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Idol Quickies: July 14, 2010

2010 July 14
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by TopIdol

Michael Lynche ate a pastrami & pepper jack on potato bread after tonight’s show at Mohegan Sun. But I think he was out of salt & vinegar Pringles! So Cool Ranch Doritos were eaten on the side. Casey James joined him. Last night, Big Mike did not record any sandwich eating and I was sad. (Side note: I will never again touch Cool Ranch Doritos, as all Doritos are gross, but it reminds me of this idiot in my BM camp who gave herself the playa name Cool Ranch. I still refer to her as Frito Lay. She moved far away, so she is not camping with us this year. Fist pump.)

Big Mike and company were likely tired from their big day of performing and pranking sweet little puppy dog Aaron Kelly (aka Aar Bear). He did enjoy a midday sandwich, which made me feel better, but its not the same. It only counts at night.

Screw Idol. I can’t wait to see Inception this weekend. It’s really the only movie I’ve wanted to see all summer. Have you seen the online prequel comic The Cobol Job?

Glamberts are turning their wrath on the American Music Association again. They’re mad because Adam Lambert hasn’t been asked back to perform on this year’s AMA show, which is apparently in the planning stages. This is the part where I decide not to say anything because its unnecessary.

Kris Allen went to the Paul McCartney show. And his face melted. I have no idea whether he and his friends bought a ticket for that stuffed E.T.

Carrie Underwood. Still married. And guess what? I still don’t fraking care.

Sandwich Idol played Mohegan Sun last night. Tonight, they’re in New Hampshire. I suspect they may be near Boston in the next few days but I know I will not be attending, as no one I know in real life would go with me (I don’t blame them) and it would require me to drive. Although I am not an alcoholic, it would be impossible to sit through sober and I’m not driving drunk.

from → American Idol, Crazies

  • mj

    As a matter of fact Deez. Yes you are banned!

    And, how did I know to come here first when the Kris trolls showed up in the concert thread?

    I’ve been meaning to congratulate Melinda….You know you’ve made it as an Idol blogger when you get you’re very own Idol tards!

    Yes that’s right. As a person who isn’t overly-invested in either Adam or Kris–I think they’re both very nice and talented young men and wish them the best, but more than that, don’t really give a shit–I see you ALL as Bat Shit Crazy. EQUALLY over-invested and a PAIN IN MY ASS.

    Don’t go thinking you’re better than anyone else, ’cause really? You ain’t. What you do here is no different that what goes on at my site.

    Year 2 of the Season 8 fan wars, and I am about to lose my mind. Truly and seriously.

  • magnacarta

    Picture gallery on Kris Allen France (yeah, I don’t know how they did it…) of the set of The Truth MV: http://krisallenfrance.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=84

    Those Manhunt dudes have heard about Kris’s ‘man-crush’: http://manhuntdaily.com/2010/07/kris-allen-jake-gyllenhaal-will-have-sex-on-an-island-2/

    • deez

      Good pictures! Is he hitchhiking? I wonder if he falls asleep on the bed and his truck turns into an elephant trunk, lol? If I didn’t know Cindy Vela was in the vid, from those photos, I’d think Katy was “the girl.”

      Towle Road has an article on that comment as well, although without the same degree of snark. Apparently, all he has to do to get PR is mention a hot guy’s name!

      • deez

        Arrrgh. TRUNK not TRUCK… can I not post even 1 comment without a typo???
        (better read this one over)

      • magnacarta

        I don’t know. My Twitter feed seems to think he’s having an affair with the tattooed guy for the video lol

        He’s also on that Jake fansite: http://www.imstalkingjake.com/2010/07/more-celebrities-blacklisted-for.html

        haha

        • deez

          Hilarious. Apparently, there is a spike in viewers now, lol.

          • magnacarta

            You mean this Kris Allen guy has fans :O *is shocked*

      • ross

        If you look at some of the pictures (like #26) you can see the rain starting to fall and the drops on his t shirt.

        • deez

          I noticed that too! That might actually have been pretty cool.
          (created a “mood”)

          • ross

            I guess it didn’t go with the “concept.”

          • deez

            Have you heard if anyone has figured out what that is? I’ve been looking at Dali paintings in an effort to decipher…but am coming up short. Lots of elephants, pomegranates, clocks, facial segments….I suck at reading symbolism apparently.

            I’m not sure how any of that relates to the song. Maybe it’s not supposed to!

          • ross

            I don’t really want to figure it out before I see it. It would kind of spoil the whole thing for me to know all about it in advance.

          • ross

            I don’t like how that came out.

            Hm. Dali? A lot of his famous paintings feature a flat landscape stretching into infinity. Maybe the clue just referred to the location.

          • magnacarta

            @ross: that was my impression as well. Dali is probably the ‘mood’ of this video. that Marco Puig guy likes some weird sh*t. He did a MV based on Clockwork Orange for the Sugababes… Dali is not that weird in comparison. I can’t wait to see the final result!

          • ross

            I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but it would be cool if there were some surrealistic special effects. I’d like it to be an interesting video.

            Some people are now saying that Aaron Platt (director of photography on Live Like We’re Dying) is the director, not Marco Puig, who Kris told Brian Mansfield would direct.

            http://www.videostatic.com/vs/2010/07/booked-kris-allen-f-pat-monahan-aaron-platt-dir.html

            Click on the “Hello” logo if you want to see some of his other videos.

  • muzikizmi

    Did Adam ‘fire’ Orianthi? Since he is selling out his venues, why would he continue to pay two opening acts? Since Allison is more beloved by his Idol bubble fan base, Orianthi is the logical choice to get the axe.

    • nerdgirl

      Orianthi, probably, had enough of the sparkle cows, can’t blame her. Poor Allison is stuck with Glamhell, I’m afraid. I don’t think it helps her sales-wise at all, since Glamberts spend all their money on Glambert himself. Plus, the type of music Allison plays is completely opposite from Glam-crap that Adam does. Not a good fit for Allison at all.

      • muzikizmi

        I agree that it is not a good fit for Allison, but the sparkle herd have convinced themselves that Adam’s disco-electro-pop is really hard rock. They even call real rock stars ‘corporate’ rockers, whatever that means.

        I guess they are trying to tell us that real rock stars have sold their souls, and that Adam has maintained real rock credibility. It is amazing to me, that the glamcows can convince themselves that their fantasy is a reality.

        Since when did the amount of dancing done at a show, validate the talent? There has always been great music that isn’t the least bit danceable. By Glambert standards, disco must have been the high point of popular music. It was definitely the most danceable.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          They’re still calling him a rawk god, huh?

          From what I understood, Orianthi and Allison wouldn’t be at every show, or maybe that was just Allison? Perhaps Orianthi got too expensive and the request to tour with someone else? Who knows. Or maybe they were planning on splitting dates all along?

          • Lauren

            That was just Allison. From what I know, Orianthi is only skipping 1 show and Allison is going to drop off soon permanently. :(

        • ross

          If Orianthi’s leaving, I guess the reason will be clear eventually. Maybe she has some better gig. Has she gotten any media attention from this tour? Even for an opener, it seems she hasn’t had a lot – considering she has a hit song, for instance. Opening for Adam, it must be hard to get noticed.

          I don’t know much about touring. Who organized the tour, and who pays Orianthi to be there? Maybe the tour is more expensive than they thought, too expensive to support two opening acts?

          • Lauren

            It is too expensive so that is why Allison is only getting some dates.. I feel like you guys know something I don’t because as far as I have heard, Orianthi has always been planning on staying for the whole tour.

          • ross

            You’re probably right, Lauren, there were just a lot of rumors yesterday.

            http://www.adamofficial.com/us/node/1625214

          • ross

            This seems more official:

            http://www.rrstar.com/updates/x1005404609/Orianthi-cancels-shows-won-t-play-Waterfront

            A press release from that venue said she won’t be playing and has cancelled the rest of her tour appearances.

            “Singer-songwriter and guitarist Orianthi has canceled her appearances on the second half of Adam Lambert’s Glam Nation Tour, which will come to Rockford on Saturday, Sept. 4, according to a news release from On the Waterfront.”

          • Lauren

            I knew she had to pull out of one show for a scheduling conflict but I think her canceling the rest is just rumor. Anyway, I sent Sour an email to ask her. She knows everything.

          • ross

            Okay. I don’t know why the venue would make an announcement like that, though. It’s a September show and they say she can’t make it because she’s cancelling the second half of the tour.

            Anyhow, ask Sour, that sounds like a good idea.

          • Lauren

            Apparently, she actually is leaving. Sour says it’s because they can only afford to pay for one opener and Allison has been getting a better response. Anyway, good for Allison!

  • Trish

    Had to post this before it is replaced with “NVM” in half an hour:

    poporange:
    07/16/2010 at 10:38 am

    Kris Allen is a nice guy and his tunes I think are good not enough for me to buy them. Just hit overdosed point on him on new for him on this blog not coming from the articles.Its July in the Dessert it maybe hot just maybe Folks. No reality check unfortunately right now Kris Allen is not that big outside the bubble the general public is a mix bag singles yes but cd and tour not so much. (economy just one part)I like Kris Allen I wish he was doing better at some areas and sorry I just don’t live in fan world of rainbows.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Does that person have a problem with proper punctuation?

      • Blue Eyes

        More evidence that Idol fans didn’t finish high school.

    • auntieaimee

      OMG, tell poporange, “Thank You!” for me. I need my reality check every single day or else I would think Kris was the biggest success ever to come out of Idol. Thank goodness she is there to remind me to go home and cry over it! Whew! All is right with the world.

      • ross

        I always wondered what it was like to be able to speak in tongues.

    • et

      See, I’d think “Oh, she’s just not good with English” if that’s how all her posts look. But they seem to fall under lucid/not-lucid. Pooporange!

      • ross

        Yeah, I notice that, too. Especially when she talks about Kris, she’s like one of those bad “translate this page” translations on Google.

        • jukejoint

          I took your challenge, ross, and translated poop into several languages before putting it back in English. Just like poop, it changed the spelling of his name. Otherwise, it actually made poop make more sense. (See: First sentence and changing it to desert.) Imagine that!

          Chris Allen is a nice guy and I think his songs are good enough for me to buy. Featured Press overdose the only new on this blog will not articles.Its July in the desert, you can call people just maybe. No follow-up to the reality, unfortunately, now Chris Allen is not very big balloon out of government is a mixture of a simple “yes” but not as a CD and tour operators. (Except Country) Love Chris Allen and I wish it was better in some areas and the poor can not live in a world of air fan

          I think those are words to live by. Just remember, people, when you are thinking that you might like Kris Allen: THE POOR CANNOT LIVE IN A WORLD OF AIR FAN.

          (I did it again as a control and got very different results. Imagine that.

          Kris Allen has a beautiful melody think his sons are good enough to where they can be purchased. Each hit on the site of overdose, the bloggers Novem him articles. Its hooks are not in hot water in July dessert can be people as possible. No, today, unfortunately, the reality is Kris Allen and do not mix this great bubble General Public CD singles pocket to move Yes, but not so much. (Only a part of the economy) I love Kris Allen, I will be in certain areas of Lepe am sorry to have a fan in the world live prostaglandin rainbows.

          Is prostaglandin what it sounds like? And what the heck is Lepe? All in all, I prefer THE POOR CANNOT LIVE IN A WORLD OF AIR FAN.)

          • nerdgirl

            Prostaglandins are short-lived mediators derived from fatty acids that regulate variety of physiological responses, including inflammation, pain, thermogenesis, and smooth muscle control.
            Lepe – no clue…

    • jazz

      He/she does not live in a fan world of rainbows (or punctuation, grammar, logic, reality….)

    • JaneRochester

      Her prose reads like that weird-ass spam you get sometimes where it’s just random sentences strung together. I’ve never understood what it’s supposed to accomplish in the world of spam, but anyway, it’s still out there.

      I hope she’s a non-native speaker, because if she isn’t, yikes. My next guess is that it’s hard to type over the voices in her head. (Being serious here, not snarky.) If she’s an American and she’s sane, then she needs to sue her elementary school.

      • ross

        jukejoint, That was amazing.

        I actually ran the quote through my own handy-dandy translating machine, and somehow, when it’s all punctuated and put into proper English (more or less), Poporange’s quote now reads like this:

        “Kris Allen is a great guy and a fantastic artist. His songs are some of my favorite music to listen to. In July, it’s hot in the desert, but even in that heat, Kris is one cool dude. And even though he’s recorded a hit song that has sold over 1.5 million copies, and he’s played in front audiences of thousands of appreciative people, he’s as nice and down to earth as he was when he was singing for 20 people in a bar in Arkansas…”

        Etc. I’m sure that’s what Poporange meant to say.

        • deez

          I like your tranlator, Ross. (were you not a veteran of the Great Pooporange Spelling War?)

    • deez

      Pooporange disappeared for a long time after the big spelling fight. Tiger92 (who has now thankfully had her sparkly ass kicked to the curb) was her sole ally in that skirmish. After being hit with a mild dose of snark, she posted something to the effect of, “Help me MJ! I’ve never felt so much hate in my life blahblahblah”…all of which seemed to be spelled and punctuated correctly. MJ then threatened permabans all around to those who were misspelling words and posting incomprehensible babble for snarky purposes. Someone here (can’t remember who) said that PO was truly mentally ill, and MJ was aware of her issues. IDK. Seemed like a standard Sparklecow to me.

      • muzikizmi

        Seriously. She differs from the rest of the herd in what way?

        • ross

          She uses somewhat better spelling and grammar.

          • deez

            Ziiiiinnngggg.

      • Lauren

        Again Deez, the fond memories :) We weren’t even mean at all until pooporange started calling out to MJ for help. :/

        • deez

          I think the Great Pooporange Spelling War took place back in January when “Mom” was gone, didn’t it? If I remember right, we were also invaded by trolls and trashed the place.

          (TI, are you SURE you would want to let go the reins here for an extended period of time ever again?)

          • ross

            deez, all I remember is one day you were all addressing her as “popapple” and stuff like that and then MJ said something like, stop making fun of her. I came in on the tail end.

          • ross

            Or him, as the case may be.

            BTW, was hwc also banned on MJ’s? I saw one of his posts on Planet Fierce the last time I looked there. He used to annoy the hell out of me with his catchphrases, like “The kid that won Idol,” and “Anybody but the gay guy.” As well as calling Adam “Mr. Lambert.”

          • et

            Yeah, hwc got banned. Hwc is a first-rate loon.

          • ross

            Thanks, et.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            Oh yes. You mean the time I went to Vienna for 5 days and, since I was on a computer 65% of the time I was there, I had assumed I would be able to make a couple of blog posts or something. But that didn’t happen. And then I returned to discover the inmates were running the asylum?

            Come one. We all deserve a vacation. And someone’s gonna have to give the patients their meds when I’m away in a month and a half.

          • deez

            hwc is all over the place at PF.

            I LOL’ed today while taking a turn around their glittery gardens. There was a poster there saying that they left MJs because they were tired of all the Adam bashing and how they loved to call Kris “bald” and whatnot in retaliation to the haters. (uh-huh…”retaliation”) They claimed to not give enough of a shit to go into Kris threads and diss him. Bwahahahaha…I have about 45732998764217876645 examples that say otherwise.

          • deez

            Oh yes. You mean the time I went to Vienna for 5 days and, since I was on a computer 65% of the time I was there, I had assumed I would be able to make a couple of blog posts or something. But that didn’t happen. And then I returned to discover the inmates were running the asylum?

            Come one. We all deserve a vacation. And someone’s gonna have to give the patients their meds when I’m away in a month and a half.

            LOL. Yes that was it. I think you threatened to beat us :D !

            You do derserve time away, TI, I just don’t know how much fear the substitute teacher will be able to instill. There may be a lot of gum to scrape off chairs when you get back.

          • Lauren

            I can’t keep up with these extended metaphors. Is this an asylum or a school? LOL!

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            It’s Ashecliffe. ;)

            Sorry, just watched Shutter Island.

          • Lauren

            LOL. Yes that was it. I think you threatened to beat us :D !

            I remember that! Though I remember it with a D:, not a :D

          • deez

            What does it say that we are the only ones who remember this?
            It must be an indication of how guiltyobservant we are.

          • Lauren

            Yeah, observant, that’s it! LOL! It was kinda fun though, even with threats of violence and all.

      • sodagrape

        At one point, pooporange was blaming her incoherent blathering on having ADD. It would have been more believable if she claimed that English wasn’t her first language.

        • DeeDee

          I guess that means she loses focus after each word.

          • Verbally Dyslexic

            Surprisingly her focus on the subject of her comments remains sharp.

          • deez

            As far as I know, it’s the only thing she ever talks about, but one subtle change has OBVIOUSLY taken place during her too-short hiatus.

            It used to be: ” I like Chriss Allon but he is not very interesting. Cress Alan’s music is borings ans some peopple donut like that. Chrys is a niec preson, but boring. And I don’t like Cris’ borring music at all. But is nice, his wief Kattttty is pritty. But Kriss is nice an peeple don’t like him because he’s boaring. An he’s muzak es boordom.”

            Now she’s changed it up significantly: ” I like KRIS ALLEN, but fins him boredom. Has musuck is not intersecting at all to anybodies especially poople hoo buy music. KRIS ALLEN is nice I gass, but boreing. My ears want to go to slepp when I here Live Like Your Diane. KRIS ALLEN is maybe a nise presson but he is not exiting to me becuase I fins KRIS ALLEN to be unintasting and even somewhat boarding.”

    • jukejoint

      What I honestly think this post was supposed to say was, “Will all you people please stop talking about Crisper Aloe? You’re making me insaner than I already was because I hate that boring, balding fundie AND his boring fundie wife Katty. I am overdosing because this site is full of every single bit of minutiae on the boring, balding fundie’s life. Like the desert is hot? That’s newsworthy?”

      I think pooporange popped. I feel her pain, since I feel that way about all the AL news at MJ’s. I don’t need to know every time That Guy Who Came in Second needs a kleenex. But it’s there and the PoopO eats it up, like the rest of the hive. I would say they can’t see the forest for the trees, but it’s more like not seeing the load of manure for the Poop.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        Unless we’re talking about pooporange, which we are, this does remind me that I’m really tired of people intentionally misspelling his name whenever mentioning in him every post just because of this idiot and others like her.

        Isn’t her real name SodaOrange or something? I can’t even remember her “real” name b/c she’s just soooo pooporange.

        • ross

          her real name is “poporange.”

        • jukejoint

          Yes, TI, that one was for my Poopy parody. I won’t do it in my own notes not related to Poopy. Promise!

      • et

        Did you stop by there yesterday with the Cook vs. Lambert album sales discussion including the nifty observation that because there was never a press release r/e Cook’s international sales then you just don’t count ‘em when comparing his sales to Lambert’s? Heh.

        • ross

          I missed most of it. All I know offhand is that at this time last year Cook sold a lot more singles and albums in the US alone, forget overseas, than Lambert. So I don’t see how anything could be spun to favor Adam. If his peeps had to take the whole world into account to declare him a million seller, well, that’s something Cook’s never had to do.

          • et

            Aw, MJ cleaned up the thread and now we can’t see the “I will defend him if he is wronged or diminished!” post that followed the “I don’t really care” post.

            There is this little bit of logic remaining, after this poster said that you don’t count Cook’s international sales when comparing his sales to Adam’s (which include international):

            Someone said: “I would imagine David Cook has sold albums outside the U.S.”

            And here’s the logic: “I am sure but probably not a whole lot. RCA hasn’t put out a press release on it so unless there is some evidence his total sales is 1.31mm.”

            (So no press release = not one album sold internationally for Cook; therefore, Adam is much closer to matching his sales)

          • ross

            And here’s the logic: “I am sure but probably not a whole lot. RCA hasn’t put out a press release on it so unless there is some evidence his total sales is 1.31mm.”

            That’s absurd! He didn’t sell any albums outside the US?! Here’s ‘evidence’. Wikipedia says Cook sold at least 50,000 (gold) in Canada. (Gold cert. has now been lowered to 40,000.) I’m sure worldwide he’s sold a lot of albums. Glamberts are so annoying.

        • Salleyanne

          It really galls the hive that Cook has still outsold their “rawk god”. Funny how they spin Lambert’s number to include international sales but dismiss any other idol’s numbers. Typical hive hype. He couldn’t sell a million in the US so we have to say he’s sold a million worldwide to hype his numbers. Sad that TPTB still think he is the only idol artist they have and keep throwing money his way regardless. I’m wondering what they will do with Cook when his new record comes out.

          • muzikizmi

            I agree with you that is is beyond stupid, to make Adam Lambert the one and ONLY succesful idol. All that means is that Idol is nothing more than a TV show, and is not really a springboard to anything. Idol needs to be trying to break MORE successful contestants, rather than throwing everyone NOT named Adam Lambert under a bus.

        • sodagrape

          My F5 key got quite the workout during the Cook vs Lambert wank last night. Every time I would refresh the page, something even more asinine would appear. The main instigator seemed to be BornToBeLame (shocking!), who kept insisting that MJ’s is hostile to Adam and his fans. (lol) Tinawina was, as always, the voice of sanity, and pointed out to her (paraphrased) that if Adam’s fans get upset when they think he’s being attacked, then they probably should not be doing the same to other idols. Suenigma then helpfully provided examples of BornToBeLame attacking Cook, in a Cook thread no less. BornToBeLame then whined that she was criticizing his *voice* and that everyone at MJ’s is constantly launching personal attacks on Adam and waaaahhh, it’s not remotely the same! And then there was the whole other thing where no press release means that Cook has not sold a single album outside of the US.

          /Cliff’s Notes

          • et

            Suenigma then helpfully provided examples of BornToBeLame attacking Cook, in a Cook thread no less.

            That was the best part, lol, I wish that was still in the thread for reading pleasure.

            It’s a real headscratcher to me that anyone can say that MJ’s isn’t kind to Adam or the Glamberts. Then again, the honey that feeds the Hive is not made lovingly from the nectar of logic.

  • Trish

    I didn’t realize Big Mike is going to make his “Late Night Sandwich” an episodic Twit program, but it looks like there will be many more in the future. I think it’s kind of clever actually. Here’s a funny one:

    “Late night sandwich (so you think you can dance/edition)”

    • et

      LOL, Casey. Like the slippers :)

      • Trish

        I think they’re his sneakers. There was a lot of discussion on his thread on TWoP a while back about whether or not they were bright blue cowboy boots or just ths same sneakers he’d worn on several occasion.

        I love, however, that he thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to dress like that in front of women.

        • et

          Those are some seriously puffy sneakers! I better go watch that again. That cracked me up, he seems like a dude who is very comfortable in his skin. Which is cool.

          • Trish

            @et

            You can see the shoes briefly in this interview:

          • Trish

            @et

            I just went back and watched again, and I think you’re right! I think those *are* slippers, LMAO.

            I bet some nutter fan gave him those as a present or maybe his family got them for him for the “tewer.” (I love how the way he pronouces that rhymes with “sewer.”) His cousins are pretty funny.

          • auntieaimee

            They look like jammies and slippers to me. He seems like a fun dude.

    • JaneRochester

      “Late Night Sandwich” is the best idea I’ve heard in a while. I look forward to the next installment.

      Casey’s fashion sense (and very fine moves) make me dizzy with desire. Ok, not really.

      Not sure if I/we should get excited yet or not, but there’s a (very oddly written) article floating around about the Season 9 gang, that says Casey has a contract for an album.

      http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=951128&category=ARTS

      • Trish

        Thanks for that! It’s the first I’d seen it. I didn’t think it was oddly written at all, bbut I love how the writer disclosed how Casey had to get his comments cleared by his handlers.

        Casey’s pretty good and communicating information without dropping any quotatble bombshells that could land him in hot water with TPTB. His frankness is quite refreshing compared to other contestants from the show.

  • oddgirl

    The music video shoot got rained out. From Cindy Vela’s tweet, doesn’t sound like they got much filmed.

  • margie

    Sorry I have just to call bullshit and laugh at this post from MJ’s..

    ”
    poporange:
    07/15/2010 at 8:42 pm

    I am glad Jason Castro is playing a concert! Kris Allen when it comes I guess you will see Listen his cd and tour are doing just ok his singles good not great.The gneral public is not buying Kris Allen you can’t force them too. This blog has become a Kris and Dc fan club not evryone enjoys them like you or care..nobody gets that.”

    • margie

      ^just have…sorry laughing.. i haven’t seen her in awhile.

      • cc

        Pretty sure that when you look up the word failure in Glamdictionary, a pic of Kris Allen is right next to it. Tsk. Tsk.

    • jmom376

      Thank you for posting that here. I knew when I saw delete, she/he was bad mouthing Kris. I love how when that person is talking about Kris, their grammer and spelling is horrible. But at other times, they write very well. I think it is a sock puppet :}

      • deez

        POOPORANGE!!!!!!

        Awwww…. Lauren, are we gonna have to go all Part II on her ass?

        • Lauren

          Pooporange! Oh, the fond memories! Hey, she’s spelling Kris Allen right now, so I think she learned her lesson. lol

          • JaneRochester

            Is that why no one on this board spells Kris’s name right? Is it in her honor?

          • deez

            She was the main one @ Mj’s doing that. Some others may have been doing it as well, but (for me for you) yes, I trace it back to her.

        • et

          Aw, I missed the Pooporange post. That one is all sorts of special.

    • deez

      Also, I missed the part where MJs became a Kris/Cook fan club.

      • sodagrape

        If anything, it seems to have become the Cook Career Death Watch ’10 fan club. Who knew that 7 seconds of singing in a vlog was enough to predict the failure of a cd that hasn’t even been recorded?

        With fans like these, who needs enemies.

        • On The Edge

          IKR? Concerned fans are concerned; either that or they are going out of their way to try NOT to be “OMG DAVID IS THE GREATEST EVARRR AND CAN DO NO WRONG!!!11!!!!!!ELEVENTY!!!11!!!” -type fans.

          Eh, I actually liked the Hodges song and can see David improve upon it by roughing it up, rubbing some dirt on it, etc. And the rest of the band is tight. I like how it’s a BAND now, not “Idol winner and a bunch of studio musicians.” I have high hopes for this next one. Not “pie in the sky” hopes, but certainly better than the post-AI tour rush job winners are stuck with.

          • sodagrape

            I wasn’t jumping for joy over the Hodges version of it, to be honest, but I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. It just seems ridiculous to me to write off the entire album based on it. David’s version might be phenomenal or it might be shit. Either way, I think it’s silly to get that worked up over a song that might not even make the album.

          • et

            Haha, no, they are not trying to pretend like they are angsting. They are ALWAYS angsting like that and I bet DCO is the same. Hence my avoidance. It’s silly to write off his whole single/album/career off a little vlog and light the matches to burn the fan card. He looks happy and he’s got his band with him – I think I’ll just wait and see what he comes up with and just enjoy being a sane fan :)

          • musicfan

            For some of DC’s fans it seems Angst is their middle name. I started reading the comments at MJ’s and had to back out. I don’t get how they claim to “love” him and his music so much, but seem to have no faith in him when it comes to his recordings.

            Apparently some of them want him to put out another Analog Heart. Totally written by him with an indie sound. They can’t seem to comprehend that if he wants to be a commercial success, he has to work with the label, and try for songs that will sell to the masses – not just them. I’m not a mind reader, but I’m pretty sure he wants to continue to sell platinum and tour for months on end, not go back to playing dive bars and selling a thousand copies of a cd he puts out himself. That’s not going to happen if he doesn’t write, record and sell radio friendly songs. I love Analog Heart myself, but I can’t see any of the songs from it being radio hits in today’s world.

            I thought the vlog was great. Loved the song playing at the end, loved seeing the guys working together, and as for the Hodges song – I am not going to judge from a few second clip, but after listening to the whole song I do think Cook could rough it up and have a good song with it.

            I’m with et. I’m just going to be a sane fan and wait for the album to come out. I’ll judge it then, not before.

          • Trish

            Hi, my name is BootStar and I’m a fangster.

            I swear I do my best to avoid angsting over Cook. I only read the non-DC threads on DCO and usually just chime in with a comment here or there on any Cook threads at MJs. I also don’t receive his tweets, attend multiple shows, or gove a sh*t whom he golfs with or sleeps with, or whether or not he had a date with him at Carrie Underwood’s Gazillion Dollar Georgia Peach Nuptials. (I will, however, admit to letting out an audible “squee” when I heard he was on the same softball team as Old Spice Guy. That dude is hot!)

            But then I made the mistake of watching the vlog I received *from Cook* about the “new record.” I hated that little bit he sang. And it all went downhill from there. My brave attempts to block out all references to Matt Serletic were foiled by the invocation of the name “David Hodges” and the link to his EP, which bizarrely bears the same name as one of Springsteen’s albums.

            Seriously, though, I love discussing music, the music business and artists I love. Cook is one of the few of them who actually has a critical mass of fans on the interwebs large enough to even *find* a discussion about these things, but I don’t think fretting over a favorite artist’s future is all that uncommon. It’s just highly visible in Cook’s case. He more than anybody must know you have to take the bad with the good.

          • Verbally Dyslexic

            I’m with Trish on this. There will always be a subset within a fandom that will angst over the artist’s next creative direction. It isn’t exclusive to Idol at all.

            Cook puts on a great live show, and he has a decent amount of personality. But maybe my music preference has shifted away from his style. Like Trish, the video didn’t leave me excited for the second album. It’s reasonable to assume that the clip is a preview of what to expect, and by that assumption, I expect more of the same middle-of-the-road anthemic rock stuff.

            Eh, it’s not like he’ll be crying into his pillow over my opinion anyway.

      • Salleyanne

        I missed it too.

    • Salleyanne

      Guess poporange sobered up. Post has been deleted.

    • JaneRochester

      I assume Poporange is a non-native speaker of English?

      • Verbally Dyslexic

        Poporange is a non-native speaker of logic.

        • jukejoint

          Poporange is a non-native speaker of sanity.

  • oddgirl

    Kris is shooting the music video for The Truth today. And, to answer one question many were wondering, Pat Monahan is there…

    http://tweetphoto.com/32872791

    They are shooting this in the desert, there is a girl in it (the model/actress playing the role tweeted about it), and one of the crew people tweeted as a hint for what the video will be like a quote from the surrealist painter Salvador Dali (whose works had elephants as one of the recurring themes)

    So people on twitter are guessing that this is going to be a very surreal video (the director is the same guy who helmed the LLWD video)

    • deez

      Cindy Vela (the girl who will be in the video):

      • cc

        How tall is she? I wonder if she will be paired with Kris or Pat…

      • margie

        That girl is so pretty plus she is short!! Sorry us shorties have to stick together :) I am interested how this video is going to turn out. Is it going to be like Pat looking back and Kris is a younger version of him and a doomed relationship?

        • deez

          I guess that could work, I was thinking earlier that some sort of love love triangle between these three didn’t seem realistic. Maybe one of the guys is a “narrator?”

          On her profile, it says she’s 5′ 3″. Keep her out of substantial heels and that will look about right.

          • deez

            Only 1 love triangle^^

      • Lauren

        Damn. She’s hot!

      • blacklisted

        I was just about to post the same thing Lauren!

        Too bad the shoot was rained out. Now I want to see the video.

        • Lauren

          Great minds think alike?

          Kris is a lucky man. He’s got this girl, Adam, and Katy’s not too bad either. (By “not too bad,” I mean she’s gorgeous). He’s surrounded by attractive people!

          • blacklisted

            You conveniently forgot the hottest person around Kris. *tsk tsk*

          • Lauren

            Oh and Cale.

          • Katie112

            I wouldn’t consider myself lucky if I was surrounded by Liza Minnelli and a girl who looks like she’s about to throw a tantrum. Kris is attractive. How did they end up getting married again?

  • margie

    Looks like Pat is going to be in the video

    • ross

      Hello, Cindy.

      • naiya

        Oh, Ross. You horny little monster. She really is quite stunning.

      • et

        That really is hilarious posted by the googly-eyed horny monster avatar. Hee :)

        But yeah, she’s hot.

    • suenigma

      Holy Crap! Is it just me or does Pat look like an older more haggard version of Adam in this photo?

      • deez

        LOL. I hadn’t noticed that, but yeah…he does a little bit. Adam @ 50? Supposedly Pat’s 41, but looks older …like Huey Lewis old. Maybe it’s the photo?

        • Lauren

          I don’t want Adam to ever look like that. :/

          He’s too beautiful, it won’t happen! (No offense meant to Pat…)

          • Blue Eyes

            Adam in 20 years will look like that. Pat is a nice lookin guy.

          • nerdgirl

            Yea, Adam is only 13 years younger than Pat… And in 20 years he will look like his father, only with dyed hair.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

          Mother of TopIdol still loves Huey Lewis.

    • blacklisted

      I think Pat shaved a few years off his age. He’s probably closer to 46.

      • ross

        I think it was about 112 there so maybe we should cut him some slack…

      • carmine2008

        I’ve seen him up close. He doesn’t look that old in person. In fact, he’s REALLY hot. I’m saying that “factually”, not in a fantardish sort of way. Hahaha.

  • ross

    Out of the 17 comments there were 6 or 7 positive comments disagreeing with the reviewer about Kris, and 1 agreeing with the reviewer. The rest were about BNL, and then there were a few from someone trying to start trouble. So much for “Kris has a lot of BSC fans, too.”

    • ross

      (Oops. This was in reply to deez, at the bottom of the page.)

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I haven’t even seen this article you guys keep talking about. I don’t think it was ever linked here.

      • ross

        This is it. It’s just a review from Red Butte, Utah, where Kris and his band were panned.

        http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700048047/Barenaked-Ladies-concert-comes-up-a-bit-short.html

        • ross
          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            For future reference, please do not post anything from Examiner.com on here. I have huge issues with them being a “news” service.

          • nerdgirl

            “Examiner” articles are not journalism, totally agree with TI.

          • Lauren

            Hee, from the comments:

            KRIS ALLEN IS HOT AND KATY DON’T GET UP SET BUT I THINK THAT MTV SHOULD DO A SHOW ON YOU AND KRIS BUT SHOT IT IN ARKANSAS AND MAYBE NOT 24/7 WE DON’T WONT WHAT HAPPEN TO JESSICA AND NICK TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND KRIS WE JUST WANT GREAT THINGS FOR YOU AND KRIS HERE TO HOPING FOR THE KRIS AND KATY SHOW .BY THE WAY I LOVE THE WAY YOU WROTE THIS

            Crazy Kris fans do exist! They do, they do!

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            Why are they unable to spell UPSET properly?

          • blacklisted

            Why do the crazies display such bad grammar?

          • Lauren

            Hey, I’m just impressed they spelled “Arkansas” correctly.

  • Katie112

    Madam’s “If I Had You” is either sitting at #85 on the Billboard 100, or peaked on it. Yeah, he sure is THE breakout artist of 2010.

  • alicat10025

    Anyone here see the Glambert comments on the Idol Chatter track sales post?

    shadamholic (0 friends, send message) wrote: 7h 8m ago
    I really am glad to see Kris doing so well, but has anyone else noticed that this first big hit is a COVER??? And not ANY cover, it’s a cover to a song that did well PREVIOUSLY by a different artist. I’m afraid Kris is going to be struggling with fanbase to keep up with this year’s winner Lee D. I really think Lee has a much better voice and both have the same type of general nice-guy appeal. My opinion. NEITHER can hold a candle to Adam sorry.

    DarceyMcGee (0 friends, send message) wrote: 6h 58m ago
    Who the hell cares what that cheating loser Kris Allen sells? He is a pathetic second rate singer and he is now living back in Arkansas , the state that cheated Adam out of his win. Karma is difficult and Kris has to live with the fact that he did not deserve to win. “The Truth” is not going to sell no matter how many videos they make. Why hasn’t Kris ever owned up to what happened and apologized to Adam?

    I think this is the first time they’ve been this bad on the sales articles because Kris’s Live Like We’re Dying did something important in sales

    Jst thoght all you wonderful snarky people would get a laught at this.

    • ross

      Yeah, Live Like We’re Dying sold 1.5 million, and we will all have to be punished for it.

    • Paulie

      Erm… when did The Script’s version do well? It was never released as an official single. Was there airplay success in Cote d’Ivoire (or Burkina Faso — LOL @ whoever mentioned it the first time here) that we’re not aware of?

      • ross

        It was enormously successful in Monaco. It sold 14 copies (12 copies = gold).

        • saskin

          Why are you guys arguing with mentally stuck people?

          • ross

            If, by, “you people,” you’re including me, I thought we were just laughing about it.

          • ross

            Er, I mean, “you guys.”

          • saskin

            No. Not you. But they are pathetic really.

          • ross

            I guess that’s why it says they have “0 friends.”

          • Paulie

            Hehe. I too was just laughing/shaking my head about it. Although admittedly I did get slightly annoyed with their lack of proper research (I was commenting from work earlier, sorry ’bout that).

            Ah well, I’ll just look at Salvador Dali paintings and try to figure out possible concepts for Kris’s “The Truth” music videos… :P

    • smashemup

      That’s too funny. Yeah and Adam totally wrote his first big hit Whataya Want From me. What does that say?

    • rehabilitard

      Quote Crazy Sparkle Cow : ” I’m afraid Kris is going to be struggling with fanbase to keep up with this year’s winner Lee D”

      Hahaha…I am rolling on the floor laughing. Glamberts are idiots. I don’t know how I am going to handle seeing them at the concert. I am happy I have balcony seat. At least I will not be near craziest Sparkle Cows.

    • auntieaimee

      PSA: Do not go into the concert stats thread on MJ’s today unless you want to be annoyed.

      • deez

        I REAALLLY would like to post this over there:

        Kris’s concerts were not sold out. Thank you for bringing that to everyone’s attention. Repeatedly. WE GET IT. Kris Stinks. He is Bland.Boring. Vanilla. Adam is teh RAWK GAWD. Oh I forgot, Kris has a bald spot. NOW CAN YOU GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE?

        How quick would I get banned?

        • auntieaimee

          I guess this means Adam wins. Wait until he starts touring other planets. They will love him there.

          • Pandora

            Maybe he’ll win Martian Idol.

          • deez

            PLUTO CHEATED! Those Plutonians are just a bunch of looooooooosers (it’s not really even a planet)! Those stupid planets at the outer edges of the solar system really don’t have anything better to do than to just clog up an orbit and spoil the view of the galaxy for the rest of us! Can you imagine that happening on Jupiter? Even their moons have better sense.

          • DeeDee

            Deez, seriously, you’re killing me!

          • jukejoint

            I suppose I would get accused of homophobia if I blamed Uranus?

          • Pandora

            Post of the week for jukejoint!

        • Tw!sted_S!ster

          You’ll not get banned for writing that. People have written worse.

      • ross

        The whole idea of a concert stats thread being started there really bothered me. I’m not that interested in reading threads about stats, anyway. Another stats thread? I know kristen and folks like her are into their stats; I have no problem with that, and kristen does a great job. But other than the fact that the subject is boring to me, the whole “comparing Idols by their numbers” thing gets more and more odious to me all the time. Especially when it’s used to boast, or be all tsk-tsk concerned.

        I also found it kinda funny that a concert stats thread was suggested just about the time Adam’s concerts were starting to be sold out. I read the original suggestion but don’t recall who made it.

        • deez

          I bet we could narrow it down ;)

        • Pandora

          Were there concert threads for every show of Cook’s tour? Somehow I don’t think so. She really ought to rename the place and be done with it.

          • Salleyanne

            No there weren’t. They only rated a blip in the headline thread most of the time.

        • Pandora

          Maybe somebody should contribute information as to how many tickets are available on ebay/craigslist/etc. for each of his shows.

      • alicat10025

        The one thread you will never find me in – it’s all Sparkle Cows, All the Time

      • Salleyanne

        I did, left a couple of comments that were promptly deleted by Kristin. So much for not being AO2.

      • Salleyanne

        Went back to take a look over at MJ’s and Kristen has totally cleaned house. All original posts about concern for Kris have been deleted.

        • deez

          Good job. I always wondered how come the response was deemed worse than the crap that started it. I mean..no instigator, no problem, right? I’m glad she cleaned house.

  • deez

    Dunno where THIS goes as it’s OT to everything, but the Westboro Baptist Church is picketing an Adam concert on the 16th, the CARDINALS vs DODGERS on the 17th (evil baseball?), also Lady Gaga on the 17th, and Bieber on the 20th. (a bunch of funerals in between) Busy lil’ idiots.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Jesus Christ. Yeah, that’s who I would like to strike the Westboro Baptist Church.

      Hey, I may be an atheist but if there is a God, or Jesus what’s-his-face, I can’t wait until these bastards get to the afterlife and find themselves burning in hell.

      • FreeDavidCook

        They have a guy with a bullhorn following around one of the few ministers I love, Rob Bell of Nooma. He did a short film about running across Bullhorn Guy at a concert – here’s a preview – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ouz24ibMiI and it earned him the wrath of Westboro. Now they follow him around to conferences and tell everyone what a heretic he is.

        I keep hoping a plague or locusts or a sudden meteoric strike would take these guys out. Yeah, I know, I’m not a very good Xian. Assclowns like them piss me off. Several friends of mine have lost sons in Iraq and the funerals had to be carried out with CIA-like secrecy because of those Westboro assclowns threatening to picket the funeral.

      • jukejoint

        I would accept Thor striking them down with lightning bolts, as well. Nothing wrong with some whoop ass from Old Norse gods.

        Have any of you ever seen “The Laramie Project”? It’s about Matthew Shepard and a New York theater company going to Laramie and interviewing people and then making a sort of documentary play out of it, with actors playing the people they talked to and using speeches made from their real words. Part of it is about a response to the Westboro thing. Of course those shitheels decided Matthew Shepard was a lovely target and they were hanging around either while he was in a coma in the hospital or at his funeral, and some girls at the University of Wyoming decided to put on really large angel costumes, with wings, and peacefully surround the Westboro bunch and put up their wings, so nobody could see or be annoyed by them. It’s a really sweet part of the play. Larger community groups have done the same thing (donned angel costumes and encircled the Westboro Weirdos with their backs to them) when they brought out their signs to try to shut down productions of the play.

        • Destry

          I’ve heard of it. I’ll have to check it out.

          And kudos to your Thor scheme. Norse gods are always the answer :)

    • Destry

      Unfortunately, they made an appearance.

      http://yfrog.com/2d350rjj

      Meh. Looks minor. Still annoying though.

      • Verbally Dyslexic

        I feel bad for the kids though. They’re roped into the cycle of neverending and irrational hate.

        • Destry

          Yeah, seems like a toxic environment. Hopefully with each generation it’ll get smaller, or, as FreeDavidCook proposed, get smitten by a meteorite.

      • Lauren

        I keep trying to post something but the first thing I wrote was too darkly humorous and the second was too violent.

        Soooo I’ll just quote, “God hates hate,” and leave it at that.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          They’ve also launched an attack on St. Louis, my homefrakingtown.

          They call it “the evil city with the big arch.” They’re going to picket the Lady Gaga concert and a CARDINALS vs. DODGERS game.

          So these latest attacks by Westboro infuriate me more than ever and I really hope they all drop dead. Yes. I said it. They’re wasting air and frankly, they’re not helping their cause. Now they’re just a joke with targets on their backs.

          If there is a God, he loves gay people. He hates bigoted asshats like you. Go frak yourselves.

          Ok. I am done.

          • Lauren

            Let it all out, TI, let it out!

            I think they are actually doing more for the gay rights movement than against it. People who are moderate or on the fence about their views on homosexuality, see these crazies and it helps them to realize that hating people based on sexual orientation, race, religion, nationality, etc. is just wrong. They are so extreme, that they scare people into acceptance. Like I can’t imagine the type of person it takes to join that “church.”

  • Salleyanne

    I’ve said it before, just when I think the BSC Glamberts can’t top themselves, they do. Keep it up and you will make the Glamone the laughing stock of the industry. Can we say Claymates and Soul Patrol?

  • Tw!sted_S!ster

    I bet a lot of tween girls will be watching the AMAs this year because of Bieber. I bet that Gaga, Xtina and Perry will perform too. lol I hope people don’t write complain letters because of the racy performances lol. Oh wait those are reserved only for Adam.
    Maybe is not a good idea to reply to the AMA’s twitter but Adam’s fans have a point. Adam maybe went too far too soon last November but IMO he deserves some recognition. That list of Breakout artists is seriously what is wrong with music these days. The only ones that I kinda enjoy are B.o.B or Drake. The rest is pretty much forgettable. It reminds me why I don’t listen to radio or buy music from most of mainstream music. To be honest I was not aware of the AMAs before Adam’s performance but maybe is because I’ve been in the US for a short time. ^_^

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Why do I not know who or what B.O.B. is/are?

      I stopped watching the AMAs in 8th grade. That’s when I stopped watching all music awards shows. I think Kris Kross won some trophies at one of them. That annoyed me because I found out they got a record contract after a record producer saw them in Tower Records and oh, wasn’t it so cute. They were their clothes backwards. This infuriated me so I gave up on that shit.

      • naiya

        I would agree. All music award shows suck.

        • Destry

          I’m always distracted by the teleprompter… Where is it? How fast the words are scrolling down? And who sucks the least at pretending like they’re not reading it?

          And does it say between the lines “stop looking so constipated while you’re reading me! You can’t shove these lines out your ass!”

      • ross

        That’s weird. Whenever I think of why I hate the Grammys I always think of Cristopher Cross winning something years ago.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          When you get caught between the moon and New York City

          I know its crazy. But its true.

          When you get caught between the moon and New York City

          The best that you can do is fall in love.

          • ross

            Hahaha. Well, it was a song from a great movie, anyhow.

          • naiya

            But is it really better than “Jump”? :)

          • ross

            Van Halen’s Jump or the Pointer Sisters’ Jump?

          • naiya

            Jump by TI’s old nemesis, Kriss Kross.

          • ross

            How many Jumps are there, for crissakes?

      • Tw!sted_S!ster

        well at least you had the opportunity to watch award shows. In my country almost anything from the US is considered capitalist trash. But you are right award shows s*ck.

        • w.dark
        • magnacarta

          Woah, you’re from a communist country? There aren’t that many in existence… North Korea?

        • ross

          But almost anything from the US is capitalist trash.

      • OvenMitt

        B.o.B. is inconsequential. He’s one of those really non-distinct rappers that utilizes good singers singing really hooky choruses to have hit songs. He’s like Chingy but cornier, if that’s even possible.

    • sj

      B.O.B.’s album is great. He definitely deserves some recognition.

      • saskin

        Yeah. I really love that Airplanes song. Only time I listen to Top 40 radio is at the gym. It in their rotation and I can’t wait for that song to start.

      • Tw!sted_S!ster

        yep. I got B.o.B’s album the other day. I’m happy I didn’t waste my money.

        • Salleyanne

          Adam maybe went too far too soon last November but IMO he deserves some recognition

          Just a question Twisted_Sister…..Why do you think he deserves some recognition over other artists that have sold wayyyyy better in the US than him? After all this is the American Music Awards and he has not even gone platinum in this country. If there is an award for hype then yes he should get an award but for his music not so much. His music is just a rehash of any dance/pop music already on the charts (Lady Gaga), nothing earth shaking or ground breaking about it (IMO). After he blew his chance last year why should they give him another chance? Just asking. You only have one chance to make a first impression and he blew it big time (controversial performance and substandard singing, not saying he was the only one on last year’s AMA….many of the performances were crap).

          There are plenty of artists just as good if not better than Lambert so why do you think he should be singled out for recognition?

          • Salleyanne

            Don’t know why my post posted way down here.

          • Tw!sted_S!ster

            maybe you are right and he doesn’t deserve it but I’m a glambert after all. lol It is how I feel. ^_^

    • magnacarta

      I don’t know… I’m Canadian and I know about the AMAs. My friend is French, and she knows about the AMAs as well.

      • Tw!sted_S!ster

        I’m Cuban. So I didn’t have too much access to the real world. lol

        • saskin

          Are you still in Cuba?

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            I’ve wanted to visit Cuba since I was a little girl. I like going places there may be laws against me going to. Seriously. Or if it was ever impossible during my lifetime, those places are infinitely more interesting to me.

          • saskin

            Through Canada. :) I want to go too.

          • CayKat

            TopIdol – go via Cayman!! :-)

        • magnacarta

          I would have thought with tourism and everything… oh well, Fidel Castro is still better than Batista in my opinion.

          • Tw!sted_S!ster

            @magnacarta: Just a question have you lived in Cuba as a common citizen before and after 1959?

            @topidol: I think you should visit Cuba. You can go through a third country but make sure to never loose your documents. It is really beautiful despite the fact that it’s almost in ruins.

          • magnacarta

            No, I’ve not lived in Cuba, but I have Cuban friends and I teach history for a living. A dictator is always a bad thing to have in a country, but between the corrupt pro-American one and one that at least offers public services such as health care, I’d prefer that one. I’ve read the literature about both, and I’ve talked to people who have lived there and this is the conclusion I’ve come to. Not saying that Fidel Castro is perfect (lol, he really isn’t), but he’s preferable to the other option imho.

          • Tw!sted_S!ster

            @magnacarta I don’t know what your Cuban friends have told you but I disagree with you. Fidel is not better than Batista. Yes Batista was a butcher, his people did a lot of terrible things. My grandmother have told me a lot of stories. But Fidel is so brilliant that he has managed to do worse things for more than fifty years and still convince you and a lot of people that he is better. But this blog is about idol not Cuba. Just spend a few months there living like a regular person and you’ll understand.

    • Katie112

      Tw!sted_S!ster = Sparkle Cow.

      Deserves recognition for what? Making an ass out of himself? Don’t we already have Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan for that? And they are way more entertaining. Madam has adopted their path. He doesn’t care about his “music”. All he cares about is fame. I’m sure even Scott MacIntyre can see that, and HE’s blind, yet the Sparkle Cows are not.

      • Tw!sted_S!ster

        Lol first time someone call me that way. I’m not sure I fit the sparkle cow profile but I have some characteristics for sure.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        I don’t think I would call twisted_sister a sparkle cow. I didn’t think her response was cow-like. More fan-like, in all honesty, and she’s given us no indication she’s a cuckoo for Lambert in such a manner, so I’m asking you not to accuse her of being a sparkle cow. She’s not talking about minions or playing the role of concerned troll.

        I do, however, agree that Lambert is more in it for the fame than the music. I’ve always gotten that impression since he began his post-Idol career.

        • Katie112

          Fair enough, TI. I only called her a Sparkle Cow based on this:

          “lol I hope people don’t write complain letters because of the racy performances lol. Oh wait those are reserved only for Adam.”

      • ross

        I don’t know why Adam was on the AMAs in the first place. Closing the show. And when he was on, he looked like he wasn’t ready to be there. Now people say he deserves more recognition from them?

  • blacklisted

    Big Mike is going to drop dead of a coronary if he keeps this up. YUCK.

  • Trish

    I once stayed in a really nice hotel in Kirkwood, WA, where they let you go down to their fancy hotel lobby and Raid The Pantry (TM) in the evening. Seriously, I never eat after dinner but that was so much FUN. The DH and I still talk about it.

    Look they still do it! Big Mike and Casey would go apeshit here:

    http://www.thewoodmark.com/guest_rooms/index.html

    (And they let you bring your dogs!)

    • Trish

      Sorry, that was KirkLAND. FOUR STARTS. Highly recommend!!! :-)

      • Trish

        STARS.

        I gotta get off since I can’t type a single sentence without typos. Stayed up too late watching Big Papi’s team choke last nigh. Woo-hoo!!!

    • naiya

      Trish, that sounds like fun. All of these sandwich threads are making me hungry, but mostly only hungry for chips!

      • Trish

        Oh, they had lots of chips! And fresh fruit and homemade breads. Plus the sun doesn’t set until like 11:30 in Seattle this time of year, which is when I was there.

        Now I have kids and am too poor to go to Atlantic City for the weekend! :-)

        • naiya

          Ha! Yes, it is best to do fun things whilst one is young and free. I was only in Seattle once during a summer. It was during my Bruce Hornsby “Harbor Lights” phase. Good times.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        I really want a sandwich now…hmmm…there is a Subway right by me but I want a sandwich-sandwich.

        • JaneRochester

          You mean a samich-sandwich, don’t you?

        • On The Edge

          The first few sandwiches admittedly were unappetizing, but I gotta admit, I’m intrigued by the pastrami/pepperjack/potato bread combination. Personally I like pastrami w/provolone and brown mustard on an onion roll, but his combo sounds yummy!

          • et

            Now I am hungry for a sammich. Though I guess I can wait until tomorrow when I have to pack my lunch to go chaperone the Cub Scouts to their camp. Heh.

        • Trish

          Ewwww! Subway!!! Just say no to Subway!!!! (What can I say? I live in the Land of the Hoagie! Although, I suppose they do deserve credit for saving Chuck.)

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            I resisted. Got a salad from this yummy place I always forget about the next street over.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Ok. Raid The Pantry is THE BEST IDEA EVER.

  • naiya

    That AMA twitter feed is hysterical. Honestly, I think the choices for Breakout Artist are pretty much dead on. If Adam wants to be a pop star, then this is his competition. He can’t continue to compete with the HAC artists.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Let’s see…Ke$hit, Drake Wheelchair Jimmy, Moppet of Beelzebub…

      • naiya

        LOL! Yeah, I think these three plus B.O.B. and Derulo. I don’t know any fun nicknames for these two.

      • w.dark

        Drake Wheelchair Jimmy

        I thought that was him! But I never watch the new show – it’s just not the same as the classic.

        Wasn’t he accused of stealing one of his songs? Do they still nominate people for that shit in a post Milli-Vanilli world?

        • OvenMitt

          Yes, his first hit “Best I Ever Had” interpolated samples of “Fallin’ In Love”, this old ’70s song. And now the people who own the rights to the song are suing for copyright infringement.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            I guess he did not get the permissions cleared? Every fraking Will Smith song samples a 70s song. Although I think he should be sued for immensely sucking, as should his entire bullshit family.

  • ross

    They’re mad because Adam Lambert hasn’t been asked back to perform on this year’s AMA show, which is apparently in the planning stages. This is the part where I decide not to say anything because its unnecessary.

    LOL!

  • Lauren

    You know I think Adam deserves to win an award and all but he’s not a break-out artist. Maybe they should fight to get one of the singles nominated or something? It would be at least semi-productive.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Considering his album was released in 2009. What? Not long after the AMAs. And let’s face it, none of his singles went super high in the charts. The AMAs is entirely contingent upon that.

      Of course, I could see him getting an AMA nomination before a Grammy. Maybe they should be nice. The AMAs were started by Dick Clark. Seacrest is the new Dick Clark and is affiliated with Dick Clark Productions, so…(I should probably look all of this up but I know I’m at least partially correct on the matter.)

    • blacklisted

      Exactly Lauren.

      I do think he’ll get nominated for an AMA at some point. At least he can sing live unlike SOME people (i.e. Taylor Swift).

      • saskin

        No he won’t. Let’s (please, pretty please with pink sprinkles on top) cut this crap, huh? He blew it. It is ovah. His fans too should get over it.

  • magnacarta

    I am laughing at all these crazy people saying they’ve never heard of the AMAs before Lambert. Guess whose musical culture is being invalidated right now…

    • Nich

      Ha! I know. To say you never watched before is one thing (cause it is cheesy and some people don’t like award shows) but to say you never heard of it? Seriously?

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        I hate the AMAs. I hate the Grammys. But EVERYONE has heard of the AMAs. Wait until they spam the Grammy committee this fall/winter!

        • Paulie

          Imagine if the Kradam singles vie for the same award… dundundun!

          (Not instigating a fanwar here, but I do have an overactive imagination sometimes)

          • Lauren

            You may have just started a fanwar with those words, but you made me happy because you said “Kradam.”

          • Paulie

            LOL Lauren. Yep, I was trying to soften the blow by using “Kradam”. :D

    • et

      The world began with Lambert. American Idol said “Let there be Lambert!” and there was, and it was good. Then Lambert said, “Go forth and watch the AMAs” and the loyal Hive did so, and it was not so good. Chaos reigned in the Hive henceforth, but now the circle can be complete if Evil AMA can be made to give Lambert another chance. So says the word of the HiveScroll. Ommmmm.

      • Trish

        I think this is the beginning of The Apocalypse. If Adam adds the Four Horsemen to his show we’ll know it’s truly the End of Days.

        • Pandora

          Well, doesn’t he have four dancers?

      • songkat7

        *bows head*

      • magnacarta

        Glamen

  • snapcracklypop

    The funny thing is before Kris even tweeted that his face melted, The Salt Lake City Tribune already wrote a paragraph on him being there at the end of this McCartney concert review.

    There was one instance that epitomized McCartney’s limitless appeal.

    About one hour into the show. Kris Allen appeared in the row behind mine. Yes, it was that Kris Allen, the “American Idol” winner, who earlier in the evening opened for Barenaked Ladies at Red Butte Garden. Apparently, rather than stick around and see Barenaked Ladies, Allen traveled across the valley to see McCartney. And he seemed transfixed throughout, singing along, clapping his hands, and it was in that moment that it was obvious this was no ordinary concert, and this was no ordinary man we were watching. And it was no ordinary boy we were watching either.

    http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49924882-76/mccartney-paul-concert-sandy.html.csp

    • magnacarta

      Haha, that’s cute :)

    • Paulie

      Still no reports that Kris got to meet Sir Paul right? That’d be awesome for Kris. :)

      In other news, Keith Urban continues to love Kris. LOL.

      • ross

        Thanks for that! It takes the sting away from that “saccharine abomination” comment in that review by…I forgot him already.

        • Miz

          I hate to admit this, but when I read that review I thought, ‘Kris should title his tour ‘The AbomiNation Tour’ But I think that has already been taken..

          • nerdgirl

            “Saccharine Abomination Tour” sounds great. And it does not cause cancer in rats unlike the saccharine itself. Or maybe it does, but who gives rat’s ass about rats? Anyway, did this guy try to get a rise out of Kris Allen fans? Doesn’t he know that they are too lazy to go and register in order to post comments? Kris fan may manage Twitter attack that’s all.

        • barado

          I’m still trying to decide if anything can be simultaneously saccharine and an abomination.

          I wasn’t able to go to this show as I hoped to, but I’m zen about it. He’s going to be performing for a long time.

        • deez

          That comment was very weird to me. I can see “meh”, (the usual “bland, boring” mantra spouted by non-fans because they don’t like the type, Kris’s music, or AI in general), but “abomination?” Really? That type of harshness is generally reserved for someone with whom you have very strong personal issues.

          I can’t imagine what on earth that could be.

          • ross

            It’s not the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Kris. Or the seven hundredth word. It’s just freaking bizarre.

        • magnacarta

          IDK, I found it funny. You have to wonder if they know what saccharine means though.

          • deez

            I’m still trying to decide if anything can be simultaneously saccharine and an abomination.

            I took it to mean that he was implying a lack of substance…overly sweet with nothing underneath. “Saccharine abomination” meaning heaps upon heaps of nothing, a vile, frothy concoction of sickly sweetness.

            I guess “faux miscreant” wasn’t any better. I can only imagine what words he’d have for Gokey.

            I kinda wish he’d done Paranoid Android at that concert. (That’s definitely NOT saccharine)There is one video on YT from George’s in Fayetteville, Ark that is REALLY good. (not the same one MJ has posted) I would post it here, but I had trouble with it. It took me about 6 tries before I could watch anything other than spinny circle, so I figured it’d be a waste of time.

          • ross

            Eh. Kris doesn’t need to cover Radiohead to have cred. His own songs are good. That guy was just a fucking asshole!

        • blacklisted

          Kris ain’t saccharine! He’s more like Splenda, sweet with no aftertaste.

        • Paulie

          This is the Red Butte review right? I’m taking a Zen approach to that too. :P He’s just a jellis balding-people h8erz!!11! :P

          The comments section though… jeez.

          • magnacarta

            Are there vicious comments already? :O

          • deez

            There are only 17 comments, but a fanwar managed to break out *eyeroll*.