Bo Bice revealed a startling secret about the “American Idol” finale three weeks ago.
“People ask me, ‘What were you thinking while you stood there waiting for them to announce the winner?'” Bice says in the issue of Rolling Stone magazine on newsstands Friday.
The answer?
“Please, God, don’t let me win this thing.”
Bice thought the ‘Idol’ crown would have hurt his reputation as a rocker.
“The label ‘American Idol’ was not for me. I’m not a pop person. It would have been harder to play my kind of music if I had won,” says the 29-year-old Alabama native.
In the May 25 finale, Bice was thought to be the frontrunner but Carrie Underwood ended up with the most votes.
This fall, Bice will record an album with producer Clive Davis, due out by year’s end. He is hoping to include some of his orginal material.
“I would rather put out an album of my own songs, and if it flops, it flops.”
After all, Bice feels like he’s playing with house money at this point.
“I just came in (to ‘American Idol’) being myself,” he says. “And for some crazy reason, that’s what people were wanting. Which is why I am truly the guy who’s the most freaked out about everything that’s happened.”
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