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Monday, May 19, 2008
5/19: Carrie’s ACM win, Jennifer Hudson album finally coming
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At 1:06 p.m., “Idol” publicists said scheduling conflicts mean no Q&As for either David for us poor scribes. Oh, well.
I wrote a big “Idol” package for the print edition Tuesday. The topics include a “David vs. David” faceoff, recycled from something I wrote here a week ago, a discussion of why “Idol” ratings are off and a ranking of the 10 finalists based on commercial viability, which I could bring up again as a blog topic here later in the week. Here’s the link.
-Carrie Underwood probably needs a separate room for the awards she keeps scarfing up. She won female vocalist of the year again at the ACMs Sunday night. (And congrats to Atlanta’s own Sugarland for winning song of the year with “Stay”!)
-MJ posted Kellie PIckler’s performance of a new song “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful” she wrote with Taylor Swift. (She lost to Swift for best new female performer) As MJ noted, she was not in good vocal form:
-I was busy Thursday, then got sick so I missed this rather pertinent detail in the Fox TV announcements. They have scheduled “Idol” results shows back to 30 minutes, which was the norm until season six. Oddly, the results shows did better in season six than the performance shows, the only time that has ever happened. This year, it’s gone back to the norm of 5 to 10% fewer viewers for results than performance, which makes logical sense since there’s only 3 minutes of real news. We’ll see how desperate Fox is by spring of 2009 to see if they hold to the 30 minutes. (That means no more trumped up Q&As. Hold back the tears, people!)
-Any thoughts yet on Jennifer Hudson, who looks kind of leaden in the promos for “Sex & the City.” She pops in at 1:04 in this trailer:
-But good news for Hudson fans. Her album is set to go September, with a single “Spotlight” out June 9. More info here at E!. Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke, Diane Warren and the ubiquitous Timbaland were all involved.
-And for the second year in a row, I failed to get through the songwriting contest candidates. I fear the worst, hope for the best. I mean, after last year’s debacle, who knows? I still say “Inside Your Heaven” is the worst winner song ever but many will argue for last year’s painful “This Is My Now” that poor Jordin had to sing or Taylor’s “Do I Make You Proud?” We find out tomorrow what the song is. Bring the dramamine!
