Details from last night’s taping of “Idol Gives Back,” which I didn’t make the press-list cut for and which is one of three episodes of American Idol airing this week, thus ensuring that the producers won’t pull the same “we’re not sending anyone home because that would ruin the feel-good vibe of the night” shenanigans that they engaged in last year:
• Yes, that’s Mariah Carey performing with a crystal-studded microphone. (I really hope they’re crystals, anyway. Diamonds would be tacky on multiple levels.)
• Snoop Dogg was on hand to perform, and he let the world know that his daughter thinks that Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana are two different people. [MTV]
• Speaking of Billy Ray’s daughter, she’s never seen an episode of the show, although that doesn’t mean she’s above plugging her new album on its most-promoted episode of the year. Everyone had their classy pants on last night, huh? [OK]
• Why anyone thinks that Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel would be worthy members of a charity show’s lineup is beyond me, and it also makes me wonder if my plan of liveblogging the episode is a good idea. [Pop Tarts]
• People who are involved in the disbursement of monies received during the “Idol Gives Back” program are pleased with the way the charity’s handled its finances, although a formal accounting of last year’s event hasn’t been released. [NYT]
[Photo: AP]
Mariah’s been performing with a crystal-studded microphone since 2005. I think recently she’s just gotten the microphone stand studded in crystals as well.
@rad_matter: A microphone surely paid for by the $28 mill courtesy of EMI, prob. MC’s subtle way of saying “F U” to EMI every time she performs.
I’m tuning in to see if Snoop one ups her and performs with that gaudy ass crystallized Snoop Dogg microphone he had on VH1 Storytellers.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the Times piece this morning, if only because I expected the money-disbursement to be a Live Aid ‘85-level cock-up.
I frankly think it was a self-regulating prophesy: the Idol producers had to be clean and above-board in giving out the dough, because they’d get raked over the coals in the court of public opinion if there were even one hint of grubbing or mismanagement.