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  • Can We Burn Paris Now?

    The CDs, I mean?

    Having heard Stars Are Blind on heavy rotation on many hit stations, there is no doubt that Hilton’s song will assault our ears all summer. When I last heard her, the blathering wanna-be was sandwiched between The All American Rejects and Nick Lachey. I like AAR, the Lachey song isn’t awful, and frankly, Stars are Blind isn’t terrible. Paris is terrible. The song, written by Fernando Garibay, who has also written for Enrique Inglesias, Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony among others, penned a pretty good dance song. Paris, even with the wonders of modern recording equipment, is just awful. I can’t imagine how there could ever be a concert tour.

    Spinning in the CD player today:
    Ben Folds’ tracks from Over the Hedge. With tickets this week to see Folds for the second time with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, I felt compelled to learn anything new the piano guy might slip into the set. Atttending a Folds concert is like attending a rock concert version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. If you don’t know your cues, you’re out in the cold.

  • Taylor’s Proud Single Knocks Off Shakira’s Hips

    Rapper Ice Cube

    Billboard’s Hot 100 is out this morning and showing that latest American Idol winner Taylor Hicks’ first single Do I Make You Proud? debuted at #1. The song knocked Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie out of the top spot.

    In other Idol news, runner-up Katharine McPhee has told People that she suffered from bulimia for five years and threw up as many as seven times a day. McPhee’s interview with the celebrity magazine revealed that the singer started suffering from the affliction at 17 and sought treatment in October 2005, just before the show’s season started.

    Spinning In The CD Player Today:
    Ice Cube’s Laugh Now, Cry Later – the original angry rapper is back, and while Chris Brown has a sweet voice and Jay-Z wants to be a mogul, Ice and N.W.A. helped build the bridge from rap to the mainstream. Check out this photo of the 37 year old rapper in front of the Washington Monument. Does he look happy to you?

  • AMERICAN IDOL CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I am not a person who is big into formulating or believing conspiracy theories. I do believe we actually landed on the moon. I do believe that September 11th was the work of crazed terrorists and not of our own government. I do believe that the connection between Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and The Wizard of OZ is just a coincidence. I am a skeptic, but not a fanatic. However, after witnessing what I saw tonight, I do believe in one conspiracy, American Idol is rigged.

    If you are not a fan of American Idol or are tone deaf, then let me just inform you of something, Chris Daughtry makes no sense as being the latest person voted off American Idol. However, at the same time he does. He doesn’t make sense because he’s been easily one of the most popular contestants since the competition started. He doesn’t make sense because he has clearly been one of the top two or three best singers in the competition every week. He doesn’t make sense because anyone I talk to seems to think this guy is a superstar. However, for all these reasons it does make sense he was the last one voted off.

    Before you right me off as another psycho music fan with too much time on his hands consider this: If you are at the height of your popularity, isn’t that the best time to start selling records. Chris has been in my opinion the most popular contestant in this competition since day one. Why take a chance of him getting out sung in one of the show’s very final episodes and losing some of his juice? It makes much more sense if you were a record executive to have this guy put out a record A.S.A.P. As you may know, American Idol contestants have an obligation to put out a record with the show’s Producer Simon Fuller’s music label.

    Now consider the following, Katherine McPhee had an off night last episode due in part to the fact the theme was Elvis songs and she is a female. It would serve a popular contestant who may have taken a hit like that to stay on the show a couple more weeks to try and build back some of the fan base she may have lost. If you have Katherine win the competition, she will become a star. Chris Daughtry is already a star. Why have one star when you can play your cards right and have two?

    This conspiracy theory is helped by the fact that American Idol’s voting process is not published. How does the American viewer have any way of knowing who really got voted off? How do we know they even count the votes at all? If they published the results (which could easily be faked, by the way) it would take a lot of this theory’s firepower away.

    Call me crazy, tell me I have too much time on my hands, but the fix is on, and American Idol viewers are the victims.