Kris Allen Rates Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez

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Kris Allen Rates Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez

A major highlight was the appearance, via Skype, of season-eight champ Kris Allen, who said hello with his dog Zorro and offered his thoughts on the new judges.

"I thought they were good. I thought Steven Tyler was obviously the most interesting one," Allen said. "I figured he was going to be a wacky kind of guy, and, I mean, you can't be mad at him for singing [along] all the time — he's freakin' Steven Tyler! I thought it was awesome, I really did."

That would [have been] awesome," Allen said. "It's probably a little bit different to sing for someone like Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, because they have been in the industry for so long and you've been watching them do it forever, so it would probably be weird." more gossips