Month: April 2006

How a Hit Almost Failed its Own Audition Here is a long, interesting, New York Times article excerpted from NYT’s media writer,  Bill Carter’s new book, “Desperate Networks.”  The article describes how American Idol was turned down

Song Spoiler Update: About the tentative track list for the American Idol Season 5 CD–I’m hearing that the track list for the CD is correct.  But that,  even though the contestants were told they could pick

Early Song Spoiler Via Gray Charles and emily (here in the comments section).  The spoiler came via a Detroit radio station. 96.3 FM in Detroit. Taylor Hicks Top 10 Billboard song selection will be:  Bon Jovi’s “Who Says

Tentative Track List and release date for American Idols Season 5 CD This list was originally posted at the americanidol.com official forums (and then idolforums and then the comments section here.  thank you sarah) This track list HAS NOT been

Kellie’s Korner Interview with Kellie Pickler from MTV.com: About “butchering” her last two performances, “I mean, 30 or 40 million people are watching each week and they see your performance and they see you’ve messed up.

Corrections and clarifications to my recap from last night.  …mostly thought Kat or Kellie was a goner should have read  …mostly thought Kat or Paris was a goner.  That mistake has been corrected. Kellie and Paris were in

So sawry if I ruined the surprise for anyone on the West coast by posting the name of the eliminated contestant right after the East coast Results show.  I post spoilers here.  And posting the

Kellie Pickler Eliminated. My prediction for tonight was wrong, and I couldn’t be happier.  It was time for Kellie to leave.  I’ll be back later with a recap…

Nigel Lythgoe’s Weekly Interview with TVWeek.com. The interviewer said it was a “tough show last night” and that “the singers sort of struggled.  Nigel shot right back, “I totally disagree with you…I think it was one

News Roundup Simon Sez Here’s an interesting interview with Simon from the NY Post: “And for Cowell, ‘Idol’ almost ended after the last season. For the last two seasons, behind the scenes ‘there was a horrible tenseness