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Carly Smithson: In Memoriam

I should probably preface my writeup of American Idol's results episode by saying that I watched it while on a cross-country flight, which meant that a) I didn't have a peanut gallery to bounce my observations off until much later and b) I had to keep any bon mots to myself, since the woman sitting next to me got visibly weirded out when I gasped at the banishment of Syesha Mercado, and not Brooke White, to the Bottom Two Stools. (She was watching Animal Planet with the sound off, so maybe I caused her to think that a tiger was actually sitting in 8E.) And after Carly joined her in the losers' club—even after that cutaway where Jason Castro was caught yawning backstage!—I was expecting Syesha to get dispatched quickly, what with her suffering the curse of being not all that bad and first on a trainwrecky night. More »

6:00 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Thierry: @jasonelias: Without You wasn't a Mariah song, and at least one of the Dolly Parton songs was a cover - and Neil Diamond actuallly recorded "He Ain't Heavy..." before the Hollies. So it's not like there isn't a precedent in more »

An update on David Cook's album sales: "It sold 885 copies this week (all digital), or about half of what would be required to make the digital albums chart." Which means, I guess, that Cook doesn't count as a "new artist" by SoundScan standards, since he didn't appear on that 150-album chart either (No. 150, Tierra Cali's Enamorado De Ti, sold about 600 copies). And as a side note, David Cook hater Roger Friedman has moved on to mumbling about the greatness of the Carly Hennessy album, saying that she's taken an "odd route" to the Idol stage. [Earlier]

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Whoever's running the American Idol Web sites must have gotten wind that Sanjaya's fans were not happy with Carly Smithson telling the show's online staff that her favorite Idol moment of the past six seasons was watching Sanjaya and his hairstyles get the boot; the answer to that question in her AmericanIdol.com q-and-a session is now a succinct "n/a". Something tells me this won't make the Fanjayas any less unhappy (or exclamation-point-happy)... [AmericanIdol.com / Earlier]

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Carly Smithson Continues To Win Hearts And Minds Of Internet-Savvy "Idol" Fans Everywhere

My increasing—yet still grudging!—affection for Carly Smithson increased a little just now, when I found out that while other contestants said in their latest Idol questionnaires that their favorite moments of the show were their admission to the top 24 (Asia'h, who should enjoy it while she can) and Idol Gives Back (Luke, who... ugh), she selected as her favorite the night that Sanjaya Malakar got voted off last season. Say what you will about her past; Carly certainly knows how to rile up the bloggers and message-board posters who decried her eligibility because of the major-label flop she put out a few years back. And it's kind of awesome. An example: There are 94 comments about Carly's flippant answer on Idolwatcher haven/Fanjaya gathering-place rickey.org already, spurred on by the very-displeased site proprietor Rickey: More »

3:20 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,384 views, 6 comments

Latest by rhythmchyc: @Nicolars I just want to hear Ryan introduce Sanjaya again. The way those syllables roll off his tongue brought on guffaws every time. more »

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Carly Smithson Explains Herself (Sort Of)

During last night's episode of American Idol, Carly Smithson (née Hennessy) came sorta-clean about her major-label past, talking about how her label "imploded" after her album came out—although said label, MCA, didn't so much "implode" as "get absorbed by Geffen a few months after that Wall Street Journal piece about the piles and piles of money they spent on her came out." And Carly's mention of her current job highlighted another interesting detail about that story that has nothing to do with major-label excess: It reports, in its closing, Carly getting her first tattoo ("an intricate cross on the small of her back that she hopes will impress her fans")—and now she owns a whole parlor! Crazy, right?

10:45 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,637 views, 5 comments

Latest by Hamm Beerger: @kityglitr: If the votes don't turn out how kityglitr would like it's rigged! Don't be an idiot. more »

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The "American Idol" Round Of 24 Has Started Singing -- But Where's Carly Smithson?

The first episode in the competitive portion of American Idol just started on the East Coast, and tonight the top 12 guys are giving their spin to the songs of the 1960s. The above shot is of the young ladies remaining in the competition—in a nice bit of reverse chivalry, they get to kick back and relax a bit while the men go first—but note that there are only 11 of them, thanks to one notable absence: Carly "Hennessy" Smithson, the former MCA signee who's caused quite the firestorm before even stepping on Idol's big stage. The obvious question: Where is she? Was she on a bathroom break? Did her visa expire again? Is she going to come back from the commercial with a huge record contract? Or is there going to be some sort of big, embarrassing announcement at show's end? I'm going to unpause my DVR and find out right now!

8:15 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by CapnCalamity: I don't dispute that. But Danny Noriega (whether he's gay or not, and I wasn't the one who said he was) isn't the one to do it. Frankly, I'm not sure who can win this year. They're all pretty more »