Seriously? OMG! WTF?

The long wait for Clay Aiken fans is over. RCA Records will release the singer’s third album, “A Thousand Different Ways” on September 19th. The project, Aiken’s first outing since 2004, combines 10 cover versions of well-known songs from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s with four brand-new songs.

The album is a follow-up to Aiken’s debut set, “Measure of a Man,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart and is certified triple-platinum, as well as the platinum-selling “Merry Christmas with Love,” the best-selling holiday album of the 2004 season.

For Aiken, the new album’s title has multiple meanings. “This is an album of love songs,” he explains, “but they are about all different kinds of love. Romantic love, Friendship, Unconditional love. There are a thousand different kinds of love; a thousand different ways to tell someone you love them. And, on top of that, since so many of these songs are covers, it’s realistic to say that many of them have been or could be sung a thousand different ways.” Aiken credits Chairman CEO BMG U.S., Clive Davis for coming up with the concept for the album.“When we first embarked on making an album, my executive producer Jaymes Foster and I started out with one or two covers, then we had three. We slowly discovered that it’s harder these days to come by songs that are as superb as the songs that I grew up on. Based on that, it was Clive’s brainchild that we take classic love songs of the last 30 years and pair them with four new songs. He is a man who not only knows music, but really has his finger on the pulse of what listeners want to hear.” Those who have come to expect Aiken to belt out a song won’t be disappointed. The album shows off Aiken’s vocals in a big way with songs like the Bad English hit “When I See You Smile” and Harry Nillsson’s “Without You.” But Aiken will surprise fans by singing in a more relaxed style on some tracks than they have heard before, showing a different, sexier side.

RIGHT HERE WAITING

Originally recorded by: Richard Marx

WHEN I SEE YOU SMILE

Originally recorded by: John Waite

WITHOUT YOU

Originally recorded by: Badfinger and Then Harry Nilsson

LONELY NO MORE

(NEW SONG)
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD

Originally recorded by: Elton John

EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY

Originally recorded by: Paul Young

EVERYTHING I DO (I DO IT FOR YOU)

Originally recorded by: Bryan Adams

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS – Guest Vocals by Suzie McNeil

Originally recorded by: Foreigner

THESE OPEN ARMS

(NEW SONG)

Written by: Jon Bon Jovi & Desmond Childs

BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME

Originally recorded by: Celine Dion

HERE YOU COME AGAIN

Originally recorded by: Dolly Parton
EVERYTHING I HAVE – Featuring William Joseph on Piano

(NEW SONG)

A THOUSAND DAYS

(NEW SONG)

BROKEN WINGS

Originally recorded by: Mr. Mister

I so can not wait for this album! OMG it is totally hot!

After being sidelined for three weeks with bronchitis and laryngitis, American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee stumbled backstage Tuesday on the "American Idol" national tour, fracturing her left foot, the New York Post reports.  McPhee, who joined the tour on July 28 after missing the first few weeks because her doctor ordered her not to talk or sing, tripped backstage before a show at the Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., the paper said. The 22-year-old trooper went on with her set anyway, according to the Post, singing two songs with slippers on. She was later taken to a hospital for X-rays which showed a hairline fracture. "She’s in discomfort, but she’s fine," a rep told the Post. "She will continue on the tour and is not defaulting." When the California native failed to join the tour on time a few weeks ago rumors swirled that the singer thought she was too good for "Idol" or that she’d had a bulimia relapse. She denied both.

The Showbuzz 

I am officially sick of her woo is me. Bitch just sing and stop injuring yourself because you are not getting any sympathy from me. 

So I am having a Daniel Powter bad day,  My home computer’s hard drive crashed, so because of that I can only blog at work and they want to me work. How like rude of them.
Anyways I needed somethime that would cheer me up and thanks to AOL I have a smile on my face! AOL and VoteForTheWorst got together and asked their readers what are the 20 worst performance on American Idol. I got a kick out of it and also plenty of bad memories. I try to forget Nikki McKibbin, but there is alway something there to remind me of her. That was one my favorite songs until she destoryed it. For the other 19 moments we wish we could forget, check out AOL TV.

Former American Idol contestant Elliott Yamin helped one special fan’s dream come true over the weekend. The singer, who was the third runner-up in the most recent season, spent time backstage in Richmond, Va., during the "American Idols Live" tour with Amanda Jones, a die-hard fan who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Jones, 19, from Jonesboro, Ark., tells PEOPLE that when she received her diagnosis just two weeks ago, she had two questions for her doctors: 1. Is the disease curable? 2. Could she go to Richmond to see the "American Idols Live" tour? "I had to see my Idol in his hometown," says Jones, referring to Yamin, a Richmond native. Not only did she make it to Richmond on Saturday night, but thanks to a connection through a Yamin fan forum, she snagged a backstage pass from a friend of Yamin’s who’d heard about Jones’s leukemia diagnosis. "He is, by far, one of the sweetest people I ever met," says Jones. "He was rubbing my back and told me not to worry and that everything would be okay."  Jones is such a big fan of Yamin’s that, in May, she camped out at Graceland in Memphis to catch a glimpse of him when the top Idol contenders visited Elvis’s former home. Now, she says, "He’s my hero. He went through so much in his childhood, struggled through so much, and in the end, he came out on top. That’s what I pray and hope I can do." Yamin, 28, suffers from Type 1 diabetes and is 90 percent deaf in his right ear. After a series of childhood ear infections and ear-drum replacement surgery at 13, "it just hasn’t worked right," he told PEOPLE in March. As for being able to sing in spite of that, "I don’t know how to explain it, because I’m not a religious person. It’s a gift." Backstage, Yamin signed Jones’s program, writing: "Amanda, thank you for all your support. I thank you for driving a long way to see us. God bless you, sweetheart." In return, Jones gave him a card and a LiveStrong bracelet. As she turned to leave, Yamin hugged her one more time. "That just boosted me up," Jones tells PEOPLE. "I forgot I was the kid with leukemia."

People

If history repeats itself every time he does something good Taylor will sue someone like Clay and Ruben. Record labels take notice. 

THE producers of "American Idol" are angry about suggestions in the upcoming Fantasia Barrino movie on Lifetime that they pushed her to quit because she was an unwed mother."Certainly, under no circumstances was she ever approached to be talked out of taking part in [the show]," "Idol" executive producer Ken Warwick told The Post. "We knew she had a baby right from Day One, and she was always strongly tipped to win the competition because she was so good. "I can absolutely refute that nothing was done, or even remotely suggested to her that she shouldn’t take part in the competition," he said."It’s a complete fabrication."The Post reported on Friday that the biographical movie – called "Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale" and set to air in mid-August – about her unlikely rise to the top of the pop music world in 2004, hints that the producers of the show subtly pres sured her to quit.In the film’s opening scene, a surprised Fantasia – who plays herself in the movie – is stopped coming off stage from the show’s weekly telecast and told a producer wants to see her in her dressing room.The "Idol" producer asks if she’s read the Internet chatter about her – that she was an unwed teenage mother and a high-school dropout and that she was not a role model as the next Idol. The producer then suggests no one would blame the then-19-year-old if she decided to quit the show."It’s absolutely and totally untrue," Warwick says. "I’m the executive producer, Nigel [Lythgoe] is the other executive producer and nobody – to my knowledge – would have said anything like that to her."In the film, the executive is not identified other than by a first name, Ed. (No producer with that first name is listed in the show’s credits.)The scene serves as a set-up for the rest of the film – a flashback to her roughshod upbringing in small-town North Carolina and the road to the "Idol" finals.The dressing-room conference comes back near the end of the movie – where again she is offered the option to get off the show. Of course, she turns it down and goes on to win the 2004 edition of the show.Fantasia’s representatives did not make her available for an interview over the weekend.

NY Post 

It is not like she read the script. 

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