American Idol

By Andrea Reiher Former "American Idol" semi-finalist Ju'not Joyner has some pretty strong words about the popular reality show.Joyner told Yahoo that he "was labeled a "troublemaker" by Idol producers for questioning the contract (which he dubbed a 'slavetract') that all auditioners are required b...

By Andrea Reiher Follow Zap2It American Idol on Twitter and follow Zap2It's general feed for all your movies, TV and celebrity news Paula Abdul unlikely to return to "American Idol" Twitter campaign to save Paula Paula Abdul admits painkiller addiction Paula Abdul's stalker a former Idol auditioner

By Maura Baby-faced American Idol victor Kris Allen’s first music video, for his cover of the Script’s seize-the-day anthem “Live Like We’re Dying,” is a simple—and pretty beautifully shot!—affair in which he performs in front of a desert-erected clock, which is presumably counting down the...

American Idol parent company CKX, Inc., reported a third-quarter revenue decline of $2.6 million Thursday. Plus, info on Carrie Underwood, Kris Allen and David Cook.

By Britteny Elrick American Idol: Jennifer Hudson Talks About MotherhoodAmerican Idol: Jennifer Hudson Is A MomJennifer Hudson’s Dreams Come True Jennifer Hudson just can’t stop talking about her new bundle of joy. Only two months ago, Jennifer and fiance David Otunga welcomed their first child, David...

By The Watcher Longtime readers are familiar with the Watcher’s take on “American Idol.” Now, I dip even farther down the ladder of credibility to take on the local ladies of liquor and lip collagen. Tamra’s husband, Simon, flips out. “It’s disgusting,” he says. And being on this show isn’t?

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Allison Iraheta – Friday I’ll Be Over You (Spanish) is a post from: American Idol Allison Iraheta’s “Friday I’ll Be Over You” in Spanish! I actually like it... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol (Here’s Noelle’s recap of tonight’s pilot episode of V) V tells the story of an alien race visiting Earth, calling themselves the Visitors or V’s. They claim to come in peace and only wish to share and contribute to humanity. The V’s show up in our time [...]

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Yay! Listen to the previews of Adam Lambert’s latest album “For Your Entertainment“. What do you guys think? Does it meet all the hype? Track List: 1. Music Again 2. For Your Entertainment 3. Whatya Want From Me 4. Strut 5. Soaked 6. Sure Fire Winners 7. A [...]

By Rolling Stone The 37th annual show is determining its winners list based on online votes for the third time, and nominees include Taylor Swift (who leads the pack with six nominations), Michael Jackson and Eminem, who each scored five nods apiece. Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez and Ad...

By Andrea Reiher Adam Lambert is still the "American Idol" we know and love -- his album cover is deliberately campy and he isn't apologizing. We also know six of his song titles (including one called "Down the Rabbit Hole").

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Billy Bell withdrew from So You Think You Can Dance due to medical reasons. Here is the official statement from his family from SYTYCDism: Billy’s family would like to thank all of the fans that came out to show their support for Billy this season. It has [...]

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol is a post from: American Idol Here it is, the last MP3 of the American Idols Live! 2009 Tour in Honolulu: “Don’t Stop Believing” I had a great time doing the cellcasts for the tour on Rickey TV. I met a lot of new friends online, as well as old, who [...]

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By reglest Maybe it’s boring, but I should say that I’m a fans of Clay Aiken (even when truth reveals he is a gay). I’ve fallen in love with his voice since I first saw him on the big three of 2nd season American Idol, and honestly, that is the only show of American Idol that I’ve remember (I’m not too interes...

By Britteny Elrick is your source for American Idol news and info! Visit our American Idol message boardsand tell us what you think! For more on American Idol, check out SirLinksALot: American Idol . American Idol: Melinda Doolittle To Release Debut Solo Album2006 Billboard Music Awards - Carrie Underwoo...

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Cuz maybe baby I just wanna do you, do you Do you wanna do me, do me? Underneath the moonlight, moonlight tonight Chorus Want to hear something awesome? Listen to Live Like We’re Dying by Kris Allen here. is a post from: American Idol

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Cuz maybe baby I just wanna do you, do you Do you wanna do me, do me? Underneath the moonlight, moonlight tonight Chorus Want to hear something awesome? Listen to Live Like We’re Dying by Kris Allen here. is a post from: American Idol

Title: Rainy Day Author: scarlett_o Fandom: American Idol Pairing/Characters: David Cook/Michael Johns Rating: PG Disclaimer: I own no one and nobody. Summary: David thinks Michael is insane. Michael thinks David needs to have more fun.

By Daniel Kreps POP or ROCK MUSIC Favorite Male Artist Eminem Michael Jackson T.I. Favorite Album Lady Gaga – Fame Michael Jackson – Number Ones Taylor Swift – Fearless SOUL/RHYTHM & BLUES MUSIC Favorite Male Artist Jamie Foxx Michael Jackson Maxwell

By Rodney Ho Kara DioGuardi shows up on an episode of “Hannah Montana” October 18 on Disney when Hannah fills in for Kara’s judge’s seat in a thinly disguised version of “American Idol.” Chris Daughtry is Twittering that he’s doing a song with Kris Allen. Will it make it on the album next month? We’ll see.

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol is a post from: American Idol Go Danyl Johnson! I believe! Danyl Johnson sang “And I Am Telling You” from Dreamgirls on the first live performance show on X-Factor. Woohoo! Dannii Minogue however made a controversial comment during the [...]

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol is a post from: American Idol is a post from: American Idol Wow. I am so disappointed. After only 2 weeks in the iTunes charts, Kris Allen’s Live Like We’re Dying is out of the Top 100 Songs Chart. So bummed. Just this week, Live Like We’re Dying made it [...]

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Learn how to make your own Simon Cowell pumpkin here from FEARnet’s Pumpkin Palooza. Or watch the video here: Simon Cowell Pumpkin Palooza is a post from: American Idol Simon Cowell Pumpkin Palooza is a post from: American Idol

By Rickey is a post from: American Idol Learn how to make your own Simon Cowell pumpkin here from FEARnet’s Pumpkin Palooza. Or watch the video here: Simon Cowell Pumpkin Palooza is a post from: American Idol Simon Cowell Pumpkin Palooza is a post from: American Idol

look into your heart and you’ll find love love love Author: writingpickle (Clare) Rating: R Pairing: David Archuleta/David Cook, David Archuleta/MC who is a surprise Fandom: American Idol (real person slash) Word Count: 4097 Warnings: slash, rps, high school au

By Allison Rockefeller Video Biographers of the American Nation, Co-Producers Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan. Can you imagine PBS with a swinging chance at audience numbers that rival American Idol? Well, Simon, this is not just a singing contest, this is Great Television.

By pyrosgf Title: Two Broken Hearts Author: pyrosgf Pairing: Kradam/Kris and Katy Wordcount 306 (One shot) Rating: R? Warnings: Sadness? Disclaimer: Nope I don’t own them. Don’t claim it ever happened and all that jazz.

By Rickey For Season 8, Sanjaya thought that “Adam Lambert was incredible,” and that “Kris Allen deserved to win.” Kris was “pure and real,” he said. When I asked about Anoop Desai who was of Indian-descent like he was, he said Anoop’s voice “had a soft pure tone.”

By pyrosgf Notes: Please do not ask me where the hell this came from because I have no idea. I have NEVER even read a Kratt fic, but somehow the person consoling Kris in this fic didn’t feel like Adam. He felt like Matt. Please be gentle as this is my first dabble in Kratt. Matt has a surprise for Kris.

By Tiarnán Just to pass time, I’ve come up with a short list, this time involving my personal top ten performances from American Idol/X Factor. Each contestant is only featured once, so hopefully that should allow for a nice range in style of song etc. I was tempted to choose several songs from the same...

By Rich Heldenfels Yeah, I can see that being a risk. Luckily, my experience on "Idol" was colored with a lot of different styles. Like, I took songs from different genres and did them. So hopefully, people will be ready for an album that is eclectic, and a collection of different sounds.

By Rich Heldenfels Third of the five chats I had with "American Idol" performers when the tour came to Cleveland on Sunday. Sarver talks about being pegged as a country singer, how he has grown because of "Idol," and missing LSU news. I started with the what-are-you-listening-to question, with Sarver coming...

By i_refuse_to Title: Shelter Pairing: Kris Allen/Adam Lambert (American Idol RPS) Author: i_refuse_to Summary: Kris never really had made a five-year plan, but even if he had it would have been blown to hell the first moment he arrived in Hollywood. Rating: PG-13 Words: about 14,500

By Jeanne American Idol season 7 runner-up, David Archuleta, wasn’t shocked when his season 8 counterpart, Adam Lambert, officially came out of the closet in a Rolling Stone interview.  While he was performing at the Children Uniting Nations gala in Washington, DC, he said: “I don’t think it was a...

By Brian Mansfield Apparently, several of this year's Idol also-rans are using their down time during today's finale rehearsals to learn how to use Twitter. If you want to follow all the fun, here are their accounts:

By rss@youtube.com (guitartutee) Author: guitartutee Keywords: Kris Allen America Idol Guitar Tutorial Song Acoustic Live Lyrics Chords Tabs Cover Videoke How To Play Added: May 13, 2009

By Richard Lawson Dear me, Kris Allen. He sang "The Way You Look Tonight" and, sorry y'all, but it had just been good. Perfect song choice to arouse the squealing laydays, perfect suit, perfect sideways triangle mouth anime smile. The criticism was just and slobbery, until Simon did a bit of course correction...

By Justin Guarini Another Tuesday night was upon us and after a historic week in Idol, I was looking forward to seeing how the contestants stepped up to... Another Tuesday night was upon us and after a historic week in Idol, I was looking forward to seeing how the contestants stepped up to the tremulous nature of...

By Ken Levine No matter what LIL ROUNDS sings Simon thinks it's wrong. Still, it was fun to hear her stand up to him, even if he was right. I like Lil, just don't love her. For weeks Simon has been trying to zero in on just what kind of singer she is. I can tell you that. Background. Lil over-sang and later under-sang "...

By Seven of Spades Fandom: American Idol Characters: Adam- and Brad-centric, minor mentions of Kris, Anoop and some other people Summary: It's the Idols' first day off in months, and Adam has nothing better to do than stay indoors. Brad comes over to raise hell.

By mj ETA: Check out this brand-new interview with David Cook from Entertainment Weekly.  It’s pretty in-depth and covers everything from that 2nd indie album David nearly had finished before his Idol stint, to giving Simon the what-for during the Idol finale, to recording his first major la...

By javaman American Idol is a great show. This article offers help and tips on how to make a Halloween costume from one of the judges, Simon. View more »

Pairing: David Cook/David Archuleta with a brief mention of David Cook/unidentified male A/N: Finally doing this too. I did it a while ago for David A/Danny, so I figured I'd try it out here too. Oh, and the links go to youtube videos, for anyone that wants to hear the song.

Title: Lonely Paradise Author: Franki (allthingsfranki@gmail.com) Rating: PG Word Count: 985 Warning(s): Alternative Universe, Language, Possible Anachronisms.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Read more about the proposed changes to "American Idol" at Broadcasting & Cable, or read the survey Fox executives are using to determine how to tweak the show below, embedded via DocStoc: ...

Title: Waterproof Author: kenzimone Disclaimer: I wish. Fandom: American Idol 2 Pairing: Kimberly Caldwell/Clay Aiken Rating: PG-13 Summary: She's a teeth clashing against teeth, sex in the backseat of your car kind of girl. No Southern Baptist boy is going to change that.

By Shaun Nichols Steve Jobs must owe Simon Cowell a favor. Either that, or he sees dollar signs in the current fervor over American Idol. Those are the only explanations for why Apple would launch a new iLife songwriting program with American Idol. The company is offering would-be balladeers a tutorial on ho...

By gdaysunshine Wednesday, February 20, 2008 American Idol Top 12 Girls Review and Prediction It was the night for American Idol's Top 12 Girls and overall, I didn't feel they were as strong as the guys performance. I think the main problem was that most of the girls sang such boring songs. The 60s are filled w...

By Tempo Tuesday's "American Idol" audition episode gave the choice closing slot to a young Irish singer named Carly Smithson. The judges obviously thought she was great before she’d even opened her mouth to sing. Smithson was a shoo-in to the Hollywood round.

By Michael Slezak 4. Is 16-year-old William Makar, whose ''Ain't Too Proud to Beg'' won kudos from Simon and Randy (but not Paula) the younger brother of The O.C.'s Adam Brody? Probably not, but he could be! I have this friend who thinks about American Idol at least once an hour. He's constantly listening to Fant...