Australian Idol season two finalist, Hayley Jensen, has published a video for her single “Waste Away” on her MySpace page and I really like the song. I love the message which, she says, motivates her when she’s feeling down. I’m sure you’ll agree that there’s a real need for uplifting music these days. Check it out!
American Idol season 6 winner, Jordin Sparks, and season 5 runner-up, Katharine McPhee, performed at Macy’s Fourth of July special. Jordin sang “One Step At a Time” and at the end of the night, Kat performed “Save the Last Dance For Me.” I was definitely not a fan of what Jordin was wearing, but I thought both her’s and Katharine’s performances were great! What did you guys think of their performances?
Jordin’s performance:
Katharine’s performance:
*Written by Lauren for Jeanne Dupuis, who is currently away on business and attending the Calgary Stampede.
American Idol season 6 winner, Jordin Sparks, sang “Woman in Love” during Bee Gees week. She had some big shoes to fill since the original was sung by Barbra Streisand but she pulled it off and Barry Gibb even said that he believed she would eventually be one of the great female recording artists of our time. Wow! Watch it now:
I was able to go to the Faber Drive concert last night at the Calgary Stampede and lead singer, Dave Faber, told the crowd that, this Sunday, he would be in Vancouver making a video with Canadian Idol winner, Brian Melo.
I’m already excited! Dave said that it’s for a song that they have done together - I’m guessing they got pretty close while Brian toured with the band this past year.
For more on Faber Drive’s concert last night, visit Canadian Music News. In the meantime, you could always buy a copy of their new album “Seven Second Surgery!”
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American Idol star, Chris Daughtry, recently talked to Entertainment Weekly at the Hollywood premiere of Hancock (where he is pictured with his wife, Deanna) about Daughtry’s upcoming album: “I don’t want to put out anything that is second rate or be accused of going through a sophomore slump. So we’re taking our time on it.”
I think that’s a good idea. Too many artists have a great debut album and then completely blow it on the second one. I say take your time and do it right.
Chris also gave some hints about what we can expect: “It’s going to be a big huge rock album. We are working with the same producer — Howard Benson [All American Rejects, My Chemical Romance] — same band and some of the same writers so it feels very comfortable this time around.”
Daughtry is hoping to release the album in early 2009.
American Idol winner, David Cook, is planning to release his first album this November and, now, he might get a little help from the band, Hinder, who you might know from their 2006 hit, “Lips of an Angel.”
Lead singer, Austin Winkler, had the following to say about our Cookie: “I dig David Cook. He shows that the world is starving for a little bit of rock-n-roll. Hopefully we can write some tunes for him.”
Apparently, the band was in the audience during the Idol finale where they briefly met David. I think a collaboration could be cool and I am really excited to see what a David Cook album sounds like!
The members of Hinder seem to have a thing for Idol winners - drummer, Cody Hanson, had some extremely nice things to say about Carrie Underwood: “I love her. She’s my favorite of everything, and probably the hottest chick on the planet.”
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Canadian Idol season three winner, Melissa O’Neil, sang “Delovely” during the finale as her favorite song from the entire season (her choice). I liked it but I might have chosen something else if I were in her position (it worked out, obviously, since she ended up winning so what do I know?). Watch it here:
Canadian Idol eliminated four more contestants tonight. The show said goodbye to Lisa Bell, Paul Clifford, Jesse Cottam and Jessica Sheppard.
I was a bit surprised by some of it (Jessica!) and disappointed to lose my fellow Calgarian (Jesse) but I think I understood what happened with Lisa and Paul. Paul didn’t pick the greatest songs and Lisa has a great voice but needs to stop overdoing things. *sigh*
What do you think of the results?
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I didn’t watch Canadian Idol last night because of Canada Day (hope you all had a great time - I did!) so I’m recapping the second part of the Top 20 performances now. What did you think of the singing this week?
Adam Castelli was first up and he sang one of my favorite songs “Gone Til November” and I didn’t love it. Plus, there’s not a lot of singing in it (it’s like speak singing). I actually thought it was a bit of a hot mess.
Jake said that the passion was there but the song didn’t have enough melody. Sass said he’s really talented but she wasn’t feeling it. Farley said he could have made it more melodic. Zack said it was fine but it wasn’t a show-stopper.
More after the jump!
Have you seen the video for Tara Oram’s song “Fly Girl?” I actually really like the song and I think the video is pretty cute. The Canadian Idol singer also has a show on CMT which is a six-week series documenting life in the country music scene.
Watching the Idols: American Idol, Canadian Idol and More!
Written by Jeanne Dupuis [email] for b5media.
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