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1/1: Top 50 spoilers (including Carly Hennessy?)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Happy New Year! Thank you for 1.74 million page views last year. That wasn’t quite as big as 2006, arguably “Idol’s” beacon year, but not bad considering how lame the season was overall. Let’s beat that mark in 2008!
Joesplace, registration required, has been collecting intelligence on who the top 50 are. In the past, such spoilers have had a fair amount of accuracy.
At least five are from Georgia so the odds aren’t bad that at least one of the final 24 will be from our fine state. We, of course, won’t know for sure until mid February. Check it out if you’re curious.
And Vote for the Worst thinks that a former failed singer Carly Hennessy (above) will be among the final 50. She was featured by a former Wall Street Journal acquaintance of mine, Jennifer Ordonez, on page one of the newspaper as an example of how screwy the record industry is (or was in 2002). MCA invested $2.2 million in her, but she sold a measly 378 copies three months after the album’s release.
Hennessy, a Dublin native now around 25 years old, apparently tried out for “Idol’ in 2005 and Simon liked her, but she had visa issues that kept her from making it to the fianl 24. That’s all cleared up now. AI producer Nigel Lythgoe even alluded to her in a New York Post story recently.]
Her MCA site is still up though it’s obvious she is no longer with them since the last story was from August 22, 2002.
Here’s the video for her song “I’m Gonna Blow Your Mind.” It’s a decent pop tune.
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