Lauren Alaina ready to grow with ‘Wildflower’
“I was a little girl, and it’s hard to look at a little girl and say no, ” says Lauren, now 16 with her first album, Wildflower, under her belt. “I had this spitfire energy about me, and I’d walk up on the stage and start prancing back and forth, and everybody would think, ‘Who is this girl?'”
Across Broadway and up a block or so, there’s the Bridgestone Arena, where Lauren began her American Idol journey. She almost cut it short before she started, after watching a Chattanooga-area singer who’d beaten her in a smaller talent contest get sent packing after singing just a few notes.
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Lauren Alaina: What She’s Listening to Now
American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina gave us an exclusive look at what her favorite songs are right now. Alaina performed her new single, “Georgia Peaches, ” off her debut album, “Wildflower, ” Tuesday morning as part of GMA’s Fall Concert Series.
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James Durbin To Appear On Rockline
(hennemusic) American Idol’s James Durbin’s debut album, “Memories Of A Beautiful Disaster, ” is set for release on November 21…and a week later, he’ll be on the nationally-syndicated program Rockline to take your calls.
On Monday, November 28, Durbin will sit in with Rockline host Bob Coburn to discuss the project, his plans moving forward, and anything else fans want to talk about when they phone-in to the show.
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Exclusive Q&A with Kris Allen
J-14: What’s the status of your sophomore album?
Kris: Right now we have a lot of songs and we’re trying to get in to the studio as soon as possible. There’s no time lines for anything right now. I wish I could say a single’s coming out next week or today, I wish I could say that. I can’t but the stuff is good. It feels really good, I’m really excited about it and I want people to hear it. It’ll get out whenever is the right time, you know? We’re going to try and get on the road but we don’t want to get on the road unless there’s new music so. We’re going to hopefully put out a single this year and then get on the road.
J-14: Some new songs of yours leaked on to the web recently. Do you want to confirm or deny if they’re new songs or old songs?
Kris: There were three songs that were leaked. One of them, I think the first one was a song that is possibly a contender for the album. And then the two others were songs that were from the last record. I wrote “Love Too Much, ” with Kevin Rudolf and the other one, to be honest, I didn’t remember writing the song which shows you how long ago it was.
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Carrie Underwood Updates Fan Club members – CMA Promos and Lauren Alaina
Carrie blogged at her fan club today. She talked about shooting the CMA promo yesterday and says we should be seeing it on TV soon. She’s also got a script meeting today for the CMAs. Carrie also talked about next week being an amazing week. Apparently Friday will be a heartwarming day but she has to be cryptic about why for now. She said we’ll find out soon enough. She didn’t mention it on her blog but she’s also playing the Opry with Brad next week so I think that’ll be the 1st time Remind Me’s been performed live.
Penny will be a banana for Halloween and Ace will be a cow. I doubt they had any say in that.
Carrie also said she watched Lauren on GMA this morning and that she’s sweet, talented, and amazing. She’s honored Lauren included 1 of her songs on the album.
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SIMON COWELL ON THE JUDGES’ HOME VISITS “I’VE MADE A MASSIVE MISTAKE HERE”
Simon: “First day you hear them sing, you’ve got to think about it overnight, they do two songs each. Then you wake up, you think you’ve made your decision, and then I watch the tapes back. “yeah, I made the right decision, and I changed them. You know I’ve made the right decision.” After about an hour after I put my four through, I went “I’ve made a massive mistake here”. But, regardless, I will have them fighting fit, and I want it mentally, as I said get them prepared to kill the others, and I will.”
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Chaz Bono Says Mom Cher was ‘Really Proud’ to be in ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Audience
“I don’t really look at the audience until after when we’re getting the score, ” he admits. “I know my mom was really proud of me, and that was awesome. I’m glad that whatever we’re doing is touching people.”
In addition to Cher, Bono’s stepmother, Mary Bono Mack, grandmother, brother, aunt and uncle also turned out to show their support.
“Last week was a hard week, and everybody knew that I was kind of feeling bad about it, ” he says of his low standing on the leader board, “so to come back and have my whole family there was amazing.”
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Julianne Hough ‘Nervous’ About Return to Dancing with the Stars
Julianne returns to the ballroom Tuesday night a bonafide movie star, thanks to her leading role in the soon-to-be-released remake of Footloose. And she will dance “on the very stage that basically started everything, ” she says.
“I definitely got a little emotional, ” she says about returning to the DWTS studio.
Julianne will perform two numbers on the show – one with her older brother and fellow ballroom pro Derek Hough and one with her Footloose costar Kenny Wormald.
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