are Utah's own Megan Joy, who finished ninth on Season 8 of FOX's "American Idol." Other top 10 performers include Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Anoop Desai, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud, Michael Sarver and Scott MacIntyre.
FOX 13's Big Budah went to The E Center to observe the load-in and setup for Tuesday's show.
Megan is Joy-ful, Lambert shines at 'Idol' concert
Scott Iwasaki
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It was Megan Joy's hometown, but the biggest screams came for Adam Lambert.
Lambert, the "American Idol" runner-up, brought the house down by opening his segment on the American Idols Live show at the E Center with his big-band rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."
Even Season 8 winner Kris Allen wasn't greeted with the decibels of screams and cheers Lambert received.
But it didn't seemed to faze him. He cranked out his set, which included Kanye West's "Heartless" and the Killers' "All These Things That I've Done."
All eyes were on Megan Joy, however, when she came on stage early in the evening.
Her version of Corrine Bailey Rae's "Put Your Records On" and Amy Winehouse's "Tears Dry on Their Own" displayed her diverse styles.
Last year, when the tour featuring the top 10 finalists of the 2008 season of the FOX TV juggernaut "American Idol" came to Utah, the tour date sold out so quickly that a second date was added to meet the demand. It was David Archuleta's homecoming, and Utahns treated him like a conquering hero.
This year, the E Center did not sell out, even though Sandy's Megan Joy finished in the top 10. And instead of Archuleta demonstrating why he should have bested the surprise winner David Cook last year, Joy was disappointing during her short two-song set Tuesday. The applause was warm, but it didn't overwhelm.
With Joy quickly forgotten, the show turned out to be a battle between second-place finisher Adam Lambert and winner Kris Allen, and Lambert demonstrated, for the second year in a row, that the second-place finisher should have won more of America's votes.
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