Mar

4



American Idol fans were shocked at the end of tonight’s program when judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell brought back the screaming and overly irritating Tatiana Del Toro from Puerto Rico. Tatiana lived up to her usual self focused and bizarre personality by immediately thanking everyone a million times and being more annoying than someone trying to suck popcorn out of their teeth.

America made the right choice in not picking Tatiana in the first round of 12 out of the 36 finalists, but unfortunately, and to everyone’s amazement, the judges choose her to come back Thursday night for one more chance. Out of the 8 that will preform Thursday, the judges will then pick 3 to round out the top 12 finalists for the rest of the American Idol season 8. Hopefully Tatiana will be as irritating as possible and the judges will come to their senses. The girl can sing, no doubt, but she ain’t gonna make it with the personality.

So far we have those listed below as finalists:

Alexis Grace – A unique standout that will probably get some sort of record deal if nothing else.
Danny Gokey – The underdog and heartbreak story of this season. Danny lost his wife a couple of years ago. He’s great, but don’t know if he’ll make it to the top.
Michael Sarver – I like Michael, but he just doesn’t look like an Idol. Sorry…
Adam Lambert – Incredible voice, but the whole gay, guy kissing pics thing may hurt him.
Allison Iraheta – A killer rock voice, but a bizarre personality.
Kris Allen – Sorry, I don’t remember much about Kris.
Jorge Nuñez – Great voice and it will be interesting to see how he develops.
Lil Rounds – Lil could take it all, but I didn’t really care for her Mary J. Blige “Be Without You” song last night.
Scott MacIntyre – Scott has soul and puts serious feeling into his music. He does best behind the piano, but not sure if he’ll make it to the end.

And here are the wild card picks for Thursday night and what I remember about them:

Anoop Desai – Great voice, doesn’t look like an Idol.
Ricky Braddy
Jasmine Murray – There’s always that one young 16 year old that could steal the whole show. Maybe Jasmine is this year’s suprise.
Matt Giraud – Good soul voice and reminds me of Elliot Yamin
Megan Corkrey – Okay, Megan is probably the most unique musician on this year’s Idol and is one of my favorites. Watch out for this girl…
Jesse Langseth – Incredible confidence. Jesse will do great no matter what happens on Idol.
Von Smith – Incredible voice, but may not be the total Idol package.
Tatiana Del Toro – eeeeew, please don’t vote for her.

One last item, Kendall Beard put on a great performance last night, but I think America has enough gorgeous blonde country singers for the next decade or so. Kellie Pickler and Carrie Underwood have those spots filled up.

Stay tuned for the 8 wildcard performances and the last 3 of the top 12 picked from this group Thursday. My predictions for the wild card? Look for Megan Corkrey, Anoop Desai and Jasmine Murray to give us our top 12 American Idol finalists.

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Jun

4



Don’t fret about American Idol being over for this season because the American Idols Live tour is just around the corner. The tour starts on July 6th and at the present time is scheduled for 56 dates with other dates possibly added depending on popularity. You can grab tickets for American Idols Live over at eBay.

The shows will feature the top 10 Idols from Season 6 and will include:

Jordin Sparks
Blake Lewis
Melinda Doolittle
Lakisha Jones
Chris Richardson
Phil Stacey
Sanjaya Malakar
Haley Scarnato
Gina Glocksen
Chris Sligh

The 56 concert dates and cities will include:

Friday July 6 Sunrise, FL BankAtlantic Center

Saturday July 7 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum

Sunday July 8 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Vet. Mem. Arena

Tuesday July 10 Greenville, SC BiLo Center

Wednesday July 11 Nashville, TN Nashville Arena

Thursday July 12 Birmingham, AL BJCC Arena

Friday July 13 N. Little Rock, AR ALLTEL Arena

Sunday July 15 Houston, TX Toyota Center

Monday July 16 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center

Wednesday July 18 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena

Tursday July 19 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena

Friday July 20 Fresno, CA SaveMart Center

Sunday July 22 Anaheim, CA Honda Cente

Monday July 23 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center

Tuesday July 24 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose

Wednesday July 25 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena

Friday July 27 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome

Saturday July 28 Portland, OR Rose Garden

Monday July 30 Nampa, ID The Idaho Center

Tuesday July 31 Salt Lake City, UT Energy Solutions Arena

Friday August 3 Omaha, NE Qwest Center

Saturday August 4 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center

Sunday August 5 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center

Tuesday August 7 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena

Wednesday August 8 Moline, IL MARK of the Quad Cities

Thursday August 9 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center

Saturday August 11 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center

Sunday August 12 Auburn Hills, MI Palace at Auburn Hills

Monday August 13 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center

Tuesday August 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

Thursday August 16 Indianapolis, IN Indiana State Fair

Friday August 17 Louisville, KY Kentucky State Fair

Saturday August 18 Sedalia, MO Missouri State Fair

Sunday August 19 Des Moines, IA Iowa State Fair

Wednesday August 22 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena

Thursday August 23 Rochester, NY BlueCross Arena

Friday August 24 Long Island, NY Nassau Coliseum

Monday August 27 Hartford, CT Hartford Civic Center

Tuesday August 28 E. Rutherford, NJ Continental Airlines Arena

Thursday August 30 Albany, NY Times Union Center

Saturday September 1 Allentown, PA Allentown Fair

Sunday September 2 Syracuse, NY New York State Fair

Tuesday September 4 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center

Wednesday September 5 Worcester, MA DCU Center

Friday September 7 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center

Saturday September 8 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall

Sunday September 9 Washington, DC Verizon Center

Tuesday September 11 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum

Wednesday September 12 Duluth, GA The Arena at Gwinnett Center

Thursday September 13 Memphis, TN FedExForum

Saturday September 15 Huntington, WV Big Sandy Superstore Arena

Sunday September 16 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena

Tuesday September 18 Hampton, VA Hampton Coliseum

Wednesday September 19 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena

Thursday September 20 Bridgeport, CT Arena at Harbor Yard

Saturday September 22 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena

If any of these dates work for you but they are sold out, you can buy your tickets over at eBay. you have to register for eBay first.

Alan

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May

22



I’ve purposely not voted at all this season on American Idol so as to remain objective about writing this blog. Tonight I cast my first and only vote this season and it went to Jordin Sparks.

Jordin absolutely blew away Blake Lewis this evening. It wasn’t even close, especially on the last song, This Is My Now. Jordin Sparks will win American Idol tomorrow evening.

Here’s how Blake and Jordin worked it out tonight:

Blake Lewis – Blake opened up with his Beatboxing version of Bon Jovi’s You Give Love A Bad Name and he did a great job. Blake is great entertainment, no doubt about it.

Blake’s second song was Maroon 5’s She Will Be Loved and it was a little pitchy. (there’s that word again) Although it wasn’t that bad, I expected much better for THE FINALS!

This Is My Now was the third song for Blake and when I first heard it, I didn’t really like it because he didn’t do that good of a job at it. Then Jordin sang it and that changed my mind. It didn’t go that well for Blake as he was off pitch through most of the song.

I like Blake, he’s very entertaining, but his performances tonight showed why Melinda Doolittle should have been on the stage instead of him.

Jordin Sparks – Jordin opened with a new song that she hasn’t sung on American Idol and it was great. Christina Aguilera’s Fighter was he choice and, as the judges put it, it was stellar.

Martina McBride’s A Broken Wing was Jordin’s second choice and Randy Jackson said it was, “Better than the original” and Simon said, “Now that was good.” Is there any reason to think that Jordin doesn’t deserve to win the American Idol crown tomorrow?

Then Jordin sand the Idol Songwriter’s winning song This Is My Now and she solidified her place in American Idol history and will become the youngest Idol ever, at the tender age of 17.

So that wraps it up for American Idol season 6 tonight for the singers. It’s now in the hands of you America. I strongly urge you to vote for the most talented singer tonight and, that would be Jordin Sparks.

One of Jordin’s numbers is 1-866-436-5706. Call it and vote now.

Alan

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