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  • Dr. Dre And Jay-Z To Introduce Detox?

    Dr. Dre
    I looked at the calendar about three times and no, today isn’t April Fool’s Day. That was last week. Thus, I think you can believe the news about Dr. Dre’s Detox update and not be considered a fool if he pulls the ball away Lucy-style from us.

    But, Dre did use the word definitely.

    And I’m definitely gonna be putting out the album this year. Finally. I think everyone is gonna be happy with it.

    Within that is the news that Dr. Dre and Jay-Z collaborated on the song Under Pressure, which hopefully isn’t an Ice Ice Baby remake. The song may drop within a couple of weeks.

    It’s been 11 years since Dre last dropped an album. Will Detox finally come out? The only thing I’m sure of is that it won’t be the hip hop opera that he once promised.

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  • Sonic Spring Singing Contest – Week 4

    The Sonic Clashers know their singers!

    Weepy Didi Benami was the far and away favorite to go home last week if you listen to our readers.   The teary-eyed blonde was named on 100% of all ballots cast for The Bottom Two last week.

    Do you know how hard it is to get 100% of people to agree on anything musical, much less picking a name out of multiple artists?  Here’s how hard:  we’ve polled Sonic Clash readers before and some have said The Beatles’ music was just all right, that there were better rock bands in the mid 1960s.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see only 97% agree that the name of our planet is Earth.

    So when Benami went buh-bye fast, I knew the judges wouldn’t even think of saving her.  Nicely done, Clashers!  And tw0-thirds of you added Tim Urban not-Cowboy to The Bottom Two so you really nailed the competition.

    The interesting thing:  of the 33% of you who picked someone other than Didi Benami or Tim Urban in The Bottom Two, no one picked Katie Stevens.   You watched the show “back”.  You know the teenager with the really low register was in the bottom three for the second straight week.

    Don’t forget to PLAY THIS WEEK’S SINGING CONTEST. Your answers MUST be in by the time the results show airs on the East Coast.  The deadline is not your local time, but when the show goes live.  And if you haven’t played yet, this is your last chance to pick The Final Three and The Winner before the point totals drop to their lowest value of 4 points each.

    Sonic Singing Contest Leaderboard

    MT is our overall leader with 7 points!

    Hea Jin is a close second with 6 points

    Yoel, Bridget and Cindy each have 4 points.

    And nipping at their heels are Shantel, Monica and Michelle each with 3 points.   And don’t forget Joe F and his point.  If he gets the Bottom Two and the person going home right this week, he wins 4 points and is right back in the race.

    You could be in the race for a $25 Amazon gift card too. PLAY THIS WEEK’S SINGING CONTEST and show us your judging talent!

  • Didi Benami’s Brokenhearted Night

    If Sonic Clashers got this one right, look for Tim Urban and Didi Benami to be swiveling in stools after Ryan Seacrest announces they’re in the bottom three.

    And look for the teary contestant (who evokes the name or memory of her freshman college roommate Rebecca Lear more than Danny mentioned his recently deceased wife last year) to go home tonight.

    The Sonic Clash Spring Singing Contest entries are in (but you still have until the results show begins airing on the East Coast tonight to enter this week’s contest).

    Every vote put Didi Benami in the bottom two.   More than half of the voters selected her to go home tonight.   Benami butchered Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes of the Brokenhearted last night and may have saved moptopped Tim Urban.   The boy who has nine lives was called out as tonight’s loser on all of the ballots that did not select Benami.

    This week’s biggest surprise?    As the competition tightens, the buzz around marginal contests is beginning to evaporate.   Aaron Kelly and Siobhan Magnus both received “bottom two” votes.  Magnus has all fallen from favor as the winning singer after front-runner Crystal Bowersox played against type last night by dressing up, playing the piano and singing Midnight Train to Georgia.

    Mamasox now has been selected as the contest winner by 50% of Sonic Clash voters.