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Thursday, April 3, 2008
4/3: Ramiele Malubay’s exit interview
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ramiele Malubay’s exit press conference was a snooze, as expected.
The second Filipino-American Idol finalist (after Jasmine Trias) was packed full of cliches but not much insight. My attempt to glean thoughts about why she chose Carrie Underwood’s breakthrough song (Heart’s “Alone”) two weeks ago elicited this:
I watched her performance. I just thought that the first week I had [which was often noted as her best], I was trying to bring that back… my whole goal was bring back the first week.
So her logic doesn’t compute. Take a song that Carly Smithson already did during Hollywood week, that Gina Glocksen performed reasonably well a year earlier and Carrie mastered in 2005 and somehow that would help bring back whatever magic Ramiele thought she had weeks ago? Heck, I don’t even remember what she did the first week that was so good.
When someone asked if there was a song she wanted to sing that didn’t get cleared, she chose “A House Is Not a Home,” a classic that Tamyra Gray already worked over in season one and was arguably her best performance that year. Ramiele also did the overdone Phil Collins hit “Against All Odds.” This simply tells me Ramiele learned her musical repertoire from watching previous seasons of “Idol.”
And when some idiot journalist asked the stupid “What advice would you give to aspiring singers?” question, she gave the classic cliched answer: “Be yourself.” In Ramiele’s case, that didn’t exactly work, did it?
She also plans to room with Danny Noriega once the tour is over cos they are such BFFs!
She managed her stress by crying every week when contestants were eliminated. And she cried a lot last night, too.
In other “Idol” news:
Chris Sligh on ew.com gives a detailed rundown of what happens after you get eliminated, including the farewell dinner at the local Italian restaurant, the press interviews and such. His favorites from Dolly Parton week: Syesha, David A., Carly and Michael. Most foregtable: Kristy Lee and Ramiele. In between: Brooke, Jason A. and David C.
Billboard.com reports that the rankings for the Idols singles from last week popped up. Archuleta’s “Smoky Mountain Memories” ranked No. 7, Michael Johns’ “It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right” came in at No. 12, David Cook’s “Little Sparrow” at No. 14, Jason Castro’s “Travelin’ Thru” at No. 20, Carly’s “Here You Come Again” at No. 30 and Brooke’s “Jolene” at No. 47.
Next week’s musical theme is inspirational songs for “Idol Gives Back.” Grab the dramamine stat!
The Los Angeles Times was in the audience last night and reported that Brooke White was in convulsions of tears during break when she found out she was in the bottom three and had to be consoled by virtually the entire production staff.
And here’s EW.com’s extended take on what happened on Tuesday in the theater.. Apparently, they taped an advance for some future results episode of Chris Brown and Jordin Sparks doing “No Air.” Cool!
In this Good Morning America report uploaded by MJ’s big blog, David Archuleta’s friends denied that his dad was any worse than other dad. And that David is shy and humble, even off camera. His vocal coach talked about his paralyzed vocal cord. He never fully recovered but gave his voice more texture.
- Finally, Gawker noted on TMZ.com the insensitive comments made about Claudette Yamin, Elliott’s dead mom and how they put up a poll asking if people thought it should be pulled. 78% did. I won’t bother repeating the offensive comment, which also mocks Taylor Hicks. (TMZ makes fun of Taylor Hicks constantly.) Judge for yourself.
