News Roundup: Clay Apologizes, Queen is Interested and KRADAM Lives
Today’s News roundup!
- Clay Aiken posted a blog on his website apologizing for his earlier blog that dissed Adam Lambert’s singing–based on “Ring of Fire” the only performance he happened to catch. He also dismissed the show post Season 3, criticizing producers for promoting contestants–unlike Ruben and himself, the best Top 2 evah!–who had some showbiz experience. Clay’s remarks made the rounds of the news cycle yesterday, so I’m betting he’s apologizing thanks to a little nudge from his publicist. He says if Adam is smart, he doesn’t care what he thinks of him, and that bloggers should spend their time paying attention “to important things like the US economy and the welfare of the world’s children.” Pretty pissy for an apology, if you ask me. via clayonline
- Queen’s Brian May tells Rollingstone that the band hasn’t offered Adam Lambert the vacant lead singer’s job in Queen yet, but says, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“[drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that. It isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t that easy. But Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢d certainly like to work with Adam. That is one amazing instrument he has there.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  The band recently ended a 4 year long relationship with singer Paul Rogers. May adds that he thinks both Adam and Kris Allen are “well worthy of big success” and is comfortable with Idol as a launching point for the careers of rock singers.
- E News reports that Chris Brown in in the studio working on a country song, and Robert Allen, a writer and producer working with him says Carrie Underwood is a possible duet partner. Did they even ask Carrie? I can’t imagine she’d touch that PR disaster with a 10 foot pole…
- AT&T posted some text voting stats in a press release: “More than 178 million text messages crossed its network as fans interacted with the country’s No. 1 TV show this season – the highest total for any season and more than double the 78 million messages AT&T reported last year.” The number includes text votes, plus the interactive stuff like trivia questions and voting reminders. Also, “More than twice as many AT&T customers played weekly Idol Trivia via text this season versus last.” and “The number of AT&T customers who opted in to receive voting number reminders…was 70 percent higher than last season; fans who opted in for vote number reminders this season sent nearly twice as many text votes than did the overall voting population.”
- Katrina Darrell aka “Bikini Girl” who got a 15 minute extension on her fame clock after her finale appearance Wednesday night tries to extend it even further in this interview with Radaronline. She says that Kara DioGuardi, who joined Katrina on stage for her “joke” (wooosh…right over Katrina’s head) performance of “Visions of Love”, is “a songwriter who wants to be an artist…she just made herself look stupid.” And the difference between Katrina and Kara? “I’m not 50 years old and I spray tan.” Katrina also thinks 100 million people watched the finale. Her math skills are worse than Kara’s!
- According to a survey, Simon Cowell is the celebrity most UKers would like to have as their Prime Minister. Kind of a weird idea for a poll, but OK.
- Adam Lambert and Kris Allen had dinner together after they taped Larry King Live last night. Aw.
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231 Responses to “News Roundup: Clay Apologizes, Queen is Interested and KRADAM Lives”
Oh yes, I’m sure they’re crying all the way to the bank. Clay’s dismal music and his big mouth are his worst enemy, not AI.
If Clay did have a point, it got lost among the whining and self-pity. He also hasn’t watched Idol in years, he says, so his opinion means even less.
It’s easy to romanticize the early Idol shows. Actually the show was always manipulative and deceitful, it hasn’t changed that much. There have been good and bad seasons, and even that is in the eye of the beholder. I loved season 7 and didn’t find it boring, while others did, and I thought this was one of the worst seasons ever, while others thought it was one of the best, so it’s all subjective.
Season 2 (Clay’s season) had boring contestants on like Carmen, Corey, Trenyce, Kim Caldwell, Vanessa, Julia and Charles. It was not “more fun” in my eyes except for the top 3, Clay, Ruben, and Kim Locke, who put on quite a show.
This season, the most boring contestants were the ones with no experience, the kind that Clay romanticizes. Actually Clay himself had made demos and tried to shop them around before the show, and Ruben was not without experience himself. This year, if Adam, for instance, hadn’t been on the show, a lot of people might not have even watched it, it was so amateurish and dull. Kris himself needed time to grow before he became interesting.
I don’t know what Clay is whining about because this year the show had plenty of inexperienced and unpolished contestants, even Allison fits that definition, so his complaining about the show being too polished is just hot air. If he had watched the show aside from a few minutes (which conveniently happened to be ROF, a claim I find hard to believe) he might have seen that he was wrong about all that.
Thank you. But make it 6000 instead of 1000. That is the real story this year, and I hope the media covers it. Because it’s unfair to people who don’t text and don’t have AT&T. The voting was always insane but it got worse. Nothing against Kris, but I think this needs to be looked at before next season.
You make some good points. But I do think the four judge set-up further de-emphasized the contestants and limited the number of songs performed. This made the show very boring to watch for the most part. The wild card thing was dull and the save for Matt was anticlimactic. The judges themselves seemed far more scripted and the pimping by producers has become ludicrously obvious. And the fillers–including the comedic walk-ons during the finale–are getting old. The show seems tired–and bewildered about what to do next to heighten interest. Even Seacrest seemed less confident about it all.
The one I quoted was fake (my bad!) but I think I was able to finally find the real one.
All you have to do is find someone who you 100% know he would be following and then spend three hours combing through their list.
I think Bill Zwecker, Sun-Times Columnist, is regarded fairly highly. That is where I first read the report about Clay going to the Idol set. I have since read it in other reports.
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/1568484,CST-FTR-zp12.article
It is based upon this, I think, makes Clay’s motivation quite clear.
Lie about his singing? What? He offered an opinion to a fellow fan. I do not know if that is a “lie”. Again–it was a nasty comment from a fellow Idol contestant about another Idol contestant. That brings me right back to ethics.
oceana–I could not agree with you more. This was an AT&T fiasco. I am SURE I will never participate in the voting again. I admit I love the show–but the voting is just a ridiculous corporate money grab. It put a terrible paul over the entire show for me.
AT&T products for texting are more geared to the younger audience, I am sure. But what about Ford, another big sponsor? It’s hard enough today for an audlt with a good credit score to get a loan for a new Ford–it sure ain’t the kiddies. I wonder if Ford is balking about this? Seems they should. Coke is somewhere stuck in the middle.
I, too, hate the 4 judges. 1 minute 40 second songs and then 10 minutes of yak. Dump a judge! More song!