Reality Rocks
  • We all remember when Hills starlet Heidi Montag attempted to launch a pop music career last year. Yes, she filled out her pink bikini quite nicely in her video for debut single "Higher"...but otherwise, the results were NOT pretty.

    Click on this blog to watch "Higher" and browse through the 8,286 or so comments, about which 8,285 were scathingly negative.

    The comments were sooooo negative, in fact, that they reduced Spencer's arguably-better half to tears (at least that's what appeared to be the case, judging from a seemingly tastefully staged photo shoot in which Heidi wept openly on a Beverly Hills sidewalk, accessorized with a Kitson-worthy metallic biker jacket and perfectly placed streaks of DiorShow mascara).

    But Heidi is NOT a quitter--anyone who's followed her tenacious if misguided onscreen attempts to maintain her doomed love affair with Spencer Pratt knows this. So she intrepidly returned to the studio...and emerged this month with not one but TWO new songs, "Your Love Found

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  • All right, tonight my girl Allison Iraheta was in the bottom three, and since her performance of No Doubt's "Don't Speak" (complete with guitar!) was super-awesome last night and the judges had very little negative commentary to say about her actual vocals, I can only assume that it was her "controversial" dress that did her in.

    But I am here to say:  Allison's outfit was not that bad, haters. Please remember that the girl is only SIXTEEN! Yes, I know it's easy to forget how young she is because of her astoundingly mature voice and seemingly seasoned command of the stage, but the girl is a TEENAGER. And what she was wearing last night was completely appropriate for a rocker girl in the 11th grade. Any bittersweet-16 girl buying her junior prom dress at Hot Topic would end up looking how Allison did last night...and she would be the belle of the pop-punk ball. Come on, now, if there's any time in a girl's life when she can get away with a pouffy persimmon-pink party dress and

    Read More »from Idol Top 9 Results: Megan Sings Her Swan (Or Robin) Song
  • I know I'm late in blogging about RuPaul's Drag Race, aka the BEST SHOW EVER IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION. But this past weekend I caught the finale and reunion show of Ru's Logo Network search for America's next top drag queen...and I was so utterly transfixed, I quickly logged onto Logo's site and caught up on every single episode.

    Because this show was soooo fierce, all the Drag Race cast members made Christian Siriano look like David Archuleta.

    An episode on which the contestants were transformed into superheroines? A MAC/Viva Glam challenge? A girl-group show judged by former Destiny's Child Michelle Wililams? A recessionista-themed "Drag On A Dime" episode? Former Project Runway villain Santino Rice on the judging panel? Contending queens with names like Ongina and Rebecca Glasscock, "lip-synching for their lives"? This show was groundbreaking, people!!

    I'm actually not being facetious here. It was groundbreaking. RuPaul may not go down in history as a great singer or

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  • Tonight promised to be a night of high drama, not just because of the fallout from recent surprise eliminations (Alexis Grace two weeks ago, Matt Giraud's close call last week), but also because of Danny Gokey's recent tragedy--no, not the death of his wife, which we all already know about, but the tragic death of his grandfather last week.

    But there would be the usual drama as well: bad song choices, bad fashion choices, bad Simon/Paula spats (sans crayons this time), and a few genuinely bad performances on this week's vaguely themed "Top Downloads" top nine episode.

    But the most dramatic moments ultimately came when the contestants I was previously least enthused about delivered the best vocals of the night. Which just goes to show, you can never be too sure how this whole competition's going to pan out.

    First up was Anoop Desai...and Anoop Dogg was back in da house, as Randy Jackson might say. Despite all the flak Anoop caught in past weeks for doing OTT partystarters by Bobby

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  • I admit I haven't been the most vocal cheerleader for Danny Gokey--I still don't quite understand what all the fuss is about him on American Idol this year, or why he's such a frontrunner. But I'm not made of stone, and so my heart of course went out to him when I learned today that his grandfather just passed away. This loss comes less than a year after the sad passing of Danny's young wife, Sophia, who died from a congenital heart defect just weeks before Danny's Idol audition last year.

    According to the religious website everydaychristian.com, Danny returned home to Wisconsin over the weekend for his grandfather's funeral. However, word is he will be performing on tonight's Idol show.

    The death of a spouse and a close relative, on top of the immense pressure to perform for Simon Cowell and millions of Idol viewers week after week...that's definitely a lot for someone to handle in such a short timespan. So far Danny is handling himself with grace, and it will be interesting to see

    Read More »from Danny Gokey Suffers Another Tragic Loss
  • Some American Idol eliminations are real shockers, like last week's out-of-nowhere ousting of onetime favorite Alexis Grace. Eliminations like that, you don't see coming.

    And then there are others that are so obvious, even Scott McIntyre could see 'em coming. Like tonight's eliminated singer, Michael Sarver. Not exactly a shock, there. The real surprise was that the judges still forced the poor schlub to sing in vain, in the hopes of getting a Judges' Save.

    Yeah, right. Like that was going to happen.

    Come on, now--if the judges let Alexis go last week, there was no way they were going to rescue Michael tonight. Many people--myself among them--didn't think Sarver deserved to be in the top 13 (or even in the top 36) in the first place, and his "Aint Too Proud To Beg" performance this week was nothing to be proud of, so it made sense that his time was finally up. The fact that Michael had to sing "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" again--that is, reprise his WORST performance of the season, the 

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  • All right, no disrespect to President Obama or anything...but seriously, couldn't he give his speeches on Monday or Thursday nights? Why does he have to keep bumrushing my show? This week marked the second time this season that Barack has pre-empted American Idol, which seems pretty darn un-American to me. If Obama must speak on Tuesdays, then why doesn't he just go on Idol and give his speech right there in the studio? Let's face it, he'd probably get way more viewers that way (sad but true), and he'd also make a very fair, very well-spoken guest judge. In fact, I suggest our President deliver all his future speeches at the end of Idol results shows, AND finish by reading off the name of that week's eliminated contest. Then Obama can assure the loser that he/she will be just fine, due to his stimulus package. Sound like a plan?

    Anyway, while I wait for Obama's cabinet and Fox honchos to mull over that proposal, I'll grudgingly accept the fact that this week's Idol competition was

    Read More »from American Idol: Turning Motown Upside Down
  • Last season, David Cook became the first rocker to win American Idol, succeeding where Constantine Maroulis, Bo Bice, and even Chris Daughtry had failed. Idol-worshipping rock fans, myself included, rejoiced at the time. But then David's disappointingly Nickelbackian debut album came out, which made me reluctantly realize that David Cook was really only a "rocker" WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AMERICAN IDOL. Sure, compared to the nervous-giggly David Archuleta or the bubbly-blonde Brooke White, David Cook (and Carly Smithson and Michael Johns, for that matter) practically sounded like Motorhead or Slayer. But in the real world, he didn't really ROCK.

    But you know who does rock? Um, Adam Lambert, that's who. (Who'd you think I was going to say, Scott MacIntyre?) Adam is the best, most awesomely rockin' thing to happen to Idol since Sanjaya Malakar got voted off, and I'll tell you why.

    Here's the deal: Real rock 'n' roll is supposed to have some element of danger to it. It's supposed to make

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  • I don't often use the term "guilty pleasure" when referring to the many reality shows I watch and write about. Why should I feel guilty about relaxing after a long, hard day at the Yahoo! office with a nice, brain-numbing episode of Dancing With The Stars or Confessions Of A Former Teen Idol? I have no reason whatsoever to be embarrassed.

    But I must admit, I do feel the slightest twinge of guilt whenever I tune in to watch For The Love Of Ray J.

    Man, and I thought the women on Rock Of Love and Flavor Of Love were tore up from floor up. The chicks on Ray J's new dating show--Danger with her tiger-tattooed face, Chardonnay who does stripper-splits in a purple bikini on the first date, binge-drinking Feisty who seems most interested in the free glasses of champagne Ray hands out at each elimination ceremony--are so skantastic, I'd probably feel less guilty, and less dirty on the inside, just viewing Ray's sex tape with Kim Kardashian, or watching him rub up on rumored ex-paramour

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  • Before I go into details of this week's American Idol results show, I just want to officially and emphatically state that I'm thrilled and relieved that Adam Lambert wasn't in the bottom this week, after delivering what just might be THE most polarizing and controversial performance in AmIdol history: his Egyptian goth-metal version of Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire." Judging from message board activity this week, there were a lot of people in America who hated Adam's Cash cover, but fortunately many voters loved it as well. That makes sense, since the best way to describe Adam's performance is it was a "love it or hate it" sort of affair.

    I, of course, loooooovvvvved it.

    I do just want to make one very important point here: Regardless of whether or not Adam's "Ring Of Fire" had you burning up or just burning mad, it was NOT at all a disgrace to Johnny Cash's legacy, okay? Please note that Johnny was always sort of outside the country establishment. He was a real rebel, the Man In Black,

    Read More »from Idol Results: Adam’s Under Fire, Alexis Falls From Grace

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