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"American Idol" Hopefuls To Be Judged By Former Dave Stewart Collaborator

Alas, I'm not talking about Annie Lennox. In an effort to bring what a Fox exec calls more "girl power" to the show, the judges' table for the next season of American Idol will now have a Coke cup for songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who's shared writing credits on songs including Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man" and Kelly Clarkson's "Walk Away" and collaborated with Stewart on the pseudo-retro project Platinum Weird. DioGuardi, who Idol head honcho Simon Fuller called "a smart, sassy lady," is being billed as the show's fourth judge, which I guess means either that the judges' table will be widened or Paula Abdul will get some time off to "rest" now and again. (One producer claims that Idol was always supposed to have four judges, although it seems strange to me that it took the executives this long to find someone who wanted the gig.) A few highlights of DioGuardi's career after the jump. More »

10:30 AM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
509 views, 11 comments

Latest by jckrbtslmz: Fully shameless plug here, but I wrote a piece for the Orlando Weekly last year about today's pop music and it features some interesting quotes from Kara. ("Hilary Duff's doing a service for kids") [www.orlandoweekly.com] I can tell you she's an awesome more »

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The 29 Seconds That Are Supposed To Make Everyone Feel Better About "American Idol"


For those of you who are curious, the "rumors" Ryan is obliquely referring to as being untrue aren't about Paula being into field hockey players. Nor are they about Paula using the rehearsals to guide her later critiques, since she admitted that she does engage in that practice yesterday: More »

12:15 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,102 views, 7 comments

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Seven Videos That Got Away From Me During Blogging Hours

It's the last day of the month, a time for desk-clearing and "to do" list-finalizing and, in the case of April 2008, celebrating that a pretty horrible 30-day stretch is near its end. With that in mind, I'm going to use the last posting day of each month for "Rule Of Sevens," in which I put together a couple of seven-item, mostly-commentary-free lists—from aborted post topics to my current best-of-the-year rundowns—for your reading pleasure. In the first installment, please enjoy these seven videos that I really wanted to post on various days during April, but didn't, for reasons ranging from "I got distracted and watched it five times in a row instead" to "All I can really say about this song is 'it's awesome and you should listen to it now.'" More »

12:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
668 views, 11 comments

Latest by N/A: "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" was always one of my favorite Crue songs. While I agree with Molanphy that it got unfairly overshadowed by "Without You", that song has it's moments as well. I remember buying more »

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"American Idol" Fix Exposed?

Paula Abdul's stupor may have pulled back the curtain on the plot to destroy Jason Castro tonight—it was the first night that the contestants sang two songs each, so they ran through all their initial performances, then came out to be judged at the end of the first half-hour. And Paula used this opportunity to tell Jason, who went first, that while she liked the use of his lower vocal register on "Forever In Blue Jeans," his second song "felt like your usual charm was missing for me... it left me a little empty. The two songs made me feel like you're not fighting hard enough to get into the top four." But he only performed one song! Apparently those second-song comments were meant for David Cook—but then when Paula "recovered" to give Cookie her critique, he said that he was "fantastic," and that the only problem with his performance was that the song wasn't as well-known as other picks from the night. And the producers can't figure out why the ratings are down this season? Between this and the fact that David Archuleta could have an on-stage vocal cord hemorrhage and still be called "the bomb" by Randy, I think any sentient being can know that there's at least some sort of "desired outcome" that's been communicated to the judges by Nigel Lythgoe's camp.

8:45 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Maura Johnston
3,641 views, 21 comments

Latest by Manola: @ScarletMurphy: Most likely you are right that there is a lot of manipulation of votes, of outcomes, etc. But to give any credit to the allegations of meathead Josh Gracin is a little thick. It sounds like a serious more »

Generally the word "plotting" is a sure sign of music-writer hackdom, but when it concerns Paula Abdul's comeback album, it is le mot juste. [Billboard]

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So it turns out that the video for Paula Abdul's new single "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" has actually not been "rejected" by MTV. MTV will actually break Paula's heart on Monday, unless the network decides to be perverse/spite a gun-jumping blogosphere. [MTV]

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Paula Abdul's New Video Has No Tomorrow On MTV


Dear OK!: If you're surprised that MTV has decided to not put Paula Abdul's video for "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" on their playlist, you are probably not so good at things like basic music-industry math, either. Let's add up the numbers: Paula Abdul is 45; MTV's median viewer age is somewhere around 21 or 22; MTV's music-related airtime makes up about 4.5% of its broadcast day; and the channel's current playlist consists of about 15-20 videos. (If that.) And really, this MTV "snub" is nothing more than a tempest in an old-paradigm teapot: Given that a single American Idol spin of the clip resulted in "Dance" experiencing a 559% digital-sales gain this week—numbers that you probably wouldn't see after a few scattered plays at 3 a.m. on weekdays—shouldn't she start lobbying 19 Entertainment for increased airtime on her home turf, instead? [OK! / YouTube]

5:30 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Maura Johnston
537 views, 9 comments

Latest by chartreuse: Why is their a guitar player in her band? And why is he playing? more »

Paula Abdul brings her kooky comments about American Idol's contestant base to the wires of the Associated Press: "If they hadn't already tried to make a name for themselves, then they don't deserve to be in (the) competition," she told the AP as she tried to defend the major-label pasts of Carly Hennessy and Kristy Lee Cook. Which sort of reads like her saying that only those groomed from birth for stahhdom should even bother showing up at Idol tryouts at this point. Perhaps she should just stick to the color-association game for future media days? [AP]

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(semi-intentional) leak of the day

Paula Abdul Is Not Really Making Her New Single Her Own

ARTIST: Paula Abdul
TITLE: "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow"
WEB DEBUT: Jan. 18, 2008 More »
Fox is apparently very very serious about turning Super Bowl XLII into the most-watched American Idol commercial ever. Not only is Jordin Sparks going to have her now with the national anthem, rumor has it that Paula Abdul is going to sing sometime during the telecast—and the song she'll be performing will be off Randy Jackson's duets album. So how is Tom Petty going to fit into all of this Idol cross-promotion, a reprise of the "Free Fallin'" duet he did at the 1989 VMAs, only with Clay Aiken in the Axl Rose slot? Hey, it is Fox, after all. [TV Guide]

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The "American Idol" Finale Just Got 110% More Interesting

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The Paula Abdul Out-Of-It Scale Now Has A New, Much Higher Benchmark

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