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American Idol Season 12: Cutting Down To 5
Finally. We’re done paying the Lazaro tax.
Before we get to how the elimination went down, there were two fun Idol alumni performances.
Who rocked the stage?
Scotty McCreery as “The Boy Next Door” performed first. I think Phillip Phillips’ success was helped by McCreery’s win from the previous year.
McCreery’s boyish charm makes him easily likable. He performed See You Tonight and had the teenage girls screaming.
Kelly Clarkson performed People Like Us. I’m adding the video […]
Irish balladeer extraordinaire, Christy Moore, and the power of mix tapes!
I first found Christy Moore in 1996, when a friend sent me a mix tape…
Remember mix tapes? I grew up with them. Okay, actually I grew up taping songs off the radio, but sometime in college, I was introduced to the mix tape phenomenon when I worked at a summer camp. A British friend of mine made me my very first mix tape with some excellent songs on it by artists I […]
National Karaoke Week is the fourth week of April!
Until today, I had no idea there was such a thing as National Karaoke Week…
If you’ve been reading my posts here on PopRockNation, you might know that I really enjoy karaoke. It’s not just because I enjoy singing, though. It’s because when it’s done right, karaoke can be a lot of fun and a great way to meet people who love music. Sure, people tend to do karaoke in bars, where there’s […]