Will Underwood’s secret dress be for ACMs success?
It’s as if Carrie Underwood’s dress were a matter of national security.
Gaining access to the superstar country singer’s rehearsal Friday night required a few promises: no photos, no video and no describing the gown she’ll be wearing Sunday for the Academy of Country Music Awards.
But no one said anything about asking Underwood herself.
“The dress that I’ll be wearing during my performance is … ” she began to reply, then suddenly stopped herself, taking a beat to carefully each word.
“It’s big,” she continued. “It’s big. There’s a lot à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ a lot of dress.”
Choreographer Accused Of Raping 4
LOS ANGELES à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ A dancer and choreographer featured on the FOX television show “So You Think You Can Dance” was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting four of his dance students, police said.
Alex Da Silva, 41, a well-known salsa dancer who teaches at several Los Angeles dance studios, was taken into custody after teaching a class at a Hollywood studio and booked for investigation of sexual assault, Det. John Eum said.
Da Silva had been accused in 2003, 2004 and 2005 of sexually assaulting three women, but for unknown reasons prosecutors declined to file charges, Eum said.
Then on March 28, a fourth woman accused Da Silva of luring her to his home, using a ruse to get her into his bedroom and raping her. Detectives went back to interview the previous accusers, found similar accusations of being lured to Da Silva’s bedroom and sexually assaulted by him, and reopened their cases.
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American Idolatry
Idolatry: Hurray for…Danny Gokey?!
Plus: Michael Slezak and Dave Karger on Megan’s malfunction, Allison’s challenge, Adam’s lullabies (?)
Reasons to watch the ACM Awards: Miley Cyrus, Carrie Underwood’s ‘lava’ dress and more
- Is it time for the country women to take over? There hasn’t been much competition when it comes to awarding the top prize at either country award show. At the ACMs, Kenny Chesney has won entertainer of the year four years running and has won the like-minded award at the CMAs for the last four of five years.
But changes seem to be afoot in the country hierarchy. The genre’s biggest crossover successes in the past two years were women, namely Swift and Carrie Underwood. As for Underwood, she has a chance to make history. She’s nominated as entertainer of the year and is the first female to snare such honors since 2000, when the Dixie Chicks took home the prize.
Idol Worship: Megan Joy’s Chirpy Departure
Meganjoy We tried to contain our own joy when Megan got eliminated on Wednesday night. After all, she gave it everything she had, amused us to no end, and made an otherwise typical Idol season a little less predictable (with the exception of Adam Lambert, of course). But we breathed an even heavier sigh of relief after we heard Megan’s exit interview on Thursday morning. Turns out the tattooed tweetie was going to sing Phil Collins’ “Separate Lives” for next week’s Year They Were Born theme. “Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s a beautiful [song] and I was ready to show the world that I can belt it like the rest of them,” Megan told reporters.
Ace Young Sings Car-eoke
Former American Idol contestant Ace Young attends a celebration for the new Ford Fiesta on Military Island in New York Cityà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Times Square on Friday (April 3).
Still affiliated with Ford, loves it!
At the event, Ford announced that it will be giving 100 contest winners a car, gas and cameras to chronicle their travels for six months. Videos will be posted on Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.
David Cook
The week after he won American Idol last May, David Cook placed no fewer than eleven songs on the US singles chart – the highest number of concurrent hit singles since the Beatles racked up 14 in 1964. Since then he’s released a platinum-selling debut album – the lion’s share of which he co-wrote – and embarked on his first headlining tour of the US. As he releases his album over here, we gave David a call to find out how he’s taking to life as a popstar.
Julianne Hough’s Double Life
“Dancing with the Stars” pro Julianne Hough shows off her dancing moves during the week — and she’s ready to rock out on the weekend! The 20-year-old performed during the Academy of Country Music all-star concert on Friday in Las Vegas.
And it was also released to CHR. CHR was the primary, Hot AC was the secondary. As others have speculated, Jive may not want the secondary if it’s not getting the primary–at least not at this point in his career. Maybe down the line after he grabs the key younger fan base.
Besides, he’s hardly absent. He’s managed to stay in the press and in blogs. That may not sell albums, but Hot AC doesn’t really sell albums all that well either.
The Climb is also doing very well on CHR, as did Jordin’s songs, as did Crush. They’re not Hot AC songs, they’re CHR songs that happen to also be doing pretty well on Hot AC. Plus, #28 on Hot AC is what–550 spins? It’s a small format.
I think jive gave up on ALTNOY too! Zero Gravity should come out soon as a single! I’m a huge David A. fan and I think Jive is going to have a hard time promoting the other songs off David’s album. Zero gravity is much better suited for the radio and has way more potential for downloads and to do well on the charts!
Oh and I heard 1 of the other albums is a christmas album! If thats true the best schedule would be:
1: release zero gravity as a single soon (next couple of months I’m thinking may when David gets back from Asia and England, and the Philippines)
2: go on summer tour and promote on tour
3: pic another song or songs off album to promote
4: release christmas CD in November (it wouldnt take very long for David to do record a Christmas CD)
5: release new CD summer of 2010
-OR-
1: release zero gravity as a single soon (next couple of months I’m thinking may when David gets back from Asia and England, and the Philippines)
2: go on summer tour and promote on tour
3: pic another song or songs off album to promo
4: new album (not Christmas) released in the winter
5: Christmas album released in november 2010
Ew, so Top 40 in general is moving towards rhythmic? Where I live they’ve always been that way and I’ve been patiently waiting for the general trend to force them to play more pure pop and maybe even alt and rock stuff. Guess I’ll be waiting a little longer (and continue finding refuge over at HAC)…
I can’t stand hip hop anymore. It used to be my favorite genre but now all they talk about is girls and getting money. so useless :/
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Frog, heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s going to sing Works For Me and point menacingly at Simon while heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s singing.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
Only if he sings the same runs in the beginning as he did in Reno!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVBGcOhXfM
David needs more of this vibe on whatever song he makes next!!!!!!!
here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NToOjZhM_M
and isnt david supposed to have an song w/ miley when he is in an episode of Hannah Montana this may
This all makes me really tired. LOL. I’ve been gone for several hours this afternoon and see many posts. It’s all good!
here’s DA’s first singapore interview talks about snow, idol, weird things fans have gotten him, sing happy birthday to someone, gets fed some spicy chicken dish.
Another interview, talks about whats happened so far, like his journey through idol starting with getting signed right after.
part 1
part 2 (theres a little overlap in the background on this one)
Pics of DA in asia today
http://www.pacmee.com/perma/082673062435619340c2554105ab4b9bae5a4d23dcde35f5
I don’t follow the charts but I have to say that every station in my area is still playing Crush! Maybe not heavy rotation, but I hear it a LOT. I know it’s crazy but I wonder if they just put ALTNOY out too soon and it backfired? I don’t get VH1, though. It doesn’t make sense to ignore the followup to a video that dominated the Top 20 Countdown for so many weeks.