For the record, I was one of the folks that *liked* Taylor Hicks.
American Idol Season 5 was the first season I watched, and despite the fact that Taylor looked nothing like the typical “American Idol” looked like, I cheered him on and was happy that he won. I wasn’t impressed by Daughtry (but apparently 4 million other people saw what I failed to), and I thought Kat McPhee was a stuck-up bitch. Elliott Yamin, Paris […]
It’s one thing for a writing or production team to have a signature sound, quite something else when someone basically writes 100 versions of the same song, right?
At least back in the day, folks had a sense of humor about it, right? Motown stuck so close to formula on the first few Four Tops hits (“I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” and “Reach Out, I’ll Be There”) that the next song they did […]
I’ll tell you one thing. If I’m reading about a TV telecast and it says Mary J. Blige is going to perform, I am *there*. Whether ripping the Grammys apart with performances of “No More Drama” and “Be Without You” or delivering an emotionally stunning version of “One” with U2, there is no question that Mary J. is one of, if not the most emotionally resonant performer in popular music today.
It took all of two […]