Idol Me Blog

From the Blog of Chris Sligh comes this announcement.

Monday, we met with my agent at CAA L.A. and talked about where we wanted to take the career on the acting side of things. We came up with a game plan, and she in return set up meetings with several casting directors. I was encouraged because of her excitement as she realized that I had the energy and excitement to pursue both music and acting. We’re working on getting me into guest spots on existing tv shows, once the strike gets figured out, we’re going to be putting me into auditions for new shows, and we also are going to work on the film side…thus, the meetings with casting directors.

Yesterday, I met with 2 casting directors for major studios. That went incredibly well. I seriously could not be more excited that I will at least have the opportunity to audition and be considered for movie roles. Both of the casting directors commented on my look being quite unique and that, in this case, unique was good. In fact, there are films I’m already being considered for. That, to me, is exciting.

I mentioned this in a former post, but I’ll re-interate and expand. Most actors and musicians who never quite “make it” never put the blame on their talent, but usually put it on the fact that they never got the chance to prove their talent. I’m in a very unique position that it looks like I will get the chances in both arenas. It’s all going to come down to my talent. At least at the end of the day, if I never make it in acting, it will not be because I didn’t get the chance but because I just didn’t have it. I can live with that. When I’m old, I’ll be able to say I gave it my all and got the chances.

On another note: it looks like the winds are finally dying down out here Cali. For the first time, where I am staying I see some ash in the air, but I don’t see any smoke. So, I don’t know where it’s coming from. But all reports I see on the news show that the fires seem to be closer to being controlled. So that is exciting and hopeful.

posted by ChrisSligh @ 1:24 PM

Well… we are under going a make over you just cannot see it yet. We have been working for a few weeks on the design and improving the user experience.

We started with our “music directory” which list hundreds of artist and has information like there biography, songs, and videos. So far we have redesigned these pages and added a search function so users can easily find the artist they have been looking for. We are also in the process of adding a rating and comment system to each artist page. This process is almost complete.

Next is the homepage… we have made numerous changes here. Three major changes are:
-moving the forums off of the homepage
-focusing more on the members of our community
-adding an invite system for family and friends

The heart and sole of idolme.com will always be the forum… put for our site to grow we needed a better way for visitors to navigate through the site. There are many *other* features that are still in the works and once we get closer I will blog about it.

This is one of Michael Buckley’s (What the Buck) best youtube moments. He plays all four girls on the view… if you haven’t seen this before watch it!

Michael Buckley from What The Buck recaps Paula’s new show on Bravo Hey Paula. Michael is spot on like always and comes out and tells everyone how crappy *Hey Paula* really is.

The two guys of the “Rubinoos” are trying to sue Avril Lavigne and her co-writer Luke Gottwald. Tommy Dubar, founder of band the Rubinoos, claims that Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend” has a striking resemblance to the 1978 Rubinoos song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”

Lavigne made a blog post on her myspace page addressing this issue:

“Let it be crystal clear that I have not ripped anyone off or done anything wrong. I have never had to deal with anything publicly like this and surely never wanted to. I do not deserve this negative press and attention. I take pride in the songs that I write and appreciate the opportunities to work with some great writers and musicians.” more here

Anyway… doesn’t this sort of thing happen all the time??? I can pick out, just about, any song off my iPod and related it to another song in some way. IMO… the Rubinoos bad needs to let go and get a life.

Auditions for the 7th season of American Idol begin in San Diego on Monday, July 30, at Qualcomm Stadium. I really hope there is a much better talent field this year. Last season had to be the worst bunch since Clay didn’t win. Anyway… anyone going to try out???

San Diego, CA Mon., July 30 Qualcomm Stadium
Dallas, TX Mon., August 6 Texas Stadium
Omaha, NE Fri., August 10 Qwest Center
Atlanta, GA Tues., August 14 TBA
Charleston, SC Sat., August 18 North Charleston Coliseum
Miami, FL Wed., August 22 American Airlines Arena
Philadelphia, PA Mon., August 27 Wachovia Center

Season Seven of American Idol will premiere in January 2008.

Edit: Now that all the auditions are over did anyone try out??? We had a few emails a couple weeks back about how the auditions went. We will publish them in our blog but are waiting for a few more… so go ahead and email us.

Wednesday night’s results were not all that “shocking.” Mildly surprising, maybe, but given the show’s track record, it wasn’t completely unpredictable. Every season, an exceptionally strong singer will get the boot in favor of someone with considerably less vocal ability.

I believe Melinda was done in both by her consistency and her demographic appeal. America loves an underdog, and Melinda was never that. She never faced anything more than the mildest criticism from the judges, which could also have lulled her fans into a sense of complacency. And as accomplished as her voice was, I never found her all that compelling to watch.

American Idol is a television show, and visual appeal and showmanship play a major part in why people vote. The “power voters” who are willing to spend two to four hours a week calling and texting are much more likely to vote for the cute boy or the pretty girl around their age.

Is it fair? Of course not.

But no matter what Simon Cowell tries to tell us each season, this is not just a “singing competition.” It is a quest to find someone marketable enough to have a successful career in the music industry. A large percentage of American popular music today relies very little on actual vocal ability.

The history of the show also makes it clear that with each passing season, actually winning the title becomes less and less important. Isn’t it interesting that this season has featured a “farewell song” by last year’s fourth-place finisher? And that last night the third-place finisher performed, while the runner-up, Kat McPhee, has been nowhere in sight, and the actual winner, Taylor Hicks, was allowed only a brief cameo to shill for “Idol Gives Back”?

Melinda Doolittle will be fine. In the long run, she may be better off as an AI runner up.

March 11, 2007

“The horribly bearded Sundance Head was booted from “American Idol” last night — and today he admits there’s one cocky SOB left in the bunch.”

The rejected singer was on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM morning show, where he said one of the guys remaining on the show — whose name he wouldn’t mention — thinks he already has the competition in the bag.

Blake Lewis: The most pop-friendly contestant, he might sneak through and win it all. And he’ll beatbox his acceptance speech.

Normally I don’t like play the “I Told You So” game but, Here is an excerpt from my March 27th blog stating my preference……….

My Final two

If American Idol wants to redeem the down year of competition they have created, they will find a way to get “My final two Picks” on the next to last show. Blake and Jordin represent the only two fresh and innovative voices left in the whole competition. In my opinion, these two have the biggest upside of all of the final 10. I believe that the two of them will be the most financially successful of the remaining contestants.

Tuesday, Jordin chose to do a No Doubt’s Hey Baby. She is a beautiful young lady with potentially the best voice of the show. She seemed to really be having fun with the song. Every week she gains more confidence, and if I am correct, will peak at just the right time in the finals and win the whole thing.

Blake, my dark horse to win A.I. did a good R&B version of the Cure’s Love Song. I thoroughly enjoyed his spin on one of my all time favorite songs. Blake along with Jordin have grown each week and are by far the most unpredictable of the remaining 10. These two are my final two standing. With Jordin Sparks your winner.

I TOLD YOU SO

FRANCIS L.

Thank You Randy Johnson

For some inexplicable reason, after 11 weeks of imprisonment by Fox, The Much Pimped “Back Up Singer” was unable to remember that Randy’s last name is Jackson. After being told by the Governor of Tennessee that Randy had chosen Whitney Houston’s, “I Believe in You and Me” to sing she looks right into the camera and says, “Thank You Randy Johnson.”
( I replayed it 5 times )

I was not aware of “The Back Up Singer’s” Love of baseball.

This scenario pretty much defined the entire evening’s demeanor.

The Back-up singer’s other songs for the evening included the Producers pick, “Nut Bush City Limits.”

For the second time this season we are asked to suspend our sense of reality and pretend that “The Back Up Singer” has the bravado to pull off a Sex laden Tina Turner Classic.

She doesn’t.

There is no raw sexuality. There is no emotionally charged dancing/stage presence, unless you accept “The Back Up Singer’s” patented “Grapes Into Wine Stage Stomping” as dancing.

Her final Favorite song choice was “I’m a Woman.” Barely.

Over all she did what she always does, performs a well rehearsed forgettable back up routine.

But there was an upside moment…She did get a parking lot named after her.

My Favorite Song Of All Time

“Come On I’m Only Seventeen!”

A question for Jordin from “Bailey” from North Carolina, “What is your favorite song of all time”?
Answer…..MMM Bopp by Hanson.

The time 7:24 CDT.

Then when it came time for her to pick “Her Favorite” to perform, Jordin chooses

“I Who Have Nothing.” The Time 7:44 CDT

MMM Bopp?

Standing pat, and not wanting to take any chances, Sparks delivers a deja vu performance. I want to say that one of her performances was spectacular, goose bump producing, a real wow moment.

There were none tonight.

She worked kinda hard for her money.

This performance was by far her worse of the evening. She was consistently behind the music, she was screechy and all over the place vocally. But because it is so late in the competition, the judges cannot say overly negative comments now because these are the singers that they have been pushing hard now for weeks.

My earlier predictions of her as the runaway winner, I fear, will have to be readjusted.

Her upside moment of the evening…a plaque at the bottom of an escalator

Roxanne

Proving that he is destined to endure a career for all of eternity in Pop Music Hell, it’s only fitting that Paula would pick a song about a prostitute for Blake to sing tonight, can you say Freudian slip? Blake does a credible impersonation of

The other songs….Moron 5? and Robin Thicke?
Please Blake, make the pain of an old man stop!!!

So unless Fox decides that they want to really create a ratings coo for next weeks finale by “Fixing” the vote and jettisoning one of the women ( Which would be sweet ),

It appears that your finale will have two big breasted females in it.

Francis L.