Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Wow, it must be couples week for the Season 10 American Idol contestants.

A video of Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart singing “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” was released Tuesday morning.

And Wednesday a new song from Paul McDonald and wife Nikki Reed of Twilight fame will be available on iTunes.

Nikki debuted the song Monday on Ryan Seacrest live.  It’s called “Now that I Found You.” You can listen to it below.

Nikki told Ryan that Paul wrote and recorded the music, and she wrote the lyrics on a flight back from Europe about a week and a half ago.

“Paul basically lives with a guitar strapped around his body, and he just walks around the house (and) plays stuff;  I’ve experimented with writing lyrics for other people in the past,”  Nikki told Ryan.

Coming from Paul and his guitar, the tune is sort of laid back, of course.

At about 1:30 p.m. (Tuesday), Paul tweeted that the song should be available on iTunes Wednesday.

Why the rush?

Well, Nikki’s just sorta, a  wee bit in the spotlight right now.

There’s the little matter of the midnight Thursday into Friday opening of “Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1.”

Ah, Twilight.

Tweeted Paul after the Monday premiere in Los Angeles:  “I have never experienced anything quite like a Twilight premiere. It was crazy!”

Now that’s something coming from a guy who experienced the Idol phenomenon.

As for their marriage?  Paul has changed his Twitter bio to this:  “I write songs and I married a smoking hot babe.”