Idol Headlines for 5/30/08

I know this is American Idol blog, but there is so little love for Jennifer Hudson and I wonder why? Has she so separated herself from AI that the bloggers just won’t give her any space while the main media does?

I opened up the local papers and internet news and she’s everywhere with SATC.
Plus she has 2 more movies ready for release, plus an album….talk about “stardom” personified….AI should be very proud of her.

Damn! The interview was just getting started and then it was over! DC looks and sounds exhausted! Is next week the last week for the press junket before rehearsals start in LA? Poor baby really needs some rest…his high blood pressure

Sad what he has to say about his personal life. If he wants to date/screw KC I hope he does just that despite the fucked up reaction of some delusional fans.

I really wanted to hear more about his music. JUst wonder how he’s gonna record an album and tour? Will probably be a pleasant relief to get back to the music side of things and among people (the other he feels comfotable with and has formed strong bonds. I think he’s in need of some Carly/Michael Johns TLC.

Daughtry recorded his album while on tour. Its the joys of the internet in the air I guess I should say they did a lot of work on the album while on tour, I don’t know the details of the recording, but I think on the ‘days off’ he did some recording.

Jessica seemed a bit uncomfortable admitting she dreamed about making out with Cookie, had to stand up from the chair and everything. I totally could have done without that. Has to be an awkward thing to deal with.

As for him dating anyone, good for him!! As a side note, he may not just be ‘getting a piece’ or ‘being a man’ or whatever anyone would call it. I bet he and KC have a lot to talk about both being involved in AI and stuff.

As far as recording an album and touring at the same time, Jordin did it last year and so did Blake. Most of the time, they go in the studio on their days off in between cities to write and record. I agree he probably is completely exhausted. I think as far as we know, the TV appearances are over but I could be wrong. He’s supposed to be doing an interview on Sirius Satellite radio this morning.

Mj posts about JHud whenever there is news. That people aren’t actually abuzz about her may be that this is an American idol blog, and they just crowned a new idol. Or maybe two, lol. That is the big buzz, and that clay may or may not have knocked up an old broad via artificial insemination. That sorta trumps SATC I think. When she was an winning all of those awards there was more to talk about. She is 6th wheel in a movie that doesn’t even show her in the previews so maybe alot of people don’t even know she’s in the movie. At least that’s my take on it.

ok i’m officially sick of the media labelling Jordin as forgettable oh my gawd!!

JUst wonder how heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s gonna record an album and tour?

Cookie will probably do a Daughtry there.

In case anyone missed this from yesterday’s headlines thread…

Jason Castro Day video

(Jason singing SOTR and Deep In The Heart of Texas)

I’m so happy that Jason had a wonderful day yesterday. He deserved it. He’s such a talented and humble young man. Idol may have thrown him under the bus, but he has such a strong character and values that it didn’t seem to bother him. He knows who he is.

I would have loved to be part of the homecoming celebration, but I’m in Tennessee and had other obligations. Maybe another time I will see my favorite dreadhead.

I love David Cook also. He was my first favorite until I heard SOTR. Then I was hooked on Jason.

Didn’t mean to ramble on. Haven’t had enough coffee yet so I can get up and do something.

I know this is American Idol blog, but there is so little love for Jennifer Hudson and I wonder why? Has she so separated herself from AI that the bloggers just won’t give her any space while the main media does?

I’ve been posting news articles here on Jennifer nearly every day this week, so I’m not sure what you are talking about.

I still have articles to post in the Headlines thread today.

Besides, she’s old news as far as Idol goes. The current crop of contestants get priority over someone who competed in the contest 5 years ago.

“Random example of high-caliber talent”

“Not actually David Cook”

I :wub_tb: Michael Slezak

I’m glad Jason got so much love at Jason Castro Day yesterday. Nice to see that he got such a large turnout! Thanks for all the new as always, MJ.

Thanks for the video, purps. I hadn’t seen it. Jason’s mom kept wiping her eyes. Awww. I did watch the live feed, but the audio was bad. Sounded like a helicopter/plane was hovering the whole time. I’m sure there are more vids out there. Can’t wait to look for them when I have some time.

As far as recording an album and touring at the same time, Jordin did it last year and so did Blake. Most of the time, they go in the studio on their days off in between cities to write and record.

Hmmmmm just seems extremely overwhelming. I guess once the rehearsals are over and group numbers “choreographed” there isn’t much else as I assume they perform the same songs for each city.

Does anyone know where he’s recording?

You’re welcome, pj. There are videos at castrocopia, but if you find it hard to find them (it’s McLovin’s birthday ;D), I’m reposting a couple of the links here:

Daydream

Jason’s original song, Tonight

Jason receiving a plaque

Thanks for the Jason links.
He is so pleasant to listen to…always makes me smile.
He can go many directions musically – will be fun to see what he does next.

Thanks purps for the first video! Jason may have teared up if he had gone on the Top 3 homecoming, I’m starting to believe.

ETA: Thanks also for beating me to the youtube links. Gotta bring my A-game next time haha.

“I love David Cook also. He was my first favorite until I heard SOTR. Then I was hooked on Jason.”

DFC – ME TOO! I then went back and really listened to that beautiful voice and realized just what I was missing.

Aww – I teared up watching his mom, she has got to be so proud of that boy, not only Jasons talent but his sweet spirit that shines right through in his smile and yes, those very nice eyes.

Thanks again and again purple (the p’s are out in full force today, yay)

Hey, I noticied the drums behind him – am I going to get my drum fix too?

Click HERE for some Jason homecoming pictures!

A few beautiful shots (courtesy of castrocopia):
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With his siblings

And a BIG CONGRATS to Cook for 940,000 downloads!

Loving all the online stories, video and pictures today about Jason’s fantabulous day!

What fantastic links and pictures for Jason Castro. He and his family should be very proud. He’s got a bright future and he seems to be a great guy.

Remember David Cook singing Switchfoot’s “Dare You to Move”?

Switchfoot gave Cook a shout-out in their myspace bulletin, and linked to his performance (the cynic in me tells me this was a good ego-booster, lol.)

They followed the show enough to know that Cook won, so I guess that’s cool.

Aw, I just posted a separate thread for Jason’s big day!

I’m getting kind of sick of hearing about the Davids. .

Aww…thanks, mj!

Hudson = old news, plus she defined “smug” Her elimination was “happy dance” time for me.

mj
May 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m getting kind of sick of hearing about the Davids. .

LOL! Great to know there’s nothing wrong with me….

All in all, Slezak/Shaw had the best interviews, hands-down.

I imagine after the next day or so we won’t be hearing too much from the D2 camps since they’ll, hopefully, be taking a few days off before preparing for the tour.

I found a RollingStone.com link with D2. I can’t hear a blessed thing and it comes in very choppy for me, I’ll try it again from home, but here’s the link in case it works for anyone else who may be interested. Rolling Stone is in my building, one floor below me, if I find out they were here and I missed it, I’m sure my childish hissy fit will be heard ’round the city, lol.

Yeah, even I’m sick of the Davids at this point. I hope they’re both sound asleep somewhere. I think DC’s last known appearance is on VH1′s Best Week Ever tonight and then I don’t really expect to see him until the tour videos come in (well, except for the occasional TMZ video).

However, give me a week and I’ll need to know who’s producing the album, who the songwriting collaborators are, etc., because I’m over-invested like that. ; )

I’m so happy for Bucky’s success. He’s another one who Simon didn’t get. But, his fans got him, and, it seems he’s picking up new ones. Way to go, Buckster!

David, David, David!

Here’s a new article about DC that at least has some new/different tidbits in it:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=4957054&page=1

It looks like there will be a story/interview on Nightline tonight.

Thanks for that link, cheese! Definitely some new info. I now have visions of Cookie singing “Jump Jump” by Kriss Kross in my head (not pretty) but its balanced out by the very nice thought of him singing Closer by NIN

Parts 4 and 5 of DC’s Idolatry videos are up (best part: Jessica makes him refer to Time of My Life as “Magic Rainbow”) and he reveals some of the songs he’s singing on tour:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/05/david-cook-tour.html

Some really good info in the Idolatry/EW piece. I love that he’ll be doing “Billie Jean,” “Always Be My Baby” and “Hello” on tour, and I guess “Magic Rainbow” was a given. The idea of “Barracuda” with Carly and Jason sounds pretty nifty as well.

The EW interviews, in general, were very thoughtful and interesting. He is honest (about not really getting the group numbers) while still managing to be mostly diplomatic. Once again, however, I find myself going, “Huh?” when Jessica calls him smug. Just because he said he didn’t judge himself by what the judges said, how is that smug?

I don’t think that word means what she thinks it means.

I’m even more psyched for the tour now after seeing parts 4&5 of Slezak! Woo hoo!

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think that word means what she thinks it means.

Love me some Princess Bride too.

I find myself going, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Huh?à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  when Jessica calls him smug. Just because he said he didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t judge himself by what the judges said, how is that smug?

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think that word means what she thinks it means.

She just wants to talk to him, I think.

Cookie on guitar, Castro on drums and Carly singing lead on Barracuda – that would be fantastic to see.

I couldn’t make out what song he said he was going to do instead of Hungry Like the Wolf, I replayed it a few times but it just keeps escaping me.

Talk? Just? Maybe not just.

Michael Slezak is my hero — after so many interviews of drek — he’s really a breath of fresh air. I was looking for a link to email him my thanks, but I couldn’t find one.

He really is terrific.

eta — I went in to Amazon to check DC’s status on the top CD listing — and he’s got his very own pre-order button on my music page. Very cool. Oh btw — he’s up to No. 2 — yes, that’s No. TWO baby. Amazingly so.

I couldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t make out what song he said he was going to do instead of Hungry Like the Wolf, I replayed it a few times but it just keeps escaping me.

It was “All Along the Watchtower”

I was sort of hoping to hear David do something on tour that he didn’t do on the show, but I can live with the “Cookie’s Greatest Hits” setlist he’s putting together. (Maybe I was spoiled by the Season 5 tour – the last one I saw – because there were so many songs that were new for the tour). If he’s doing songs he already knows, I guess there will be more time for him to work on the album over the next month.

I know what you mean. I think while I wouldn’t mind hearing a couple of the songs he did on the show, I’d prefer to hear a few that hadn’t been done yet, maybe ones he wanted to do but wasn’t able to.

I really wish I had gotten tickets.

i have tickets to the first show. i’m so excited to see them live!!! i was really hoping he would do “hello” and “billie jean”. and yay to a group thing with jason & carly.

“All Along the Watchtower”, eh? heheheh. awesome!

Crazy how well the preorder is doing, considering the thing doesn’t even exist yet. #2?!

I wonder if Cookie will duet with Carly on Barracuda or just play guitar? I’m looking forward to seeing Jason rocking the drums.

Too bad about “All Along the Watchtower.” I would have loved to see that more than either of the other two.

Barracuda by Heart: (Carly’s fave, and, some nice drummin in this one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpkitLUbeEg

Cook( guitar), Castro (on drums) and Carly on Barracuda? Are you kidding me, that would be amazing!!!! I say do it!!!!

AI noob – don’t count yourself out on the tickets…..some usually go on sale a couple days before the show or even the day of the show. My friend got our tickets through the Ticketmaster auction S5 for something like $200 a pop and the people sitting next to us paid $75 each that day. There’s always craigslist and ebay as well.

Some intersting news about the sale of Idol download tracks last week (interestingly, we must rely on the Australians to get the facts on US downloads):

Winner David Cook was most popular. He sold 942,000 downloads alone, or more than 60% of the total.

Jason Castro with 64,000
Brooke White with 47,000
Michael Johns with 40,000
Carly Smithson with 33,000
Syesha Mercado with 18,000
Kristi Lee Cook with 10,000
Chikezie with 5,000

Some new Download Stats

This is obviously reporting sales beyond the Top 200 since we only knew about 36K for Castro, 12K for Brooke and 9K for Johns. We had no numbers for Carly, Syesha, Kristi or Chikezie. Numbers are also a little higher for Archie and Cookie.

Can we get a “WOW” for Idol selling 25% of the download tracks when they were only available for half the week?

And, that means Cookie sold 15.7% of all downloads in the US last week. Double WOW. Go Cookie!!!

And Archie is no slouch with 5.4% of all US downloads.

Can we get a à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“WOWà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  for Idol selling 25% of the download tracks when they were only available for half the week?

Wow, thanks for the info, Kirsten. Idol is still a fucking machine to be reckoned with.

WOW! :laugh_tb:

Some intersting news about the sale of Idol download tracks last week (interestingly, we must rely on the Australians to get the facts on US downloads):

Wow. That’s an awesome find! I’m working on a billboard post that includes all the charts from last week, and I’m going to include that info in the post.’

It appears that the Idol ship is righting itself a bit after listing for awhile…

BTW, I posted the Billboard Charts, and the Idols are also all over the Canadian charts.

That damn thing took me hours to finish. Almost 350 lines in my Excel spreadsheet…

Kirsten, you are quite the sleuth! Thank you. I am dying to know what DC’s sales were for the season. Hopefully, those figures will surface at some point.

Pardon me, not sure if this has already been posted- I think its a brand new post though- talking about Nightline interview:

‘Idol’ Cook Dating, Having ‘Time of My Life’
David Cook on Dating, Why Simon Is ‘Dead On,’ and His Personal Playlist

“It’s really funny because on the show I got to meet Mariah Carey, and one of my favorite songs Boyz II Men ever did was ‘One Sweet Day’ [with Carey]. I remember I bought that Mariah Carey album, actually. So it was a trip to meet her.”

Cook also said he had an “awkward moment” with the superstar when the two met on “American Idol.” He told Carey that one of the first records he bought was one of hers.

“I couldn’t really remember what [the album was] called, so I said the one that’s gold,” he recalled. “She said, ‘Honey, all my records are gold.’ And I was like, no, the one that’s actually gold.”

Once again, however, I find myself going, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Huh?à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  when Jessica calls him smug. Just because he said he didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t judge himself by what the judges said, how is that smug?

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think that word means what she thinks it means.

smartcookie, the Jessica Shaw “smug” comment was meant as a joke. Watch the video again. She was being sarcastic when she called DC “smug”. You can tell she simply loves him.