Carly Smithson performs “Here You Come Again” on Live with Regis and Kelly and “Alone” on The Ellen Degeneres Show.
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Carly performs “Here You Come Again” on Live with Regis and Kelly:
Interview on Live with Regis and Kelly:
Carly performs “Alone” on the Ellen Degeneres Show:
Interview on the Ellen Degeneres Show:
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Thank you, mj.
She interviews well.
Carly Smithson “from Dublin Ireland”.
I was a big fan of Carly’s as well as Michael. It’s a shame that part of their problem was the ‘foreign national’ stigma. The argument can be made that someone choosing to live in the US over their country of birth can be even more an American than those of us born here.
Thanks again mj….you have been and still are a trusted source of info on Idol (despite the April Fool’s Day spoiler joke! :-) )
I think her large tattoo turned a lot of people off, especially the audience over 40.
Can I just say that I dislike her even more after this interview than I did before, and that is saying a lot.
Yes Carly you had a record deal…..a major label deal with a 2 million dollar budget, not a record made in your living room with the help of friends.
How nice of Mariah to give you advice…..stop acting like you never met her before!
GAH…..I can’t stand her.
Gah …I can’t stand her either. Just a girl who worked in a bar who already had a major record deal and won a best singer award in Ireland a few years back.
I’m not quite sure why Ellen thinks she’ll get a deal. Her voice is not very pleasant and that’s something incredibly “icky”about her.
Why are they allowed to sing on Ellen and Regis & Kelly, but not elsewhere - like the Tonight Show?
Tell me why Amazon can sell her ablbum, but not David Cook’s???? Whatever company that owns the rights to MCA recordings (maybe Randy ownthem — who knows) can hawk them now, but David Cook’s actual home recording can’t be sold because some label isn’t making money?
Gah, I’m pleased she’s off the show.
Well — not sure I dislike more, Carly or little a-twittering Kelly.
Bring back MJ.
Gwendolyn - I think each individual show decides what they want the former contestants to do. They all sing on Access Hollywood too.
Carly has an unpleasant personality. I don’t like her voice nor her (yelling) singing style. I never thought I’d say this, but I like Kat a lot more.
Well, the AI peeps sure seem to me to like to be in control. I imagine that if they told David to take his album down, it’s because they can. My guess as to why Carly’s is still available, would be that whoever owns it doesn’t answer to TPTB. I think if they held any power over the distributors of that CD - they would have had it taken down. So, they didn’t because they can’t. I doubt if they had a say, they’d allow it to stay up there and maybe take a bite out of their iTunes profits.
Maybe I’m strange, but I don’t find Carly to be an unpleasant person at all. She seems perfectly nice to me. Maybe she glosses over the big record deal thing because it’s kind of humiliating. I wouldn’t expect someone trying to create a career for themselves to go on national tv and say “yes, a couple of years ago, I was a colossal failure”.
I like you Spenser ! This was supposed to be a singing contest and Carly really can sing compared to some of the others. Too much ado about the wrong things.
Carly has a larger than life personality that really works well on the talk show circuit. And she doesn’t take herself too seriously.
There’s no doubt she can sing.
Carly and MichaelJ are two big reasons I would consider the top 10 of AI7 to be the most talented ever.
I can’t believe people are denying her talent.
I actually thought Carly deserved to stay over Brooke and Jason but I didn’t enjoy either performance I saw today. Plus, there is just something “off” about her whole vibe. She may be lovely in “real life” but that doesn’t transmit to me.
I was fairly neutral to her on the show. I’m just turned off by the Ellen interview and the screaming.
Yes, Carly has talent. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard her hit a bum note. My problem is though, that I really don’t care for that style of music as much as some other styles.
Let’s remember this: Simon is sort of the voice of the viewing audience. What he says is usually what the average person is thinking. Simon has not really cared for many of her performances for several weeks. As a matter of fact, Simon liking it was SO UNUSUAL, she had a t-shirt made for the occasion.
In light of that, perhaps it was NOT so unfair that Carly went home.
As a whole unit, it’s difficult for me to decide between this crew and the season 5 crew. Season 5 still contains a few of my all time favorite idols, and I know that I don’t like any of these guys as well as I like my ultimate favorite from that year. but, taken as a group, I think the talent level is pretty darn high this year. And, this is the first year that I’ve liked more than 5 of the idols a lot during the run of the show. Also - I think with the exception of KLC, everyone in this year’s top 10 is exponentially more talented than the likes of Paris & Lisa. So, it’s kind of a toss up for me.
I think this would also probably be a good year to go to the tour. I think this will be a fun group. I’m not sure they could top the season 5 tour for me (Taylor, Chris, Elliott & Mandisa were all fabulous performers and Ace & Bucky entertained the hell out of me). But, it’s entirely possible that I could like seeing this group just as well, if not more.
She’s so shrill when she goes for the high notes. It makes my ears bleed.
Carly’s a great singer. Part of the problem, I feel, was the producers and judges over-pimping her before the show even started, the overexposure of her previous record deal, and the fact that the judges so obviously favored her - particularly Randy and Paula. Simon, especially near the end, appeared to be trying to distance himself from her, for whatever reason.
But, “the Irish girl” was floating around for quite a while, and I think some viewers may have been a little jaded. She was probably one of the best singers in the competition, but when the voting viewers are fed up, they’re just fed up. There’s really nothing she could do. And, when it came down to people voting to get her through another week or saving their favorites, she lost out.
Like it or not, I believe that Simon spurs action. I probably would never judge a performance as “good” or “bad” based strictly on what he says because Lord knows he was completely off Dolly Parton night. But, if he opens his big mouth, and viewers think a contestants in trouble, they’ll scramble to save ‘em.
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I for one like her personality and I cried on that audition clip. She’s not a phoney. She’s a young woman who has been put through a lot in show business and there were high hopes and expectations. And she’s grateful for as far as she got and maybe just maybe she will get that career she wants. Nothing wrong with that people!
I see her being an international recording artists vs. a U.S. recording artist. I don’t think the U.S. record companies are going to break down the doors for her, but she might get a European contract like a Kylie Minogue.
Slezak doesn’t think 19E will pick her up but I think so, they’ll see an international arena for her.
I didn’t care for either performance today. I have never been a Carly fan but I did like her version of Superstar last week. Glad that she is gone.
I really liked Carly. She grew on me. I think that she still doesn’t know the type of music she should sing. Simon told her early on he liked her doing a Chaka Kahn kinda vibe and she never listened. She kept going to Celine Dion stuff. While she can do it, I don’t think it suits her.
I like her personality. She’s a down to earth young lady who had stardom in her grasp and it all went horribly wrong, through no fault of her own. She is trying to have a career doing what she loves and she is judged on a failure before she was 17 and a tattoo. Frankly I hate the damn thing, but it doesn’t take away the fact that if she puts out a cd that has stuff like Crazy on You and Here You Come again, I am all over it. You see I don’t care if you look like Nosferatu (sp), or the elephant man, if you can sing, you have me. I don’t need hot, it’s nice, but not necessary.
I am just watching Carly here at home on Ellen. Like that was her first Mariah meeting? please. Also, her saying that her record deal was really not a big deal and several others in the top five have previous records. Yes Carly, but did they have a $2.2 mil MCA contract with that? Why is she still trying to do damage control when I would respect her a whole heck of alot more if she would just start saying the truth? I’m just a bartender. Why not just say what you did have and let the pieces fall, sheesh.
I know DC did his cd’s himself. Please Carly there is no comparison to what you are saying.
That said, Here You Come Again is my favorite song of hers, and I LOVE it. Carly just sing you have a beautiful voice.
sciencefan, Carly did not have the t-shirt made up. Her fans on the AI board sent that to her. I really wish she would not have held that up, because I think that helped folks not to vote for her, some that were on the fence so to say. I’m not a huge Carly fan, but I did enjoy alot of her songs on the show.
Ellen is on now. Carly just finished. My ears are ringing. I did not expect that last screaming part. I guess I should have, but I didn’t. This week I will only have to worry about Syesha screaming at me. Thank goodness.
she had a contract but did she get the 2 million or was it used by the company to promote it? Can’t say I ever saw it promoted. If the money did not go to her directly-then she didn’t get a 2 million dollar contract-the company used it to produce and promote. does anyone know if it went to her or was used by MCA? If i have a contract for 100,00 but i only get 10,000 then that is all I received. So did SHE have a huge record deal or was it the companies money spent to produce and promote?
Smear information sabotaged Carly from the beginning. Dark cynical people prefer a target to a hero. It didn’t matter that the truth was available it only mattered that they had someone to hate. You can read this ignorance in the above comments and littered on the web. It’s so unfortunate for this country and for immigrants that make up America. God Bless America? Yes this is only a talent, excuse me, popularity contest but it clearly demonstrates we have not learned much from all the wars we fought and what this country stands for.
It went down like this: we can’t have foreigners (or new immigrants) take our rightful American places and jobs, the record industry recognized her talent and miss-managed millions so you must take the blame and give up your right to have that incredible talent rediscovered, and furthermore large tattoos scare the god fearing children of America. Yes this is the land of opportunity but only for Americans. Carly left her country as a child to chase a dream, worked hard, failed, worked more, started a business, competed at a high level with her best skills, but we say Carly this is “not” the American way…
Carly finished 6th on American Idol just like all American cutie Kellie Pickler. That’s actually a pretty decent finish and she did better than about 100,000 other people (including people born here and other immigrants, I’m sure.)
Whether she came to the country in a UFO or was born here, makes no difference to me. Don’t like her personality and the air of desperation that hangs over her head like a black cloud. Her singing boared on screaming in the high end and the song choices left me scratching my head.
This interview only made my feeligns about her even stronger.
pifcat, I sure hope you were not referring to me with that *ignorance*.
I have nothing at all against Carly. I have bought some of her iTunes, the ones I personally enjoy. No I did not vote for her because all of my votes go to DC & MJ/JC were my second favorites. If those 3 were to go and Carly had still been on, my votes then would have gone to her.
As far as the MCA contract/promotion whatever. My point in stating what I said was because she referred to her *deal* as the same as the others when in fact it was not. I don’t know about the others, but DC did not have that kind of backing. For her to say that was wrong. She could have as easily said *Yes I did have a deal, but it just fell through* and not have drug the others into it.
She had met Mariah previously.
Here is the challenge- is there a record label that wants to put the money into her and does she have a committed following or just a group of fans that can vote a bunch of times in a row?
To me, she doesn’t have the rabid fan base that David and David do- those folks are going nuts on iTunes for their music. Personally, I haven’t bought anything of hers b/c I was never in like of her. I enjoy Brooke but haven’t bought her music either.
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Lisa - Thank you. I didn’t know who made the shirt, but I thought it was a great gag! Because Simon is fickle that way. It was probably THE highlight of the night, as far as reality tv goes. I laughed my head off - WITH Carly, not AT her.
weelassie – I think it was a $2 million project, in that they spent that money recording, pressing the disks, and promoting airplay, etc. Carly was probably paid something also.
I didn’t hate Carly, but in my opinion she made it hard to like her.
From the beginning she seemed too self-involved to really connect. Now, she may very well be a lovely girl in her personal life–I’m just talking about how she came across on the show.
She never had a musical identity. Like I said in my review, she was a cipher with a big voice. And as far as the quality of that voice–she definitely can sing, but she often didn’t use it to her best advantage. I really loved her lower tones, but she insisted on pushing the limit of her upper register where she often sounded screechy and strained.
She couldn’t relax, her performances were often stressful to watch, because she appeared a little desperate and wound up.
Oh, while I wouldn’t call her a liar, she had the tendency to dissemble a little, I think.
MJ, your take is a more balanced one. I agree with that she never did relax enough to connect. The air of desperation was palpable and uneasy to watch. In the end though I think she had so many things against her, more than other contestants for sure. There was an element of ‘did MJ and Carly have visas and why did they audition when they weren’t American’, etc. The record deal didn’t help, even though I think people have this idea that the promotional budget went into her pocket, when if anything she probably wound up owing them, recoupables and all that. Yet in still she got a chance to strut her stuff for millions and I bet she is going to be one of the ones getting some serious attention during the tour. I wish her alot of luck.
MJ…….your take on Carly is exactly what I would have said only not as nicely since she irritated the hell out of me!! She left at 6th place - not bad since I wanted her gone at the top 24!!
I think she walked in there expecting to blow everyone away and win the show easily. But, she was schreechy, whined and complained and looked like she wanted to kill someone when she sang until….. she turned into “nice” Carly. By the time she decided to become happy person, it was way too late to win over the fans and stay in the game. She just didn’t get the job done, period. It wasn’t because she was from Ireland, had tattoos or had a record contract.
And there she is on Ellen still “stretching” the truth and whining. wah, wah, poor Carly.
so I ask myself, why did I watch that video?? Silly me, I thought maybe she would irritate me less.
I’ve done a bit of reading about Carly’s much-maligned deal, and it sounds like the whole thing was a botch job from the beginning.
They signed her when she was Archuleta’s age because they wanted to make her into their new Britney Spears and tried to force that role on her with bubblegummy pop songs. The songs were so crappy that focus groups hated them, so they rerecorded the album and the songs *still* sucked. Not Carly, the songs they had her sing.
Instead of getting her any meaningful exposure, they threw their promotion budget at the weirdest crap imaginable… money just whizzing down the drain and accomplishing nothing. As for the 2.2 million they spent promoting the album… had anyone here ever heard of “Carly Hennessey” before American Idol? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Records don’t sell if no one knows they are in the stores to be bought.
And Carly’s in an unenviable position now. She can’t defend herself without accusing her former music industry handlers of mismanagement and ineptitude. Either she *doesn’t* accuse them, and looks like a plant and a flop, or she does and watches industry doors slam shut across the board. So she does what she’s doing… just tries to wipe that off her slate and start over as much as she can.
If wiping the slate clean is what she’s doing, she shouldn’t try doing it by telling out and out lies that are checkable. September 12, 2001 release date? Company went *poof*?
Just say yes, I had a deal and as these things can go, it didn’t work out. I didn’t give up on my dream and AI seemed the best way I could try again. Downplay it…….don’t lie. I’m more than willing to give someone a second chance, as are most people, but not if we feel we’re being duped and lied to.
Bobbi, as I’m sure you know, albums are released to various media to review before they are released to the public. It’s quite plausible that the album was given to the media on the September 12 date, especially in light of the release party that was held for her on that date. That’s certainly conjecture, but not a stretch, so calling her a liar on that is jumping the gun a bit, in my estimation.
Further, MCA DID fold - many of its artists were re-assigned to various Geffen labels, but other “assets” like Carly were dropped with the reorganization. It’s a pretty common practice, be it in the music industry or any other corporate reorg. Again, calling her a liar on this - another mischaracterization.
I actually think that Carly will defiantly be signed once the show is over with and probably will do quite well as a recording artist now. I also think that the point of her being on American Idol wasn’t necessary to win the show (sure that might have been at first) but more the purpose of her being on was to get the exposure that she didn’t really have before the show started. She has a lot of things that record executives are always looking for first she’s a good singer who some like myself think is a great singer with a flexible voice that can easily adapt to many genres so songwriters shouldn’t have a problem crafting songs for her to put over. Second she’s got a rocker girl image that can put over a ballad and a rock song with a strong voice something that Idol doesn’t really have at the moment. It seems like with Kelly Clarkson going more her own route and being her own artist Idol is going to want someone they can choose their songs for them and craft their own type of singer and Carly fits that bill better then the other “rocker” types that they’ve tried to introduce on the show.
I think YOU Rock Carly!! I was really sad to see you leave AI but you can get on with your career. You made the show much more enjoyable and I think your downloads are amazing. I look forward to your new music coming out! Have fun and Enjoy life!