During last night’s results show, three lucky (some would say very lucky) singers made it to the finals. Some of our predictions from yesterday came true and some did not. It seems that America loves an underdog (a Michael Sarver, if you will) and last night’s Michael Sarver was, inexplicably, Kris Allen. We did not [...]
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Alexis Grace Has An Alter Ego, “Miss Grace”
Alexis Grace has only been in the limelight for a few weeks, but she’s already taken one of the trappings of singing stardom: an alter ego. In the tradition of Mimi, Dita, Damita Jo and Sasha Fierce, Grace told reporters in a conference call that while she’s a buttoned-down mom behind the scenes (“I’m a [...]
American Idol Recap: 5 Moments We Loved
72 contestants divided between four horribly-carpeted hotel holding rooms awaited their fate on American Idol last night. It was such an uneventful episode that even Simon Cowell decided to bail early to “catch a flight to London” — as if the guy doesn’t have his own jet that he can schedule whenever he wants. We [...]
American Idol Recap: We’re in Hollywood, baby!
In an introduction straight out of Eight Mile, Ryan tells us that these 147 American Idol hopefuls, whittled from a cast of thousands, only get one shot, one chance to show America what they’ve got. It’s Hollywood Week at Idol and that means we’ve got to seriously narrow our contestant stereotypes down – only one [...]
