What happened to the dialidol site? They were way off. After last week's sweep, I'm surprised.

Next week's theme of Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook series is IMO going to be a f'ing disaster. Granted those albums revived Rod's career, but he was essentially doing covers of old pop songs from the 50's and 60's.

So next week is going to be a cover of a cover? What are the producers at Idol thinking?

Well, if you factor in their margin of error, seems they were not off at all. It's not a perfect predictor, but it's pretty good.

Rod Stewart has had a great career but, c'mon, 4 volumes of OLD cover tunes??? And that makes money? I don't personally follow the guy and had no idea he was even doing this. The man's laughing all the way to the bank.

And the producers are looking for established names with something to plug who are willing to be on the show.

The theme is not ROD STEWARTS SONGBOOK...but American Popular Standards...Rod will just be pimping an album.

This is no different than Big Band or Crooner nights

his arm pit hair almost grabbed Seacrest like a Venus flytrap

Will the choices cover the entire songbook, or the just the ones that Rod Stewart has already covered on his albums? Either way, Paris needs to do Someone to Watch Over Me.

I missed what Bucky said, that's funny though That's true about Bucky--there is a possibility he could sell. I wouldn't want to hear anything from Bucky or Ace, oh no LOL.

Yeah I bet Simon really goes after Ace too. Seems like he's gunning for Taylor too...

SNL did a great little montage of Tom Delay during weekend update using the Danile Powter 'Bad Day' song.

Agreed. Gawd help me but I even liked the lil turn around he did on the 2nd verse; changing it up a bit. Bucky, IMHO, was a hack who never should have made the final competition.

I laughed a bit at the clips of Rod Stewart doing the standards. Almost like he was laughing at the idea himself. "I'm making money singing this old stuff! Muahahaha" No crooners left, so we'll see who shines.

You mean you had some originally?

Alright, that's hardly fair -- how am I supposed to stand by my argument when faced with THAT?!

Obviously, tho, a haircut would do him some good!

he seriously needs a haircut, I have no idea who told him that he looked good, and the sleeveless tee, bad mistake. I think elliot will get a pop from this weeks show, he got good coverage with his mom.

Although the one I felt for most was Bucky, his dad was perfect in the video.

It amazes me that people in here are pissed that people make this out to be a popularity contest. That's what music is and always has been. People have to like you in order to like your music. Is their anyone in here that believes Britney or Ashlee Simpson have a lot of music talent? Face it, life itself is a popularity contest.

My husband writes for All Music Guide, and a few of the staff members participated in a roundtable discussion about this week's American Idol show, as a feature on the site.

Here is a link:
http://tinyurl.com/fybdk

Thought of this post when i read this. Apparently it's from Brian May's blog.

May also discusses the Ace Young controversy, or as he calls it, "the fallout from American Idol," in a separate blog entry:

"Some of you have written in accusing me of undermining ACE with his interpretation of WWRY. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm afraid this is an illustration of exactly what I have been quoted as saying about the programme ..... that the critical process would be better off done in private, like we do in auditioning for our musical ...

"We had an interaction with ACE, a conversation, in which we gave him the best advice we possibly could, based on studying the demo's which we already had in our iTunes - which I'd personally given a lot of time to study. This conversation, in my book, ought to have been private, but that is not the style of the show, sadly. But the even more unfortunate thing is that you are then in the hands of the video editors, who seem to seize with glee anything that looks negative. It was edited in such a way that it looked as if I was purely negative - they very naughtily inserted a bit that I said about "not on my own song" so it appeared that I said it AFTER we had played together, which was not the way it happened ...making me look like I was against the whole thing. But this was not the case. Having said that I wouldn't be able to play the arrangement exactly like his demo, and that I didn't think it would work without the stomps and claps which are foundation of the song, we then discussed how we could improve his ideas and with a mixture of a quick conference and spontaneous creation we came up with a kind of mixture of his thoughts and ours - WHICH WAS THE BASIS FOR THE ARRANGEMENT THAT YOU SAW THE HOUSE BAND PLAY ON THE NIGHT ! It was actually pretty damn good, I thought, for a quick attempt ... and he sang it very well live. If you talk to ACE he will confirm that we parted on the very best terms, and he thanked me for the input. I made it very clear that I respected him for taking chances and trying to make the song his own. The version you saw on TV used a straight sample beat with stomps and claps which set up the song in the first verse in the classic way, and then a working in of an underpinning riff (close to what I had done in our rehearsal period together, in response to Ace's idea) and then back to a straighter 3rd verse, but ending in his delayed phrase end stop, again, just as we did it together .... and I thought it was damn good.

"Just in case any of this isn't clear .... the version of WWRY that ACE performed on AI last night was a DIRECT RESULT of his own ingenuity and the advice we gave him, with our full encouragement and blessing. And he definitely rocked. And we wish him much luck in the contest."

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/31620391

Sounds like a perfect topic for the next edition of damage control corner.

It's funny, though, I couldn't help but to read this with the music to "The More You Know."