I am rooting for Joshua Ledet, an incredible talent!
Listen to him.
-Tommy
On 4/21/12, Greg Dempsey <gregdempsey@sti.net> wrote:
> Hi Lisa and All!
>
> Well, last year's winner was Scotty McCreary. Apparently there's a huge Idol
> country bloc.
>
> Yes, the losers do better. Witness Adam Lambert.
>
> I think Phillip Phillips is so-so with his Dan Mathews imitation on every
> song he does. Skyler Laine is a headache to me. She's all attack, no
> dynamics, a perverse copy of Reba McIntyre.
>
> What does everybody think?
>
> Greg
>
>
> From: Lisa Lane
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:11 PM
> To: American_Idol_Extra@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [American_Idol_Extra] American Idol Shocking Elimination:
> Colton Dixon: Singing Lady Gaga may have cost me
>
>
>
> I thought he was good, but the creepy dopey ones usually win or the
> Country singer. So I see either Skyler Laine or Phil Phil winning this
> year. Country and creepy/dopey. The ones who don't win usually do better
> anyway.
>
> --- On Fri, 4/20/12, Greg Dempsey <gregdempsey@sti.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Greg Dempsey <gregdempsey@sti.net>
> Subject: [American_Idol_Extra] American Idol Shocking Elimination:
> Colton Dixon: Singing Lady Gaga may have cost me
> To: American_Idol_Extra@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, April 20, 2012, 2:38 PM
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Tommy and All!
>
> I guess Colton feels the need to push his Christian music
> "following" as the reason he made - then unmade it - on Idol. It's a handy
> excuse, as it reinforces his intended market niche, but it misdirects his
> failure from what it more likely is: (1) his voice was arguably the weakest
> of all surviving contestants; (2) his retro look hasn't been commercially
> hot since the mid-80s Thompson Twins; (3) his butchery of the melody and
> lyrics of Earth, Wind, and Fire's "September Song" two nights ago showed
> clearly that he couldn't sing soul and had no sense of when to stop
> "changing up" a song; and (4) his piano playing was as clunky and midrangey
> as his vocal delivery.
>
> Just my opinion. What's yours?
>
> Greg
>
> ========
>
>
> From: Tommy News
>
>
>
> American Idol Shocking Elimination: Colton Dixon: Singing Lady Gaga
> may have cost me
>
> The Lord's giveth, and the Lord's taketh away.
>
> All season long, Christian American Idol viewers had supported
> Colton
> Dixon, and Colton had openly courted their vote. It looked for all
> the
> world like a match made in Heaven, one that might have taken the
> 20-year-old singer from Murfreesboro, Tenn., all the way to the
> finale.
>
> But bringing in Bad Romance apparently soured the relationship,
> causing those viewers to hold back their votes Wednesday. On
> Thursday,
> Colton was an unexpected elimination, finishing the competition in
> seventh place.
>
> "I think it was Gaga," Colton said by phone Friday morning. "Nothing
> against her at all. It's a great song, and she has done well with
> it.
> But I think I turned off a lot of my voters by doing it.
>
> More: Where does Season 11 go after Colton's exit?
>
> "I should have stuck with something I connected more with, just for
> what I stand for and who I stand for. I think that lost me a lot of
> votes.
>
> "I should have thought of that while choosing songs. It just didn't
> cross my mind. I was so concerned with doing another rock song, with
> the performance and the musicality of the song, that I overlooked
> the
> meaning."
>
> Even though Colton changed some of the song's lyrical content and
> made
> edits for both his live performance and his iTunes recording, that
> wasn't enough for some fans.
>
> "There weren't many on Twitter or Facebook, but I did see a few who
> were concerned that I chose to do Gaga," he says. "Some religious
> people hear Gaga, and they totally turn it off. I don't know why I
> didn't think of that, because that's the big majority of my voters.
> I
> should have thought of that. That was a bad move on my end.
> Definitely
> learned a lesson."
>
> Colton, who nearly made the Idol semi-finals in Season 10, spent his
> time on Idol this year looking beyond the competition to the career
> he
> hopes to build beyond the show. "Everyone wants to win -- that'd be
> an
> honor," he says. But he knew the competition was tough.
>
> "I look at everyone who's left in the competition: Some of them can
> sing circles around me. Their theory and their technique is
> unbelievable. I think I have a good voice, but it's not one of my
> crazy strengths. I pride myself on how I can change up a song and
> turn
> it into a Colton song. I love that the judges saw that more than
> not.
> But that's definitely what I had fun doing and tried to do every
> week."
>
> After Idol and the summer tour, Colton plans to continue pursuing
> his
> career in Christian music. He says a recent dinner with Chris
> Daughtry
> helped him see the next steps he needs to take.
>
> "He let me in on so much that we're not aware of," Colton says.
> "I've
> got to work my tail off. I need to write till I can't move my hand
> any
> more, and see what we come up with. I'm for sure going to be
> writing,
> even while on the tour, to get ready for a record.
>
> In his audition segment at the start of the season, Colton came off
> like a young, bleached-blond Michael Corleone saying "Just when I
> thought I was out, they pull me back in." He says he had no
> intentions
> of trying to get back on the show when he accompanied his younger
> sister, Schyler Dixon, to her audition before the judges.
>
> "That was totally not staged," he said. "I went to support Schyler
> when she got her golden ticket, and the judges weren't having it.
> They
> told her to go get me, and she did. I tried to respectfully say no,
> but they just would not have it, so I said okay.
>
> "I'm so thankful they did it. I'm so blessed to have made it this
> far,
> especially having not wanted to audition."
>
> He's not sure if Schyler will make a third run at Idol. "She's been
> back and forth on it," he says. "I hope she does, because she'll
> kill
> it next year if she does. But we're going to have to wait and see."
>
> There is an immediate silver living for Colton: His Nashville
> Predators lead the Detroit Red Wings three games to one in the first
> round of the National Hockey League playoffs. "They've got a game
> tonight," he says. "I'm so stoked for that! Can't wait to watch."
> And
> he returns to Tennessee next week and hopes they'll still be in the
> hunt so he can go to a game. "I hope they get to the Stanley Cup
> this
> year. That'd be sick."
>
> After his elimination last night, Colton shared his hard-learned
> lesson with the remaining Idol contestants.
>
> "What they have to realize now is that no one's safe," he says. "And
> song choice is so important, obviously. They have to make sure they
> choose the right song and up their game every week. If they don't,
> they're in danger of leaving. That's just the reality.
>
> "But they're excited, and I'm so proud of them. They're going to do
> great things, no matter if they stay or go. I'm really excited for
> them."
>
> More:
>
> http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2012/04/colton-dixon-singing-lady-gaga-may-have-cost-me/1
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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