Posted on 03/15/2005 5:53:32 AM PST by silent_jonny
bwahahahhaha! Maybe the Sonny & Cher?
You mean Lt. Dan.
Carrie has signed with Arista Nashville Records, home of Phil Vassar, Keith Anderson, Brooks & Dunn, Diamond Rio, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Alan Jackson, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and Brad Paisley. It must be weird to go from being a nobody to rubbing elbows with these folks.
WOW! A real Cinderella story. I hope we don't hear her singing "My man beat me again and I'm out the door while he's out with the whore" songs, while married to her fifth husband, fifteen years from now.
I hope she has someone to keep her levelheaded and to prevent her from being eaten alive in a tough industry.
Carrie--stay as sweet as you are, don't let a thing ever change you!
Cool. I don't really know who those folks are (not into country), but I'm glad Carrie won! I hope she keeps her sweet Christian spirit throughout.
I like Brads new song Alcohol....very funny.
!!! Everyone went away because they think I'm crazy!!
But with sufficient time developing their pipes, Carrie and Anthony might become as good a team as Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram who sang my fave duet of all time: "Somewhere Out There" from the Spielberg movie An American Tail.
Other great GREAT duets, IMO, are Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion singing "Beauty and the Beast," and Bryson and Roberta Flack singing "Tonight I Celebrate my Love for You." Can these two A-I kids hope to get this great? Remains to be seen...I do hope that producers work with them and play up the natural chemistry and good looks they share. I've said earlier on this thread that Disney should pick up Federov. He'll never be Peabo Bryson, but he can work in that direction to good effect.
Lyrics, just because they're stored on my puter, sentimental slob that I am. Long ago and far away, this song worked its magic in my life
Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight
Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there
And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky
Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true
First, thank you old friend, and how are you. Been a long time.
Second, although Carrie was my favorite from very early in the season, Bo kind of snuck up on me. In the meantime, somewhere along the line over the last month, I swung from really liking Carrie to not liking her much. Can't quite put my finger on it, except to say that there's a plastic Miss America quality to her that didn't wear well with me over time.
I think it started the night Carrie came out looking for all the world like a 20-something JonBenet Ramsey. A moppet beauty pagent star all grown up. I happened to mention it to Jonny at the time, because it struck me so strongly. Something about Carrie's look repulsed me that night, and I've cooled toward her ever since.
Of the guys, I had always liked Anthony the best and felt that he got a raw deal when Simon decided early on that he was another Clay Aiken. To me, for much of the season, Bo was just there. Then, as the top 12 started getting weeded out, and after Paula (very wisely) asked Bo one week if he really wanted it, Bo stepped up his performances to a whole different level.
I, along with most AI fans began to sit up and take notice. And he finally won my heart with his brilliant a cappella performance last week.
I can't say I'm disappointed that Carrie won, nor can I say that she didn't deserve it, because she did in the context of what AI is all about. Rather, what I feel is ho hum -- you know. Just shrug. It's odd, to me, that I should wind up feeling this way about Carrie. Nevertheless, I do. But it's like you've seen one slick, pretty, blonde, blue-eyed Miss-America-wannabe type, you've seen them all. What is Britney Spears, after all, except that type "gone bad." And if one wants a good-girl, little-bit-country version, someone like LeAnn Rimes fits the bill nicely. It turns out Carrie bores me after a whole season of watching her -- of course, maybe part of that is because I'm a straight female, thus am immune to her physical charms.
But a big part of it is also a building resentment that, so far, no white guy has won AI. Maybe I'm experiencing a kind of delayed backlash against the travesty that was Clay losing to Ruben. Possibly irrational, I know. But there it is.
Anyway, I'm glad Bo doesn't have to start out the next phase of his career releasing some stupid, cheesey song that goes against his style. I'm pleased that, like Clay Aiken, Bo will have more freedom to do music that suits him. As Simon was at pains to remind everyone Tuesday night, Bo is older. His big break has come a little later than for many artists, so he needs to make the most of it right away.
Only 50 more posts to go....
She said her Mom keeps her ego in check.
It is way to early for her to get a big ego. She seems sweet & I predict she will stay that way and not go trampy like Britney Spears.
Will you add me to next year's AI ping list?
Also doing my part to get the thread to 10,000 :-)
Judging from her background and her family, I think Carrie will stay grounded. I just get so disappointed when I see a "nice" girl ruined by show biz...like Lindsay Lohan and so many others.
I am going to AI rehab.
Linsay had a real winner of a dad to deal with too.....he didn't help matters.
tex flower, you better get on back here, or this guy (gal?) is going to get post #10,000.
Yeah...so much depends on the parents. Some of them will pimp their own kids for a chance at fame.
See reference: Michael Jackson Trial
She hated her hair that night and told the hairdresser she didn't think it was the best idea.
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