Brooke White Blogs – A Typical Day on the Idol Tour
Ever wonder what a typical day on the Idol tour is like for the Idols? Brooke White just put up a blog that details a typical day on the Idol’s summer tour. I have no idea how those kids get a decent night’s sleep splitting their night-time between the bus and a hotel. I’d be sleep deprived the entire tour.
Oh, and here’s a tip kids:Â Asking an Idol to “go get” your favorite Idol is a little rude!
Read an excerpt, after the JUMP…
As soon as we pull up to the arena, we get off the bus where we are greeted with screaming fans, generally teenage girls in their t-shirts displaying their choice heart throb… holding up signs pleading either Cook, Archuleta or Castro to PLEASE marry them! Yep, this happens in every city, at every show, and then there are the nice parents that bring their cute kids… there they all await squished against the gate with their sweet homemade gifts, sharpies in hand, cameras ready for their moment to meet the boys of there dreams… and the rest of us, LOL:) I must say these fans are devout, getting their bright and early, and often times braving the hot summer temperatures. So with wet hair and no make up on, we drop our stuff in our dressing rooms and we head outside with the security guard to go meet the fans! This is quite the experience, fans can be so sweet, Please know that I am always SO grateful for the sincerity of fans, from a thoughtful letter, or just a simple compliment, It means a lot to me. Now if I could make a dollar for every time a fan asked me if I could go inside and get a David or Jason to come outside and sign their t-shirt, I would be a very rich woman! These girls are very serious about these guys, it’s pretty hilarious, and if I’m being completely honest, a little ridiculous! When the boys come out to greet fans, I often times have to cover my ears, because the screams are SO outrageously loud… I’ve seen girls hyper-ventilate, have a full on break down, I’m not kidding! I’m trying to relate and remember back to my teenage days when I had a little thing for Justin Timberlake when he was in ‘N Sync, I guess I got a little crazy when I went to their concert, hoped he would call me on stage of course, but not THAT obsessed, LOL!
Okay, so back on track… after we do this meet and greet, we head inside and get a quick bite to eat and then get ready for press. We put on a little make-up, look presentable and head over to do local press interviews. This last around an hour, then it’s on to the sponsor meet and greets. We all sit behind long tables with sharpies and boxes of Pop Tarts. Pop Tarts, Net Jets and Guitar Hero, are our tour sponsors, I often times eat a strawberry pop tart during the meet and greet cause I didn’t get a chance to eat lunch:). Then the fans that were contests winners, family members and friends of the sponsors line up with an 8×10 photo of the Top 10 and we “sign and slide” it on to the next person, as they “walk and talk” to each contestant… this is what the security guard reminds everyone through out the meet and greet. Next we take big group photos with all of these lovely folks, then we mingle and eat appetizers with them. This all last for about an hour and half or so, then it’s time for sound check…
This is where we all get on stage and work out the bugs with our in-ear monitors. These are like little earphones that are custom made to fit in your ear so that you can hear yourself and the band in these gigantic arenas, it’s taken me a while to get used to these, often times it is hard for me to hear the audience which sometimes makes me feel a little disconnected or unsure, but every once in a while the crowd is loud enough to hear through the in ears… exciting! During soundcheck we sing our group song, “Please don’t stop the Music”… everyone gets a little goofy during soundcheck usually involving a humorous change in lyrics accompanied by some ridiculous dance moves. Once we get a handle on the sound, it’s time to go get ready for the show… off to hair and make-up…
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61 Responses to “Brooke White Blogs – A Typical Day on the Idol Tour”
Not to mention, they’re.
Good for Chris! He had his own fans to attend to.
(I’m just practicing my quoting skills here)
My first response to Brooke’s blog was disappointment. I thought, oh no, one of the girls is complaining about the boys’ popularity — again. Unlike Carly’s accusatory whining on Larry King Live and other outlets, at least Brooke is directing her frustration — or whatever you want to call it — at the crazy fans instead of the three guys who are humble, unwitting objects of the rabid idolmania.
I’m sure Brooke and all the top 10 contestants not named David or Jason suffer bouts of Chopped Liver Syndrome. It’s got to be hard on the ego. Not having enough privacy, sleep or time with loved ones doesn’t help, but hopefully being able to perform to appreciative crowds will make this experience positive overall and unforgettable.
Well, I never particularly loved Brooke but I wouldn’t be so rude as to ask her to go and get David Cook.
In fact, when I did meet her, I asked for her autograph and told her I was a fan. Even though she kind of sternly yelled, “Okay, get em out! [meaning stuff for her to sign] I only have thirty minutes to get through this whole line and it’s not easy.”
It was kind of cute, but also very Brooke. Passive aggressive is the term that comes to mind.
It also comes across as a little bitter of her to write something like that about the fans in her blog.
Just my opinion.
Exactly. I don’t know what people are whining about. She wasn’t really trying to get anything across, she was just detailing her day. And let’s not forget this is her personal blog… some people just love to be their own psychologists, they’re reading too much into it just coz these are American Idol contestants. I remember reading a post about Syesha’s blog saying all she talks about is herself, well duh, it’s her blog! If it was a fan that went to the concert that was commenting that the ruckus when she went to meet the idols was “ridiculous,” no one would even bat an eyelash.
I liked Brooke’s blog. She really told about their days and crazy schedules.
She was very nice after the Staples show. And her hair looks incredible in person.
It is rude to ask someone to fetch someone else,imho. Chris D.’s statement about Taylor Hicks was hilarious.
LOL. I completely agree, spense.
I LOVED reading her blog entry and I don’t think she came across bitter in any way. Such a sweetheart. She made her opinions known w/o sounding disgruntled. I agree, some of the OTT fans are just ridiculous! The Idols are human too and it is so insensitive of the fan girls to ask another Idol to go get their favorite. While they may be able to tolerate this kind of behavior for a while, I bet it would really start to grate after a while.
Brooke was not my favorite on the show, but my opinion of her went up after reading this.
David had a good & humorous response to Archie fans asking him to get Archie:
My first response to Brookeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s blog was disappointment
I agree… Brooke didn’t present herself very well. In fact she blew it.
She came off as rude, a perpetual whiner, and bitter. She shouldn’t
cut fans down, it uncalled for. She should be thankful for the
opportunity she has been given. Brooke shows her true colors
in this blog for sure
Perpetual means repeated. I can’t recall Brooke *repeatedly* whining about the fans.
Her own words:
“Such enthusiasm and excitement… we love it and thrive off of that energy when we are on stage… thank you so much!” and “This is quite the experience, fans can be so sweet, Please know that I am always SO grateful for the sincerity of fans, from a thoughtful letter, or just a simple compliment, It means a lot to me.”
Sounds pretty thankful to me but YMMV.
Seriously. I love how people love to focus on that one paragraph when she wrote practically an entire essay on how grateful she is of this experience.
I don’t think the people who are calling her blog entry “bitter” and “ungrateful” read the whole thing, just that snippet posted above. Because seriously? If you read the whole thing you’d know what I mean.