Shirley Halperin posted her report from Siobhan Magnus’ visit to the If I Can Dream House Friday night. Shirley had dinner with the gang, and you can read her report, which included a transcript of the twitter Q&A right HERE.
A couple of very interesting tidbits:
On why Teen Idol week mysteriously morphed into “Billboard #1 Hits”
Siobhan also r
evealed what happened with the ill-fated “teen Idols” episode. It turned out the list of optional songs were so poor, she said, that too many Idols were picking too similar songs by the same artists. “There was too many duplications of everything, ” Siobhan explained. “Two people wanted Jackson 5, two wanted Michael Jackson, two wanted to do the Monkees, ” and executive producer Ken Warwick “got really mad. He was, like, ‘Never have I had so many people want the same thing!’ So after we’d been rehearsing all day, everything got halted everything, and we had to wait for a few hours while they made a new list of songs. It had never been done before, but the theme was changed to Billboard No. 1 hits.” As for what Siobhan had picked out? Surprisingly, it wasn’t her favorite band, Hanson, but rather Lulu’s 1967 classic “To Sir With Love.”
I figured it was something like that. It was obvious there was some behind-the-scenes scramble when the Idols seemed so ill-prepared that week. Easily one of the worst weeks of Idol performances ever. I wonder if the gang would have been better off struggling with the crappy Teen Idol theme.
Sidenote: I tried to ask Paige Miles about why the theme was changed during the reporters conference call, and I was quickly cut off by by the PR flack…
Also, Siobhan was planning on singing Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”, “Sid Vicious style” this week, although I can’t imagine Harry Connick Jr. would have been willing to arrange the song in the punk style of the ex-bassist for the Sex Pistols.
Siobhan reports that the kids aren’t allowed to play guitar this week, so I can’t imagine they’d be permitted to sing these classic Sinatra standards punk-rock style. I’m guessing Connick will be arranging thes songs as he would for himself–with a straight-up big band arrangement.
- Read the Idoltracker recap right HERE.
