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What Your "American Idol" Also-Rans Are Up To: A Guide

Sure, this weekend saw reigning American Idol champ continue Saturday Night Live's run of making even the most technically proficient musicians sound like they were plucked from some third-tier cover band night right before they went onstage. And the whole Jennifer Hudson tragedy is stomach-churningly sad, although Hudson herself is apparently "staying very, very strong." With that in mind, here's what other members of the Idol extended family are up to these days...

• Season Three runner-up Diana DeGarmo is "now involved" with the wrestling outfit TNA, and making awkward appearances on Howard Stern's Sirius show that involve her being asked out by midgets. [ProWrestling.Net]
• Season Six runner-up Blake Lewis is recording covers of A Flock Of Seagulls that are subsequently mixed very awkwardly. (There's no beatboxing, either, although the cover is so bad that I'm starting to think the beatboxing might have helped.) [rickey.org]
• Season Six third-place finisher Melinda Doolittle finally has an album coming out, and it's apparently pretty good! [Idol Chatter]
• Season Five runner-up Chris Daughtry is going to be on Oprah tomorrow. In honor of Election Day... even though he's a prime example of someone not winning an election, yet going on to become a preferred candidate. Yeah, I don't know, either. [Daughtry Official]
• The liner notes appended to David Archuleta's forthcoming album clock in at 3,500 words. Maybe he's gearing up for NaNoWriMo? [PopWatch]

12:45 PM on Mon Nov 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
919 views, 7 comments

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Arista Drops Idol Runner-Up Blake Lewis After Less Than A Year

Ruben Studdard released three albums before getting dropped. Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee got a year and a half on their post-Idol contracts before being let go. Now 2007 American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis has been cast away by Arista, less than a year after they announced signing him. How long will Jive give David Archuleta to find a niche? Six months? More »

2:30 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,855 views, 6 comments

Like many of us, last year's beatboxing Idol runnerup Blake Lewis thinks that this season's lip-licking chosen one, David Archuleta, is kind of boring, an opinion that's led to a firestorm in the comments section of American Idol oracle rickey.org. Given that one of the combatants in this sorta-feud has Doug E. Fresh in his corner and the other has a scary stage dad in his, I'd think that the side of righteousness would be easy to pick out, but apparently there are lots of people out there who disagree. Vehemently. And they're not afraid to make fridge magnets to show which side they're on. [rickey.org]

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Blake Lewis Hates "This Is My Now" Just As Much As We Did

With two and a half weeks to go until the 2008 American Idol season premiere, 2007 alums Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis are making the rounds promoting their freshly released albums, both of which are slowly sliding down the charts. While Jordin is playing radio-sponsored shows and having her "promise ring" namechecked on top 40 stations in preparation for for her big, Idol-crossovertastic Super Bowl appearance, Blake is stopping by MTV and letting the people know that he pretty much knew he wasn't going to win the show as soon as he heard the first note of this season's coronation song, the Verizon campaign-ready piece of Christian-lite-rock treacle "This Is My Now": More »

1:30 PM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By mjohnston
1,220 views, 3 comments

Latest by Maura Johnston: @dennisobell: Aw, I wasn't down on him all along. I didn't like the beatboxed Bon Jovi and dude's visual aesthetic is a clear sign that he needs to get a vision plan with his Idol payout, but his singles are more »

art brutes

The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Is Under Attack By The Photoshopped Purple People Eaters

The final battle in our Bad Photoshop bracket is dominated by a certain color, but which pukey purple powerhouse will go on to be crowned the winner? Personally, my bet's on Perry Farrell payload of pure puce poo-poo, one of the few covers in our tournament that can make the vile violet of Blake Lewis' Audio Daydream look pleasing to the eye. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By jharv
1,410 views, 26 comments

Latest by BakerStreetSaxSolo: yeah but, the Satellite Party cover knows it's bizarre, it's purposefully wacky. This guy Blake looks so earnest!, you can see he's genuinely searching for some profound meanings in the stars (or he's just sniffed a surprisingly nasty fart). Blake more »

Avert Your Eyes: It's The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament's Elite 8

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The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Race Turns Its Back On Blake Lewis

Today's second entry in the Bad Photoshop bracket pits Coheed And Cambria's No World For Tomorrow against Blake Lewis' Audio Daydream, two covers that have led to more great jokes from the comments section than perhaps any others in our tournament so far! Seriously, Trapper Keeper gags, flashbacks to the days of school photos, a K-Pax shout-out, Frank Frazetta and Double Dragon and Matt Foley references... these two monstrostities have really inspired y'all. But alas, only one may advance to the next round. More »

2:00 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By jharv
1,669 views, 31 comments

Latest by Lucas Jensen: @HUGE_Hefner: I agree. That C&C cover is relentlessly amateur. more »

art brutes

The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Takes A Squiggly Path

Welcome back to our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament, which has already provided us with a few tight races, a few blowouts, and many, many amazing comments from the ballot-casting public. Today we close out the first round of voting in the Bad Photoshop Bracket with two covers that look like they were inspired by the same Trapper Keeper—or at the very least, the same batch of bad hallucinogens. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By mjohnston
1,406 views, 34 comments

Latest by Lucas Jensen: @PrinceHal: That is funny. more »

videodrone

Blake Lewis Visits The "Make Your Own Video" Booth At Adventureland

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the nothing

Blake Lewis Invents New Form Of Pop, Rides Falkor

American Idol beatbox boob Blake Lewis gave MTV a preview of his forthcoming debut album, an album that belongs to a "new genre I made up" called "2080" that's "a mix of all the great pop music that's inspired me." Oh, and his description of one song is almost as scary as his album cover. More »

4:20 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By jharv
1,092 views, 6 comments

Blake Lewis Breaks Anotha Copy Of Photoshop As He Enters The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Race

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Blake Lewis Makes A Break For It ARTIST: Blake Lewis
TITLE: "Break Another"
WEB DEBUT: Oct. 30, 2007

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upcoming releases

Today In Shifting Release Dates: Make Sure To Use A Pencil

Perhaps sensing that today would be a good day to put out bad news since people who cover music would be kinda distracted, release dates for three sorta-big upcoming albums were shifted today. (News that Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains was also pushed back has also been making the rounds, but this post on her official site, which originally said that its release date was Dec. 11, seems to have been corrected with the original Nov. 27 release date.) After the jump, we look at the three releases that are probably giving their respective marketing departments major headaches right now: More »

2:05 PM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By mjohnston
762 views, 15 comments

Latest by katie_a_princess: um, counting crows moved theirs to january ok i'll shut up now more »

the merch table

"Idol" Tour Merchandisers Lose Out On Potential Revenue From Sanjaya Wigs And T-Shirts

Among the 34 items for sale at stops on this summer's American Idols Live tour: T-shirts featuring Blake Lewis or Jordin Sparks (the other eight touring Idols are, sadly, not silkscreen-worthy); $50 hoodies that are, for some reason, imprinted with a guitar, and not the faces of the Idols; a $10 make-your-own sign kit (you'd think the Staples Center would object to such leeching of diorama-supply sales from its sponsor); and some $5 glowsticks, for when Blake busts out his new rave mini-set. (OK, OK, we're kidding about the "new rave" thing. We think.)

'American Idol' Tour Merchandise: Sorry, No Wigs [The Set List]

1:20 PM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By mjohnston
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Blake Lewis' cover of "You Give Love A Bad Name" has sold 192,000 digital copies to date—that's 15,000 more than Jordin Sparks' craptastic coronation song, "This Is My Now." Also, 500 people actually paid money to have a Haley Scarnato song on their computers?! [Idol Chatter]

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We Listen To The Finalists' EPs So You Don't Have To

After Jordin Sparks was crowned this year's American Idol last night, iTunes rushed into action, putting out five-song EPs that collect studio versions of songs from the finalists' repertoires this season. After the jump, we review the collections, and even imagine what Simon would say when each record was through. More »

3:30 PM on Thu May 24 2007
By mjohnston
1,736 views, 7 comments

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Blake Lewis And Sir Mix-A-Lot Give New Meaning To The Phrase "Idol Gives Back"

Today is homecoming day for American Idol finalists Melinda Doolittle, Blake Lewis, and Jordin Sparks—the three will travel back to their hometowns and announce one of their song selections for next Tuesday's episode, with one of the judges in tow. Lewis has spent the morning hitting the talk-show circuit Seattle, and the Fox affiliate there is gamely liveblogging the day. In between updates on his limo and shots of the weather outside, they dropped this tidbit: More »

12:46 PM on Fri May 11 2007
By mjohnston
1,049 views, 3 comments

Latest by Lucas Jensen: Why does no one ever post "The Square Dance Rap"? more »