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Posted on 03/24/2006 9:00:43 PM PST by silent_jonny
Simon’s ‘Are You Drunk?’ Comment Offends Taylor
TMZ has learned that ‘American Idol’s’ Taylor Hicks was offended by Simon Cowell’s remark after Taylor’s performance Tuesday night. Simon’s comment — “Are you drunk?” — pushed a sensitive button with Taylor. Back in his hometown, Talylor has dealt with others affected by alcohol.
We’re told Taylor will occasionally have a drink, but he is definitely not a drinker. While on ‘Idol,’ Taylor is strictly business, often drinking milk with dinner. Indeed, when two of his close friends visited recently, the friends downed beer after beer while Taylor limited his intake to Coca Cola.
Sources say that Taylor was so upset with Simon’s “drunk” comment that he almost said something on the air, but resisted. After leaving the stage, Taylor made it clear that he was upset.
Brian Less of the Taylor Hicks Band back in Alabama told TMZ recently: “Right now, he (Taylor) knows that he’s got to stay focused out there and do his best. So, Corona’s not going to help him!”
REGARDING AMERICAN IDOL's PRODUCERS MISREPRESENTING QUEEN'S BRIAN MAY's REMARK...
This type of thing happens all the time. Even in the local news. They will come out an interview you for an hour and show 20 seconds of something that was negative you said about something. The same thing goes on in Iraq. The Media only reports the negative. We have no idea what’s positive. Less people die in Iraq every day than die just in LA in Gang violence. It’s just not reported. The media twists facts to get a reaction. It’s just the way it is.
Do we expect anything less from the MSM ? It's sensationalism that they find interesting.
Swaying voters through misleading character assassination is getting pretty low.
I'm glad you posted that! It was way out of line.
Well, seems like we have lots of American Idol celebrity fans... count them --- Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Debbie Harry, Glady's Knights, Gloria Estefan, Alicia Keyes, and now lets add ....
http://www.celebrityspider.com/news/april06/article041306-14.html
BEHOLD THE HIT MAKING POWER OF AMERICAN IDOL ....
Bucky on Jay Leno tonight!
FROM THE WASHINGTON POST ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201997.html
Taylor Hicks is far and away the people's choice for their next "American Idol," based on the number of Taylor tchotchkes sold on eBay over the past month.
In fact, Taylor Hicks items sold on eBay in the past 30 days nearly equal the number of items related to all the other remaining "Idol" contestants combined.
Turns out, when "Idol" contestants finish performing Tuesday nights, viewers aren't just hitting their land lines and cellphones to call in and text-message votes; they're hitting the Internet to buy junk with the name and face of their favorite singer on it.
Nearly 900 Taylor Hicks T-shirts, CDs, bumper stickers, silicone bracelets, beaded bracelets, buttons, necklaces, copies of local newspapers featuring articles on him, magnets, wall clocks, photo key rings, prints, address labels, tote bags and hoodies have been snapped up on eBay over the past month. About 15 transactions occurred during Tuesday's broadcast, in which the prematurely gray bundle of tics and good nature sang his enthusiastic, if goofy, version of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."
"What it's telling me is that there is an instant reaction to his performance," eBay spokesman Dean Jutilla told The TV Column.
"He had a lot of energy to it; he seemed to get the crowd pretty fired up, and watching, they felt like, 'He's going to win it, and I want to get something related to him while I can.' "
Sales of rocker Chris Daughtry stuff hit 308 items on the online operation in the past month, 273 for boy toy Ace.
A mere 143 items related to dumb-as-hair Kellie have been sold -- though her week-over-week sales jumped nearly 80 percent last week after she sang "Fancy" during Country Night.
In the past 30 days, there have been just 94 eBay transactions on Katharine McPhee items.
Using the Easy eBay Method to try to gauge "Idol" voting is not foolproof; this week's "Idol" ejectee should have been Little Paris Bennett.
Only 12 bits of Bennett flotsam and jetsam had been exchanged for cash on eBay over the past month. It moved 25 Elliott items and, rounding out the bottom three, 81 items related to country boy Bucky as of yesterday afternoon.
Yes, Bucky and Elliott landed in the bottom three, but they were joined by Ace, not Paris, and Bucky was the one to go.
Last week, the rest of the "Idol"-watching world was shocked when the previously popular Mandisa got the hook; she had never before been among a week's bottom-three vote-getters.
But using the Easy eBay Method, you would have known it was coming. Over the previous 30 days, a mere 10 items related to the plus-size diva had sold -- the least business on any of the remaining contestants.
Jutilla stopped short of forecasting a Hicks win on this year's edition of "American Idol." He'd only go so far as to say that Hicks "seems to be the most popular at the present time."
The research service, which launched in November, is not scientific, he added, noting that when the company tracked traffic on Academy Award-related film items, they saw more volume on "Brokeback Mountain" stuff than on "Crash" items. Yet "Crash" took Best Picture.
Audio of Nigel Lythgoe's Executive Briefings on American Idol :
http://www.tvweek.com/docs/docs/Idol_4_12.mp3
Highlights of Nigel's Audio interview as presented above...
Chuck Ross, Editorial Director of Television Week Magazine Interviewed American Idol Producer Nigel Lythgoe after each week performances – Executive Producer Briefing Series:
TAYLOR’S AUDITION
Chuck: I did like Taylor Hicks, the gentleman at the end though that Simon gave thumbs down. But I thought his renditions of both the Sam Cooke song, a change is coming and the Swanee River actually was pretty interesting.
Nigel: Yeah, I loved his version of uh Swanee I must say. And he’s, really has got a sort of Ray Charles slant to his voice you know, and certainly in that movement too, he’s obviously, there’s a slight affectation to him but I think as a character, he is certainly unique.
Chuck: Right, definitely
LIVING FOR THE CITY – Interview March 15, 2006
Chuck: And next comes Taylor Hicks who obviously brings so much of that own personality to anything he sings, and he did it again last night in Living for the City and uh. . .
Nigel: And I think my favorite performance last night. Uhmm the music suited him, the genre of music suited him. Uhmm, his soul patrol was on the show.
Chuck: Right, right
Nigel: I thought he was great last night.
Chuck: Right, no doubt about it.
50s NIGHT – Interview March 22, 2006
Chuck: . . .Simon got big boos by saying it was a complete mess, but it's such a thin song.
Nigel: Yeah, I don't think it was a complete mess though, I think he deserved his boos. But I think it was style over substance. Taylor for me at least gave a grreat performance. . .
Chuck: Absolutely
Nigel:. . and used the guy on the saxaphone. . .and it was Taylor who wanted to feature the saxaphone.
Chuck: Really?
Nigel: . . .and so Taylor always knew he was going to use the saxaphone, it wasn't as though we put it there and Taylor used it.
Chuck: Wow, interesting
Nigel: . . .you know Taylor asked for it. Uhmmm. . .Taylor and Bucky, to be frank with you, both knew their songs were thin when we went out to meet with Barry Manilow.
Chuck: Right. .well very good, well uh, kudos to Taylor for knowing that it needed a little extra. Very smart.
SONGS FROM THE 21ST CENTURY
Chuck: Next I have to say, as I’ve mentioned time and time again. . .one of the people that I am partial to in this competition this year is Taylor Hicks. And again, a song I’m not familiar with but I was actually. . I would second what Paula had to say last night that it was nice to see him stand behind a mic and just sing a song, and I liked the song as I think Simon did too.
Nigel: Yeah, no I didn’t really like the song. . .
Chuck: You didn’t. .
Nigel: It’s amazing that Barry Manilow spoke about 1950s last week, with the beautiful lyrics and the songsmiths that put these beautiful lyrics together.
Chuck: Right.
Nigel: And Taylor’s song I think was, trouble, trouble trouble trouble trouble, trouble, sadness, sadness sadness sadness sadness sadness sadness. And I thought, oh please, I’m desperate to hear him stand behind the microphone and listen to him sing a beautiful song and that as not it for me last night.
Chuck: Excellent.
COUNTRY NIGHT – Interview April 5, 2006
Chuck: Taylor Hicks comes along. .. I see him more of a blues guy than a country guy, but I think country is right up his alley. . and he started with, I think it was probably to the bigger part of your audience, I would guess, even though, a little older, probably the most familiar song and correct if I’m wrong, I think that was sung last night which was Take Me Home Country Roads.
Nigel: Yeah, for me, you know Simon often says it’s a karaoke performance. That for me is a karaoke song. It’s not a great song for Taylor. I would have loved Taylor to have sung something like, “It’s Crying Time Again” by Ray Charles. And to have that sort of bluesy/country feel to it.
Chuck: Yeah, you know that was my sense, to be honest with you if almost everyone last night . . .I really thought that the song selection could have been better last night.
Nigel: Yep, well you know this is their choice. Thousands of country songs and what do you want to go with? Uhhhh Take Me Home Country Roads.
QUEEN NIGHT – Interview April 12, 2006
Chuck: Now we come to. . I have to tell you an real interesting one. . .which was Taylor’s choice of a Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Again, he switched songs. . and I have to tell you uh. . though particularly Simon clearly didn’t like it, but my family just loved it. I have to tell you.
Nigel: Well, you know I love his energy. I love him jumping around, even though he did miss the microphone when he tried to kick it over. .
Chuck: Yeah, which was pretty funny
Nigel: Uhm, Simon unfortunately didn’t miss him, you know, kick a man when he’s down. Oooooh! Simon went for him last night.
Chuck: He sure did. He sure did.
ABOUT THE JUDGES ON QUEEN NIGHT
Nigel: I thought the judges were a little flat last night to be honest. . . . there wasn’t anything outstanding from the judges and I thought they were the ones that were flat last night.
Wow, that's a little uncalled for, isn't it? I'm no Gherkin fan, but just looking at the issue objectively, she would have been something like 13 when she had him. And that's the sort of thing you REALLY cannot hide if you live in a small town like theirs. I'm sure everybody in town would have been beating a path to the media to tell them all about it, if that were true.
I am not saying for sure that it is her kid... I wonder if he is. It wouldn't be the first time a 13 year old girl got pregnant. She may have had that child before she moved in with her grandfather. Her mother probably left that small town as soon as she was old enough. Her mother abandoned Kellie and is possible that she moved there when she was a teen. The town would not have to know it is her child. I'd say the boy is no older than 7, but I would have to watch it again. I just know he looked young enough that he could be Kellie's son and yes... the town would not have to know he was hers if she moved there when he was a baby. It would be easier for her to get a fresh start in a small town if they just said he was her brother.
Even if it is her brother it is sad that the Grandfather had to raise them at their parents are such lowlife's. Momma abandon her and Daddy is in prison.
Will Bucky Covington Join Sawyer Brown?
Bucky Covington recently told media that after he completes the American Idol tour that he would probably be heading to Nashville to look for work. It turns out that Bucky might not have to look for very long. According to a report in the Richmond County Journal, Sawyer Brown’s management team called them looking for help in getting in touch with Bucky. The paper reports that the agency said they planned to offer Bucky a job.
In a recent conference call between Bucky and members of the media, a reporter from the Richmond County Journal told Bucky about the call from Sawyer Brown’s management team saying “they want to hire you right now.” Bucky responded “That’s what I heard. What happened to their singer?” The reporter didn’t know and said he was just passing on the message.
Interestingly enough, Sawyer Brown originally got their big break on a reality singing competition called Star Search. There was no information reported on if Sawyer Brown’s management team was interested in Bucky actually joining Sawyer Brown or if the offer was something else such as performing as an opening act for the band. Bucky is actually still under contract with American Idol, so American Idol management would have to give their blessing before Bucky could take advantage of any musical opportunities that came his way.
http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/04/will_bucky_covi.html
Hey, how do you keep your words together? Mine keep dropping a letter!
That's a shame. Even I thought Ace was brazen to ask to change the song, didn't know all of that. Gives me new respect for Ace. Wish AI wouldn't do that sort of garbage.
AMen.
I was offended by Simon's remark. It was cheap and dirty. I kinda wish Taylor would have said something. Simon needs a good kick in the pants occassionally.
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