Idol Headlines for 04/29/12

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The Top 5 Idols attended the Dodgers game last night Phil Phillips tweeted, “Gonna be a good night at the game! OOHH YYEEAAHHHH!!!!!!!!” and Skylar Laine tweeted, “Man Bryce Harper is pretty darn cute!”

Idology: Colton Dixon on How He’ll Handle the ‘Christian Artist’ Label and Why Idol Is ‘Fishy’

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Carrie Underwood: Country’s ‘Good Girl’ Goes Dark – Since winning American Idol in 2005, Carrie Underwood has become one of the most popular country artists in the business. At the age of 29, she is tied with country legend Reba McEntire as the Female Country Artist with the most number one hits on the Billboard charts. Not bad for a girl from Checotah, Okla. – Listen to the interview at NPR

Michael Johns and Kris Allen at the Bruce Springsteen Concert

Michael Johns and Kris Allen at the Bruce Springsteen concert in Los Angeles Friday night. Photo taken by Steve Van Zandt’s wife, Maureen.

Carrie Underwood smashes stereotypes, flexes songwriting skills on ‘Blown Away’ – “Somebody help me, I don’t relate,” says Underwood, seated in a hotel room at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas the day before the Academy of Country Music Awards. “I’m not into the mushy-gushy, cheesy love stuff.” “She’s imminently more complex than most people give her credit for,” adds Underwood’s friend and longtime producer, Mark Bright. “Her taste runs very opposite of that beautiful and real sweet exterior that she has.” – Read more at the Tennessean.com

Kelly Clarkson: ‘Dark Side’ Video Shoot – First Pics! – Kelly Clarkson looks gorgeous on the set of the music video for “Dark Side” on Saturday (April 28) in Los Angeles. “Dark Side” is the third single off of Kelly‘s latest studio album, Stronger. – Via Just Jared  Read the casting call.

David Cook at Tiger Jam

David Cook and Bon Jovi performed at Tiger Woods’ Tiger Jam in Las Vegas last night. The show benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation, that provides college access to the underprivileged.

Simon Cowell’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Reclaims Ratings Lead Over ‘The Voice U.K.’ – LONDON – Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent on ITV1 edged out the BBC’s The Voice U.K. for the first time in weeks in a closely followed Saturday evening ratings showdown of talent competitions. The Voice had outperformed BGT for most of April, leading the latter to move to a later time slot to avoid a 20-minute overlap that The Voice had been winning handily. Last week’s BGT was the first episode in a later slot, but The Voice ran over by a few minutes then, leading ITV to say its ratings were hurt by a trick from its competition. Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

David Archuleta On Location of Nandito Ako

 
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  • Anonymous

     ”New Idol trend – dark side vids – first Adam, then Carrie, now Kelly.”

    I think it’s a bigger trend than that, actually. Albums from a lot of people in the most recent go-round are “darker” than earlier ones — Adele, Feist, and so on …. Idols just going with the flow.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Kramjet/100003524695403 Roger Kramjet

    Is hard rock the same as metal? I thought they were different things. Don’t they have different charting categories and everything?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Kramjet/100003524695403 Roger Kramjet

    I think you are right. I don’t think that busking on the pier is going to hurt his record sales. If I was Kris I would have put out a hat. I am sure the people on the pier would have pitched money in it for him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Kramjet/100003524695403 Roger Kramjet

    I agree Moria but I am not sure I think the radio stations need to invite Kris to come or at least agree to him coming as part of a label promotion of his album. I read somewhere that he might be having a hard time with that though because the first time around he overslept and blew off a couple stations so they may be mad at him about it. Not sure does anybody know why Kris isn’t out doing radio promo instead of busking?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Kramjet/100003524695403 Roger Kramjet

    I had the same impression Moria.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Kramjet/100003524695403 Roger Kramjet

    lol You know it is just a matter of time before he is running around like the naked cowboy in underwear with his guitar. It is only a matter of time. lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Kramjet/100003524695403 Roger Kramjet

    I think that publicity and fame (being in the media) are part of being successful as an entertainer so I would disagree that it should somehow be subtracted from money an entertainer like Adam has made. I would also disagree that he is known to a minority of fans as compared to other Idols. Recent articles have him up there with Carrie, Kelly, and Daughtry. Other than Jennifer I don’t know of anybody that would have name or face recognition with more people. The AMA controversy alone had his name and face everywhere here in the US. You may not like him but you know who he is.

    I think you are right about waiting to see how much more successful he is going to be after his next album is released but we might want to define our idea of success before the album is released so we will know if he meets our standard for success. 

  • Anonymous

    singing on the beach or pier is the same thing as an artist dropping by a coffeehouse and performing. It’s something a lot of artist have done and it’s no big deal. 

  • Tess

    I think there is a big presumption on the part of the Bubble that all Idols in order to prove they are successful have to do the following things in somewhat the “approved” order.  They need to issue a single which “immediately” becomes top 20 on some format, they need to be ranked in the single digits on I-tunes, they need to be on Idol and their visit results in a doubling of their single sales, they need to be holding steady in the top 50 on I-tunes during the tenure of their album pre-sales, they need to be on the following TV shows: Leno, Letterman, Conon, both Jimmys, Ellen, Today, GMA, E, they need to have a video soar to #1 based on fan voting from day one of its release, they need to be invited to participate in EVERY radio gig known to man and visit every radio station in every po-dunk town in North America (oh, and some in Europe), they need to be constantly highlighted in all music related print media, and never-mind how much on-line presence they need to show. And, oh yes, they need to be at every red-carpet, be presenters at every award’s show, win a grammy on their first album, and sell at least double platinum each and every album. They need to tour at least to arena size audiences and they better be selling out every concert so they won’t be labeled as a failure.

    I fully understand how “the pressure” of the Bubble makes many of us pretty kringey at how slow “real life” works and how all of the above may take sometime to be able to be checked off.  Every Idol is different and to “judge” them by Bubble standards each and every time doesn’t seem quite fair to me.  

    Kris is no longer the “reigning” Idol so he is now just a member of the recording community, and I think I’ll judge him and every Idol based on how easy it is for every artist to be able to check something off the “Bubble” list.  

  • http://twitter.com/Miztig Miz

    You can sit and play in the sand on the beach. Done it many times. However, I’m not sure what would happen if you started drawing a crowd.

  • Anonymous

    You make a good point in your last paragraph, standards for success vary greatly, and are easily adjusted to fit one’s (prior) personal opinion when the results are in. 

    On that note, I will predict ‘success’ for Adam’s next album and I’m sure I’ll be able to back it up with proof, whatever the sales numbers are.

  • http://twitter.com/erlindita Linda Spivey

    David Archuleta, we miss you and your rambling which we love.  Thank you for thinking about us back here waiting for you.  Your fans are your fans forevermore.  I know that besides another album comming out later in the fall you have other surprises for us.  Love your back lot video of Nandito Ako. And the chickens!!!!  Thats our David, he gets excited over seeing chickens that he puts them in the video.

  • koshka

    Especially, as I said before, if media pick up the story and get him some buzz.

    I could careless one way or the other if Kris did this.. but IF the media picks it up lets just hope its a good headline and not one that TMZ puts together. 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Miz, what was wrong with the people on the beach that they didn’t come and listen to you? I’m sure you sounded great!

  • http://twitter.com/EitWat MADEitTO20nowWAT

    I have no idea what bubble standards are but i’m intrigued. 
    Radio promo, concerts, airplay, Tv gigs, press and sales are all very much standard signs of mainstream success in the real world. 

  • Anonymous

    “I have no idea what bubble standards are but i’m intrigued. 
    Radio
    promo, concerts, airplay, Tv gigs, press and sales are all very much
    standard signs of mainstream success in the real world. ”

    Seems to me the point is that, in the bubble (but also outside of it), a lot of us have bought into the idea that you need *all* or at least a lot of the stuff that Tess mentioned, at the very top level, before you can be dubbed a music “success.” ….

    For me, the trouble with that is that there are literally thousands of excellent musicians out there who never get to the top of any of those measures and yet still meet the measure of “success” that I (and I would expect a lot of us) apply to just about every other profession — i.e., they make a living from their craft/skill/art and they get a few rewards of this kind, maybe at the local or state level, rather than the national or international level, from time to time in their careers. …

    We don’t say that the only successful physicists are those who’ve won the Nobel prize, the only successful professors are those with endowed chairs at Harvard, the only successful teachers the national teachers-of-the-year, the only successful writers the Pulitzer winners, the only successful politicians those who get elected heads of state.

    But equivalent standards to those are the ones that we tend to put on the Idol alums (and other people in show biz, to be fair — and I think that’s partly because our judgments of who succeeds in entertainment are warped by a mass-media world as well as by the machinations of the big industries that make money from that mass-media world… but that’s another discussion…) Anyway, those standards are neither fair nor accurate, in my opinion. If Idol alums keep putting out music that a fair number of people think is good and if they keep paying the bills with music gigs, then that seems to me to fit much better with what we consider “success” in the real world.

  • http://twitter.com/EitWat MADEitTO20nowWAT

    Thanks i think i finally know what bubble standards mean. 

    I’ll just stick to comparing apples to apples though. 

  • Anonymous

     ”I’ll just stick to comparing apples to apples though.”

    Those are probably the best things to compare. … Not always so easy to know which are the apples, though. I mean, can you actually compare a Granny Smith to a Red [misnamed] Delicious? … Any comparison in the bubble will always be fraught with danger, in other words. heh

  • Anonymous

    Great Colton interview. Enjoyed the mini synopsis of the songs he performed on A.I.
    Montavilla, interesting question you pose…..i’m thinking, who could Colton be referring to?

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