Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Was Angie Miller shocked by being voted off American Idol Thursday night?

Oh, yeah.

“I did feel confident in my performances (from Wednesday night,” she said in a conference call with the media Friday. “I wanted it so badly/”

Kree Harrison and Angie Miller get results from Ryan Seacrest. (FOX Photo)

But she also sounded like a young woman who had come to accept what happened.

Backstage, after the show, “I was like, ‘Alright, that just happened. OK, I just got voted off. What’s next?’ I didn’t want to dwell on how sad I was.”

Nor was she about to dwell on why it might have happened. Or, for instance, whether Kree Harrison’s touching homecoming clip — that had more to do with losing her parents at a young age than music — might have pulled in the votes that put her, and not Angie, in the finals.

“That’s her life,” Angie said of the story the video told about Kree. “She’s one of the most genuine girls I know. I love both of those girls. And they both deserve to be there (in the finals).”

So what is next for Angie?
There’s the Idol finale, in which she’s eager to take the Idol stage once again.

Angie Miller performs on American Idol Wednesday night. (FOX Photo)

There’s the Idol summer tour, which she thinks will be a blast because the other gals in the top 10 are so much fun to be around.

And along the way, she hopes to sign a record deal and release debut album.

“A pop album?” someone asked. “Perhaps a Christian album?”

Neither exactly, Angie said.

“I don’t want to have dance party music, but at the same time, I don’t want to put people to sleep,” she explained, saying the primary goal is to make music “that has meaning and is real. ”

“I definitely want to incorporate piano — soulful piano music with an edge. And if it’s a fast song, it’s more rock than pop.”

She wouldn’t mind acting either, but stressed that the music comes first.

As for the fact that the final spot in the finals came down to she and Kree … she wasn’t surprised. The irony is that she and Kree had been roommates since the Top 20 round and had become great friends.

“Candice killed it (Wednesday night),” Angie said. “I knew she was going to be in the finale. I thought it was between me and Kree, which is terrible. It just stunk that we had to beat each other.”

Among Angie’s other comments from Friday’s conference call ..

* On Randy Jackson leaving: “He’s been a huge part of the show and I feel so blessed to have been on a year with him. He’s been a supportor of mine since the beginning. It will be weird without him. He’s the only one who’s been there since the beginning.”

Angie Miller performs her farewell song Thursday night on American Idol. (FOX Photo)

* On who she’d like to see join the judging panel: “I think it would be so cool if someone who was on the show before came on to judge.”

* She’s pleased that she finally got good feedback from the judges for a couple of performances when she wasn’t playing piano. “At first, I felt like they thought I was only good if I was at the piano,” she said. “I love being off piano just as much as I love being on it.”

* She does not regret not playing piano on “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word” as Jimmy Iovine insisted she should have. She reiterated that she didn’t know the song well enough to play it live and would have been too focused on playing piano rather than on her singing had she tried.

* “Dream big” has been her motto for a long time. She got a tattoo about a year ago with that expression. Turns out her entire family got the same tattoo to show their support for her. “Their support is amazing,” she said.

* Her favorite Idol moment was back in Hollywood Week, when she got to perform a wonderfully well received original, “Set Me Free.” “That’s when I thought, ‘maybe I do have a chance to make it far on American Idol.'”

* She hoping to do an original song on tour. Asked if she might perform an original in the finale, she said, “you’ll have to tune in.”