Maddie Poppe takes the stage for a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The American Idol winner sang her debut song “Going Going Gone” on the late night talk show.
“Make sure to tune into Jimmy Kimmel tonight to see me perform my new single ‘Going Going Gone’! I seriously can’t believe how well this song is doing, it amazes me the amount of support that is pouring out for this single & for me in general. It’s just the beginning though- I’m so excited to start writing and recording all kinds of new tunes for you all!!” she wrote on Instagram ahead of her appearance.
“I was just sitting in my hotel room and I heard the TV say ‘Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel American Idol Winner Maddie Poppe performs’ and I looked over at the TV and smiled really big like an idiot,” she added on Twitter later in the day.
Pictured below: Maddie arriving at the Jimmy Kimmel Live studios.
It’s been a week since Maddie Poppewon the comeback season of American Idol and she’s already talking about her debut album.
The 20-year-old singer hopes that her album will reflect just who she is and how she presented herself on the show.
“I want to stick with doing the vein I stuck with on the show,” she told TV Line. “I didn’t realize how far that would take me in the competition, but now I realize that’s enough. I really want to keep being true to what I want to do. I don’t want to get caught up in the other things that sometimes come from being in the music industry.”
We can’t wait to listen to her album whenever it comes out!
The American Idol finalists and real-life couple got to meet Kevin Jonas at an event over the weekend.
The duo took to their Instagrams to share photos with Kevin and had some pretty great captions.
“Get a boy who looks at you the way Caleb looks at the camera after meeting Kevin Jonas for the first time. #starstruck #jobrosforlife,” Maddie captioned her photo with a shocked looking Caleb.
Caleb added, “I MET KEVIN JONAS!!!! What a cool dude, I’ve been so impressed by the Jo-Bros thus far. Also look at the dime on the far left, holy cow!”
This isn’t the first JoBro that Maddie and Caleb have met though! They both got to meet Nick Jonas while he was a mentor on American Idol earlier this year.
And after a mini-press tour in New York City where she appeared on Live! with Kelly and Ryan and Good Morning America, Maddie had some time to reflect on her win on Instagram.
“I don’t even know what to say. I couldn’t have dreamt of a more perfect night,” Maddie starts off. “Thank you to all of America for believing in me when I didn’t even believe in myself. A year ago I was lost and uncertain how I would be able to make this happen for myself. I cried and worried and wondered if this dream would ever pan out for me.”
She adds, “So many times I contemplated giving up, but at the last second my saving grace came through when @americanidol dropped into my life. Not only has this show given me a platform to build my career on, but it has given me countless lifelong friends who I’ll love and cherish forever.”
“This guy captured my heart from the start and showed me what love truly means,” Maddie says. “I’ve never cared for or adored another person so much, @calebleemusic you mean so much to me and I’m so blessed to be able to have had you alongside me throughout this journey and hopefully for many more moons to come, xo.”
Their relationship was revealed just as the winner was about to be announced on last night’s grand finale.
“It was the first day of Hollywood Week and we haven’t really spent any time apart since then,” Caleb shared with ET about how their relationship started.
He continues, “It was one of those things where I didn’t want it to affect anything, and I didn’t want to exploit my feelings for her ‘cause they’re very, very real. Once voting was over, I was like, ‘Shoot, I want the world to know.’”
After performing a stripped down version of “Over the Rainbow” together, host Ryan Seacrest announced that the show was sending them to Disney’s Aulani resort in Hawaii!
“I don’t have many words to say I just, I feel so overwhelmed,” the 20-year-old singer shared afterwards.
Maddie adds, “I just can’t even believe, you know I felt like I was kind of an underdog for a while. I really did because my music is not mainstream, and so to know that I pulled this off just doing what I love and I didn’t have to change myself is pretty incredible.”
“The thing is I remember a year ago I was playing in a coffee shop for six people, and I just, I wanted to give up,” she recalled. “I didn’t see this going anywhere and I was afraid, and just to know a year later if I could go back and tell myself, you’re the winner of ‘American Idol,’ I wouldn’t believe it.”
Just a few days ahead of her win, Maddie dropped her debut single, “Going Going Gone” that you can listen to below and download it now on all digital retailers!
The finale will span across two nights, Sunday (May 20) and Monday (May 21), and each contestant will perform three songs, including their just released debut singles.
Maddie will perform her new single “Going Going Gone“, her own original song “Don’t Ever Let Your Children Grow Up”, and Fleetwood Mac‘s “Landslide”.
Caleb will perform his new song “Johnny Cash Heart“, “Don’t Close Your Eyes” by Keith Whitley, and “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash.
Gabby will perform “Rivers Deep”, her debut single, Miranda Lambert‘s “Little Red Wagon”, and “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey.
