Kelly Clarkson: How I snubbed Simon Cowell and become a Grammy-winning superstar – “People who saw me on Idol didn’t know how much weight I carried as a writer,” she says. “But: I will say, if you are a good vocalist, it’s almost harder. I’ve had people – titans in the industry! – say: ‘Just shut up and sing. You’re a singer and no one wants to hear anything else.’” She’s defiantly opinionated, too. Try to pigeonhole or reduce her and she’ll cut you dead, as music industry heavyweights Simon Cowell, Simon Fuller and Clive Davis all found to their cost. “But if you really love writing and singing and touring, then you have to stay focused on that. And when they send you bullshit songs, or send you covers of magazines that are naked girls with guitars and say, ‘You need to do this’, stand up and say, ‘I don’t wanna do it. That’s not me.’” – Read more at The Independent.co.UK
Bucky Covington talks infantile hemangioma on the Doctors –
Bucky and his fiancee appeared on The Doctors recently to talk about infantile hemangioma, a condition their newborn baby, Kennedy developed. An off-label use of beta blockers were prescribed to treat the condition.
X Factor’s Rachel Crow set for Disney Channel Original Movie – Disney Channel has added three to its upcoming TV movie “Invisible Sister,” starring “Girl Meets World” starlet Rowan Blanchard and Paris Berelc from Disney XD’s “Mighty Med,” Variety has learned. Karan Brar, known from the hit series “Jessie” and set to star in the newly announced spinoff, has been cast, along with Rachel Crow (“The X Factor”) and newcomer Austin Fryberger. The Disney Channel Original Movie follows Cleo (Blanchard), whose science project goes terribly wrong, causing her popular sister Molly (Berelc) to become completely invisible. Brar will play Cleo’s best friend and fellow science whiz kid George; Crow will play Molly’s best friend and teammate, Nikki; and Fryberger has been cast as “the Coug,” Molly’s goofy but affable boyfriend. – Read more at Variety
