From American Idol Worship - Simon Cowell Still
Loves Melinda, Tells Britney Spears to Go Home

Simon Cowell is a smart man. Count us among those that admire his honest. After his interview yesterday on Good Morning America, though, Britney Spears might not be in that camp. The American Idol judge offered some candid advice to the troubled singer. Cowell told ABC news correspondent Juju Chang that Spears is perfectly [...]

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From Idol Chatter - Blake: Kind of glad he didnt
win

American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis isn’t one for regrets. He told reporters on Friday?s conference call that he?s completely satisfied with his Idol experience even though he didn’t win the title. ?I always felt that my art wasn?t as mainstream… Read more…From UsaToday Blogs - Idol Chatter - blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter

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American Idol Winner Comes to iTunes

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'American Idol' winner Jordin is a 'normal' teen
with Pitt crush

 CA - May 25, 2007
LOS ANGELES- Attention, Brad Pitt: "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks has a crush on you. "He's just really cute," Sparks, 17, said Friday, hastening to ...
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American Idol Taylor Hicks Shows Off New Beach
Body and a New Blonde

American Idol Taylor Hicks is no longer chunky.  The soulful singer and winner of last season's American Idol took to the surf with a mystery hard-bodied blonde in Hawaii earlier...
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LINK: American Idol Taylor Hicks Shows Off New Beach Body and a New Blonde National Ledger from Boxxet News

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5/26: Blake "kind of glad" he didn't win

On Tuesday’s show, Blake deferred to Jordin on the coin toss and let her perform second, the driver’s seat spot. Based on his very sincere comments about picking Jordin to win early on last week, I think most folks sensed he didn’t even want to win.

Well, he admitted as such on the media press conference Friday. (I’m sure the “Idol” producers can’t be too thrilled he said that.)

Here are his thoughts:

“In a sense, I’m kind of glad I didn’t win just for like contractual reasons,” the “Idol” runner-up told reporters on Friday. “I think if you’re first you might have to come back for like three years or something… I honestly didn’t care one bit of winning or losing because I called myself a winner by getting into the top 10.”

And he of course didn’t particularly like the winning song “This is My Now.” (I mean, who did?)

” ‘This is My Now’ is definitely not my style, a song I would never sing if I didn’t have to. It fit (Jordin) like perfectly. And I honestly think they should have had two songs that were tailored to both of us, but I’m so happy with being second place.”

I facetiously asked him about why his redneck comedy character Johnny Walker Blue, who got a few seconds of airplay early on in “Idol,” hadn’t returned.“There hasn’t been a lot of opportunities for Jimmy Walker Blue. That’s just another part of me, character acting spots. I do a lot of character work and voiceovers. I’m very into improv comedy and just comedy on the whole… I feed off performing live. I can feed off the energy. [He then described some British host character he does who I think he called Charles Siegfreid. Jimmy Walker Blue was “a hick who listens to Kid Rock 24 hours a day.”] I grew up on Robin Williams and Jim Carrey movies.”

Do you do celebrity impresionation? “Not really. I was more into impressions in junior high and high school. I beacme more a musician. Just recently in the last two years, I got more into characters.” Then he promoted his friends who do something called Moist Cupcake at this Web site which features some of Blake’s characters. I haven’t had a chance to see it. He says he gets “to be a goof” with them.

Did he sell out?Definitely not. I represented myself. I stayed true to myself throughout this entire process. I love the term selling out. I never had a huge fan base [before ‘Idol’] I don’t think you can sell out til you have a fan base, then going off in a direction you normally wouldn’t do and sacrificing your integrity as an artist. As soon as you hear me singing a song like ‘This is My Now,’ then you can say that. [But wait— he did sing that song!]

Songs he couldn’t get clearedThat happened the entire time I was on the show. I didn’t get to sing some songs that made me the musician I am today. I wanted to sing some U2. I got Maroon 5 at the last minute. I finally near the end got to sing Thicke [as in Robin Thicke] and Maroon 5.

Jordin, despite her voice going hoarse from non-stop media interviews, was ever chipper and so unaffected by this so far. We can only hope she stays that way through the fame machine we’re all going to churn her through.

Anyway, I was on the MARTA train coming in when the Jordin conference. As expected, nothing terribly revelatory. Her earliest memory of being inspired to sing was seeing Mariah Carey on TV but she can’t recall how old she was. Her celebrity crush off the top of her head? Brad Pitt. Singing with Gladys Knight was “amazing.” (She only used that word like six times this time around.)

I came up in line just as I was pulling up to Little Five Points and asked her two quick questions— one about what songs she wanted to sing on tour. (She didn’t know yet.) And if Blake tried to teach her beat boxing. “He tried,” she said. “I’m really horrible at it.”

Funniest comment came after a reporter asked her what her biggest moment was besides winning “American Idol.” Get this: it was getting her braces off! Wow—that’s a major dropoff in significance, eh? :)

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Moving Servers

I will be moving servers this afternoon. When I make the move the blog will be down for around 24 hours and I will post a note to the site while it is happening. Please bare with me as I make the move. My current hosting account expires tomorrow and I need to make the [...]

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Back Online

If you seeing this post we are back online. The move took a little longer than I thought since the current host had a huge database outage that kept me from getting the idol database added to the new host. Everything should be working now. If you notice any problems please leave me a [...]

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Paula Abdul Sticks By Broken Nose Story

American Idol judge Paula Abdul has slammed reports a furious fit of anger was to blame for her nose injury. Abdul was left bruised and with a fractured toe and broken nose after she tripped over her Chihuahua Tulip on Sunday.

Read more! American Idol judge Paula Abdul has slammed reports a furious fit of anger was to blame for her nose injury. Abdul was left bruised and with a fractured to...
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Jordin Sparks Is American Idol 2007

 - May 25, 2007
Seventeen-year-old Jordin Sparks is the youngest ever winner of Tv talent show American Idol, after triumphing in Wednesday night's (23May07) final. ...
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