AI OD: A farewell to Kady Malloy
Kady Malloy is beautiful and engaging on camera. The problem is that she’s beautiful and incredibly dull when singing. That and nothing particularly about her vocals stands out either. Being a pretty blonde girl in a competition surrounded by at least three other pretty blonde girls means you have to work to stand out.
Kady stood out due to her spot-on Britney Spears impression and her fun personality during interviews. But the bottom line is that when she hit the stage and performed, all those bubbles in her personality disappeared leaving a very flat and forgettable performer on the stage. In AOL’s interview with Kady Malloy, she said that she still doesn’t know what Simon meant when he said she had no personality on stage. Just watch the tape, honey. It’ll all come clear.
While I had hopes that Kady would find a way to shine on stage, as she had in earlier rounds, week after week she just didn’t. And with as much talent as we have on the show this season, she just wasn’t giving me, and apparently you, a reason to keep her around. Here’s her elimination and final performance, where at least she shows a little emotion. On a side note, this is a popularity contest as well, and Kady is a beautiful young lady who failed to capitalize on that until it was too late. I guarantee you had she worn this top on a performance night, she’d have at least been a little more memorable.:
By the time the Top 16 performances were coming around, Kady had heard over and over again that she showed no personality. I get that this is her favorite song (mainly because she says so in her exit interviews), but it’s also a very slow song that she wasn’t able to bring any personality to. At this point America was forgetting that she was still on the competition, and based on the voting after this performance, they were pretty much tired of waiting for her to step up and show us that sparkling personality in a song.:
This out fit really bothered me. On Top 20 night, she wore a shapeless dress with giant stones going down the front of it, and one of the stones was even missing. Again, this is a shapely and beautiful girl. She’s not doing herself any favors by wearing something that fits her like a plastic grocery bag. Wardrobe, though, has been a serious problem for many contestants so far this year, and Kady is by no means the worst offender (Asia’h what was up with those pants!):
Kady’s problems started right off the bat as she suffered not only pitch problems throughout “A Groovy Kind of Love” here, but began to portray her wooden performance style that didn’t do her any favors. Standing still and crinkling your nose occasionally isn’t enough to stand out from the crowd.:
Kady was an early favorite based on her initial audition. She was bouncy and full of energy and showed a great deal of personality, premiering her Britney impression and fun side. As the competition wore on, she lost a lot of her sparkle during her performances, while her backstage and on-camera antics remained just as fun. It was a weird contrast.:
It’s a shame that she didn’t go into her real opinion of the judges’ comments, because that would have made for great TV. “Whenever the judges talked to me I kind of just tuned them out,” is what came out during Reality TV World’s interview with Kady Malloy. “Because they’re only three opinions honestly,” she went on, “and they’re no more important than anybody that’s walking on the street today. When it comes to music, everybody’s opinion is equal to me.” A beautiful sentiment but she’s naively wrong. Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell’s opinions will always be more important than the homeless guy on the corner of 15th and 36th Street. Because Randy and Simon have connections, baby. And that homeless guy … he’s got something, but you don’t want any part of it.
Kady was pretty straight forward regarding speculation that she’d already recorded an album prior to her participation. Almost all traces of its existence had been scraped from the web by the Idol machine, but Malloy said of the self-titled album, “”I just don’t think that that’s very important … Anybody can fail at an album, and these days, anybody can pretty much get a record deal, too … A second chance is fine.” This must come as good news to some other finalists, who’ve also already put out albums, most notably Carly Smithson.
It’s interesting that when asked about her future plans, Kady is the first Idol castoff to start by talking about something other than music. Her passions include opening an animal shelter, a camp for kids and championing for gay rights. Lofty goals indeed. Maybe Kady’s goals aren’t as focused on music because now she’ll be looking for a third chance.
IDOL SEASON 7 FAREWELLS
#17 - Robbie Carrico
#18 - Alaina Whitaker
#19 - Alexandrea Lushington
#20 - Jason Yeager
#21 - Colton Berry
#22 - Joanne Borgella
#23 - Amy Davis
#24 - Garrett Haley
Ellen DeGeneres a Dramarama fan? Who knew? - VIDEO
Most people have a song or two that strongly reminds them of their college years. Mine is “Anything, Anything,” by the relatively obscure ’80s alt-rock group Dramarama. I just love the abandon with which frontman John Easdale sings the chorus, especially at the end of the song: “I gave you candy/gave you diamonds/gave you pills/I gave you anything you want/hundred dollar bills/I’ll even let you/hear the songs I want to sing/I’ll give you anything, anything anything…”
Anyway, apparently, Ellen DeGeneres is also a fan; in fact, “Anything, Anything” is her favorite song, and she asks her DJ to play it during every commercial break. So for her 50th birthday, the DJ surprised her by bringing out Dramarama to play the song live. You can see the video after the jump (be patient - it takes a while to load).
I’ve got to tell you, this was fun to watch. And it was fun to see Ellen be the only person in the audience to know the words; I’m guessing that most of the audience members were too old, too young, or too social in college to know who the hell Dramarama was.
By the way, Dramarama still does some live shows, especially after they were featured on VH1’s Bands Reunited a few years ago. Information on the band’s doings can be found at Easdale’s web site.
[via PopCrunch]
Kid Rock - All Summer Long Video and Lyrics
All Summer Long by Kid Rock, Music Video and Lyrics
“All Summer Long” is the 3rd single from Rock N Roll Jesus, the sixth studio album by Kid Rock.
The song is a mash up of Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves Of London” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”.
You can listen the song here, this is a video taken on Jimmy Kimmel Live 4.03.2008.
Kid Rock - All Summer Long Lyrics
It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long
Caught somewhere between a boy and man
She was seventeen and she was far from in-between
It was summertime in Northern Michigan
Ahh Ahh Ahh
Ahh Ahh Ahh
Splashing through the sand bar
Talking by the campfire
It’s the simple things in life, like when and where
We didn’t have no internet
But man I never will forget
The way the moonlight shined upon her hair
[Chorus:]
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking ’bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Catching Walleye from the dock
Watching the waves roll off the rocks
She’ll forever hold a spot inside my soul
We’d blister in the sun
We couldn’t wait for night to come
To hit that sand and play some rock and roll
While we were trying different things
And we were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking ’bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change
Or how we thought those days would never end
Sometimes I’ll hear that song and I’ll start to sing along
And think man I’d love to see that girl again
[Repeat Chorus x2]
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long
Kid Rock - All Summer Long Song Information
The mash up was created by former bassist Mike Bradford and he got a production credit for the song.
The song was the official theme song for WWE’s Backlash 2008.
Released March 30, 2008
Recorded Clarkston Chophouse Clarkston,MI
Genre Southern rock
Length 4:56
Label Atlantic
Writers RJ Ritchie,Marlon Young
Producer Mike Bradford
source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_Long_(Kid_Rock)
Anne Hathaway Ditches Good Girl Image
Anne Hathaway Ditches Good Girl Image
If you were under the impression that Princess Diaries actress Anne Hathaway was a goody-goody, you may want to cover your eyes. She’s dispelling those notions in a recent interview with Marie Claire magazine.
The Havoc star says that she doesn’t mind shedding her clothes for the camera. “I don’t actively search for (movies) that I can get naked in. It’s not the most fun requirement of the job, but nor is it something that I would ever NOT do a job because of. It is what it is. Some people choose not to do it on moral grounds; I think that’s a shoddy argument.”
In fact, Hathaway went topless in both Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, but turned down the lead role in Knocked Up because, “it was going to show a vagina – not mine, but somebody else’s. And I didn’t believe that it was actually necessary to the story.”
Hathaway enjoys making people cringe by sharing how “not a prude” she is. “I love (the band) Peaches. When people are all like, ‘Do you think you have a squeaky-clean image?’ I’m like, ‘Could a squeaky-clean girl know all the lyrics to ‘Teaches of Peaches’? I mean, my favorite song is called (Eff) the Pain Away.’”