AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 8 & 9 - S8 LIVE TOUR & S9 AUDITIONS

lake

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naper avy ni jadi camtuh ek?

sweetmm

so just found out that there's another concert tmrw...ada streaming tapi as usual i keja masa tuh ...
lake Post at 21-5-2010 23:02

Don't worry lepas tu sure ada yg upload youtube

sweetmm

sweetmm

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/2 ... -idol-finale-rumor/

Adam menjawab gossip terbaru yg AI cancel show dia kat AI sebab dia tak datang rehersal: (baca dari bawah ke atas)

adamlambert
        
and thanks for your words of support true fans! Dont worry, i just had to get it off my chest (publically) Im totally over it now. about 2 hours ago via web

Im blessed 2 be so busy & thrilled to take my nearly SOLD OUT tour on the road promoting love, diversity, peace, bravery & pride.Oh n' GLAM about 2 hours ago via web

Sick of certain journalists and jealous people in the industry trying to stir up bullshit drama. Must not be getting laid. GET A LIFE! HAHA about 2 hours ago via web

All i ever heard was:"you've not been asked to perform on finale.Would you like to sit in the audience?" Me:sorry-Too much work to do today. about 2 hours ago via web

sad that Im forced to defend myself bout situation no one pointing fingers knew any factual details about. Im working so hard on this tour!! about 2 hours ago via web

was put on vocal rest yesterday from MY show's rehearsals which doubled the work 2 do 2day since all equip. had 2 be sent back east tonight. about 2 hours ago via web

2nd: I DID come down w a throat bug most likely caught on my flight back from this past weekends' concert in Boston. about 2 hours ago via web

HAHA. I have now just been made aware of more gossip and rumormill: First of all, i was never asked to appear on the finale in any capacity. about 2 hours ago via web

Would have loved 2 have been at the Idol Finale to wish Simon farewell and support the finalists, but this tour for my fans is my priority. about 3 hours ago via Echofon

...music programmer, band and dancers and created all day. I'm so excited to get to work w such an amazing team to bring my vision to life! about 3 hours ago via Echofon

Whew got home from the last rehearsal for my Glam Nation Tour round 10pm. Loooong day. I met w the lighting designer...costume designer... about 3 hours ago via Echofon

lake

Hi ksweet...naper sampai babai2 kat benang AI satu lagi?

lake

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erkkkk...tetiba mcm terminat lak kat shahir af...muahaha....dah nak abeh baru mcm nak berkenalan2 gitew...sib baeeeekkkkk...cukuplah merembes ngan R bukan nama sebenar dulu...ekekeke

lake

Adam nak datang Msia tak utk international glam nation tour nanti...heheh...kalu dia dtg i nak uols semua teman i tgk konsert dia hokehhhhh....muahaha

lake

Adam nak datang Msia tak utk international glam nation tour nanti...heheh...kalu dia dtg i nak uols semua teman i tgk konsert dia hokehhhhh....muahaha

fredbok87

huhu...if adam ada kat finale ai9 mau jadi highlight of the nite....bukannya 2 finalists tu...

sweetmm

Hi ksweet...naper sampai babai2 kat benang AI satu lagi?
lake Post at 27-5-2010 18:54

Takdenyer lah nak discuss lagi boring nak mampus season ni.

sweetmm

huhu...if adam ada kat finale ai9 mau jadi highlight of the nite....bukannya 2 finalists tu...
fredbok87 Post at 27-5-2010 21:01

tuler infact guest artists lain pun tenggelam

sweetmm

Adam nak datang Msia tak utk international glam nation tour nanti...heheh...kalu dia dtg i nak uols  ...
lake Post at 27-5-2010 19:07

rasanya tak sampai kut m'sia sure kena ban.  jom ikut akak pi spore ke kalau ada.

HideGulz

rasanya tak sampai kut m'sia sure kena ban.  jom ikut akak pi spore ke kalau ada.
sweetmm Post at 27-5-2010 21:41

sah saye ikut~!

alyssasarah

Adam lansung tak der in the audience masa final AI9 tuh ek..................bz ngan Glam nation kekdahnya ek

alyssasarah

Adam Season 9 Finale Drama

The life of Adam Lambert is never lacking in drama, is it? And somehow, when the news story isn’t about him (like the American Idol finale that he never planned to attend–see tweets below) it somehow becomes about him. Funny that.

Late last night, in response to this Popeater gossip item claiming that Adam was cut from the Idol finale after blowing off Idol rehearsals, Adam took to twitter to blast “certain journalists and jealous people in the industry trying to stir up bullshit drama.”   Read his tweets, after the jump.

Meanwhile, Adam’s reps tell Entertainment Weekly that the story was “completely fabricated”, that Adam was approached by Idol producers to be part of the Simon Cowell tribute that 7 out of 8 Idol winners and a slew of Idol alums  took part in, but came down with a case of laryngitis over the weekend.


via @adamlambert:

#Whew got home from the last rehearsal for my Glam Nation Tour round 10pm. Loooong day. I met w the lighting designer…costume designer…

#…music programmer, band and dancers and created all day. I’m so excited to get to work w such an amazing team to bring my vision to life!

#Would have loved 2 have been at the Idol Finale to wish Simon farewell and support the finalists, but this tour for my fans is my priority.

#HAHA. I have now just been made aware of more gossip and rumormill: First of all, i was never asked to appear on the finale in any capacity.

#2nd: I DID come down w a throat bug most likely caught on my flight back from this past weekends’ concert in Boston.

#was put on vocal rest yesterday from MY show’s rehearsals which doubled the work 2 do 2day since all equip. had 2 be sent back east tonight.

#sad that Im forced to defend myself bout situation no one pointing fingers knew any factual details about. Im working so hard on this tour!!

#All i ever heard was:”you’ve not been asked to perform on finale.Would you like to sit in the audience?” Me:sorry-Too much work to do today.

#Sick of certain journalists and jealous people in the industry trying to stir up bullshit drama. Must not be getting laid. GET A LIFE! HAHA

#Im blessed 2 be so busy & thrilled to take my nearly SOLD OUT tour on the road promoting love, diversity, peace, bravery & pride.Oh n’ GLAM

# and thanks for your words of support true fans!  Dont worry, i just had to get it off my chest (publically) Im totally over it now.  

Adam says he was never asked to perform on the finale, but his reps tell Entertainment Weekly that he was asked, but came down with Laryngitis over the weekend. Either way, I don’t think Adam was ever planning to attend the finale. How has this turned into such a big drama?

alyssasarah

lawak betol kat mjs.........thread on the winner aka Lee and runner-up aka Crystal ader abt less than 10 comments........citer Adam and Finale AI9 or his absence ader beratus2 comments

alyssasarah

pasal Adam tak der Finale AI8 ader beratus comments.......cuma imagine kalo dier ader or even bettwer kalo dier perform...mau ribu riban

Adam stole the the winner and runner-up thunder just for not being there in the Finale.....how ironic

alyssasarah

David Cook pon tak der kan kat Finale bcos of his charity concert.......nobody seem to notice though

sweetmm

Rickey Minor on his 'Idol' run, Season 9, Adam Lambert and the Pickler that got away

Wednesday’s “American Idol” finale didn’t just mark Simon Cowell’s last night on the job, the show also bid farewell to musical director, bandleader and chief arranger Rickey Minor, who takes over “The Tonight Show” band on June 7. Now he didn’t get a video package or even a spoken acknowledgment by Ryan Seacrest, which reportedly infuriated the music veteran, but in talking to Idol Tracker the next day, Minor downplayed the snub, insisting that he remains close to the show’s producers and is even consulting with them on his potential successor.

Even more surprising, when it comes to his own “Idol” legacy, Minor says he’s not feeling nostalgic yet. Maybe it’s because in jumping from one gig right into the next, he hasn’t had the time to properly reflect, so we help him look back at his tenure on “Idol” -- the good, the fast, the pitchy --  in the Idol Tracker exit Q&A, and wish him all the best for the future!

Let’s start with current day “Idol” and work backwards. Were you upset about not being thanked on the finale?

It was blown out of proportion. The show ran out of time. It was up on the screen to thank me, but it’s hit or miss if we run over and you can bet that the finale is going to run over. But we’re all good. Actually, I had meetings afterwards with Cecile [Frot-Coutaz] and Simon Fuller about future endeavors, and they went really well.

Having worked on “Idol” for so many years, put this season and its outcome in perspective for us…

Well, it’s entertainment. When you're casting a show like this, you need a lot of back story and you have to make a balanced show. You can’t have all singer-songwriters, they can’t all  be rockers, you need a story. And when someone like a Lee DeWyze comes from a paint store in Chicago and now he’s the winner of  “American Idol” with a huge future ahead of him, it’s like capturing lightning in a bottle… and there’s no way to know who will emerge.

What of the criticism that Lee is a weaker singer than Crystal Bowersox?

It’s the same thing that happened with Adam [Lambert] and Kris Allen. At this point, it’s about what the people want and it’s not about who’s the better singer, and the public is gonna buy the record of the person that they like the most, and it was really close. But with something like “Idol,” you have to be really into Crystal or into Lee and what he represents. So in large part, the voting may or may not have been due to the actual singing, but the personality. And I like them both. I like Crystal’s dreads, she’s got a baby, I’ve got a baby -- I’m a single mother too, you know…  There’s no rhyme or reason for the winner, and I said it to both Lee and Crystal, whether or not you’re crowned as the American Idol, you've won.

When you first saw Lee, did you think, here’s a guy who can win this thing?

No, not in the beginning, but that’s the beauty of what this show does. I loved Crystal from day one, but she had her peaks and valleys as well, and I think that Lee emerged and definitely deserved to be in the finals and they both deserve to win, but only one can.

As these kids are progressing week to week, when does the ego usually kick in?

It usually happens around the Top 10, because it’s like, “Now I’ve made the tour so I’m a touring artist.” But I have no idea how they cope with being totally unknown one week to having their face on the cover of People magazine the next. Google their name, and it pops up like crazy, and then the blogs…. The first thing I tell them is: “Do yourself a favor, don’t read the blogs. If you want to when the competition is over, by all means, but for now, don’t read it because you’re going to hear some stuff that’s hurtful and other stuff that will give you false confidence. It will make you think you’re that good, when at this point in your career, you're not that great. So realize that this team was put together for your benefit -- use it and listen.”

Do they usually listen?

Some do, some don't. It’s hard. Even family and friends will say, “They told you to switch it up!” I think it’s daunting. Not just to get to the criticism in front of millions of people but also conflicting criticism. It’s like, how do you process it?

Has there been somebody over the years that you've really connected with musically?

Carrie Underwood and Adam Lambert. Carrie, because she had never done anything and it was a total trust factor. She’d always lean into me and say, “Is this what I should do? OK, thank you, I'll do it.” So there was never any push back. Even now, there’s still such a level of comfort and respect. And Adam, in the same way, was always gracious, and thanking the band. He and Carrie were of the few that thanked the band. She was so green, but Adam came from theater, from music and recordings, so he knew what his direction was. He and I had probably the most e-mail and phone traffic of all the contestants.

You would correspond directly with the finalists regularly?

In the Top 10, they all get my e-mail and phone number so that they can get the chance to communicate me. It’s important that I be accessible, not just when they see me at rehearsal. It’s part of the job because there’s a commitment to excellence, which can’t be achieved if I’m incommunicado. So Adam would always have ideas floating in his head. We'd try stuff and I would even do a mock up of it and send it to him. We'd go back and forth until the minute we get to rehearsal on Monday and it’s a lock -- we know what we're doing. So he was proactive and I enjoyed that.

Have there been any close calls or borderline disasters that were averted?

A close call that wasn’t averted was one performance with Kellie Pickler when she got ahead of the band and never found her place in her song. In a case like that, we don’t move -- we're the rock. There has to be some sort of rule, and mine is "don’t move unless I say 'move'."

As someone who works regularly with classics from the great American songbook, how would you react when someone like Ke$ha or P. Diddy comes on the show?

I love it. Jamie Foxx is my client, I work with Ke$ha, Usher, Queen Latifah, Snoop Dogg, artists with songs that are just a beat, but it is musical. Is it Mozart? Is it Herbie Hancock? Is it Tchaikovsky? It’s none of those, but boy does it make you want to get up and shake your tail feather! It makes you wanna move, it’s happy music.

What would you do differently in “Idol’s” future?

I have a lot of ideas and I’ve scared them already so I can't really be specific, but I can say that I would hope in the seasons to come they’ll have a better contemporary selection of songs. There's always a clearance issue with songs but when they talk about the relevancy, that's the contradiction: [People] want to see more relevant artists.

Are the producers stuck in the '80s as I’ve thought all along?

It's a fine line. These are songs that the grandparents and parents know and the younger generation can hear these songs for the first time and connect -- that's how this show works: so the family can sit down together. And it's really difficult to get a current song that only the younger kids know and make it your own. If someone tried to do "Empire State of Mind" just like Alicia Keys did on the show, they're going to be compared to her instantly, so how do you find your own voice? So I don't know. I’m hoping that they can find a way to do both.

Is there a song you never want to play again?

“At Last.” So many sang it at during auditions. And "Alone" by Heart was one of the most played songs. Carrie Underwood did it, Allison Iraheta did it…

With Simon leaving, who do you think will make a good replacement for him?

Me! I'd be a great judge! [Laughs] I don't know, I liked Harry Connick. He's from Louisiana, and if he and Randy were there, you'd have two guys from Louisiana. Harry was so engaging as a mentor that I was excited to see how that affected them… if the time he spent with them really gave them the confidence that they needed, and he gave them some great ideas as a mentor. So I think as a judge, he would be honest, open and encourage them to be themselves and at the same time respect the music.

Who is the heart of the show?

Simon definitely set the pulse for it, but I think the kids are the heart. Ryan is the taskmaster in keeping everything moving -- he makes a mistake look good! If he tripped, he's got that Dean Martin thing where you just keep going and work it into your routine. He's got the charm, so I think Ryan is the key guy for me, because he's the one that keeps the judges and the competitors moving, and really moving the show forward.

How do you think Ellen DeGeneres did on her first season?

I think she did really well. I think she's funny and has the common voice, because sometimes the public doesn't get the music mumbo-jumbo. They don’t want to hear about being pitchy or coming in a bar early, they want to know: Was it good or wasn't it? Did you think it was good and why? Some of Ellen’s analogies are hilarious and she's got a good balance. But it’s all about chemistry, and hopefully they'll find someone who will share their chemistry.

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