Last week ABC announced that were bringing American Idol back for a 16th season after it only being off the airwaves for just a season. Today, they announced their first judge and it is Katy Perry. She needs them more than they need her because her career is tanking. Her last few songs have been failures and now she is going on a World tour. It used to be if you did Idol, it helped your sales, but I don’t think people will tune in for her. Yes, she is a name, but she is not well liked. In addition, she screams desperation. It is going to be all about her and she will talk over everyone. She is just so last Friday night.
And that is one of the problems Fox had with Freemantle and the show. Fox wanted a new panel for season 15, but Chairmen & CEOs, Fox Television Group, Dana Walden said they wouldn’t do it. Then she elaborated why they wouldn’t do it and the consequences, “They felt it took a long time to find the chemistry that existed with Jen and Harry and Keith. They ultimately said to us they would rather rest the show after this season than make any changes and try out a different panel and we respected that. That’s when we decided to call it the Farewell Season.”
She was right, and Freemantle was wrong. The Voice knows how to pick they type of Coaches that people like and will tune in for, while Idol did not and seems does not. I mean Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban was so turn of the Century and Harry Connick Jr was so last Century. And that is why their ratings plummeted 70% in the last 4 years. Because of the declining ratings, Fox asked them to make some trims and they wouldn’t.
Fox also feels that it is too early to bring back the show per their research and fan boards. Fox wanted to wait until 2020, but on the conference call Walden said that Freemantle wanted to bring it back now. Walden’s theory on why they might have rushed to get it back on the air so quickly is because as she explained, “Then I think probably all of you saw RTL’s earnings call last week. They lost revenue from not having this show on in the U.S. That’s meaningful, when you’re running a public company.”
All in all Walden felt during their initial meetings that, “…it would be extremely fraudulent to bring the show back quickly, that our fans would not appreciate being told one thing and then have the show brought back right away. We and Fremantle just had very different points of view.” Come Spring of 2018, I am sure ABC is going to feel the same way as Fox.
How do you feel about American Idol coming back in 2018? How do you feel about Katy Perry as a judge?
For years, Katy Perry had the same hairstyle, but with different colors. Today on Ellen she tells Ellen DeGeneres there is one color her hairdo couldn’t handle, and that shade is the one she was born with.
About a month ago, the California Gurl tried out the Justin Bieber/Miley Cyrus cut and dyed her blonde. Only problem is she went too blonde and her hair started to fall out. Therefore, she did the only thing she could do and got the Ellen.
She says that people like it, to her face I am assuming, because I don’t think it works with her face. Or the beauty of her face as she says what people tell her.
Now we can discuss the rumors of her going to American Idol. If they want the show to be a hit, then I think they need to look for someone else. She will be like J-Lo all over again. She is a good name on paper, but people don’t like her. She tries too hard and that gets so annoying real fast. Especially if you are going to have to listen to her 3 hours every week.
Katy Perry posed for Vogue in an I-don’t-know-what-type-of outfit, and she asked for help to get herself out it. Would you help her? I know, I would not. Ten years ago, maybe. Today, not so much.
Throughout his reign of hosting The Late Late Show, James Corden has taken the lyrics of singers like Lady Gaga and Beyonce and turned them into a script for a Soap Opera. Yesterday, he used the words that come out of Katy Perry’s mouth, and made it the best one yet!
If you didn’t know they were her lyrics, you would swear those were real lines of dialogue. They are that believable. It could also be because that be piece of work I have ever seen Claire Danes do. She should give comedy a try because she has the chops for it. The only thing missing was her doing her ugly cry. When it comes to Christine Baranski and Jack McBrayer, we already know they can do comedy and drama, so this was perfect for them.
Seriously though, how much did you love the Days of our Katy Perry? It made my world turn because it was such a guiding light.
Over the weekend, Katy Perry spoke at the Human Rights Campaign Gala Dinner and she revealed that she did more than she did in the title of her first hit. The Pop singer talked about her lyrics, “For instance, I kissed a girl and I liked it. Truth be told, A. I did more than that.” Then she continued on with her speech, “But B. How was I going to reconcile that with a Gospel singing girl raised in youth groups that were pro conversion camps. What I did know I was curious and even then I knew sexuality wasn’t as black and white as this dress [I am wearing.]”
That is why when she released her song in 2008, she knew she started conversation that people were singing along with to this day.
As she kept on revealing stuff about her very religious upbringing, she says that she would, “Pray the Gay away,” at the Jesus camps. Then she met people who were outside her bubble and they popped what she knew.
Now she wants equality for all. She told people to listen to the little voices in our head and not the ones on their televisions and other bad influences to you.
Who knew she was so deep? I always thought of the California Gurl as just Pop manufacturing, but turns out she is more than that. Now, let’s hope she keeps talking and getting the word out there through her music that everyone is free to love whomever they want to love.
