However Johnson’s single did not obtain the identical success as these songs. He mentioned he argued with producers to vary the tune, figuring out that the season’s winner must sing it on the ultimate episode and ultimately file it.
“Should you received, you needed to sing the tune, and the tune was simply utter crap,” Johnson informed Insider. “Like, it was simply the worst tune ever.”
Johnson went on to file the tune as his “winner’s single,” although he informed Insider that it was near-identical to a 2012 tune {that a} finalist from the South African model of the present had launched.
Johnson, a Asheville, North Carolina native, competed on the present’s thirteenth season, which aired in 2014. With renditions of “Sympathy for the Satan” and “The Fringe of Glory,” he emerged that season as a novel rock vocalist. He is gone on to launch two albums, most lately in 2019, with “Born From Southern Floor.”
“American Idol” has produced a number of notable winners over its final 20 years, together with Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Fantasia Barrino, amongst others. Contestants who did not win however went on to search out mainstream fame embrace Jennifer Hudson, Adam Lambert and Katherine McPhee.