This was the victory song for 2009 American Idol winner Kris Allen. He and Adam Lambert, who was the other finalist, each performed the song on the final night of voting. When Allen sang this power ballad, he was tripped up as the song's arrangement was too high for his vocal range. This made it even more surprising when he defeated Lambert to win the competition.
The song was co-written by Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, along with Cathy Dennis ("I Kissed a Girl") and Mitch Allan, who is lead singer of the band SR-71. Allan and DioGuardi previously teamed up to pen the Jonas Brothers hit "Play My Music," which was on the soundtrack of the 2008 movie Camp Rock.
The song had to endure mainly negative reviews, particularly concerning its the lyrics. MTV's Gil Kaufman, for instance, described them as "a titanic mound of turgid clichés." Even Idol judge Simon Cowell mocked the song and the lyrics about "mountains" and "hurricanes."
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