Hey, All You Visitors!!
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Hello visitors! I was pretty thrilled when I opened my traffic stats to see that I had 108 visits yesterday, 46 from unique visitors!! Yet the comment silence is... Weird! Should I take it as total agreement? I just don't know!
At any rate, in an effort to keep the page updated, I bring you some Idol Rumors hot of the BlogPresses.
- Interesting if somewhat irrelevant: of the 24 semi-finalists, 6 are from California. California feels primed to break the hold the South has seemed to have on American Idol.
- The average age of the 24 semi-finalists is 24.04 years old. Hat-tip to Reality Blurred for giving all the ages so I could calculate an average.
- NBC St. Paul, MN affiliate KTTC laments the lack of Minnesotans in the semi-finals.
- Rumors continue to fly that Michael Jackson will make a guest appearance on American Idol this season. I heard it first over at MJs Big Blog, and now legitimate news articles are picking up the same rumor. I have to say - WHY? The guy is, at best, ethically creepy and, at worst, a pedophile. MJ has flatly stated that she will boycott the show if Jackson is included IN the show. I don't know what I'll do if so - I'm hoping they just don't go there so that I don't have to draw my own line in the sand.
- Paula Abdul has "never been drunk".
- What's this? Former Go-Go's front woman Belinda Carlisle was offered a chance to replace Abdul on Idol? Reading further into the article you learn that this happened several years ago. Yawn. I find Paula weird at times, but I really don't see a need to replace her.
- Also included on the "my state doesn't have a contestant" rollcall is Alabama. That's notable only in that Alabama HAS produced a plethora of finalists in seasons 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Labels: American Idol, Miscellaneous, Rumors
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posted by RenaRF @ 11:00 AM,
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Idol Rumors
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
I'm excited about Hollywood week! I'll be blogging it, hopefully live unless an ice storm gets our power, later tonight. In the meantime, I've Googled blogs for some information about American Idol and have come up with the following information. Probably not new, but might as well make a record of it.
- American Idol might raise it's age limit from 28 to 30. Still excludes me, but hey - maybe it will catch up with me one day when I'm retired!
- Did you watch the Grammys on Sunday night? They had this big deal where three "hopefuls" (all girls) were in the running for doing a solo with Justin Timberlake on the show. They kept cutting to the three girls, smiling and huddled together. And people heard vague snippets of what they sang and were encouraged to text in a vote (I didn't). Robyn Troup won the right to get on that stage with Justin - and she sounded good. It has come to my attention that Robyn auditioned for Season 6. She wont' say how she did, and I can't find any mention of her in the Hollywood round spoiler thread.
- Simon Cowell accused of fixing American Idol? According to this very brief article, some unknown person or persons is accusing Cowell of "planting a British pop star who was once signed to his record company in the second round of American Idol". I'm skeptical. One, why fix it when it works so well? Wouldn't he have fixed it all the way through? And if so, how do you explain Taylor Hicks as last season's winner, when Simon was clearly pimping Chris Daughtry?
- From the "duh" files. Producers won't let American Idol finalists blog. I'm not surprised. When you follow the spoiler link, you find a lot of links to contestant MySpace pages. NOWHERE can you find a mention of their disposition with respect to AI. And I agree generally about not letting them blog or post during the competition. It should be about the singing, and not about who has a great blog.
Labels: American Idol, Miscellaneous, Rumors
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posted by RenaRF @ 10:20 AM,
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