Read an excerpt from Carly Smithson’s new My Space blog below. You can read the entire post HERE.
Carly has moved to Los Angeles to get her career started, and will be going into the studio soon to record a couple of duets with Michael Johns. She just finished writing the lyrics to a song called “Lay With Me.” Of course, she’s making time to hang out with her fellow Idols.
Im waking up this morning in my new home away from home in LA . I have nothing in my kitchen but water , cereal and cashew nuts but I havn’t had time to go to the store . I’m not even sure if I know where my local grocery store is yet . Ha Ha !! I am totally in love with my new place . It has exposed brick walls and just a cool loft feeling . Great vibe for making music . Castro came over tonight to hang out and check out my new place . He loved it here so im gonna try convince him to rent the apartment downstairs so I can have a friend in my building . Haha !!! We ended up not being able to work my new TV so opted for a movie called Body Of Lies at the famous chinese theatre . Such a good flick !!!!!! We also listened to some of each others new songs we have written . Let me tell you I will be buying Castros record . I am very proud of him . Beautiful songs !!!
I can’t wait for you guys to hear some of the music i’ve been making . Its such a dream come true for everything to be finally working out . I was up late last night working on a lyric on a new song called “Lay with me” . Im very excited to finish it today !
I took a day off last week cause i was tired so Myself and kim Caldwell went furniture shopping . We didnt buy much though . All we ended up with was a gumball machine that lights up from a yard sale and a wooden elephant head . I think we got bored looking at furniture so we went bowling and clothing shopping instead . Being famous in LA is so wierd though . Im still trying to get used to it . Last night at dinner Kim told me that she saw a news letter on the Planet Funk website that said last week we went into their store and Showed what we bought . So Funny !!! They got it wrong though , I bought the dress and cardi . Kim has adopted me as one of her new super friends here in LA . Trouble is usually at the top of our list . We gel pretty well cause she knows how to have fun but she’s also very smart and a hard hard worker . Maybe we should get our own BFF reality show . We’ll call it ” The Mountains ” or ” The Not So Simple Life ” . LOL !!!!!!
Unfortunately I didn’t go to Michaels B-Day bash on Sat . I heard it was epic though from the man himself . We have just recently decided on the perfect songs for our duet so we should be going onto the studio very soon to record them . We have done two events together since the tour ended . A charity event in Orange County where I got to meet Tony Hawk and another in Vegas to launch a new Car for Toyota . Sheryl Crow , Santana and the Blue Man Group also performed . I met one of the blue men backstage . I tried to talk to him but I think he was in character cause he just stared at me and did some mime thing . Michael said they have to stay in character if their faces are blue so I left him alone .
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Thanks for posting this MJ. I am so happy to hear that things are going well for Carly and her career. I can’t wait to hear some of her music and the duets with Michael-I bet they’ll be amazing.
ACK! Somebody get that Irish Girl a spell checker!
I think most of her fans were hoping for something a bit more concrete on the music front but, honestly, I don’t expect anything from her for at least six months.
Hopefully, her husband, Todd, is getting to see more of her now than he did when she was on Idol but if she has moved up to Los Angeles that may not be the case.
I wonder if the “mime thing” was the classic trapped inside a transparent box, undoubtedly, one of the most annoying moves in the mime repertoire. I probably would have ended up with some blue grease paint on my knuckles if he tried that shit on me.
I actually didn’t find any (blatant at least) spelling errors in Carly’s blog. I just happen to think she finds punctuation optional at best…sort of like some people feel about turn signals.
Oh, Carly! Neither can I!! So…stop shopping at yard sales and get on it, eh?
CRB-That’s cool with me if we have to wait for her album. She said she’s going to take her time and make sure it’s a good album that her fans will be proud of, so it’s worth the wait.
Also, on the punctuation and spelling-it doesn’t bother me-I’m just happy to hear from her and get some updates.
Can’t wait to listen to Jason’s songs, too! :) It seems Jason’s been hanging out with quite a few of his Idol friends recently, spending time with Carly, Archie, and wasn’t he also at Michael’s party?
I loved how Carly was so sweet in her blog. She only had good things to say! Good luck to her! :)
Hahaha, Carly is adorable. I’m reminded of all those behind the scenes clips where she always had said the silliest things. I forgot how much I love the way she talks and her sense of humor. I don’t know, I can’t quite pinpoint it, but she just seems so real to me, and it comes across in her blogs. LOLOL at “The Mountains”, her new reality show with Kim Caldwell! I really felt like she let us in on her days, and it was sweet how she and Jason hung out and listened to each others’ stuff. I think contrary to the Ken Barnes article, season 7 has a lot of potential to be the most successful class yet, and I wish them all the best. It’s unreasonable to expect any of the Idols not signed with 19 to get out an album this year, but I’m sure they’ll get there soon. I only read the part MJ excerpted here, but I do wonder where Todd is now that Carly is in LA? Ok, maybe not my business
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Her husband is in San Diego running their tatoo shop. Carly said that she’s going to stay in LA during the week (to work on her music) and she goes home on weekends. She mentioned in the blog that they’re going to Atlanta and then Ireland next week, so guess they’ll get to spend some much needed time together (their anniversary is next week too).
^^ Thanks for the info. My curiousity (nosiness?) is satisfied, haha.
Good to hear that Jason is doing some good songwriting. I can’t wait until he releases an album. I’d also like him to record a song with Brooke.
Awww. I feel so warm and fuzzy inside that this group of idols seems so sincerely close. Has it been like this in previous seasons?
I love them all. Ha ha…I want Jason to move in to Carly’s building too. Then they could all be a part of their reality show.
She’s a sweetie. I really enjoyed her blog. She had a lot of
of nice things to say. I’m very
anxious to hear the “perfect songs” her and Michael Johns
picked out for their duet Awe “Marly” love em.
She sounds busy like Michael, and
is keeping her name out there too. Looking forward to
her new material.
It seemed like it to me in previous seasons, especially right after the tour. Melinda/LaKisha/Jordin/Blake/Chris seemed like a really tight group during and right after the tour, for example, and so did Fantasia/J-Hud/George. But then they tend to go their own ways a little, especially if some are more successful than others or older, married, living in LA, hitting Hyde, etc.
Season 5 may be the best example. During the season and the tour, Taylor/Elliott/Ace/Daughtry/Bucky seemed really tight, with Paris and Lisa another little group (being the Young Ones), Katharine and Kellie pals for awhile but not really sticking because Katharine kind of bad-mouthed Kellie and also didn’t go on the first bunch of tour dates, and Mandisa seemed friendly with everybody, but maybe not best friends with anyone, or maybe I just don’t know. During the tour, especially, all the boys seemed to go out partying (or just eating, whatever) together in different cities, as well as showing up at Taylor’s band’s side gigs. Paris and Lisa were too young for that, not sure what Kellie was doing, and Mandisa wasn’t the type. But afterwards, Taylor has not seemed to stay as tight with any of them, Elliott stayed close to Ace and Chris, but maybe not Bucky so much, and Kellie has palled up with Carrie Underwood, who isn’t from her season. I’m not sure how much their romantic relationships have to do with things, either. Elliott and Bucky both lost their SOs after their seasons, and Chris’s wife and Bucky’s wife seemed to be fairly close, so maybe the fact that Bucky dumped his didn’t endear him to Chris’s wife. And in the example of this season, the fact that Brooke and Carly and Michael are all married, with Jason, Chikieze, Kristy, Ramiele and Syesha in long-term relationships, may make all of them hanging out easier, plus Carly seems to have bonded with Cook’s girlfriend, which has to help, too.
Another Carly and Michael Johns duet?!?!?! YAY!
Good to know everyone’s music is coming along. Carly and Michael are an awesome duo, so I’m glad to hear they’re collaborating.
I can’t wait to hear it either Carly, bring it on.
Carly is excited, that was fun to read. It’s good to know she’s writting and recording. Good for her to go ahead with her projects, I hope she releases something, even if it will probably end up beeing indie.
As much as I didn’t like her duet with Michael in the finale and my ears still complain, I think they could actually work (with some training and less screaming) and I’m interested to see what they’ll have to share.
Oh, hang out with her and Kim must be fun.
Smartcookie, Elliott was/is the closest to Bucky but was friends with all of the contestants. During an interview Monday, Elliott said that he had spoken with Taylor last week. Elliott and his girlfriend that he met during the show are still together. She is incredibly sweet. Love her. During the tour, Kellie was underage.
I can’t wait to hear Jason’s new music. Maybe he should move into Carly’s building so that he can have internet access while in LA. I miss hearing from him. *sigh*
Nice blog, Carly.
Wha? No, Paris turned eighteen during the Idols Live ‘06 Tour but Kellie was twenty when the tour started and twenty one (Kat sang OTR to Kellie in S.C. on her birthday) early on in the tour.
Under what age?
Elliott is actually (according to him) the closest to Sway, who was not a Top Ten finalist. From everything I’ve seen, he is closer to Ace than he used to be, and not nearly as close to Taylor and Bucky. But it’s not like it matters — the basic idea is that other seasons’ folks have been a tight family during the tour and after, because those buses afford a whole lot of bonding.
I expect that these kids (AI7 folks) will find it harder to keep in touch over time. I think that is just a life thing more than a career thing. It happens to all of us. But even if the tour is still only a little over a month behind us, I do think it’s a good sign that most of them seem to genuinely like each other enough to want to keep in touch.
Granted I’d imagine those of them that will be using LA as their homebase will probably have an easier time of it as to the hanging out aspect.
At the very least I expect to hear very little badmouthing among this group. Most of them seem too nice for their own good.
New music from Carly - hurray! I’ve been waiting for this news. (Not quite as anxiously as I’m waiting for November 18th, though.)
I can only go by Elliott’s words, Smartcookie. I’m a major Elliott fan and I’ve seen and listened to most of his interviews. Maybe Elliott was talking about Top 10 but he said many times that he was closest to Bucky but I see no need to argue the point if you think otherwise. Makes no difference to me.
CRB, Kelly was not 21 years old and was too young to go the bars with the guys. That’s what I meant by under age. Her birthday is June 28, 1986. She was only 20 years old during the tour.
Back to topic. I wonder how many duets Carly will have on her CD and with whom she will be singing for the other duets. Interesting.
2009 will see a lot of AI7 CD releases.
Carly’s blog was highly entertaining and informative.