If you haven’t heard, Nigel Lythgoe did an interview with The Associated Press last week in which he said not much would change this year on American Idol. It’s easy to read both good and bad into that statement. Bad: We’re stuck with the same judging panel of Steven Tyler, who never saw a finals…
Add Vonzell Solomon to the list of American Idol contestants who have taken to the Internet to raise money to finance an upcoming CD. Vonzell has a campaign to raise $20,000 under way on IndieGoGo. Here’s the link for more information. Don’t remember Vonzell? She was the third-place finisher back on season four of Idol,…
On American Idol Season 10, James Durbin was the contestant you just could not root against. I mean, he had a compelling back-story. He had overcome Asperger and Tourette syndromes. He had a young son named Hunter he could barely keep in diapers. But he wasn’t just a good back-story. He had the vocal talent…
The X Factor contestants are faced with another double elimination this week. Based on my elementary math skills, I think this will be the last double elimination needed to cut the field of contestants to just two for the show’s final performance episode (Dec. 21). And, based on what’s happened on The X Factor UK,…
Fans of American Idol have a chance to support the show through the People’s Choice Awards. Nominations were recently announced for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards. Idol is among the nominees for Favorite TV Competition Show. It’s a category Idol won the past two years, even after Season 9, when ratings dipped rather drastically. So…
Scotty McCreery might need to practice his lip-sync techniques after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade flub, but he’s doing just fine on the music charts. After being bumped to number two on the country album chart by Miranda Lambert’s “Four the Record,” Scotty is back in the top spot this week. His “Clear As Day” debut…
Two of the final nine go home tonight on The X Factor. The low vote-getter automatically gets the boot. Astro, anyone? The second and third lowest vote-getters will get one last save-me performance to impress the judges. Not that the judges seem to have been very swayed by the save-me performances so far. In the meantime,…
At the end of Tuesday’s special Thanksgiving episode of The X Factor, it’s pretty clear Simon Cowell and company should be thankful for two things. 1. For any viewer who watched the entire two-hour episode live. We were more than 20 minutes into the episode before we heard the second song of the night. This…
When Rock Week turned into the train wreck Simon predicted it might, but won’t admit it did, I joked that the best rock performance all night was a snippet of Kelly Clarkson singing “Stronger” (aka “What Doesn’t Kill You”) in a car commercial. Well guess who will be performing on American Idol — oops, The…
If you missed the American Music Awards last night, you missed a performance of Daughtry’s new single, “Crawling Back to You.” Apparently, Chris wasn’t thrilled with the way the song sounded on TV. “Really bums me out when a performance sounds so good on stage, but the TV mix sounds so out of balance,” he…
