Idol Headlines for 10/19/09
X Factor: Whitney Houston comeback questioned after live performance
The 46-year-old soul diva, who has fought a public battle against drug addiction, made her first UK TV appearance in 12 years on Sunday night’s programme.
She sang her single Million Dollar Bill, over some pre-recorded vocals, and suffered a wardrobe malfunction when a strap at the back of her long silver dress snapped open.
Questions were also raised about Houston’s physical condition as she looked drowsy and did not speak clearly when being interviewed by host Dermot O’Leary.
More Idol Headlines after the JUMP…
David vs. Goliath: Xmas edition
For the first and probably only time in history, Bob Dylan, the freewheelin’ 68-year-old rock legend, and David Archuleta, the lucky troll-like 18-year-old ‘American Idol’ runner-up, are on the same artistic plane. On Wednesday, Dylan released ‘Christmas in the Heart,’ while Archuleta issued ‘Christmas From the Heart’ last Friday.
Dylan’s Tom Waits-like gargle on ‘Winter Wonderland’ and haunting growl on ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’ sound like your egg nog-steeped pervy uncle. Archuleta’s gentle whisper on ‘Silent Night’ could easily be mistaken for Cindy Lou Who. But ages, tastes, fashion senses, political views and religious affiliations (Dave’s a Mormon, Bob’s a Jew who later got Born Again) aside, who is more full of Christmas spirit? The Post breaks it down.
Adam Lambert’s ‘2012′ ³ Song ‘Time for Miracles’ Debuts Early
Adam Lambert’s first post-Idol single ‘Time for Miracles’ made its unexpected full debut this weekend after it reportedly became available prematurely on the iTunes Store in Italy. As Rolling Stone previously reported, ‘Time for Miracles’ features in upcoming disaster film 2012 and its soundtrack, and the song’s music video was set to premiere before screenings of Michael Jackson’s This Is It documentary starting October 27th. According to Amazon.com, October 27th is also the day the song becomes available for download in the States, but you can take a listen to ‘Time for Miracles’ up top.
Adam Lambert’s ‘Time for Miracles’: What do you think?
Listening to Adam Lambert’s ‘Time for Miracles’ is kind of like watching a volcano on the brink of eruption. There’s a lot of bubbling and buildup and anticipation, all leading to the point where things finally explode in a torrent of heat and magma and glory notes. That moment arrives at the 3:30 mark, as Adam exits the bridge and tackles the chorus once more (with feeling), riffing magnificently over the melody as a tidal wave of strings swells up around him.
Q&A: Josh Steely of Daughtry
Josh Steely has spent most of his life out on tour. During his childhood he spent a lot of time out on the road with his musician parents. After finishing high school he joined a band and pursued his passion for making music. Years later, after taking a hiatus from his ambitions, Steely took a shot at an audition he says he was too old for and impressed a certain shaved-headed American Idol contestant. One quintuple-platinum, Grammy-nominated debut album later, Josh Steely, lead guitarist for Daughtry, talks about the band’s new album and being back out on tour. Daughtry will play October 19 at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka.
Jayplay: When did you first fall in love with music?
Hick’s Reinvents His Career Post Idol
He knows the rap he gets. Once “American Idol” ended, performers like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood went on to enormous recording careers.
Hicks, to put it bluntly, didn’t.
After winning “American Idol ” in 2006, his first album appeared in stores that December. The disc sold more than a million copies, earning platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Grease Breathes New Life Into Hick’s Career
Taylor Hicks took over the role of Teen Angel in “Grease” on Broadway in 2008. Then he went on the national tour, which is where you’ll find him through June. The 33-year-old “American Idol” winner is pleased with the role, which has been reshaped for his personality. Don’t think crooning and Frankie Avalon; instead, this Teen Angel plays the mouth organ and sings with a bluesy Alabama soul. Hicks even does a number at the end, offering a tune from his current disc, “The Distance.” The hard-working performer called – on his birthday, no less – to talk up the show.
Question: How are you enjoying musical theater?
SYTYCD Cast: We’re Going to Miss Mia Michaels
Emmy Award-winning choreographer Mia Michaels — who announced last week that she was exiting Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance — will be missed, her colleagues tell Usmagazine.com.
“It’s tough,” host Cat Deeley told Us Saturday at the Professional Dancers Society Fabulous Fall Ball in Studio City, Calif. “I mean, she has been a staple, but that’s not to say that she’s not going to come back at some stage. We all definitely admire her work.”
‘DWTS’ Honors Michael Jackson with Special Dance
This week’s episode of “Dancing with the Stars” promises to be particularly special, as all 16 professional dancers honor Michael Jackson’s music and influence during the “Macy’s Stars of Dance.” The segment will pay tribute with a medley of three Jackson songs spanning his career.
Cheryl Burke, now out of the competition, spoke about her contribution to the tribute. “Michael Jackson and his music are an inspiration to every dancer. As a performer, he was such an innovator that to be able to choreograph part of this tribute to him is an honor.”
Dancing’s Melissa Joan Hart Unsure If Being Paired With Mark Is “a Good Thing or a Bad Thing”
After a delightful Charleston that saw her jump nine points on the leaderboard ‘†the best one-week improvement in Dancing with the Stars history ‘†Melissa Joan Hart knows everyone else is gunning for her now. “I’ve got to watch my back!” she tells TVGuide.com, citing Mya, Kelly Osbourne and Natalie Coughlin as her biggest competition. “Natalie’s really good. She’s coming alive. It’s going to be tough.” It will be even tougher this week for the former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch star to maintain her top spot as couples must prepare three dances: an individual dance, the group hustle and a knockout dance (to be performed by the pairs in the bottom two). Find out how Hart’s handling her trio of dances, why she and partner Mark Ballas are like a “little married couple” and more.
The X Factor: how have John and Edward Grimes survived?
Last night’s episode of The X Factor raised a series of perplexing questions ‘“ who sliced open Cheryl’s slacks? Is Whitney Houston pop’s most inarticulate star? Why does Stacey have an orthodontist’s dream bite while singing and appear buck-toothed when she stops? – but surely the most baffling was: how did John and Edward survive?
The Grimes twins deserved the boot for their outfits alone: red faux leather suits that picked up the stage lights and reflected them back into the disbelieving eyes of the audience. Crinkling alarmingly around their knees, elbows and underarms, they appeared to hamper some of the 18-year-olds’ more energetic dance moves.
Rikki becomes second X Factor casualty as Simon Cowell saves Rachel after sing-off
Rikki Loney’s dreams of X Factor stardom have been shattered after he was sent packing last night.
The Scottish singer came in the bottom two with Rachel Adedeji, who was forced to sing for survival in the contest for the second week running.
Simon Cowell had the deciding vote, and said that Rachel’s rendition of U2’s With Or Without You was better than Rikki’s version of Westlife’s Flying Without Wings.
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Ouch, y’all are killing me today. Ryan Adams a) is hot (don’t judge, I’m hard pressed to explain it other than he’s my biggest musical crush) and b) has industry cred because he’s talented. Many people in the industry don’t actually LIKE the dude because he can be a total moody douche, so if he didn’t have the goods he would have been yesterday’s news before you could say Heartbreaker.
LOL, yeeeah no, not so much. I like his music because, well, I like his music. *shrugs*
I know right? It’s like Alien!Cook! His ears even look pointy. I’m pretty sure he’s been stubbornly growing out his bangs and wearing hats since the album dropped because he saw what the skeery airbrush people can do when his forehead is nekked. This actually works in my favor because I dig the whole stringy hair, beanies, plaid shirts, t shirts, and rumpled jeans thing Cook has been rockin since he dropped the Executive!Rocker!Dave look (see above reference to stringy haired, plaid shirt and rumpled jeans wearing Ryan Adams and unexplainable hotness.)
Re: Ann Powers and her alleged OTT Adam lurve….Eh. I’ve had a tiny girlcrush on her writing since she did this piece on Cook and proclaimed A Daily AntheM the best song on his album. For me for you, I don’t think she is in touch with her inner fangirl to the extent of a Slezak or Cantiello.
As for Adam’s album title…are y’all sure you haven’t been punked? I mean, an album title that evokes the image of Ethel Merman as Gypsy Rose Lee is so not in line with the futuristic photo shoot pics that leaked.
KrisAllen4Real Done with first day of band rehearsal. Sounds sick! Seriously you will throw up.
What? you didn’t enjoy it the first upteeenth times it happened? You talk crazy.
Meanwhile, I agree
I’m not a band nerd, but yes, points for trying and cute.
I’m reduced to begging. I don’t wanna beat dead horses. I like horses. Just not dead ones (or beating them).
Well, at least I’m not alone. I find his “normal boy” look charming, when combined with schmexy voice… (
I will not mention his lips. I will not mention his lips.Oh well.)BTW, I come from a family of large foreheads and widow’s peaks (if we’re lucky) or receding hairlines (my brothers). And dude, we all go way out of our way to cover up the large, all-too-easily-shiny brows. Even if it means something like my brother’s water buffalo-esque look that he had in high school. Boys don’t know how to cover up large foreheads nicely. They just want it covered. *EMBRACE* the forehead, Cookie. It’s ok.
TfM is on itunes
According to Planet Fierce — TfM is available in the US on iTunes!
Adam is punking us fo’ sure. Adam in puffy glitter suit on the cover and it’s all For Our Entertainment! That boy, he’s all about the lulz.
David Archuleta Short Hairstyles
Archuleta is basically a clean cut young man with a relatively conservative hairstyle. He prefers to wear his hair short, yet allows enough length that he can make changes in the way he styles it for different occasions.
One of the more endearing traits he exhibited on American Idol was the fact that he wore his hair slightly different for each performance. He managed to change his hair so that the style reflected the song he was performing in some way or the era from which the song was taken. He even managed to pay homage to Elvis Presley with the way he styled his hair for his performance of the great love ballad, “Love Me Tender”. One could say that Archuleta keeps his hair at a perfect length for taking on many different styles with ease.
CoolMensHair.com (several photos on display)
Maybe it is not re-run. Today’s playlist is not the same as the previous Monday’s playlist. He played his own “Come Back To Me” this evening.
ITA ITA
That picture continues to entertain me, I still giggle just thinking about it. So once again, truth in advertising.
I guess I need to brush up on my ’50s theatre musicals! I clearly have a blind spot that is very common for other people. Ya learn something new every day.
Seems Kris has enough fans in Singapore to bring his single in the first position in the hot 30 countdown since yesterday!! yeah!!!
http://www.radio913.com/songs
tfm on itunes us?
anyone watching the charts?
Why did that make me laugh? Is it the phrasing? I think Archie (little dude) is adorable, but for some reason… doesn’t his hair always look the same?! He’s too young for me to look at more closely without feeling guilty, so guess I can’t tell. Maybe I’m just tired… and extra giggly
KrisAllen4real
#Done with first day of band rehearsal. Sounds sick! Seriously you will throw up.28 minutes ago from Echofon
LOL – I don’t know if throwing up is the feeling you want to induce in your fans! I’m thinking he means siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick (TM Adam Lambert). And it’s cool that he has his band in place. Wonder who is in it other than his friend Cale
But what about the track list, Kris??? If the band is starting to rehearse, that must mean the album tracks have been chosen, Y/Y???
what!!lol
I hope it’s the good kind of sick. Is there a good kind of sick. Maybe it’s like when you go on a rollar coaster, you might get sick but it’s fun so you go back for more. I want to know if Red Guitar made the cut.
Cool! and he was number one in the Philippines as well, yes?
And this hadn’t occurred to be me before, is this just radio or is it singles sales as well?
If it is not #1 in 10 minutes, he is a total failure forever.
Sounds like Cantiello or Slezak may be itching to give some hints about that (if not the full list) in the next few days, based on their tweets
Seems that Danny was in great company this evening. From http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ascap-1061932.html
i checked one radio in the Philippines and he was #2 on the hot 30
http://www.magic899.fm/WhatsHot.aspx
as for the singles sales.. idk
Bored in school
If you want to track TFM on the iTunes chart, here’s the link. In order to change the time stamp and get up to the minute charts, you need to keep changing the numbers after the sf= in the web address
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/topsongs/sf=9487200/limit=0000/rss.xml
Right now, TFM is #727 on the iTunes chart…
whoops — it’s already jumped nearly 300 spots in 15 minutes — now at #461
tierbee – even when you don’t mention the lips, I’m thinking about them.
I was about to go all goofy about RS comparing TfM to Ryan Adams, but then I read through the comments and realized that I was hours too late, so I’ll just talk about how awesome I think that he is….
Ryan Adams is definitely one of my favorite artists. He puts out way, way, way too much music, which means that sometimes his best stuff ends up buried under the songs that would have been edited out of the album if he wasn’t putting out 3 albums that year. But, man, the best of his songs? Are great. [And then you throw on top of that the best of his stuff with Whiskeytown. Ahhhh.] I suddenly feel this urge to blast Magic, which is going to piss off my downstairs neighbor.
Um, unless I’ve turned into a 17-year-old girl with a whiskey-and-smoke-flavored voice and a mane of red and purple hair, then, no, Allison, you are not Just Like Me.
Still cool. I just remember the Tweet from this morning saying Kris was number one in the Phillipines. But still, number two is not shabby at all!
and he’s been #2 since a week on their daily top songs countdown.. not bad at all..
LOL, I love Kris’s dry sense of humor. It’s sick! Then what’s the step beyond sick?
I wonder how many are in his band and what instruments.
There’s a new video of Adam talking about his Details photoshoot.
Is he making fun of using the term sick? in which case hmmmm, interesting. Or is he just not getting the use of the word sick? in which case, awwww, so adorable.
Anyhew, Adam is working with Lady GaGa on a song. No idea if it’s for his upcoming stuff or hers or something entirely. Still he must be thrilled to work with someone he likes and admires so much. ETA: it’s a solo work for him and presumably for his new album. Hmmm. Well that’s cool I guess.
I think he gets that the thing to say now is it’s “sick”. He’s just being literal and taking it another step, thus the dry sense of humor…lol.
Or perhaps the first practice wasn’t very good, lol. But, I’d bet on the first use.
It’s a joke, a play on words. No band sounds good the very first day they rehearse together, particularly to themselves if they’re perfectionists.
i know. very dry humor.. love it!!!
his brother twitted his congrats to Cale, his bro’s newest band member. So it seems that the band formation has been going on since a little while. Someone twitted Kris to post a picture of the band.. that would be nice to see one
Like being so good people’s faces would melt off. I’m sensing a trend.
I’d bet as well on the first use as well.
Just downloaded Carrie’s song “Temporary Home”. It is a beautiful song. You can get it at Itunes. Type in “Temporary Home” and it will come up on itunes.
Any Clay Aiken fans who can explain what was up with his (bad) singing in that gala he performed in back in Sept?
I listened to the videos and was shocked by the deterioration in his voice. Surely this couldn’t be the same man who sang ‘Solitaire’ so masterfully?
Thanks, ozarka
The writer is very observant. Usually hair stylists on Idol try to match hair styles and clothes with songs. He actually keeps his hair not too short and not too long. I know he doesn’t like it too short because when he gets a haircut too short, he would apologize on tweets. LOL.
The pictures on CoolMensHair.com are good ones. He has naturally nice dark thick hair (without dyeing), and personally, I love his spiked hair with lots of hairspray. haha.
Kris did a interview this morning, there talking about it on twitter. He said he talk to Adam a few days ago. Also he well be doing the Christmas Bash in Buffalo. Said he’ll be singing some Christmas Songs. Talked a little about the cover art, and a couple of people that might be on his album. Nothing about his album songs that made the cut, or nothing about the music video.
RE: the interview ilovekrisallen39 is referring to
You can listen to Kris’ interview with BUFFALO KISS 98.5 HERE or download the MP3 from ONTD_AI
thanks leeann for the link to the interview. Hmm, Christmas songs, ok.. but want to hear the new ones
Interesting. Cook didn’t sing any Christmas songs at the “jingle balls” he appeared at last year.
Thanks for the Kris news even if it was a bit difficult to locate. I come here to see “Kris”news and I have to go to the end of YESTERDAY’S headlines to find any. What gives with Kris? Where is his publicist? they really need to be stepping it up a bit.
Lots of people may like Ryan Adams’ music because they like his music, but that doesn’t change the fact that lots of people “like” his music because they think they’re supposed to. The two are not mutually exclusive. Heck, I like Joe Jackson because I like Joe Jackson.
Why did you think my comment was directed specifically toward you? People take things waaaay too personally around here…and by “around here,” I mean the Interwebs…Yeah, I’m burning out a bit.