Kris Allen‘s live rendition of his first single apparently hasn’t been much of a crowd pleaser on the American Idol summer concert tour.
”No Boundaries” — the song co-written by Idol judge Kara DioGuardi that served as Allen’s debut single — has been dropped from his set on the American Idols Live concert tour beginning with Friday night’s show in Sacramento, The Los Angeles Times reported.
The annual summer Idol concert tour kicked-off last week in Portland, OR, and Allen’s rendition of “No Boundaries” has “stood out as a bit of an odd duck” among his other numbers, according to The Times, which added the others songs he is performing were “chosen for and crafted” to his “intimate, soulful style.”
In addition, The Times cited reviews of the tour as referring to “No Boundaries” as a “misstep” that had been “generating a tepid crowd response compared with the other numbers.”
Idol eighth-season finalist Anoop Desai posted Friday on his Twitter account that a new song would take “No Boundaries” place in Allen’s set.
“I’m sure y’all have heard that kris has a new song in his set,” posted Desai. “Just heard him sound check it, and it’s amazing! Sacramento is in for a treat.”
Allen and Adam Lambert first performed “No Boundaries” during Idol’s final eighth-season performance episode. While DioGuardi — who co-wrote “No Boundaries” with Cathy Dennis and Mitch Allan — praised Lambert’s rendition for making her proud to have worked on the song, she was more critical of Allen.
“Kris, I don’t want you to be judged on that song, I do think it was too high,” she told Allen during the final performance episode. “I want you to be judged on the fact that you are a compelling artist and you have been an incredible person to watch week-to-week.”
Allen subsequently performed “No Boundaries” again the following night after being crowned the champ, and both Allen and Lambert’s renditions were released digitally on May 20. Allen subsequently told reporters during a post-victory conference call that “No Boundaries” had both its positives and negatives.
“The track actually sounds really good; I listened to it,” he said at the time.
I saw him the second night of the tour, and unfortunately, he had to sing No Boundaries. He gave it his all, but let’s face it, the song is a dud. Wish I could have heard the song he replaced it with.
i hate the fact that they always have some cheesy song to sing as a finalist and i think they should do away with it. pretty much everyone on AI is being noticed for the first time so to make them record their first “own” song that is undoubtedly going to suck is just cruel and unusual. discard the crappy song and let the finalists start off their career how they should, with the first single off their album.
Well..listen to this..I read somewhere, that the song was brought in apparently because they thought DANNNY was going to win, and it would have been a song for him !!! Listen to the lyrics, all about his personal tragedy , rising about it..etc…….
Kind of got screwed when Kris and Adam made it to the finale…..
Get rid of the Coronation songs…..never any good…
I heard that the song was an old one in Kara’s repertoire and that it was brought in hopefully to fit the Idol coronation requirement of “persevering, going against the odds, and all the crap.” It supposedly wasn’t even written for the show in the first place.