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Sunday, January 6, 2008
1/7: A change is a-comin’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some of the regulars in the know are aware that this myajc.com/idolblog social networking site, which launched a year ago, was an experiment.
Not to say the experiment is over but due to some management decisions beyond my control, we are having to move this back to the old blog template used by the other blogs on this site (including my radio/tv blog.) This means your avatars, comments and personal pages will disappear in a few weeks. All my old blog entries from 2007 were mirrored on the old site and will survive the transition.
The change will occur at 9:30 p.m. EST Tuesday, January 9. From that moment, if you type in www.myajc.com/idolblog, it will move you to an even simpler site called www.ajc.com/idolblog. So easy you can tell your friends and bookmark it!
The bosses tell me a new social networking site will be back, possibly midseason but definitely by midyear, no later. We’re sorry we have to do this but I hope you all stick around. Please email me if you see any mischief going on and I will fix it as quickly as I can.
Let’s all hope for a great “Idol” year, bigger and better than 2007. Seven is a lucky number, isn’t it?
And for you Taylor Hicks fans, he talked to his hometown paper after he got back from Asia, though the reporter did not ask him about his status with J Records. I don’t currently have a direct line to Hicks but am trying to work on that so I can talk to him, too.
Here’s the story.
Hicks is looking forward to a busy 2008 with a primary goal being a new album out in stores.
“I think I’ll have a lot more freedom creatively this go-around,” says Hicks, whose self-titled last CD came out seven months after he won “Idol.”
“I’ll also have the time now to create an album without the post-winning-‘Idol’ constrictions,” he says. “I have time for the album to breathe artistically.”
Just caught “American Rewind.” Season two, they had this strange semfinal sequence where 32 semifinals sang once for your vote, eight at a time, This one featured Trenyce, Charles Grigsby, Julia DeMato and Kimberly Caldwell. Grigsby and DeMato made it to the final 12 for some bizarre reason by viewer vote (8 million that week) though those two would ultimately be the first two voted out. Kimberly actually had the best performance of the day. The good-lookin’ dude J.D. Adams got gypped but he picked a boring song. It’s also why “Idol” changed the sequence of events the next year so all 24 semifinalists got multiple chances to make a good impression on the public. Ultimately, Trenyce and Caldwell made it to the final 12 via the wildcard round or by a judge or something like that. I can’t remember exactly how it worked…
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