Simon Cowell is defending American Idol's first winner Kelly Clarkson over the whole record debacle. Here is what he told Entertainment Weekly about the whole situation, ''Kelly is not a puppet; she does not like to be told what to do. She could have gone the easy route, which is, you go with ['Since U Been Gone' producer] Max Martin — it's a guaranteed success. She made it absolutely clear that she wanted to steer the musical direction on this record. You just gotta say, 'You know what? This girl has given us millions and millions of sales.' You've got to give her that opportunity. If it works out, fantastic. If she then decides she wants to do a pop album, every good writer and producer wants to work with her. Because Kelly will be here for 30 years. She has one of the best pop voices in the world right now. What she sold in the U.K., Europe, Asia had nothing to do with American Idol. It had everything to do with the fact that she made a great record and she's got an incredible voice. She's not a girl who got lucky in a talent competition; we got lucky to find her.'' You know what he is 100% right. Clive Davis should be kissing her a$$ because she is his biggest current seller and no matter how different the sound of this album is, she is going to sell like crazy.
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I did not realize how many of my favorite American Idol contestants came from North Carolina.
BTW how amazing is the animation in that clip!!!
Former American Idol 4 contestant Jessica Sierra was arrested for felony battery yesterday for allegedly hitting a guy over the head with heavy glass according to AP. She was also charged with possession of cocaine and introduction of a contraband when police found a small amount of cocaine on her at the correction facility.
Bail was set for $11,500, no word if she made bail, what heavy glass is and why she hit the guy.
According TMZ, Paris Bennet called into a radio station and said that her a few other losing/loser American Idol contestants are voting for Sanjaya Malakar because they think American Idol is a joke. I am sorry she needs to get over herself. She was completely overrated and was a front-runner because Randy Jackson was obsessed with her grandmother. Yes she was good during auditions but she went down faster than the Titanic. I am just so sick of these losing contestants who bash Idol, if it wasn't for Idol they would still be at home doing whatever job they were doing and not recording albums. So she needs to shut up and deal with the fact that the album that she only got made because she was on Idol bombed because she was a one note wonder. BTW if I never her hear helium sounding voice again it would be ok with me. She is just jealous because when Sanjaya is voted off the show people will be surprised, unlike her when no one gave two sh!ts that she was voted off.
Now when it comes to Sanjaya Malakar, I do not think he is the worst on the show. He was not the one that I am wondering why he is still on the show, can someone please tell me who is voting for Phil Stacey? That guy just creeps me out and is boring as all heck.
Then you can watch every performance from the last 6 years of American Idol and rate them at Entertainment.Wikia! So you can watch the greats like Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson and Chris Daughtry and the not-so-greats like Nikki McKibbin, Scott Savol, Matt Rogers and Taylor Hicks.
I picked 3 of my favorite performances by my favorite American Idol performers to share with y’all! And now that I watched those 3 over again and several others from years past, I am realizing just how bad this season really is. In fact if you watch some of the other VFTW candidates from past American Idol seasons you will see that Sanjaya Malakar is no different than any of them. So go over to Entertainment.Wikia and enjoy your favorite Idol performances like I did! And BTW how freaking cool is it, that they put all the performances in one place??? Thanks guys!
