Idol Headlines for 12/11/12 – The Evening Edition

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James Durbin will conduct a live Ustream chate with Muve Music today at 5 pm PST. Check it out HERE.

Pulse Palooza 2013: Get Blown Away by Carrie Underwood! – Five-time Grammy Award winner Carrie Underwood will be performing at this year’s Pulse Palooza, IBM’s premiere annual networking event. In case you’re one of the two people in the world who doesn’t know who Ms. Underwood is, she’s a former American Idol champ who has sold 15 million albums worldwide. (Not bad for a 29-year-old.) Her most recent album is Blown Away. The concert will be held Monday night, March 4 at 7PM at the MGM Grand’s Garden Arena. There will be plenty of food and drinks in case you needed any extra incentive. – Read more at Pulse Blog

From Constantine Maroulis to Bo Bice: American Idol Season Four Finalists Love Broadway! – It’s no secret that American Idol alums often end up on stage (see: Diana DeGarmo, Ace Young, Justin Guarini, Frenchy Davis, Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken), but when we heard that Bo Bice is headed to Broadway in Pump Boys and Dinettes, we couldn’t help marveling at the theater-centric career path of Season Four finalists, who competed in 2005. Maybe it was inevitable, since Idol actually had a “Broadway Week” that season! Let’s review. – Read more at Broadway.com

Paul McDonald and Nikki Reed Make Beautiful Music Together – He’s a little bit country. She’s a little bit… vampire? Together, they’re Paul McDonald and Nikki Reed, Hollywood’s newest power couple and potential heirs to the Civil Wars’ vacant throne. We talked shop with McDonald and Reed earlier this month, after they’d finished a European promo tour. – Read more at American Songwriter

A.I.’s Lee DeWyze comes to FED LIVE

Many musicians speak confidently about their own new songs and albums, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard someone as genuinely excited and ready to release a new album as Lee DeWyze. “I’ve really put my time, my heart, blood, sweat and tears into this thing, and it just means a lot more to me than I think anything else could. I can really go on for hours about how thrilled I am about this record,” DeWyze said in a recent telephone interview. “We plan to release a single real soon, and I have some really exciting news that I’ll be announcing soon. But until then, we’re out on the road and playing and trying out the new songs. We’re really having a good time with it, and the fans have been so incredible.” – Read more at sarabozich.com

Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, & Simon Cowell on THE X FACTOR Top 4!

Diamond White On What’s Next After X Factor & Holiday Plans

Emblem3 on One Direction Comparisons – X Factor

Demi Lovato Performs for President Obama for Christmas in Washington

Carly Rose Sonenclar’s X Factor Lessons

Fifth Harmony on Becoming a Group – X Factor

The Voice’s Melanie Martinez on ‘Toxic’, Xtina Critiques and Weird Onstage Talk of Her Ex – Melanie Martinez’s first crack at covering “Toxic” started as a joke. “My friends were like, ‘You should learn a Britney Spears song’ — because I’m so different from that,” recalls the 17-year-old contestant on Season 3 of The Voice. “So I started singing ‘Toxic’ one day, did different little things to it and that’s how my version came around. It was kind of a random process.” Melanie used that ehtereal, stripped-down rendition of Spears’ danceable pop hit for her Voice Blind Audition, and made a memorable first impression on the coaches and the viewing audience. “I’m really happy that was the first song that introduced me as an artist on the show,” she explains. – Read more at TV Line

Songs take starring role in TV drama ‘Nashville’ – That’s why the veteran Music City producer and band leader was so astounded by what he witnessed in the early days of working on the music for the television show “Nashville.” He was nervous about his session with Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio because their song “If I Didn’t Know Better,” written by John Paul White of The Civil Wars and Arum Rae, was challenging and served as a pivotal moment in the pilot. It had to be right, and that depended on the young actors being able to pull it off. “They didn’t know they didn’t have to memorize the song or look each other in the eyes when you’re singing a love song,” Miller said. “For those two who’d never sung in a studio before to go in there, look each other in the eyes with the song memorized and sing the song, I had goose bumps and so did everybody else in the room. … That had a whole lot more soul in it than most of the stuff that gets cut in this town.” – Read more at Tennessean.com

Yoko Ono Covers ‘Firework’ – It might just be the most honest interpretation of Katy Perry’s voice yet. John Lennon’s other half—and artist in her own right—gave a performance of the hit that was enthusiastic, to say the least. Seriously, her cover is really…interesting…lol. – Watch the video at The Daily Beast

 
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  • Incipit

    songwriting for others needs to be part of his present, not just his future, 

    Cool, because it already is, and has been – as I pointed out, he has already written for others… and there’s still plenty of room for development there.

    I don’t know what DC’s songwriting will metamorphosize into or what the progression may turn out to be for his own songs – and those are the ones I  would be purchasing…so I care about that. 

    Other than hoping the songs are successful for DC’s sake, what he writes for others is for their fans to like or not like. I’ll be fine if it’s nothing like his own work, because then I won’t regret someone else singing it. Heh.

    The intellectual curiosity about what it would take to write for GDG, for instance, does not equate to me ever purchasing a GDG song. Two different things. IMO. Of Course.

  • standtotheright

    I don’t know what DC’s songwriting will metamorphosize into or what the progression may turn out to be for his own songs – and those are the ones I would be purchasing…so I care about that.

    Yes, but I don’t think what he learns from writing with/for other artists will have any sort of firewall separating it from what he considers when developing his own work. At any rate, I’m just in the market for coherent and affecting music, and what is “coherent and affecting” for me in any given song depends on a lot of intersecting factors but very few strict qualifications. Makes my life a lot easier.

  • irockhard

    Er first off a brand new artist can’t be choosy about who they tour with, they have to take any offer they can get.

    Second what artists do onstage or sing about doesn’t necessarily reflect their personal lives. I don’t follow the personal lives of the bandmates of Buckcherry but I hear they’re actually pretty clean living these days. Artists make the type of music their target audience wants to hear.

  • standtotheright

    Second what artists do onstage or sing about doesn’t necessarily reflect their personal lives.

    But it does reflect whether one can hold them up as a public moral example if one is going to be foolish enough to try and make celebrities into same. And he did have the freedom to pursue other touring partners or to try and gig alone if speaking out about “moral standards” was important to him.

    As it stands, it just looks like Durbin decided to build a glass mansion around a trebuchet. That probably wasn’t his intent, which is why he should have just said he admired Pink as an artist and left it at that.

  • irockhard

    James has Aspergers and at times will say stuff that doesn’t make sense. So I don’t think it’s necessary to over analyze everything he says. Now if P!nk has any issue with anything he said she’s free to take it up with him.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PVEFG2TOUIXSROKUSO2O2DOWWE Taylor

    Not over analyzing his statement, anymore than we do every other reality show contestant’s or judge’s words around here. When any of the hundreds of past or present contestants make statements about other artists, it usually gets discussed in some way here.

    Now if P!nk has any issue with anything he said she’s free to take it up with him.

    Why would she want to do that? It’s not like James said anything bad about her anyhow. I doubt Pink would give any thought about what some random reality show contestant said about her on some online chat with his fans. lol

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