American Idol Top 13 Tribute to Michael Jackson Re-broadcast on Fox Tonight
The re-broadcast of the Season 8 American Idol Top 13 performance show featuring the music of Michael Jackson will be broadcast on FOX tonight at 8 pm.
It starts here on the east coast at 8 PM ET. I’m starting a post for those of you who are watching tonight and want to chat. I’m also re-uploading some….stuff. shhh…. I’ll update this post later.
Also, in case you missed it, and you might have–my site was down for a good part of yesterday afternoon. Nigel Lythgoe twittered about his plans for an all-Michael Jackson special for So You Think You Can Dance. Read all about it HERE.
Here’s my original recap from March 10, 2009…
Song list and video after the jump…
- Lil Rounds – “The Way You Make Me Feel” – VIDEO
- Scott MacIntyre – “Keep the Faith” – VIDEO
- Danny Gokey – “Pretty Young Thing” – VIDEO
- Michael Sarver – “You Are Not Alone” – VIDEO
- Jasmine Murray – “I’ll Be There” – VIDEO
- Kris Allen – “Remember the Time” – VIDEO
- Allison Iraheta – “Give in to Me” – VIDEO
- Anoop Desai – “Beat It” – VIDEO
- Jorge Nunez – “Never Can Say Goodbye” – VIDEO
- Megan Joy Corkrey – “Rockin’ Robin” – VIDEO
- Adam Lambert – “Black and White” – VIDEO
- Matt Giraud – “Human Nature” – VIDEO
- Alexis Grace – “Dirty Diana” – VIDEO
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263 Responses to “American Idol Top 13 Tribute to Michael Jackson Re-broadcast on Fox Tonight”
SarahP, yes I would recommend it. Their style is more bluegrass, though, so be prepared. However, they know how to present a song even better than Kris did on AI. This does not negate Kris’s artistry though, imo.
ETA: lol, looks like hwc was on top of it!
Correct. It was in Part I of the TV Guide interview with Matt Mitovitch. In response to the question (at the 2:00 mark) “What was your least favourite performance of your run?”, Adam said (and I quote) “The choice of doing BorW was really really great…{snip}… but vocally, from like, a technical standpoint, it was kind of a mess. It was pitchy, it was a little shouty [laughs].”
Ummm yeah. I think I need to meditate a little bit as well. …Just put the Glambert down and back away slowly… LOL
My daughter bought Kelly’s albums, my wife bought Fantasia’s albums, and I bought Taylors albums. Nothing from the last two seasons. I won’t buy anything from Season 8 except Adam’s album, which I don’t really expect to be my cup of tea — although I have turned into a pretty big fan of folk/techno fusion (Beth Orton) and I’m enjoying Goldfrapp and Thievery Corporation on Adam’s recommendation.
Yeah, I don’t see it at all, but that’s just personal taste. I thought that the Castro kid showed much more creativity and style in a similar vein last year, but was really one-dimensional.
Well, I’d say if you had that quote, and the timing, perfectly memorized, without needing to re-watch, then, yeah, you may have a problem :wink_wp:
But like I’m one to talk – giddy last night after just hearing Adam perform again on an AI rerun, then staying up till midnight to catch up on Adam related interviews I missed over the weekend!
Folk/techno fusion? Now that sounds interesting….
hwc, I agree with you on this one. Everything that is happening for Adam would be playing out the same, win or loose EXCEPT the media frenzy would have been even greater if he had won. And, if he had won, the political press would be more focused on him. It took me a few days after the loss to realize that it was much better for Adam to loose.
I still belive that Adam did not plan on winning — either he didn’t want to win (so it would be easier to position himself without the AI stigma) or he didn’t think he could win and be true to himself artistically and personally.
Adam was very specific about his goal being to get to the Final in a pre-Top 4 interview. Adam clearly stated his reasons for being on Idol long before the final — to get exposure, build a fanbase and get a major recording contact. And he achieve all this.
Second, for those who think that Adam being in interviews with him helps bring out Kris’s personality – have you seen his interviews with Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, and his entrance on Ellen? Adam was not present at any of those but you could definitely see Kris’s personality. So I guess I’m agreeing with the people who think that Kris should be doing interviews on his own and doesn’t need Adam – just because he has more of a “quiet” personality doesn’t mean he’s not entertaining on his own.
And third, the season is over – I’m just lookng forward to the fall when both of their albums (and Allison’s) are out. I’m not going to tell anyone that they hae to buy soeone’s album because we all have our own tastes in music, but I do think that all 3 of them have the potential to do well and that there is a place for all of them in the market.
edit: don’t call out other posters
Quite. Beth Orton started out with an album released on in Japan recorded with William Orbit – the techno producer who went on to do Madonna’s techno stuff. Orton then hooked up with Ryan Adams and drifted a bit more acoustic folk, but still with techno production that has been the thing in Europe for a while.
The most stunning thing that Orton has done is a duet with Ryan Adams of the Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar that they released on a free magazine compilation of Stone’s covers. Wow. Talk about interpreting a song. The lyrics are so ugly and hateful, you’ll never be able listen to the Stones version again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=masNmZy5d6Y
The Ryan Adams duet with Marianne Faithful, English Girls Approximately, was written about Orton.
The early William Orbit song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFa015mRdlI
More typical Beth Orton stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIwm7d_xs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqB8xuNfB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWoMq46g0XU
Duet with Ryan Adams:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sa1HT8jCY
In my case, I still am open-minded about Kris. His pre-idol independent recordings are not too impressive, but I really liked a few of his AI performances.
IMO he won idol because he had musical talent, and is very attractive and even more likeable. This same combination will help he be commercially successful, but I won’t buy his music because I think he’s nice. It will need to be really good and original.
If Kris is wildly successful, I will be very pleased and not that surprised — because he has consistently exceeded my expectations.
Actually I think Kris’s pre-idol stuff is pretty good considering it was a self-done album with him doing the music and that his song writing was only beginning. Masterclass Lady had some very good things to say about some of the songs on his album and seem impressed with his musical ability.
For me, I don’t see buying Adam’s entire album, but if he has some ballads I will probably download some singles. However, I am planning to buy Kris’s based on what he did on the show.
I hope both will do well.
I agree!
By the way, following last night’s show, Adam’s Season 8 album went back onto the iTunes Top 100 Album chart. I think it peaked at #74, now at #89.
I think you should win Idol because of “musical talent” but the attractiveness and likeability is just frosting on the cake, so to speak, not a requirement of the prize. Adam has all of these qualities but his talent is superior to everything else. I have tried but cannot connect to Kris so I guess I will just have to pass on him. I do hope he releases an awesome album and that I may change my mind. Being an Adam fan should have nothing to do with this, but I guess it does.
After following Adam this past half year, I am just not interested in any of the other Idols, winner included. Everyone else bores me. JMO I’m sure but I wish all of them the best in their careers, even Danny who totally turns me off, lol.
Watching MJ week all over again, I’m reminded why I liked Kris Allen so much. He took a song that I really didn’t care for when done by the original artist and made it enjoyable. It’s a shame that he had done Man in the Mirror the week prior. He was all sorts of awesome with that. I wish they would have included that in this tribute show.
I also agree with others. The top 13 should each have had a small segment talking about how MJ influenced them, their reason for the song they sang, etc. Leave out the judges comments and other voting related stuff.