Idol Headlines for 04/02/09

I posted this at the AI thread for last night but maybe it fits here more.

From ETOnline.com:

The following night Wednesday April 8, “Idol”‘s season five finalist Kellie Pickler will return to the show that made her famous to perform her new single, “Best Days of Your Life.”

And then there were the contestant impersonations: Anoop poking fun at Kris’s side-mouth singing, Allison loopily attempting to growl like Danny Gokey on ”PYT” and ”Jesus Take the Wheel,” and Danny doing his best impression of Matt Giraud’s horrendous semifinal performance of ”Viva La Vida.” Now why did the first two examples make me chuckle, while the last one did not? (Nope, it’s not because I’ve never drunk the Danny Kool-Aid.) It’s because Anoop and Allison both poked fun at numbers that had been mostly lauded by the judges, while Danny chose to mock a universally panned performance that prevented Matt from cracking the top 12 without the help of the Wild Card. Oh, and then Danny followed it up by making a bleating goat noise, because it’s every contestants dream to get compared to a barnyard beast and/or Carmen Rasmusen.

Once again, Slezak is spot on. He doesn’t miss anything.

Danny is a piece of work, it was pretty funny though. Danny Goatkey?

Thanks Yeahyeahsure I’m going to add that to the headlines

I was like Sleazak and impressed that Kris Allen and Matt Giruard could actually Rap on the Ford Commercial, and I mean Rap good and pull it off.

MJ, when I wasn’t signed in but just reading the site yeahyeahsure’s comment showed up as available to edit, like it does for one I would have written. It doesn’t load the comment for me (rightfully so, but I wanted to check before I pointed it out to you) but it does load the box with the save and cancel option. Just thought you’d like to know in case something’s up and it does allow others to edit posts not their own. Not that y’all would do that, understand…but if it’s open without signing in, it’s possible (?) someone else outside would, if it’s working differently on someone else’s computer. Just thought I’d mention it and couldn’t find the email spot. The edit ability doesn’t show up once I signed in, by the way, just when “not”. Sorry to ramble…

That Best Week ever is funny! lol

Same thing happened to me workdog. I just refreshed and it’s back to norm.

Woah… itunes has updated and David Cook’s album is #11 overall!! I think it was close to a #200 ranking yesterday. Woot!! CBTM has risen to #34 overall.

AI pimpage FTW!!

I was like Sleazak and impressed that Kris Allen and Matt Giruard could actually Rap on the Ford Commercial, and I mean Rap good and pull it off.

If you check out their Hollywood Group performance, Kris and Matt killed it in their group, and showed they are multi-talented and have good rhythm– couldn’t be sure, but one of them was beat-boxing. Anyway, they are my faves .

workdog, that’s so weird! But now that you mentioned it, I think I noticed that too whenever I don’t log in. :blink_tb:

Anyway, preview of Kat Mcphee’s guesting on CSI:NY and I think a preview (?) of a new song of her’s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3-4804mhc

that’s awesome that “tracks of my tears” sold the most with 13,000 copies sold!!

David Cook was on American Idol Extra last night. Ace interviewed him out on tour. Terry!!!! LOL.

Jennifer Hudson’s on the cover of the new EW with a new interview. The interview’s up online and she looks beautiful!

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20269511_1,00.html

I really want an mp3 of the group song “Don’t Stop Believin” – I can only find it as a video on iTunes and I don’t understand if I can put it in my shuffle playlist if it is a video as opposed to mp3? I can make a youtube video into an mp3 but it isn’t on youtube. Does anyone know where I could get an mp3 of the song? Help please……. Thanks.

I absolutely cannot wait to see Megan’s press conferences — if ai ptb let her do one.

I’m beginning to lose hope that Taylor will be on Idol this year.

I’m really sad Megan is gone. I get why things turned out this way, though. She had so much potential but I guess she didn’t live up to it. I still hope she gets to do a record…if not in the near future, then, after she has gained more experience, some of which I hope she gets on the tour.

Elsewhere…The tickets to the Cook-Archuleta concert in Manila are on sale now and, boy, are the prices of the good seats steep! I like Cookie enough and I adore Archie but I just can’t bring myself to spend $260 (for Titanium seats sold only at retail outlets) for not even front row seats (those will most likely go to the sponsors and promoters)! :s I’m settling for the $70-ish seat, from which, I hope I still get a decent view of the stage.

Btw, it seems that Allison might end up getting alot more votes. Miley Cyrus just updated her twitter saying this:

“Just did idol and met allison! Vote for allison she rocks!!!!”

Miley has around 89,000 followers on her twitter, and she only got her twitter 5 days ago.

Megan’s interview with Ryan this morning HERE.

Kellie Pickler has a bubbly personality but she is definately not one of my favorites. I wonder if she will have a new nose?(a little cruel).I did not like her “dumb blond” and then wondered why people thought she was a ditz. Taylor probably will not be on AI…..

IDK what Miley says really..Allsion I can enjoy w/out AI or others pushing her down my throat it gets old fast…

Meganà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s interview with Ryan this morning HERE.

Heh — well that was quick. Anyone else think she got threatened within an inch of her life to not say anything about VFTW.

“Uhhhh…I just really love animal noises.”

Uh…sure…

LOL at Best Week Ever. Hey, Allison and Idol *do* have the same initials! Look at that!

Slezak’s on the money, as always.

I talk to Meghans cousin and she said this :::

“i’m kinda bummed though. next week she had planned to sing fiona apple’s, “sally’s song” from the nightmare before christmas. her favorite movie..”

She also said this:::

“Danny is super religious yes, and he is pretty cocky actually. Meg likes him though, and thinks he could be the winner. =/ ”
“And she likes Scott, but she hated Sarver. She describes him as, quote, “an arrogant prick.”
“Anoop is really intellectual when you talk to him. He has a good head on his shoulders. super nice.”

Woot!! CBTM has risen to #34 overall.

WOW, that’s not high at all. I was expecting it to be in the top 10, hopefully in the top 5. :glurps_tb:

Even if it does get that high I don’t think it would happen this early. It’s 28 now, and I’m actually shocked because..uh well I love my DC but that song really is horrid LOL

I wonder if Miley pimpin’ Allison will help her?? My daughter is one of thousands on her Twitter heh but she’s not into Idol this year.

AnoopFan Apr 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm

I talk to Meghans cousin and she said this :::

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m kinda bummed though. next week she had planned to sing fiona appleà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“sallyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s songà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  from the nightmare before christmas. her favorite movie..à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

Well now I’m confused. I thought next week was suppose to be the year you were born. And “A Nightmare Before Christmas” was from 1993. Megan was born in 1985.

That would go with the rumored “Songs From Movies” night we speculated about with Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Hudson pre-taping performances.

So did they postpone movie week or are we wrong?

From Whitney’s EW On the Scene:

…but my overriding thought during most of the Cook segment was that I hoped Adam Lambert was watching very, very closely, and noticing what’s become of Idol’s most rockified winner in the year since being crowned. Is that something you want, Adam? Look carefully. Notice the eyes. Is that something you want?

Hmmm….

Megan supposedly said

“à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“next week she had planned to sing fiona appleà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“sallyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s songà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  from the nightmare before christmas. her favorite movie..à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

AnoopFan: I would modify her supposedly name calling word of Sarver. I highly doubt she would say that.

So the rumors about a future theme being Disney Songs might be true?

WWAD? (What Will Adam Do?)

Dante – try rickey.org. He usually makes mp3′s of the individual performances so maybe he did for the group one too.

Heart – I saw that in Whitney’s BTS too, and it made me really sad. Especially since I can kinda see what she’s talking about.

Miley Cyrus likes Allison. To me that is not a help. What would really help Allison is 1. annunciating her words, 2. not always choosing a song where she can wail (sometimes literally) and 3. toning down her hair and clothes.

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦but my overriding thought during most of the Cook segment was that I hoped Adam Lambert was watching very, very closely, and noticing whatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s become of Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s most rockified winner in the year since being crowned. Is that something you want, Adam? Look carefully. Notice the eyes. Is that something you want?

Whitney is not big Adam fan so I would take this with a grain of salt. Anyway this kind of mischief happens every year from people who like other contestants and figure out who the biggest competition is. All last season Archie fans kept asking if Cook should really want to win. I don’t see what Cook would have gained by coming in second or third or fourth. Whoever your favorite is, if they are on the show you should think they want to win and vote accordingly.

I really want an mp3 of the group song à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t Stop Believinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  – I can only find it as a video on iTunes and I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t understand if I can put it in my shuffle playlist if it is a video as opposed to mp3? I can make a youtube video into an mp3 but it isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t on youtube. Does anyone know where I could get an mp3 of the song? Help pleaseà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦. Thanks.

dante: My videos I download are always listed with all or the other music as well. Hope this helps.

Trina
Apr 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Even if it does get that high I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think it would happen this early. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s 28 now, and Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m actually shocked because..uh well I love my DC but that song really is horrid LOL

I actually don’t think it’s a horrid song. I don’t think it’s a “David Cook” song, but his vocals are beautiful and the video is ftw. People seem to think he needs a CHR hit. I’m unsure why he does, but I do think this could be the one.

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Danny is super religious yes, and he is pretty cocky actually.

Thanks for the validation. He seems like a really arrogant son of a bitch to me. Hint to Danny, God doesn’t like holier than thou all that much.

Heart
Apr 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
From Whitneyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s EW On the Scene:

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦but my overriding thought during most of the Cook segment was that I hoped Adam Lambert was watching very, very closely, and noticing whatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s become of Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s most rockified winner in the year since being crowned. Is that something you want, Adam? Look carefully. Notice the eyes. Is that something you want?

Hmmmà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.

I think the sound mix was not so good. Did anybody even hear Andy singing? Was there any bass? In addition, David Cook had the flu for 2 weeks around that performance. And lastly, the plain band mix they use for that song on tour is so very much better. Seriously there are YouTubes that totally put the sound ofthis performance to shame.

Anyone here watch from the west coast last night. I swear I could barely hear any instrumentation for DC’s performance last night (what a waste of the strings and Neal!) and I wonder if/really hope they fixed it for the later feeds.

I don’t have any use for Miley Cyrus but if she can mobilize at least a small percentage of her tweens to vote for Allison and it saves her from the bottom 3 for a couple weeks? I will be grateful.

“Safety Tips with Allison” was hilarious. Kudos Best Week Ever.

Heh à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’  well that was quick. Anyone else think she got threatened within an inch of her life to not say anything about VFTW.

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Uhhhhà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦I just really love animal noises.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

Uhà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦sureà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Lol, probably. Did they edit the cawing out of the west coast show? I know they edited it out for the west when Chris Sligh gave VFTW a shout-out.

Woahà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦ itunes has updated and David Cookà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s album is #11 overall!! I think it was close to a #200 ranking yesterday. Woot!! CBTM has risen to #34 overall.

That’s great! For some reason it’s not showing up on iTunes on my computer so I thought it didn’t move at all, haha. Awesome that it did.

The sound mix was definitely off during Cook’s pre-taped performance. According to EW’s Adam Vary from a few weeks ago, there was a 12 piece string section on stage with Cook (a bit to the left if you’re facing the stage) and I don’t remember even hearing them at all. Also, you could see Andy Skib singing into the mic but never ever heard him — only Cook and Kyle (the drummer). Andy voice is quite distinctive so it was noticeable that the mic wasn’t on or was turned way down. Generally, the instrumentation was very low compared to what you hear on the album.

Oh well, at least the platinum presentation was nice. I wonder how many people were taken aback that he had a platinum album already. Light On has done well on HAC, but it only barely got into the Top 20 for Top40 radio, so I suspect there were lots of people who thought his album was doing only so-so, as opposed to being one of the few to go platinum in the past year.

I had to sign out of iTunes and sign back in for David Cook to show up!

Thanks for the info regarding the mp3 -Sarah and cookcricket – I already looked at Rickeys but will look again – maybe I will just buy the video and hope it plays on my shuffle.

t2 Apr 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Meganà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s interview with Ryan this morning HERE.

Heh à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’  well that was quick. Anyone else think she got threatened within an inch of her life to not say anything about VFTW.

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Uhhhhà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦I just really love animal noises.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

Uhà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦sureà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Hey, I believe her. Megan, pretty much single-handedly, inspired Simon Cowell to do his best impression of a jackass on national television last night. [rim shot]

My apologies to the Simon fans out. :devil_tb:

Was it my imagination or did one of the alleged DC “stalkers” appear in that Ace Young clip?

Whitney ¨’s remarks about DC in her EW article…gawd I have to stop reading her. She is such a piss-poor writer. She attempts to be snarky and it just falls flat. Instead of worrying about Adam and DC, she should be taking lessons at the feet of Slezak on how to write for an entertainment magazine with wit, skill and knowledge.

Megan sure doesn ¨’t mind dishing does she. I bet VFTW are having wet dreams about her.

And Pickler next week…just when we got ridof lady CawCaw.

Was it my imagination or did one of the alleged DC à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“stalkersà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  appear in that Ace Young clip?

Not your imagination. Definitely at least one stalker spotting. And, I don’t think the stalking is “alleged” if you admit to a video camera that it’s your 16th time seeing him in a matter of a few months. That’s nuts. Who has that kind of spare time?

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t have any use for Miley Cyrus but if she can mobilize at least a small percentage of her tweens to vote for Allison and it saves her from the bottom 3 for a couple weeks? I will be grateful.

Ditto that. She’s not a bad ally to have if she can use her influence over those tweens she seems to be able to induce into purchasing billions of dollars of merchandise.

Especially since I can kinda see what sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s talking about.

Me too. Also, I think Adam should be warned about the over-invested stalking fans. I’m certain they’re scrapbooking and buying him gifts as we speak.

Let’s Get It On’s numbers weren’t too shabby either at 7000.

I think Adam, Matt, Danny and Kris are putting in some impressive numbers to the originals and their covers. But I will vote for Kris over Danny any day.

You Found Me is still at #1 on the Rock charts and #11 on the Pop.

Here is a pic of DC on our University campus from the AI site from Mandy HERE.

I can’t believe the show is in just under 3 1/2 hours! :jittery_tb:

Not your imagination. Definitely at least one stalker spotting. And, I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think the stalking is à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“allegedà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  if you admit to a video camera that ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s your 16th time seeing him in a matter of a few months. Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s nuts. Who has that kind of spare time?

Oh, I think dropping your life to follow DC is whacked too, I just wasn’t sure if she was actually involved in any of the incidents that led to his “knee-jerk” MySpace rebuke. I spotted her when I saw him in York, but I didn’t see her do anything OTT there.

Whitney is not big Adam fan so I would take this with a grain of salt. Anyway this kind of mischief happens every year from people who like other contestants and figure out who the biggest competition is. All last season Archie fans kept asking if Cook should really want to win. I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t see what Cook would have gained by coming in second or third or fourth. Whoever your favorite is, if they are on the show you should think they want to win and vote accordingly.

Or she could be referring to the fact that Cook looked nearly dead in his performance–like he was simply going through the motions of singing the song. The sound wasn’t great–I’ll give him that–although it should have been better watching the tape in studio–but it was his lack of charisma I think she was talking about, and that fact that he wasn’t actually singing rock. I remember she was a pretty big Cook fan last year, so she’s probably thinking that what was there last year on that stage isn’t there now, so Adam watch out for the big bad music industry machinery that may un-Adam him to within an inch of his guyliner.

That said–it was just one performance of one song that is one of the least rock songs on Cook’s album. Hardly a reflection of his entire post-Idol career.

So Danny only inspired 3,000 downloads of the original of the song he sang last week, while Matt’s sold more than twice as much (7,000), and Adam’s sold more than 4 times as much (13,000). Wonder how closely the sales of their AI studio singles mirrors that? Maybe Danny is the leader in votes, at this point, but not so much in how much $$ he’s making 19.

Woahà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦ itunes has updated and David Cookà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s album is #11 overall!! I think it was close to a #200 ranking yesterday. Woot!! CBTM has risen to #34 overall.

AI pimpage FTW!!

That is so great…especially about the record!

Maybe the casual viewer weren’Â ¨t as picky as some of us were (are).

CathyMK
Apr 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
So Danny only inspired 3,000 downloads of the original of the song he sang last week, while Mattà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s sold more than twice as much (7,000), and Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s sold more than 4 times as much (13,000). Wonder how closely the sales of their AI studio singles mirrors that? Maybe Danny is the leader in votes, at this point, but not so much in how much $$ heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s making 19.

I honestly don’t know if Danny not making as many dollars or any of them making more as far as that goes can be extrapolated from that. I’d sure love to see their download numbers though. At least last year we could see who was higher in a roundabout fashion…those are actually the only numbers I really care about–last year’s.

“Notice his eyes” I though it was about him looking tired. But I mean, looking tired cause you get to be on tour isn’t exactly a bad thing, why wouldn’t Adam want that?

There’s nothing bad about Miley supporting Allison, the girl has a huge fanbase, let them vote and help Allison go far. She’s 16 anyway, that’s the type of audience that would like her.

So Danny only inspired 3,000 downloads of the original of the song he sang last week, while Mattà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s sold more than twice as much (7,000), and Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s sold more than 4 times as much (13,000). Wonder how closely the sales of their AI studio singles mirrors that? Maybe Danny is the leader in votes, at this point, but not so much in how much $$ heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s making 19.

Judging by the numbers of ratings and reviews doesn’t seem like Danny is that behind Matt. I’m not sure I’d take that conclusion from the original numbers, that Danny isn’t selling more than the others (besides Adam).

Or she could be referring to the fact that Cook looked nearly dead in his performanceà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’like he was simply going through the motions of singing the song.

I’ll agree with that. Sound mix aside, DC was uncharacteristically low-energy last night, so I could see how an AI blogger like Whitney would read into that as “AI-sucks-the-life-out-of-its-winners-look-what-they-did-to-DC”. I think that kind of a cynical view on 19-Evil is expected from AI bloggers, but I disagree that’s the case. DC hasn’t been “Biced”, and he’s not low-energy because he’s being forced to do music he doesn’t like. The guy had to fly back and forth in the midst of a grueling tour while dealing with a lot of personal sh-t, and pulled through just fine in the eyes of the less-nitpicky public.

So I think Whitney’s argument that if this “scary” future is what Adam has to look forward to, he wouldn’t want to win completely fails if you just watch DC’s happy/humble interview and platinum presentation with Ryan, where he makes clear he’s extremely grateful to be where he’s at now thanks to Idol. So yeah, Adam fans should keep voting. It’s one blogger’s opinion based on one slightly low-energy 4-minute performance from DC that winning isn’t a good thing. I find there’s much more evidence that proves the opposite (you want to win).

Oh, I think dropping your life to follow DC is whacked too, I just wasnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t sure if she was actually involved in any of the incidents that led to his à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“knee-jerkà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  MySpace rebuke. I spotted her when I saw him in York, but I didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t see her do anything OTT there.

I’m not sure there’s any evidence whatsoever that the acts that precipitated the MySpace message were perpetrated by the group of stalkers that always seem to be photographed at every show. It could be an entirely different set of stalkers LOL. I think those high-profile stalkers just make easy scapegoats for the online stalkers. They could be completely benign stalkers with lots of free time and really high credit card balances

So, hopefully, while David was with the contestants, he took a little time to warn them about the big bucket of crazy that comes with an AI fanbase.

he wasnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t actually singing rock.

Leaving aside various people’s opinions of David Cook’s physical and emotional state during his performance (though I noticed him mugging for the camera a few times and looking happy but respectful, myself), I disagree with the idea that this song isn’t rock. It’s not hard rock, or active rock, or whatever you want to call it, but it fits right in with current commercial rock songs playing on Hot AC today. If Daughtry’s songs fit in the rock genre (and that’s how they are classified on iTunes), then so do David’s. It’s one of my least favorite songs on the album, but it’s a typical commercial rock single. It’s common for the songs that are meant to be the first few singles to be more commercial sounding than the rest of the album. You can even tell the difference on U2′s new album. I can generally tell which songs are meant to be the first 2-3 singles from an album the first time I listen. I had this one pegged from the get-go.

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll agree with that. Sound mix aside, DC was uncharacteristically low-energy last night, so I could see how an AI blogger like Whitney would read into that as à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“AI-sucks-the-life-out-of-its-winners-look-what-they-did-to-DCà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ .

My wank is that this is the week that started it all. I think that Adam started to get sick again, which lead to the overreaction with the fans/blog the week after, which transitioned to him taking time off to hang with his brothers this week. Yup, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

DC is fast moving up the Itunes chart : On the pop chart the record is number 3 and CBTM is 10.

On the overall chart the record is at 11 and CBTM is at 34.

Go David Go!

Anyone here watch from the west coast last night. I swear I could barely hear any instrumentation for DCà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s performance last night (what a waste of the strings and Neal!) and I wonder if/really hope they fixed it for the later feeds.

I just watched back (CA here) and you could hear the strings and Kyle/Andy singing backup…but not till midway when the song’d gotten going.

Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s one bloggerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s opinion based on one slightly low-energy 4-minute performance from DC that winning isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t a good thing. I find thereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s much more evidence that proves the opposite (you want to win).

Well, and plus, Whitney writes a pretty light-hearted blog that’s supposed to be humorous. I don’t think she means for anyone to take what she says very seriously.

Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not hard rock, or active rock, or whatever you want to call it, but it fits right in with current commercial rock songs playing on Hot AC today. If Daughtryà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s songs fit in the rock genre (as they are classified on iTunes), then so do Davidà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s.

In general, I think the song is kind of boring. But I agree that it’s no less rock than the radio-friendly, pop-rock of Daughtry’s or any number of those rock-lite Nickelback songs. It’s not hard rock, and it won’t be played on those hard rock stations, but I think there’s way more money in the pop-rock thing, so who cares if it veers more to the HAC. Especially if you can hit the jackpot of a Top 40 hit that also becomes an HAC hit and lives for all of eterenity on AC.

So Danny only inspired 3,000 downloads of the original of the song he sang last week, while Mattà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s sold more than twice as much (7,000), and Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s sold more than 4 times as much (13,000). Wonder how closely the sales of their AI studio singles mirrors that?

Last year in season 7, there were quite a few bad performances that still inspired me to download the original because I could still recognize that they were good songs. On the other hand, if the performance was very good, I tended to download the contestant’s studio version instead of the original (which is what I did with most of Cook’s songs except for the Switchfoot song). So I’m curious to know how well it correlates. I don’t know if anyone collected data from season 7 but I don’t remember Cook helping the original artist as much as I would have expected, given his sales. Does anyone know?

On my East Coast feed, I also couldn’t hear the instruments or backup vocals on DC’s performance very well. Even some of the Utube videos of his college performances have better sound than that. Not sure what was going on. Cook’s voice sounded great as always..but this is not one of the better songs on his album IMO.

Has this been posted yet? Cantiello’s Idol in 60 Seconds is up.

Not sure what was up with DC last night but he did not seem like himself and really didn’t care for the song…

Hey, I believe her. Megan, pretty much single-handedly, inspired Simon Cowell to do his best impression of a jackass on national television last night. [rim shot]

BWAH!!

I am surprised that not one of the newspapers pointed out that Alexis was standing next to !!Gokey!! at the piano when they were showing the Day-in-the-life-of-an-idol clip. Someone should fire Ai’s fact checker.

dante, or anyone else, if you want to make an mp3 from a youtube video, go to this site and copy and paste the url of the youtube into their little converter field. it will generate an mp3. works great.

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/

Digital tracks from the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Motown #1sà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  album set registered a 96% sales jump from the previous week, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Good to hear this news!

I wanted to hug David Cook after his performance, and I was a Jason fan last year.

Happy to see Kellie’s coming back, but what about Taylor Hicks?

In my view, Whitney’s lost her edge somehow. I remember last year really enjoying her snark. Now something feels missing. Yeah, she’s a Cooktard, so I’m thinking she feels he lost a spark of some sort. I think he’s releasing another single he didn’t write but he’s doing a standup job of selling it. I also agree that this performance fell in the midst of all sorts of angst, so she may be right that the spark had dimmed temporarily. I don’t think she’s right in reading in as much as she has, and then extrapolating even further to conclude that a warning to Adam is in order. That’s a bit of a reach.

Anywho, SpenserJ, have I told you lately that I love you? LOL Sorry for the fantardism, but you never fail to make me LOL or even LMAO. So, I feel I must thank you!

And WhooooHoooo for increasing sales of DCTR!!!! Singles sales of CBTM are just icing (or for me, a means to an end cuz I’m lovin’ me some album sales increases!!!)

Hallelujah – Jason’s cover, which he sung the heck out of pushed Jeff Buckley’s version to #1. How many Jason sold, I don’t know.

I think Always be my Baby, Hello and Billie Jean all got to the top.

Question: This year, it seems that TPTB got rid of the popularity bars on iTunes for the AI songs (which last year created a situation where you could create a playlist of all the Idols’ songs and compare bars to determine who sold the most in any given week). Did TPTB also prevent those songs from charting on the overall iTunes chart unlike last year?

Question: This year, it seems that TPTB got rid of the popularity bars on iTunes for the AI songs (which last year created a situation where you could create a playlist of all the Idolsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ songs and compare bars to determine who sold the most in any given week). Did TPTB also prevent those songs from charting on the overall iTunes chart unlike last year?

Yes. No popularity bars and all of the songs are blocked from charting. Ugh, I want to know how this batch of contestants are selling!

(I think Cathy’s hypothesis is viable. Maybe the reason why TPTB switched from Danny to Matt briefly was because Matt was selling more downloads. Who knows?)

Anywho, SpenserJ, have I told you lately that I love you? LOL Sorry for the fantardism, but you never fail to make me LOL or even LMAO. So, I feel I must thank you!

Aw, that’s very kind of you to say. Happy to be of service. See, that’s my trick – I hope you guys remember when I make you LOL, the next time I make you mad

97 BHT (WBHT) in Pennsylvania played David Archuleta’s Zero Gravity this evening. It was most likely the extended leaked version made by a fan though. Pretty awesome!

Fiona Apple would have been perfect for Megan.

Elsewhereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦The tickets to the Cook-Archuleta concert in Manila are on sale now and, boy, are the prices of the good seats steep!

Woah…pretty expensive tickets. I have to ask my betch where we’re gonna sit and if he will lend me money if my funds come up short hahah.

Fiona Apple would have been perfect for Megan.

She seems like the type of artist to not clear her music. I still remember her slightly mood-killing Grammy acceptance speech imploring the youth of America to “be yourself!” Or was it “go with yourself!” I don’t know, all I remember is that she was pointing a skinny finger at me through the camera. And that my beloved Hanson lost Best New Artist.

97 BHT (WBHT) in Pennsylvania played David Archuletaà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Zero Gravity this evening. It was most likely the extended leaked version made by a fan though. Pretty awesome!

Weird! Yet freakin’ awesome. Jive, stop being lame about this song, please.

Elsewhereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦The tickets to the Cook-Archuleta concert in Manila are on sale now and, boy, are the prices of the good seats steep!

Argh. The ones I can afford still have me bringing binoculars. And the rainy season starts in May, it’s just my luck that if I go, it gets rained out. So I’ll just wait for it to be shown on TV.

Hey I was on the SpenserJ (wasltp)bandwagon first.! She is going to let me ride shotgun on her trip to world domination. She will get to listen to stuff from Leonard Cohen, to Nick Cave to the Box Social to Vampire Weekend and much more….

I could be wrong but aren’t 3 of the 4 “Judges Choice” contestants gone now? So much for that bright idea!

Just wanted everyone to know that the ‘Come Back to Me’ video is now available for purchase on iTunes. Some are seeing it on their home page while others have to search for ‘David Cook’ and find it under Music Videos. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s really terrific.

I could be wrong but arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t 3 of the 4 à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Judges Choiceà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  contestants gone now? So much for that bright idea!

If you’re talking about the wildcard it’s 2/4. Jasmine and Megan. Matt and Anoop were the other two, IIRC.

All I have to say about that is: Jesse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(

http://www.97bht.com/Article.asp?id=868908

^^ The station that played DA’s unreleased ZG have the bit up on their website (the DJ introducing it and the song). It’s part of the “daily download” that WBHT does. They don’t care if a song is released or not released–only that it’s interesting and that they think listeners will like it.

I think we’re gonna get the vip section for the DC-DA concert… platinum is too expensive….

Random: in the video feed for Today show at the sidebar… wow Danny Gokey looks A LOT like Seth Rogen… I thought it was Danny at first. Now that’s a look a like…Danny Gokey is no Robert Downey Jr. in any planet.

Oh thanks for that link lisa. Neat that they have it as their daily download thingy.

Maybe Danny is the leader in votes, at this point, but not so much in how much $$ heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s making 19.

But sometimes a good song is just a good song. Hallelujah blew up big time after Castro sang it but that didn’t translate into Castro winning Idol.

Maybe Danny is the leader in votes, at this point, but not so much in how much $$ heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s making 19.

I don’t think Danny will sell much records if he wins.ANd he gives such a bad vibe, so full of himself.
Plus he is not very commercial…

I bet Matt and Adam are indeed selling much more.
Matt’s recording voice is just amazing.

I hope those two are in the finale.
I am still pulling Matt after all his ups and downs. He is so talented. If only he could get those nerves on check. Matt relax please and just do your thing.