She was the contestant who had been on a label before.
Posted on 02/12/2009 9:12:07 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
American Idol contestant disqualified
LOS ANGELES – One of the contestants on "American Idol" who made the top 36 has been disqualified.
"American Idol" has issued a statement saying Joanna Pacitti of Philadelphia is ineligible to continue, but without saying why. Felicia Barton of Virginia Beach, Va., has replaced Pacitti in the top 36.
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She was the contestant who had been on a label before.
So a female ringer got fingered (no pun intended). I have always thought and still do the show is rigged. She just happened to get caught. Reality TV is anything but. It’s scripted like any other show.
“American Idol” season 8 contestant Joanna Pacitti has been disqualified from the show, apparently due to her past history in the music business.
“It has been determined that Joanna Pacitti is ineligible to continue in the competition,” Fox said in a statement without further elaboration.
There’s been a decent amount of controversy surrounding Pacitti’s professional past, including not only her former record deal (with A&M/Geffen, which released her debut album, “This Crazy Life,” in 2006), but also an opening slot on the last Nick Lachey tour (Lachey is signed to Jive Records, which is owned by Sony BMG, the company that awards a recording contract to the “Idol” winner) and dubious connections to staffers at 19 Entertainment, including Pacitti’s former manager.
In addition, her songs have appeared on high-profile soundtracks such as “Legally Blonde” and later on albums by major pop stars, like Britney Spears. She also had a long battle with the producers of a national tour of “Annie,” who released Pacitti from a starring role after she contracted bronchitis — a scandal covered by major news outlets at the time.
Unlike last season’s Carly Smithson, whose ill-fated MCA debut under the name sold only a few hundred copies out the gate, Pacitti’s moved more than 16,000.
Back in 2006, Pacitti did “a ton of press,” says a former Geffen staffer, and some of those stories are now being discovered by the “Idol” curious. Just a couple weeks ago, the blogosphere was buzzing about an interview published in Philadelphia Magazine in July 2006, where Pacitti poo-poohs the overnight success machine that is “American Idol.”
For more on Joanna Pacitti’s disqualification from “American Idol,” please visit Billboard’s Jaded Insider blog.
They weren’t keeping her past deals a secret.
I’m not sure what you mean by “rigged”... many contestants have had previous recording contracts — the only rule on that front is that they may not have a current contract.
They’ve also generally been pretty open about which ones have had past deals.
Now, the producers and judges certainly have many tools that they use to skew the outcome, but they don’t have to outright cheat to do it...
They don't care because they've got oatmeal dribbling out of their ears.
Not guilty !
Idolators.
Indeed...
Just because someone watches “idol” doesn’t mean they have rocks in his/her head. No different than watching NASCAR, NFL, or baseball.
One can certainly be entertained and still have intelligence enough to know the issues and government. YOU, after all are just messing around on FR.
>Idolators.
LOL - That’s funny.
Think it through and remember this: The only correct answer is Megyn Kelly on Fox News.
The biggest rigging of American Idol actually became apparent in the second year but nobody cares. Aiken and Ruben both were in the studio recording albums before the show even finished. Everybody that goes to Hollywood gets a contract with a heavy studio option. If they’re popular enough in the voting that the record company they’ll be profitable they’ll make records no matter how they finish in Idol. Remember it’s a show made by the record company to make the process of finding talent profitable.
I don’t think it was so much the past record deals that finally made them decide to cut her. I read elsewhere she knows at least 1, if not more, higher ups at 19 Management, which runs Idol.
I think they’re more worried about that fallout than record deals. Quite a few other contestants had record deals in the past. Not quite sure why they singled out Carly.
My guess: her previous contracts are still in force in some fashion and therefore she cannot sign her life away to American Idol’s contract.
I can think of two reasons:
Alright, perhaps I painted too broad a brush stroke.
I do believe, however, that the fact that more votes are cast to determine the winner on American Idol than are in a cast to detemione who will be president goes hand in hand with the fact that Bronco Bomber was the best the American electorate could do for President in 2008.
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