I’m starting a new spoiler thread for tonight…
Guests for tonight, according to this article and TMZ
- Green Day is the ”surprise” guest, singing “Working Class Hero” from the John Lennon Tribute album.
- Gladys Knight will perform “Midnight Train to Georgia” with the Top 6 female finalists.
- Smokey Robinson performs “Ohh Baby Baby” with the Top 6 male finalists.
- Melinda Doolittle performs with Bebe and Cece Winans
- Sanjaya duets with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry to the Kink’s “You really got me.”
- Blake Lewis duets with rappyer Doug E. Fresh.
- Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks duet on the Beatles, “I Saw Her Standing There”
- Tony Bennett will perform
- Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks will perform.
- In an interview this morning, Taylor Hicks said that he would be performing a Sgt. Peppers medley with the Top 12. Taylor will also be performing his single, “Heaven Knows.”
ETA: Somebody gave me the heads up: They are pre-taping one of the bands today, it looks to be a last-minute deal. From the email:
We are taping a performance by a VERY special, surprise band and tickets are FREE. This pre-tape will be aired as a segment of tonight’s finale.
The taping is at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and the arrival time is 1:30 PM.
More after the jump!
You can tune in to americanidol.com for a live pre-show webcast hosted by Lisa Tucker and James Pumphrey will serve as correspondents on the red carpet. It starts at 6 pm EDT.
- Nigel Lythgoe said in an interview on Good Day LA that Peter Noone would sing a medley of Herman’s Hermits hits (was he kidding?).
- Lakisha Jones said on a radio interview this morning, that ONLY THE TOP 3 will get to sing duets with special musical guests.
- There will be no hometown parties. The original plan was to have them, but the producers thought otherwise and cancelled them.
RUMORS:
- Jordin Sparks performs with Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Anika Noni Rose
- According to this article, Sanjaya Malakar will sport short, platinum blonde hair tonight, and sing a duet with Steve Perry, former lead singer of Journey.
- According to Perez Hilton, there is buzz around Hollywood that Britney Spears will appear on the Finale. Hello trainwreck!
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I think Sanjaya was filming for a reality show, and not the AI finale. But I could be wrong.
Green Day is the “surprise” guest. I’ll mute my TV! I hate, hate Green Day. I used to like Green Day circa “Dookie” but anything of recent makes me absolute loathe them. Yuck.
And I may be alone, but I’m totally skeptical about the Beatles medley. I’m just…a person who doesn’t want to see singers do bad karaoke versions of songs I adore. As a devout Beatles fan…I just…I don’t know. Makes me nervous to have those songs on Idol. So, I’m definitely a bit “ehh” about the medley. We’ll see though, maybe some surprises.
How appropriate for the winner of American Idol to get to duet with Blake on “I saw her standing there!” What a logical choice! She’s even talked about in the lyric. *rolls eyes*
Anyone up for a drinking game? I bet tonight we’ll hear Jordin’s age be mentioned a record amount of times.
I LOVE The Beatles (1st Cd I ever bought), but in all fairness most of their songs sound good even when not sung well. The melodies are so great and catchy that even these jokers could make them enjoyable (I hope).
yeah Green Day is confirmed, they’re doing “Working Class Hero”…their manager confirmed it via email to one of the people at Green Day Authority in the past few mins. i personally am thrilled, and that’s the only interest i have in idol tonite, haven’t watched all year. its what brought me back here, i know MJ always has the scoop first on everything lol. the only thing i miss about AI is hanging out reading the interesting posts here and MJ’s excellent write-ups. anyway, just got word and thought i’d let everyone know.
Lakisha Jones said on a radio interview this morning, that ONLY THE TOP 3 will get to sing duets with special musical guests..
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I’m disappointed….I know that #4 from last year was allowed to perform with a special musical guest. I believe it was also one of his favorite groups…
Even #5 did. TPTB’ve really flipped the bird at the contestants this season.
That Sanjaya’s universe bit was great. I’m a HUGE Beatles fan, and also John Lennon. My life-changing Lennon song, though, is Working Class Hero. I hope Green Day doesn’t F it up. I must have listened to that song over and over and over when I was in high school. I have 2 copies of the album, I have the cassette tape and the CD.
I hope you’re kidding about the “I Saw Her Standing There’ bit w/ the she’s just 17 comment. That would be tooooo hokey. I’m hoping it’s at least entertaining - don’t think it will be anywhere as good as last year just based on the fact that all the group songs this year sucked. There isn’t a lot of talent in this group overall, and they don’t blend well together like they did last year. We’ll see what they’ll pull off!
Thank you :)
There’s room at the top
They keep telling you still
But first you must learn
How to smile as you kill
If you want to live
Like the folks on the hill
Green Day will probably give it an OTT Emo performance with none of the sarcasm and self-mocking of the original. I hope I’m wrong, but it’s really such a basic song (3 chords) that it easily becomes a borefest if you don’t fully connect with the lyrics.
For me, with Lennon, it’s all about the lyrics. Guess that’s why, unlike Jordan, I’m not a big fan of MMm-Bop.
I just…maybe okay I’m being biased because of my absolute hatred of Green Day, but I just…I can’t seem them connecting to that song that way it was meant to be sung.
I personally think that song is better left as untouched. I’m SCARED to see what Green Day will do with it.
Sigh. If you’re going to have someone do that song, WHY Green Day. Yes, I’m bitching, but man…I really don’t like them!
It IS only 3 chords.. they would get lost on the other songs LOL
I never thought you’d say that either but I completely agree. It pisses me off that they couldn’t have her back to sing on the show there’s no excuse for it really.
radname, the *writer* for AI was on the carpet at the TV Guide show and she stated that the Sanjayaya thing is for tonight and it will be like Kellie Pickler’s Wolfgang Puck skit. Sanjambalam will have his Faux hair and does the skit with the UCLA cheerleaders.
I think McTatas was supposed to perform earlier in the season but there was some scheduling conflict on her part.
What no Katharine on the season finale.
When Kellie, Elliott and Chris have been on. And Taylor tonight.
I’m So ticked.
Afrter to night, no more of AI6 for me.
Okay, I totally couldn’t resist. I’m a Hanson fan. Yes. I’m totally beyond a normal age of being a Hanson fan. But I highly respect this band. I also have a daughter who was at the right age when that song came out. You get where this is going. Regardless, I’ve grown to greatly appreciate and respect them as musical artists. I’ve seen them in concert(with my daughter) numerous times. They put on one HELL of a show. And this isn’t being an “MMMBop” fan, although I do like the song, that intrigued me on the band initially. (And I’m not going into the actual meaning behind the song, because I do know the importance behind it), but they are a great band and if you’re brave enough I recommend to look into some of the newer music.
Now BACK on topic, I can already picture how this whole duet of “I Saw her standing there” is going to go. Can we say “Cheesy” and involving Blake fawning all over Jordin. I may actually slightly enjoy this.
And wanted to comment on FAIJ post:
I do find this true and not true all at the same time. I think a lot of their earlier material does have a traditional “pop” formula and some songs have been covered to death. However, I don’t think that can be said about their latter material. Let’s put it this way, I’ll be happy if I never hear someone do a cover of “I am the walrus” although I’m sure it’s been done but I won’t go look for it. There are some Beatles songs I want left alone. Being AI I’m sure they may stray from some of the less “poppier” songs, if you will.
St. Lucia, I didn’t mean ALL their songs (hard to generalize with The Beatles since they’ve recorded over 300), but I’d say the common thread to the large majority of their songs is that you could teach them to a 3 year old and he could sing them so others could recognise them. Doesn’t mean he’d sing them well, but really their songs are to me the best pop music ever written- even most of their latter stuff. Pop fused with 1,001 other jenres, but still pop. Even the full orchestra songs you could play with 4-5 chords on guitar and it would still sound OK.
~I’ll be happy if I never hear someone do a cover of “I am the walrus” although I’m sure it’s been done but I won’t go look for it~
You never heard Oasis’ full-on distortion version then, have you? That’s a good thing LOL It’s AWFUL
I’m in, beer’s poured. WOOHOO drink everytime you hear “17″
I for one am glad McBoobies isn’t on tonight. I was forced to listen to her for an entire season & that was more than enough for me
I missed the first few minutes! lost track of time! Missed the initial song of “I saw her standing there!” We know there is 17 in that song, and well, that means one shot, and to error on the side of caution….I say there has been two 17’s!
Drink up!
Wow! That’s a massive drop. They lost almost a quarter of their viewers. I do hope they make the right changes next year to get the show back on track.
so whos going to win???
Amen! I’m not watching AI6 after tonight either! Hrmmph!
I loved Blake with Doug E!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Brandon and Sligh made me yearn for a different outcome.