Jordin has finally released the first single from her debut album. The song is titled "Tattoo" and it's a mid-tempo pop/r&b song. Personally, I love it. Jordin sounds perfect on it. I think the song is very catchy and the lyrics aren't overly horrible. It sounds like something that Beyonce would sing (actually I've heard people say that it sounds a lot like Irreplaceable.) This a good sound for Jordin. I will be very curious to see if she stays in this route or tries to fit into a different genre. I look forward to hearing the rest of her album.
You can listen to Tattoo here on AOL Music.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Revisionist Idol - Season 3
1. Fantasia Barrino (actual finish, 1st)
2. Diana DeGarmo (2nd)
3. LaToya London (4th): Here's where we start to diverge from the historical record. Many felt she was robbed; I have to admit some degree of satisfaction that she won third place in this poll, displacing Jasmine Trias, whom I couldn't buy as a third-place Idol (she equates to the equally overrated Nikki McKibbin, rather than other, more stellar third-placers such as Kimberley Locke, Vonzell Solomon, Elliott Yamin and Melinda Doolittle. Speaking of Melinda, LaToya seems highly comparable to her and Tamyra Gray -- undeniably excellent singers whose cooler demeanors (as opposed to the more fiery Fantasias and LaKishas) seemed to arouse indifference in the hearts of Idol voters.
4. Jennifer Hudson (7th): Before we started on Season 3, I thought Jennifer might make it all the way to No. 2 based on her subsequent high profile. Indeed, she did very well, but a lot of people were still put off by her personality and unimpressed by her inconsistency. This placing seems pretty close to justice in my book -- she definitely didn't deserve to go out as soon as she did, but Fantasia cleaned her clock on the show. (We'll see what happens in the record marketplace when Jennifer puts her album out.)
5. George Huff (5th): I thought of George as an inferior version of Ruben, but probably more family-friendly. Given more of a shot, Brandon Rogers may have aspired to George's level.
6. Amy Adams (10th)
7. Camile Velasco (9th)
8. Jasmine Trias (3rd): Huge drop from the 2004 result, belated recognition, I like to think, that she was way over her head in finishing third.
9. Jon Peter Lewis (8th)
10. Leah Labelle (12th): I wonder who the most undeserving 12th-place finisher is -- Leah? Vanessa? Or some of the names to come?
11. Matthew Rogers (11th): Ended up matching his actual finishing point. Works for me. A friendly disposition is not enough to make an Idol.
12. John Stevens (6th): Poor Red.
2. Diana DeGarmo (2nd)
3. LaToya London (4th): Here's where we start to diverge from the historical record. Many felt she was robbed; I have to admit some degree of satisfaction that she won third place in this poll, displacing Jasmine Trias, whom I couldn't buy as a third-place Idol (she equates to the equally overrated Nikki McKibbin, rather than other, more stellar third-placers such as Kimberley Locke, Vonzell Solomon, Elliott Yamin and Melinda Doolittle. Speaking of Melinda, LaToya seems highly comparable to her and Tamyra Gray -- undeniably excellent singers whose cooler demeanors (as opposed to the more fiery Fantasias and LaKishas) seemed to arouse indifference in the hearts of Idol voters.
4. Jennifer Hudson (7th): Before we started on Season 3, I thought Jennifer might make it all the way to No. 2 based on her subsequent high profile. Indeed, she did very well, but a lot of people were still put off by her personality and unimpressed by her inconsistency. This placing seems pretty close to justice in my book -- she definitely didn't deserve to go out as soon as she did, but Fantasia cleaned her clock on the show. (We'll see what happens in the record marketplace when Jennifer puts her album out.)
5. George Huff (5th): I thought of George as an inferior version of Ruben, but probably more family-friendly. Given more of a shot, Brandon Rogers may have aspired to George's level.
6. Amy Adams (10th)
7. Camile Velasco (9th)
8. Jasmine Trias (3rd): Huge drop from the 2004 result, belated recognition, I like to think, that she was way over her head in finishing third.
9. Jon Peter Lewis (8th)
10. Leah Labelle (12th): I wonder who the most undeserving 12th-place finisher is -- Leah? Vanessa? Or some of the names to come?
11. Matthew Rogers (11th): Ended up matching his actual finishing point. Works for me. A friendly disposition is not enough to make an Idol.
12. John Stevens (6th): Poor Red.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Revisionist Idol - Season 2
Just like the last post, this was based on comments left on the blog Idol Chatter about how viewers would rank past season contestants in the present day. No surprise that Season 2 should have been won by Clay Aiken.
1. Clay Aiken (2): Duh!
2. Kimberley Locke (3)
3. Ruben Studdard (1)
4. Josh Gracin (4)
5. Trenyce (5)
6. Rickey Smith (8): Big move up for Rickey, whose residual popularity I was unaware of. His supple voice and friendly personality seemed to be his big strong points.
7. Kimberly Caldwell (7)
8. Carmen Rasmusen (6)
9. Vanessa Olivarez (12): How about this? She very nearly knocked off Carmen for 8th, retaining a lot of good will despite getting to perform in the finals only once.
10. Julia De Mato (10): A few strong supporters but clearly not enough.
11. Charles Grigsby (11)
12. Corey Clark (9 -- eliminated without a vote for failing to disclose a previous arrest): Corey has clearly left a very bad taste in the collective minds.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Carrie Hits A(nother) High Note
Carrie Underwood's new single, So Small, the lead track from her second album (due Oct. 23), makes its debut on the Radio & Records/Billboard country chart at No. 20. That's the highest debut position for a solo country female singer in Nielsen BDS history ... as well as the highest debut for any song this year.
GO CARRIE!
Monday, August 6, 2007
Revisionist Idol - Season 1
This is a cool idea asking blog readers/Idol fans to re-imagine the results of past season of American Idol. Would your favorite contestant still win? Who made it too far or not far enough? Season 1 was pretty obvious (see below) but the what about the other seasons?
Leave a comment with your opinion on how Season 2 SHOULD'VE gone down.
Via USA Today's 'Idol Chatter' blog.
1. (and still champion) Kelly Clarkson (1st): Kelly didn't win in a landslide -- it was a pretty tight battle -- but the result was clear. I've got to go along with this verdict -- Kelly has done the franchise proud, and I don't know that anyone else in this crop could have come close to equaling her subsequent achievements.
2. Tamyra Gray (4th): Clearly the feeling is that Tamyra got robbed by the original voters. She was far and away the No. 2 vote-getter in this poll, a lot closer to Kelly than to the No. 3 finisher. As a postscript to the interesting but perhaps overheated discussion that cropped up about her post-Idol accomplishments, maybe she did make the right decision in gravitating toward acting and songwriting, but it would have been nice to have seen what she could have done as a singer with a big push (rather than an album that snuck out well over a year after her Idol season concluded).
3. Justin Guarini (2nd): Justin's fast fade from the public eye (aided and abetted by the From Justin to Kelly movie, which strangely didn't seem to affect Kelly's image at all, and the corporate neglect suffered by his first album) is reflected in his loss of standing retrospectively. He was the clear No. 3 choice, but was way behind Tamyra in the voting, and only a couple of people cared enough to vote him No. 1.
4. Christina Christian (6th): Substantial support for Christina, who on this vote joins Tamyra in what could be, by the time this exercise is complete, a substantial subset of African-American female singers who people now feel got a raw deal from the voters at the time. It'll be interesting to see where Kimberley Locke, Trenyce, Jennifer Hudson, La Toya London, Nadia Turner, Vonzell Solomon and others wind up in the revisionist vote.
5. RJ Helton (5th): A bit of a surprise, not that he equaled his actual finish but that he beat real-life third-place finisher Nikki McKibbin to do it (by the slimmest margin between any two finalists). I found RJ inoffensive if bland, but a superior singer to Nikki, so I was pleased to see this result.
6. Nikki McKibbin (3rd): Biggest gap between actual finish and revised vote, and well-deserved if you ask me -- I always thought Nikki was overrated, and her claim as a "rock chick" quite dubious -- Gina Glocksen could probably sing rings around her.
7. Ryan Starr (7th): Fairly substantial gap between Nikki and Ryan, who struck me as substantially more bogus than Nikki -- although she was arguably better than her piano-climbing male namesake on Rockstar: Supernova. She was kind of the Haley Scarnato of her day (in terms of teenage boy appeal), but less wholesome.
8. E. Jay Day (9th): E Jay carves out a small triumph by getting voted a notch higher than his actual finish. Having zero memory of his singing ability, I can't comment as to the merits of this result.
9. A.J. Gil (8th): The boy-band-esque A.J. was the victim of E. Jay's success, falling to ninth in the revisionist standings. No great loss, if I recall.
10. Jim Verraros (10th): And as it was in the beginning, so shall it be for eternity (or until the next poll comes around). Coming out didn't gain Jim a lot of retroactive support, it appears.
Leave a comment with your opinion on how Season 2 SHOULD'VE gone down.
Via USA Today's 'Idol Chatter' blog.
1. (and still champion) Kelly Clarkson (1st): Kelly didn't win in a landslide -- it was a pretty tight battle -- but the result was clear. I've got to go along with this verdict -- Kelly has done the franchise proud, and I don't know that anyone else in this crop could have come close to equaling her subsequent achievements.
2. Tamyra Gray (4th): Clearly the feeling is that Tamyra got robbed by the original voters. She was far and away the No. 2 vote-getter in this poll, a lot closer to Kelly than to the No. 3 finisher. As a postscript to the interesting but perhaps overheated discussion that cropped up about her post-Idol accomplishments, maybe she did make the right decision in gravitating toward acting and songwriting, but it would have been nice to have seen what she could have done as a singer with a big push (rather than an album that snuck out well over a year after her Idol season concluded).
3. Justin Guarini (2nd): Justin's fast fade from the public eye (aided and abetted by the From Justin to Kelly movie, which strangely didn't seem to affect Kelly's image at all, and the corporate neglect suffered by his first album) is reflected in his loss of standing retrospectively. He was the clear No. 3 choice, but was way behind Tamyra in the voting, and only a couple of people cared enough to vote him No. 1.
4. Christina Christian (6th): Substantial support for Christina, who on this vote joins Tamyra in what could be, by the time this exercise is complete, a substantial subset of African-American female singers who people now feel got a raw deal from the voters at the time. It'll be interesting to see where Kimberley Locke, Trenyce, Jennifer Hudson, La Toya London, Nadia Turner, Vonzell Solomon and others wind up in the revisionist vote.
5. RJ Helton (5th): A bit of a surprise, not that he equaled his actual finish but that he beat real-life third-place finisher Nikki McKibbin to do it (by the slimmest margin between any two finalists). I found RJ inoffensive if bland, but a superior singer to Nikki, so I was pleased to see this result.
6. Nikki McKibbin (3rd): Biggest gap between actual finish and revised vote, and well-deserved if you ask me -- I always thought Nikki was overrated, and her claim as a "rock chick" quite dubious -- Gina Glocksen could probably sing rings around her.
7. Ryan Starr (7th): Fairly substantial gap between Nikki and Ryan, who struck me as substantially more bogus than Nikki -- although she was arguably better than her piano-climbing male namesake on Rockstar: Supernova. She was kind of the Haley Scarnato of her day (in terms of teenage boy appeal), but less wholesome.
8. E. Jay Day (9th): E Jay carves out a small triumph by getting voted a notch higher than his actual finish. Having zero memory of his singing ability, I can't comment as to the merits of this result.
9. A.J. Gil (8th): The boy-band-esque A.J. was the victim of E. Jay's success, falling to ninth in the revisionist standings. No great loss, if I recall.
10. Jim Verraros (10th): And as it was in the beginning, so shall it be for eternity (or until the next poll comes around). Coming out didn't gain Jim a lot of retroactive support, it appears.
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