Tag Archives: American Idol

Our boy Adam Lambert finally won over even Simon Cowell tonight, who called Lambert’s Tracks Of My Tears “the best performance of the night.” And a standing ovation from the song’s writer, Smokey Robinson, sure doesn’t hurt. Ridiculously amazing. UPDATE: The highly accurate Dial Idol site shows Adam in first place.

Openly gay American Idol contestant Adam Lambert killed tonight with his strangely affecting gothy take on Johnny Cash’s classic, Ring Of Fire. The judges didn’t really know what to make of it, but tonight finally got me liking him. The bottom clip is where I suspect Lambert got his arrangement.

After last night’s performance, some folks are saying openly gay American Idol contestant Adam Lambert has positioned himself as a front runner. Sorry, but I’m just not feeling it yet. And where are this year’s trainwrecks? Where’s Sanjaya 2009?

Seven former American Idol contestants have eight songs in this week’s AC Top 40. No. 4: The Time of My Life, David CookNo. 6: What About Now, DaughtryNo. 8: Crush, David ArchuletaNo. 15: One Step at a Time, Jordin SparksNo. 19: Light On, David CookNo. 26: What’s Right Is Right, Taylor HicksNo. 29: It’s Your Love, Melinda DoolittleNo. 30: My …

The mother and brother of Oscar winner, American Idol finalist, and gay icon Jennifer Hudson were found murdered in their Chicago home yesterday. The mother and brother of Jennifer Hudson were found shot dead Friday at a South Side home, and police were looking for a missing child who is the nephew of the singer and Oscar-winning actress. A man …

Donna Summer performed on last night’s final of American Idol, singing her new single Stamp Your Feet and Last Dance. Oh, and David Cook won.

…was the completely dumbfounded look on Simon’s face during Fantasia’s strange, shrieky, but oddly compelling and damn funky performance of her single, Bore Me. From the Boston Globe: I want to say: Fantasia. Whoo. Watching her tonight felt a little like attending a 23rd-century intergalactic circus, but it was also kind of mesmerizing — almost as fascinating as the look …

In the history of the show, has any finalist crashed and burned so spectacularly as Jason Castro did last night? Wow. Otherwise, David Archuletta is back on his game. A mid-show email from Father Tony: “They have obviously taken the Archuletta boy off the Quaaludes.”

Strange week, eh? Everybody pretty much sucked with Neil Diamond’s material. Paula reviewed a performance that hadn’t yet occurred, prompting renewed gossip that the producers were rigging the show. Especially interesting in that regard was Syesha Mercado landing in the bottom two – when the usually reliable Dial Idol had placed her at a comfortable first place. My early favorite …

Father Tony came over to watch American Idol with me last night after I declined his invitation to watch it at Urge. (Somehow I didn’t feel like watching David Archuleta through the sweaty legs of go-go boys.) Last night the six remaining contestants performed the songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber and when the announcer said that Webber had “composed most …

(Via – Queerty)

American Idol contestant David Hernandez was voted off the show last night, perhaps due in part to voter disdain with his past as a gay stripper. Prior to a lackluster performance on Tuesday’s show, Hernandez was considered a contender to make the finals. (Personally, I didn’t think he was all that great.) With Danny Noriega and David Hernandez now gone, …

The producers of American Idol say they have no problem with David Hernandez. American Idol executive producer Ken Warwick told TV Guide they’ve had many erotic dancers on their show, and Hernandez’s past is his business. “We’ve had strippers on the show before. We’re never judgmental about people who do things like that,” Warwick said. “If it were some sort …

From Vote For The Worst: And… we were right! Check out the story in the Associated Press today that confirms what we’ve been saying for a while now. David Hernandez stripped at a gay club called Dick’s Cabaret up until September of last year, meaning he was still stripping when he tried out for American Idol. We have no problem …

Seriously, we’re seeing something really amazing with this David Archuleta kid on American Idol, who last night very riskily took on perhaps the most beloved and sacred song in the history of pop music and knocked it into the bleacher seats. I came this close to actually calling and voting with the rest of America’s 12 year-old girls.

Hoping to find this year’s Sanjaya, I tuned into last night’s American Idol for their all-guys show. (The all-girls show is tonight.) None of the 12 contestants seemed to have that wacky Sanjayacity that made last season the first one that I actually took an interest in, but I totally fell in love with 17 year-old puppy dog David Archuleta …

Mandisa, the 5th season American Idol contestant who was voted off the show shortly after she made anti-gay comments to the press, has landed on her feet. “True Beauty” (Sparrow), the first album by fifth season “American Idol” finalist Mandisa, enters the Top Christian Albums chart at No. 1. It’s the first debut album by a solo female artist to …

Wearing a t-shirt that said “Life Is Beautiful”, Sanjaya was voted off of American Idol last night, ending a national obsession. After the result was announced, fellow contestant Lakisha gave Sanjaya an extremely long embrace as the audience gave him a standing ovation. And then, as is tradition, Sanjaya was given to mic to perform a final number, in which …

OK, now it’s on. Laddie mag Maxim has just named Sanjaya as their Girl Of The Day. I’ll admit that previously I joined in the Sanjaya bashing as gleefully as the next person, but Maxim has pissed me off enough to really start pulling for the kid. It’s sorta how we’re allowed to make fun of our own, but The …