Idol Bits and Pieces for 08/27/09
According to JoesPlace blog, Michael Castro, Jason Castro’s little brother, got a golden ticket from the judges during the Dallas Season 9 auditions this week. He advanced to Hollywood last year too, making it all the way to the last day of the round. We’ll see if he makes it further this year…
Season 6 Idol Chris Sligh just twittered: “1 of the biggest male country artists put my song “Wouldn’t Change a Thing” on hold! Follow up to Flatts? Here’s hoping!” Chris wrote a Top 10 country hit for Rascal Flatts, “Here Comes Goodbye”. You can listen to “Wouldn’t Change a Thing” on Chris’s MySpace page. Chris is on the verge of announcing a record deal with a major label…
Daughtry will be one of the guests on producer, Timbaland’s next album, Shock Value II according to this website. Other collaborators include: Estelle, Danjahandz, Keri Hilson, The Jonas Brothers, Hollywood Undead, Jim Beanz, Amar, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Usher, Chris Brown, Missy Elliott, Drake, The Neptunes, Sebastian’ ¦.
Oprah protege, Charice announced on twitter that she recorded a duet with David Archuleta for his upcoming Christmas Album, Christmas from the Heart, due out this fall…
Carly Smithson and her new band, We Are the Fallen (made up of ex-Evanescence members) are busy writing, recording and getting ready to tour. Check out a short snip of the band performing an acoustic version of their first single, Bury Me Alive, HERE. Carly twitters that the songs she was working on as a solo earlier will be incorporated into the band…
Is Carrie Underwood adding some beats to her next album? Engineer, Ann Mincieli recently twittered, “Working with Max Martin and Carrie Underwood in the Studio today!! Tracked Lap N Steel and Banjo!! I got the most UNIQUE Guitar TONES!!!” And R&B star, Ne-Yo twittered to a Carrie fan who asked “On a scale of 1-10, what’s the possibility of seeing your writing work on Carrie Underwood’s upcoming album?” He answered, “Just wrote for Carrie’s album so hopefully- 10.”
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What Charice lacks really is VOCAL SUBTLETY. She tends to depend on vocal bombast to impress the audience.
Doing is a duet is really going to be different and I hope she has matured enough to tone it down.
Ade is hot what are you talking about? LOL. I was so crushed he didn’t make it into the finale. Although I didn’t vote once…but still, boo.
I think its because that style of singing is what got her the attention in the first place. But I do believe she’s fully capable of subtlety, maybe she just doesn’t choose to showcase it often.
Indeed. And I think DA and Charice are going to make one heck of a duet together. Some people are just born with special talent and ability and appear almost destined to rise to stardom. (Hopefully I haven’t overstated, lol)
Interesting about the Carrie collaboraters. She probably wants songs for Top 40 and Country
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Re: David-Charice – I was coming in to say that “ooohh…some Pinoy Archie fans aren’t going to like that!” and then I see FB saying this…
LOL (Hello, fearbear!
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Initially, I didn’t think Archie and Charice were a good match, either, but since I happen to like Charice (her voice once made me pay attention to the TV when she was still competing in a local kids’ singing competition and I have seen her live in concert a couple of times; she can be subtle, and she sounds lovely then), I am willing to give this duet a chance. :p
(I’m not too fond of the Michael Castro, either.)
^^^”What Charice lacks really is VOCAL SUBTLETY. She tends to depend on vocal bombast to impress the audience.”
WORD. Im not a fan of Charice’s singing style…I find it too loud and annoying…but Im very happy for her success!