We caught up with Katy Perry on the red carpet at the ASCAP awards the other night, an annual celebration for the people that pen all of your favorite pop songs (if you’re curious, Jason Mraz took home the Song of the Year award for his hit, “I’m Yours”). We asked the recent American Idol [...]
Former Idol Producer: “I Would Replace All The Judges”
There’s a chemistry on American Idol that makes the show enjoyable to watch, mainly due to Simon Cowell‘s authoritative and acerbic judging style, as well as his at-time contentious relationship with his fellow judges and host Ryan Seacrest. Former Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe thinks that once Simon leaves the show, the void will be too [...]
Idol Gives Back, And One Goes Home
Idol gave back last night and while the show definitely had it’s fair share of awkward moments (George Lopez and his whole tired “comedy” bit, Alicia Keys’ off-key-ness), in the spirit of the show, we’ll charitably overlook those and just say that Idol Gives Back certainly seems like a worthy cause. More than that though, [...]
American Idol: Big Lights (And Alicia Keys) Will Inspire You
American Idol sought to inspire us with a night of Alicia Keys (who, we assume, was chosen for this particular theme because she herself has inspired legions of young folks to move to New York’s concrete jungle, hoping to be made brand new). It was maybe one of the weaker themes the Idol hopefuls have [...]
American Idol: Straight Up, Andrew And Katie Got Booted
Oh, sorry, did someone get kicked off of American Idol? We were so distracted by Casey James’ Aniston-esque hair that we failed to notice anything else during the episode. Except for when we noticed Justin Gaston’s “Antonio Banderas-circa-El Mariachi” hair. And then there was Tim Urban’s Bieber-iffic ‘do. It was quite the hair show, for [...]
American Idol: Adam Lambert Wants These Contestants To Amp. It. Up!
On American Idol, the student….has become the master. Adam Lambert was back to school these nerds on how to swagger across the Idol stage to the best of their ability and he proved to be a pretty constructive teacher. At least, he wanted to improve their stage presence, and you can’t fault him for that.
No, Kara DioGuardi! No!
We’ve always been critical of Kara DioGuardi on American Idol because she tends to mug for the camera and flirt obnoxiously and basically act like an unpleasant person, despite her knack for writing catchy pop songs. Basically she rubs us the wrong way, which is why it grosses us out to see her pose for [...]
American Idol: The Judges’ Save Rides Again
Hey, you know what’s awesome? When American Idol goes over by two minutes and you don’t get to hear the judges tell a contestant who just “sang for his life” whether or not he earned the Judges’ Save. Did this happen to anyone else? By now we know that despite Michael Lynche (of that favorite [...]
American Idol: Lennon And McCartney And Cowell
“Certain songs shouldn’t be changed.” So sayeth Simon Cowell, referring to the perfect pop created by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that the remaining Idol Nine had to undertake last night. And really, when you hand perfection over to not entirely capable singers, it could easily end up being a train wreck. Fortunately, there were [...]
American Idol: This Is What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted
Apologies to our readers – we wear our age on our sleeve because we said that the American Idol musical guest on Wednesday would be Diddy. We had no idea it would actually be Diddy-Dirty Money. There is, apparently, a difference. That difference is two additional women, an all-white costume closet, and strobe lights. In [...]
