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SleepinIn

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Local Band. :)

YouTube - Arkells - Oh, The Boss is Coming! Music Video

Well yes, for me, the issue was the singing. For the media it was about him kissing a dude, etc. and then became about the media bias (GMA, CBS etc.) I was more shocked that he didn't sing very well to tell the truth, than anything he did during the performance.

The spin is working though, that's why they call it spin. It will spin you from one issue (bad singing, mediocre song) to another (hypocrisy, bias) so RCA is doing their job with the spin.

And all the Much/Much More/Chum/Etalk interviews and talk about Adam.. they're all CTV, and CTV is an Idol broadcaster.... conspiracies.. I see them everywhere.. I wonder if this means CI will come back? LOL That would work for me.
 

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I vant to suck your blood, little good-looking normal unfreaky married person.

Oh, Ross. *sigh* LMAO. (you're cracking me up.... but I still love Adam too...this media frenzy is ridiculous... slow news week indeed
 

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Oh, Ross. *sigh* LMAO. (you're cracking me up.... but I still love Adam too...this media frenzy is ridiculous... slow news week indeed

Freaky is the new boring.
 

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A few words with the accidental 'Idol' - Music & Nightlife - MiamiHerald.com

I need some new music from Kris.

(That's a weird thing to say ... when I haven't really listened to his whole CD yet. I guess I meant live music.)

I'm having kind of a slow news day, myself. The weather here has been kind of lousy. Even though we got the day off after Thanksgiving, I spent most of it looking at the internet.

Not a great review from Howard Cohen for Adam. (Of course, it's not Adam's fault. Nothing is.) I have to give this guy some credit (much as I dislike him) for being a little willing to think. I don't know why he gave Adam's CD 2.5 stars, but didn't rate Kris's at all. Maybe he forgot.

Idol Watch | Review: Adam Lambert on CD not as outre as expected

Idol Watch | Review: Kris Allen, the kid's alright
 
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LISTEN TO THE CD! (just sayin') :p

I need new live music too. Bring on Disney I say - and the Jingle Ball's, and Kissmass Bashes, and.. the one I really want the AOL sessions. And then the tour!
 

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I need to listen to the CD in the car. Unfortunately the CD player in the car is no more. Do you have any new favorites?

I can't lie, I'm nothing less than depressed that Kris's album has fallen to #50 on iTunes while Adam is still at #8. Even the song FYE is doing better in sales on iTunes than LLWD, by about ten points, a complete reversal of the singles' places on the cart prior to the AMAs.
 
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Right now, I'm listening to I Need to Know, Alright With Me, and The Truth the most. I love the live versions of WAOMF and CSA more than the album versions so I listen to the Miami ones.
 

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http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1354164.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1354164.html

I read this and I thought "that's an article about Kris? I saw an article about Cook with the same title this morning". Heh. Cook must be praying that journalists would stop asking him about Idol. Some originality please, journalists?

Do you have any new favorites?

The question was not directed at me, but I'll still answer, LOL. Red Guitar. Red Guitaaaaar!! And Bring It Back. And Before We Come Undone. And I'm starting to really like From The Ashes too. Still love Alright With Me of course!

I saw Imogen Heap live tonight. Me=blown away. She had so many gadgets and instruments I didn't know on stage, it was fascinating. The sound was fantastic. I just sat back and let the music wash over me, it was incredible.
 

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OH!!! Red Guitar!!!!! How could I forget that one!!! I love it. And Bring it Back... lol.. and From the Ashes too.

Imogen Heap sounds like it was Fun! Small club? or Theatre?
 

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It was in a really cool (medium sized) theater. There were maybe 700 or 800 people there. I didn't really want to stand since her music is mostly mellow and I would have stood for like 4 hours, but I found space in the first row of the balcony, which was perfect!

ETA: Cook's tour has only four dates left (it ends next Wednesday) *sniff*. They're now more and more getting amazing reviews for the show, like this one:

In concert, Cook keeps things cool - St. Petersburg Times

For 80 surprisingly raw, rocking minutes, neo-grunger Cook and his four-piece outfit cranked out swarthy chunks of the singer-songwriter's 2008 platinum album. The live stuff turned out to be grittier and angrier than his way-too-safe studio songs, not to mention anything by fellow alum Chris Daughtry, who now seems lost in his generic rock sound.

From the opening one-two punch of Heroes and Mr. Sensitive, Cook and his mates were intent on scraping off the pop lacquer from his hits. For midtempo ballad I Did It for You, his normally husky vocal bordered on a growl; it hinted that Cook, as he gets away from his Idol days, could be more Foo Fighter than pop star.

As well as being one of Idol's more defiant winners, he's also one of the most likable. He has a chatty way with an adoring crowd, ambling on and cracking wise as if you were shooting pool with the dude. At one point, he improv-ed a snippet of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. ("Not even on the set list!" he mock-bragged.)

Cook is too smooth, too independent to lamely reproduce his Idol moments. At the same time, he knows he has a hot rep for re-imagining pop hits. So with cheeky verve, but an earnest energy, he uncorked a couple of offbeat '80s doozies: Cutting Crew's (I Just) Died in Your Arms and Johnny Hates Jazz's Shattered Dreams. He basically took a sledgehammer to those pesky one-hitters, but you know what? They were better for the beat-down.
 
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*checks that nobody is posting*

*posts a David Cook video*

*runs away with an evil laughter*

YouTube - David Cook - Died in Your Arms (Tampa)

(Without joking, the little girl in the video is Lindsey Rose Belcher. Her dad Charlie is a reporter for the Fox station in Tampa who interviewed David at the beginning of season 7 top 12. Lindsey Rose has leukemia and David talked to her during that interview, she was already a big fan! Charlie Belcher also gave David an orange bracelet that he wore during the whole Idol season and after. David met Lindsey Rose during the Idol tour and every time they go to Florida, David makes sure he sees the Belcher family. Touching story.)

YouTube - Lindsey Rose and David Cook

Interview after David's Idol win:

YouTube - Interview with David Cook and Lindsey Rose's Dad

ETA: Oops! SleepinIn posted! LOL.
 

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