WATCH PART 1 OF KRIS ALLEN'S INTERVIEW HERE

In the second installment of Reality Rocks' two-part album-preview interview with season 8 American Idol champ Kris Allen, I dig a little deeper, discussing "Let It Rain" (the song about Kris's occasional artistic frustrations while recording his debut), the entirely self-penned "Red Guitar," the four songs I didn't get to hear during my eight-song listening session, his opinion of the new Adam Lambert and Allison Iraheta singles, his friendship with his fellow Idols, and why he chose to cover Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time" at a recent benefit concert (he did it for the kids!).

Check out part 2 of our conversation below, and get excited for November 17, the street date for Kris Allen:

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Okay, dear readers, please excuse any typos in the following blog entry. I am to be excused, since my brain is so boggled after getting to visit the 19 Entertainment offices and privately preview three Adam Lambert songs from his upcoming superglamtastic and very aptly titled debut album, For Your Entertainment (out November 23). My black-fingernailed fingers are quivering in almost too palsy-stricken a manner to type, but at the same time I am too excited about the audio glitterbombs that have been blasted directly into my unsuspecting ear canals to wait until I'm fully coherent to share my giddy thoughts. I'd be waiting a good long while, really.

Yes, the music was THAT good, people. It was EXACTLY the extraterrestrial electro-opus I hoped and dreamed it would be. You know how the Glamerican Idol recently told Entertainment Weekly that his album would sound "as if a '70s time-capsule blasted off into space and you're watching it through a holographic filter"? Well, yeah, that sums

It's been a flashy week for Adam Lambert newsflashes: the leakage of his 2012 theme "Time For Miracles"; the even leakier leakage of his lurid pictorial in November's Details magazine; the triple announcements that his first music video will run in movie theaters before Michael Jackson's This Is It screenings, that he will perform at the American Music Awards, and that he will appear on Oprah...hot dang, it's all almost too much for a Glambert to handle, and almost too much for a blogger to keep up with. If he wasn't so glitteringly, interplanetarily fierce, I'd probably be sick of him by now.

But of course, I am not. I'm more siiiiiiick of him than actually sick, especially since the most recent tidbit of album-countdown Lambert news is perhaps the siiiiiiickest of all, and even more surprising and titillating than him getting cozy with some near-naked supermodel in a lad mag.

See, Adam has been working on his debut album (now officially titled For Your Entertainment and moved up to

Sure, American Idol had Sanjaya Malakar. But identical twins John & Edward, the controversial contestants on Britain's X Factor whose polarizing performances are causing fistfights to break out at pub viewing parties across the United Kingdom, make Sanjaya seem like Adam Lambert in comparison. Seriously, if there was such a thing as Vote For The Worst U.K., John & Edward would be that site's proud posterboys.

By this, I mean they are jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, compulsively watchable, even if they might be better watched with the telly's sound turned to mute.

Looking like Vanilla Ice bookends (a better stage name for this duo might be Double Scoop) and singing just about as well as Vanilla Ice raps, John & Edward have generated English outrage ever since they shockingly advanced to Bootcamp Week over arguably much more gifted, if much less fascinating, vocalists. But much like Sanjaya's notorious Kinks-mangling performance or electric-socket-shocked fauxhawk during American Idol