Our quest to find the quintessential summer jam of 2008 continues with some lighter-than-air R & B and the latest comeback single by a band every Idolator reader seems to have an opinion on. (Tomorrow, we’ll have our final two first-round polls, and then round two–which will include excitement and arguing!–begins next week.) After the jump, the poll, the clips, and the arguments.
A tipster has very important innuendo regarding the new singer of Velvet Revolver, which will not be picked by reality-TV committee: “I have some new information coming from fans/family close to the hard rock Australian band Rose Tattoo to which Slash & Duff are HUGE fans of and shared the stage with many times, that Duff has been in communications with an Australian singer currently living in the USA. This guy can apparently sing up a storm and of course is a bloody Aussie, so that in itself along with the great voice will be a good choice for the band from all marketing angles.” Well, if there’s one thing Velvet Revolver needs after Libertad, it’s a better marketing angle. So, we have but one question for all of you: Who can it be, now? (We’re pretty sure the candidate in question is not Rose Tattoo singer Angry Anderson, since he’s apparently living in Sydney these days.) Poll after the jump!
In the fourth day of Idolator’s 2008 Summer Jam Tournament, we take a page from the griddle menu at your local diner–with one song soundtracking a clip chronicling a recently heartbroken waitress’ redemptive post-breakup shift, and the other turning the most important meal of the day into the sauciest. Clips and polling after the jump!
Round one of our quest for the quintessential summer jam of 2008 runs all week, and in today’s installment we have some Chicago rappers flinging cleaned-up insults and a throwback to the brightest of top-40 radio’s golden ages.
Our quest for the No. 1 song of summer 2008 continues today with a face-off between two songs that seem to have been expressly designed for maximum June-September listening, Kid Rock’s Warren Zevon homage “All Summer Long” and Tyga’s Harry Nilsson-inspired “Coconut Juice.” The clips, the defenses, and the all-important poll after the jump.
As promised, our quest to find 2008’s official summer jam in a reader-determined tournament starts today; over the next few days we’ll roll out the rest of the nominees, which come from all over the radio map, including even those areas we aren’t very excited to be traveling through. (Hey, we have to acknowledge the inevitable, although you should know that the Katy Perry song has been disqualified on principle–especially since its “controversial even though it wasn’t all that controversial in 1995” subject matter is now garnering attention from the overly gullible media.) After the jump, our first two contenders–Brooks & Dunn’s “Put A Girl In It” and Alphabeat’s “Fascination”–duke it out, with accompanying commentary courtesy Dan Gibson and Kate Richardson, respectively.
R. Kelly’s lawyers interrupted the procession of middle-school coaches identifying the underage girl on his sex tape early on Wednesday, announcing that a mystery witness had come forward with information that may help the singer’s case. Now pause the post, ‘cuz what i’m about to say to y’all is so damn twisted–not only is there a mystery witness, but the witness is…
Now that it’s warm out and I can run around my backyard barefoot, it’s time to figure out just what, exactly, will be the jam of the coming summer, the song that will become inescapable through sheer will. And what better way to do it via bracketed tournament, what with the current run of major sports playoffs nearing their end? (Those of you who think it’s too soon to start calling these sorts of things might want to recall that by this time last year, “Umbrella” had already a) hit big in the US and b) started its monsoon-inducing UK chart run.) Each Idolator writer is nominating a song or two and will pen a few words in their picks’ defense, and to round out our bracket we’ll have a handful of reader nominees. To narrow those down, the songs nominated by you (and you!) over the weekend will go head to sunburned head in a pre-tournament play-in round. Which starts… now! (Well, OK, it’s after the jump.)
The first third of the American Idol finale is in the history books everywhere in the country! (Except maybe Hawaii, although maybe not–after all, since the weather there is so nice it would make sense to have “prime time” at 5 p.m. so as to maximize the enjoyment of their evenings.) The three songs have been sung, the songwriting contest has once again been exposed as a way to get America’s worst songwriters more screen time than they ever deserve, and the judges have seemingly abandoned David Cook–or decided to engage in major reverse psychology with his fans in hopes of really giving Jeff Archuleta a Montreal screwjob-type finish to his super-meddlesome “guardian” tenure. Who knows what sort of mind games the producers are trying to play! I’ve watched pretty much every second of American Idol since January and I still don’t. Anyway, after the jump we have the official Idolator “Who Will Win Idol?” poll, along with a few predictions from other corners of the Internet and clips from tonight’s show.
MJ’s Big Blog has a slew of spoilers for this week’s pair of American Idol finale episodes, including word that David Archuleta is going to reprise his blasphemy-excised version of “Imagine” and the news that Paula Abdul is going to sing a song from her new album, too. And the Jonas Brothers will be appearing, because the ratings really need the help! And OneRepublic will drop by, too, because… well, I’m still trying to figure that one out. But that puzzle will have to go on the back burner because Nigel Lythgoe told an interviewer today that “the biggest star in the world” would show up at the finale; given the, ahem, skewed nature of the Idol universe figuring out just who that shining example of fame could be, well, anyone who’s been touched by the hand of Clive. So let’s send it to the poll software!
