We have a final pair set now on American Idol – Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina. Scotty was one of my picks as a potential finalist. Steven Tyler picked Lauren right from the beginning.
Ousted was Haley Reinhart, my favorite. She got better and better as the weeks went by but was really my favorite because she is hot.
Two factors, I believe, led to her being voted out last night; 1- she exudes perhaps a little extra confidence that some describe as arrogance; 2- and the country community has spoken.
Scott and Lauren are 17 and 16 respectively, both humble, respectful and charming and they both are country singers.
One of Haley’s last performances on the sing-off the other night was pretty cool as she had her father on stage with her playing guitar in a Led Zeppelin song.
While I didn’t initially see Haley as a sure-bet recording artist, I sure do now. Same to be said with Lauren. We are going to hear 7-8 of these contestants on the radio in different genres in the next couple of years.
One of the big additions to this season was music producer Jimmy Iovine. I really don’t know anything about the music industry when it comes to producing records. But the other day I dusted off Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” CD and saw that Iovine had a major credit on that CD. I then heard him say on the show the other day that he worked on Tom Petty’s “Damn the Torpedoes’” album also. These are two all-time classic works of rock music. He is chairman of Interscope Records (a name that is foreign to me) and has also produced for John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Nicks (who he was linked to romantically at one point also,) Simple Minds, Dire Straits and Patti Smith to name a few others. He also helped Eminem launch his career and Lady Gaga too.
Ousted was Haley Reinhart, my favorite. She got better and better as the weeks went by but was really my favorite because she is hot.
Two factors, I believe, led to her being voted out last night; 1- she exudes perhaps a little extra confidence that some describe as arrogance; 2- and the country community has spoken.
Scott and Lauren are 17 and 16 respectively, both humble, respectful and charming and they both are country singers.
One of Haley’s last performances on the sing-off the other night was pretty cool as she had her father on stage with her playing guitar in a Led Zeppelin song.
While I didn’t initially see Haley as a sure-bet recording artist, I sure do now. Same to be said with Lauren. We are going to hear 7-8 of these contestants on the radio in different genres in the next couple of years.
One of the big additions to this season was music producer Jimmy Iovine. I really don’t know anything about the music industry when it comes to producing records. But the other day I dusted off Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” CD and saw that Iovine had a major credit on that CD. I then heard him say on the show the other day that he worked on Tom Petty’s “Damn the Torpedoes’” album also. These are two all-time classic works of rock music. He is chairman of Interscope Records (a name that is foreign to me) and has also produced for John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Nicks (who he was linked to romantically at one point also,) Simple Minds, Dire Straits and Patti Smith to name a few others. He also helped Eminem launch his career and Lady Gaga too.
Iovine is worth an estimated 700-875 million dollars and he spent all of that time working with these kids, which on the surface seems pretty selfless until you then figure that he’ll probably sign most of them.
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One of his greatest contributions is having the singers stick to their true selves. Scotty, for example, is really only a country singer. That is what he wants to, that is what he is. In the past the judges would insist on singers “stepping out of the box” to try new things so that they could “see what they could do.” Then they would tell the singers to stay true to themselves. It never made any sense to me and Iovine as much said so as well.
I think that means I could be a record producer and make a few extra million also!
Two quick baseball notes.
Jason Giambi became the 4th player in history to hit three homeruns in a game after the age 40 last night against the Phillies. He joins Reggie Jackson, Stan Musial and Babe Ruth on that small list.
And the best team in baseball is….The Cleveland Indians!
Jason Giambi became the 4th player in history to hit three homeruns in a game after the age 40 last night against the Phillies. He joins Reggie Jackson, Stan Musial and Babe Ruth on that small list.
And the best team in baseball is….The Cleveland Indians!
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