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Monday, March 12, 2007
Chris Sligh's 'Win-Win' American Idol Situation
The Idol Blogger

http://beaversonidol.blogspot.com/2007/03/chris-slighs-win-win-american-idol.html

Chris Sligh may not look like an Idol, with his extra chin, glasses and fuzzy hair, but to me he is one of the more notable male singers in Season 6 of American Idol. How far he will go is just another crap shoot, but there is much more to this fellow than many of us could even care to guess.

Tomorrow, March 13th, the indie band Half Past Forever launches a full blown album CD. Chris Sligh just so happens to be the lead singer of this band and he is also the song-writer of all 17 original songs. What Chris lacks in appearance as an Idol, he more than makes up for in his singing and in his song-writing ability.

The title of the CD is Take a Chance on Something Beautiful. Even though Chris can no longer be an official member of the band due to his AI involvement, this album is all Chris. If you want to take a peak at how the album sounds, take a little trip over to the band's myspace and listen to 4 of the album cuts. It's great rock/pop material, and I will be ordering a copy. I rarely order from Amazon, and if I do, it's never an American indie band. However, this CD has really impressed me after listening to the cuts on the Half Past Forever myspace website.

As I write these very words, on Amazon, this album stands at number 610 in CD sales rank. For an indie band, this is quite incredible. I think others have caught onto Half Past Forever, and they have taken a little listen and have ordered it. Most certainly, Chris Sligh's performances through Season 6 of American Idol have helped, but people usually don't buy bad music if they can help it and the songs on this album sound terrific. You can get a broader listen to the album at the band's official website.

Perhaps the worst thing that can happen to Chris Sligh is winning AI6, because I doubt very much that Clive Davis and company can come up with a better sounding CD than "Take a Chance on Something Beautiful." After all, look what they did to Taylor Hicks. Nope, I hope that Chris takes the Daughtry route. There seems to be no stopping those Carolina Idol people no matter if they're from the North or the South.

And THAT could be his 'plan'. Release the cd while he's on AI. If he wins fine, if he doesn't fine. Either way, he will boost his sales. He might be better off not winning. If Slimon Scowell has his heart set on Melinda and Sligh wins, I can just hear Simon putting Sligh down every chance he could create, just like he does now because Taylor won and his precious Daughtry didn't.

As an aside I saw Jennifer Hudson on the TV guide channel for some event. I think it was an oscar luncheon before the event or something. SHE THANKED AI for being a platform for her to be recognized. She said that while Simon had his small part in it, he isn't the sum total of AI (paraphrased). She said AI is much larger and she thanked AI saying that if it weren't for AI she wouldn't be where she is right now. She also said taht she would have kept trying. I think she would have been recognized at some point, because she does have a lot of talent.

She had to audition 4 times for the role of Effie White. She got the part after the last audition. If the role was just given to someone that had been on idol, I think they would have given it to winner farcical burrito, but the fact that Jennifer got the role, shows me that unlike idol, they went for talent. This wasn't the first time she thanked idol either. Simon just has a bug up his a55. I think he hates to be shown wrong and that this is why he hates Taylor so much. jmo