Resident rebel of American Idol season four,
Constantine Maroulis always seemed more comfortable with posing than rocking, which made him the perfect rocker for a prefabricated pop show. He was playing a part, a criticism leveled by the perennially sage
Simon Cowell, who nevertheless failed to realize that
Constantine's fans kind of
liked that theatrical phoniness -- after all, anybody who watches Idol doesn't really care whether one of the show's rockers is genuine or not, especially in those days before
Daughtry.
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