‘American Idol’ Season 23 winner Jamal Roberts on how to ‘Jamalerize’ any song, why he knew his ‘Mary Jane’ audition would ‘ruffle some feathers,’ and why he welcomed Carrie Underwood’s criticism

New American Idol champion Jamal Roberts barely had time to brush the confetti off his sequined waistcoat before he met with Reality Rocks and other Idol reporters backstage at Sunday’s Season 23 finale, admitting that he was “overwhelmed” by his victory and it hadn't “settled in yet.”

He even still seemed to be processing the fact that he’d just made history as the first Black man to win Idol since Ruben Studdard in 2003, nodding in amazement at that statistic and marveling, “That's good to know. That's really good to know.”

While it was obviously too soon for Roberts to state what his post-Idol album might sound like, suffice to say, when it comes to this shapeshifting song stylist, expect the unexpected.