According to the friends they interviewed, this was something like the third time that she was close to her big break before things fell apart.
Usually a guy like Goffin finds a prospect, records a few songs, and then shops the demo around to likely buyers.
And I find it hard to believe that no one on American Idol had ever done a demo and shopped it around.
The definition of a professional recording artist is that they get paid to record their songs. I doubt a savvy record producer was paying an unknown kid to record for him when he was already paying the studio to record her.
Kelly performs her smash hit single, "I'm not a crook."
Mista-a-akes were ma-a-ade.
This is old new-ews.
And you'd understand
If it happened to youse.
Ooh-ooh let me off the ho-ok
'Cause I'm no crook
It's a personal matter.
Time to move on.
Oh-oh-oh yes, it's time to move on...