AI gets first chance to sign any of them. I think Taylor's trying to go his own way shows how difficult it is to do well without AI/19 behind you or distributing for you or whatever it is that they do for Elliot, who has straddled the independent/dependent thing fairly well.

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Now, just among us Kris fans (and non Kris fans if they bother to read this thread)....do you think Adam really was b2 last week?

I have been marvelling at the skillful way AI has pulled the strings for the outcomes that they want. Maybe Alexis was dispatched with early on so she wouldn't compete with Allison, who knows? Why would Alexis pick a shrieky song like Jolene?

If Kris had been b2 last week...would that have rallied up Kris fans more than his being b3 and Adam's being b2? People expected Adam to be safe. That would create more complacency.

Was that a way to pull the chain of Adam fans to get them to vote?

It wouldn't have fit the AI agenda for Kris and Danny to be the top 2 vote getters this week...and have Adam and Allison dangling in the wind with one to be booted. So, Matt leaves, per cue, (and boy did they prop him up for weeks) and now the stage is set for Kris and one other to be b2 tonight.

Something in the way Ryan announced the results still bugs me. And I know the show is manipulated. Not "rigged" but manipulated.