With a little more than 24 hours to go until the American Idol finale, a few bits of news are trickling out… that, of course, have nothing to do with what finalists Adam Lambert and Kris Allen might be singing during tomorrow night’s competition. Because if there’s one thing about this year, it’s that the performances were usually the least important thing! After the jump, Danny Gokey is still dumb, Katy Perry gets her clothing bleeped, and no one knows who’ll be judging next year.
• Danny Gokey: Still saying stupid things. Basically there was this vlog that Michael Sarver (you remember him, right?) shot, and when the camera fell on the Gokester, he said that he “loved” his fellow finalist–then tried to clarify that he loved Sarver in the Godly way. Only at first the word “Godly” sounded an awful lot like the word “right.” Sigh. On the bright side, perhaps this means the two of them will now get matching manicures in their clumsy efforts to win back rightfully irritated members of the Idol fanbase. [MJ]
• Katy Perry: Censored by iTunes? Not for being generally aggravating, but for having Adam Lambert’s name on the back of the cape she wore while performing “Waking Up In Vegas”; it’s been whited out of the version of the video that one can buy on iTunes. Hey, if I’m going to shell out a buck forty-nine, I won’t mind electioneering! [TMZ]
• We don’t know who will be sipping from the Coke cups next year… yet. Fox president Kevin Reilly wouldn’t tell Entertainment Weekly TV reporter Michael Ausiello just who would be judging next year’s crop of American Idol hopefuls. No word on whether or not this is because Fox is trying to figure out how to fit a 30-minute American Idol: All The Things The Judges Wanted To Say But Couldn’t Because The Damn Singing Got In The Way supplemental show in its schedule. [EWAusielloFiles@Twitter]
[Pic via Newsday]
I’m not surprised about the “censorship” of Perry’s cape, but I wonder if maybe Idol itself made this edit before the West Coast feed went out. Anyone around these parts have any info on that? Honestly, “censorship” by 19E sounds more plausible to me than censorship by iTunes.
I am a West Coast Idol viewer, and Perry’s cape was resplendent in all of it’s Lamberty glory.
As a side note, how is “Waking up in Vegas” not a Gretchen Wilson song?
@joshservo: …Perry’s cape was resplendent in all of it’s Lamberty glory…
THANK YOU for solving that for me…
As a side note, how is “Waking up in Vegas” not a Gretchen Wilson song?
FTW!!!
That’s quite a stretch to think Gokey is saying something offensive. I guess Gokey is responsible for the war in Iraq and the dismal economy. He’s not in the competition anymore. You can quit bashing him every other column.
@jonian2008: No, but he did kill his wife. Or at the very least, he married someone in the intensive care ward.
@jonian2008: if it’s quite a stretch, then why did sarver take down the video and apologize?
i know you’re an apologist for the guy, but can’t you see how people who are accepting of homosexuality might be offended by his second-grade “left is right, right is wrong” antics?
(also, i hate HATE HATE when people use the verb “bashing” in defense of whatever they’re defending, because it is the no. 1 sign on the internet that a poster is vaguely offended but doesn’t want to let on that his objections are based in personal preference. it also sidesteps the whole “arguing in favor of your side” issue by accusing the person making the argument seem like a bully and “mean” and not hewing to some outdated standard of objectivity. (which is different from fairness, and has completely turned into an excuse to get large organizations’ flacks quoted in any story, even when they’re issuing bald-faced lies.))
@jonian2008: Gokey’s comment was not offensive in the same vein that Gokey praying that Lambert sees the light and is saved is not offensive.
@ joshservo: MJ had a very good comment on Gokey yesterday, that in his interviews it occurred to her that he really tried out for idol as a way to give his wife’s death meaning. In other words, he is a man so deep in his grief that he not in his right mind.
@Maura: AMEN.
@anibundel: That absolutely makes sense, and I accept that my comment about Gokey was insensitive bordering on transgressively cruel. But in my defense, jonian2008 was acting like a real schmuck. And now, on with the MAIN EVENT! TEAM ALLEN!