Hey, Taylor Hicks has got some new stuff up at Be sure to check out Taylor adding a new break-down ending to Hold Onto Your Love, wrapping his beautiful, bluesy tenor around lyrics about methadone and soul fires, as far as I can tell. You never know. Anyway, check out all of Taylor s rehearsals.
com appearances and don t miss You Are So Beautiful.
So Idol is accepting coronation song submissions from the public this year. That means instead of hearing shit like My Destiny from professional songwriters, you ll likely be hearing worse songs from people who can t hack it.
Hey, Idol loves an underdog, am I right? Anyway, Uncle Nigel (Lythgoe) has an Idol All-Stars show, where past winners (which, according to Nigel, would be Kelly, Ruben, Fantasia, Carrie and Chris) would come back to sing songs in the running for the final pick before viewers vote on them. Also, Uncle Nigel had this to say about Simon Cowell s much-maligned bush baby comment:
A bush baby isn t even a monkey .
A bush baby has beautiful, big eyes .I don t find it derogatory.
Hey, thanks, Nigel, for proving once again that you have no soul.
Want to listen to the full version of Elliott Yamin s Movin On ? Check it out at . (You can also find snippets of A Song For You, You Are the One, and Find a Way.
) If I had to find something wrong with the song (and you knew I would), it would be that, once again, I am completley unimpressed by the production. I learned these same three chords on my Casio when I was, like, six. I think the song is better suited either for a beautiful piano (the delicacy of the piano combined with the funky power of Elliott s vocals would be an interesting textural contrast) or a full-out funkified workout, but here it just kind of sounds like they fell short on the budget.
And hey, maybe they did. But you know what? Elliott s vocals are superb here.
I mean, we re talking nearly flawless. (Taylor reaches this level too with The Right Place on his CD, and Katharine gets her technically, but still soulless, impeccable performance on Ordinary World. ) But still, Elliott sounds much, much more interesting than he ever did on Idol, because I have to admit, while he was on the show, I never quite got his appeal.
But now I do. And I m eagerly awaiting this CD.
In Katharine McPhee news, takes the same tack on her album that most reviewers are taking beautiful girl, beautiful voice, one or two redeeming ballads, and the rest is commercialized crap:
McPhee sings darker and lower than her singing heroines, which allows her some individuality despite the conformity that surrounds her.
The multi-tracked McPhee stacks enough harmonies to be a one-woman Destiny’s Child. The instrumental arrangements around her contain the usual electronics that fill contemporary hip-hop and R B music, but the overall production echoes Whitney Houston and Madonna in their ’80s dance-pop glory. There are a few nods to Gwen Stefani and soul classic Aretha Franklin, too.
McPhee’s talent is best expressed, in fact, by the Franklin-like “Better Off Alone.” Otherwise, the marketplace rules.
"Sundance got lots of airtime, but he's getting the Savol Edit which is the opposite of pimping.
The whole artificial Tommy vs Sundance setup is a prime example- as though the judges went through all 40 contestants and the absolute last undecided slot for the guys came down to Tommy and Sundance, and they just *had* to choose between them. It's " "What in the world is this girl [Leslie] doing on AI? She should have already had a record deal somewhere.
Love her voice! To me she is like a and my love for Lisa knows no bounds. Leslie is the only contestant I give a crap about this season so far and that means that she'll be out before the top 12.
" "I'm kind of on the fence with Chris. I like his personality, but it might wear on me after a while, especially if the judges laugh at his jokes. From what I've heard so far, I don't think his voice is particularly special, but .
Also, he has a more interesting range of musical tastes than most of this year's contestants (looks like it's going to be R B week every week, regardless of the actual genre, so Chris might bring a welcome change of pace)." "I'm not that impressed with [Antonella's] singing. When her voice sounded nice, I thought her diction was poor, eg.
in her group performance. Although she was the best of the three of them, that was in comparison to Baylie, who was a trainwreck, and Amanda, who was Not Good. She was in The Chair episode.
" "With the success of people like Justin Timberlake, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this year turns out to be Blake Lewis. There's a lot of money to be earned for TPTB if an actual "pop" performer wins this time.
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