AI Tour announced

David Cook, David Archuleta, Syesha Mercado, Brooke White, Carly Smithson, Chikezie Eze, Jason Castro, Kristy Lee Cook, Michael Johns and Ramiele Malubay will soon be getting closer to their fans starting July 1 in Glendale, Arizona. Tickets go on sale Saturday for this years American Idol Tour. They will have 50 stops and the tour will end in September in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tour dates and tickets here

Taylor Hicks, greasy man

Hey, everyone's getting jobs today it seems (take heart Anne Heche, your time's coming).

Taylor Hicks is set to keep the American Idol dream alive by heading to Broadway to star in Grease starting June 6. Yay Taylor.

Hicks will play Frenchy's guardian angel and will be putting a little soul into "Beauty School Dropout." He's set to perform until September 7.


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American Ghetto Idol

Hmmm, a little chicken dance, a tight bootie outfit, pink hair, looks like a good time on the Idol last night. I love the look Simon gives towards the end. It really says it all.

This woman really won American Idol once? Please tell me she's changed since then and this isn't how she was then. If she was like this then I'm so sad I missed it. Fantasia's official site.

Syesha bites the dust

As Queen music plays through my head I want to bid a fond farewell to Syesha Mercado who was voted outta here on American Idol tonight. Now it's down to the battle of the Davids. The American Idol Finale will be Tuesday, May 20.

Stage dad grounded

So how do you get banned from American Idol besides getting voted off? Seems if you cost the show enough money, they're gonna kick your ass out.

Jeff Archuleta, David Archuleta's father, has been a pain in the ass this entire season which has been well documented, but this time he was a bit too much of an idjit. For some reason he wanted David to add a few extra words to this week's song, "Stand by Me." Daddy Dearest was told that the lyrics couldn't be changed, but David ended up adding a line from Sean Kingston's song "Beautiful Girls" anyway and sang it on live TV. Obviously David is a helluva lot more scared of his dad than the producers of the show.

Changing the lyrics ended up costing AI a buttload of money. How much is a buttload of money? I'm not sure, but it was enough to get Daddy Archuleta banned from anything backstage, although he can still take a seat in the audience during the shows. Sucks to be 86'd.

It's a good thing the season is almost over or else this could get really ugly.

Rest of the story here

We'll miss your dreadlocks

Well another day, another loser. Too bad, so sad. Tonight's loser was American Idol half-ass-wannabe Jason Castro. Altogether now, awwwww.

Castro had lost most of his zest and last night it was almost painful to watch him forget his lyrics and really look completely unenthused about singing for the adoring fans. It was reported that Jason was ready to go home and really not into the whole AI thing anymore so it probably really wasn't a sad day after all. Hopefully he will record a few more songs with his ukulele when he releases his solo album that you know is coming, because the man can play a mean ukulele. Come on, admit it, he was just about as cool as a ukulele player could be.

Something smells fishy around here

Taking a break from kissing Idol judge ass, David Archuleta kisses a dolphin in Sin City.

Aww, Flipper's got a crush.

Quote of the day

Clay Aiken recently told the Associated Press in an interview, “I’m not cool, you know what I mean? I’m not gonna lie.” “I’m not trying to be Justin Timberlake. Thank God we have him, but I’m not him. … I’m not gonna bring anybody’s sexy back.”

We totally agree and couldn't have said it any better. Clay you are so not bringing sexy back.

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Jason Castro to go home

Well okay, he's not really, at least not yet, but he wants to.

According to OK Magazine Jason Castro is tired of the American Idol life and is "ready to go home."

The dreadlocked singer told Entertainment Weekly that he had spent the weekend hanging out with his brother and hadn't gotten around to practicing the Neil Diamond tunes assigned to him. Shocker. Castro is said to be overwhelmed by the Idol experience and found some of the craziness of fans a little "weird."

"What happens happens," Castro said. "I'll sing and if people like it, they like it. And if they don't, they don't. I'm kind of ready to go home." "It's been overwhelming," he explained. "I got 150 balloons yesterday delivered to the studio because people heard I was sick last week. That's cool, but that's just weird." Damn, those loving fans should just cut it out, sheesh.

Suck it up and sing dammit, be a man.

The woman behind the Cowell blush

Okay, so I loved, loved, loved the fact that Simon was taken off guard last night on American Idol and actually blushed, it was pretty sweet. The woman who was his first crush and first kiss as a 9-year-old boy lived next door to him when he was growing up and often played spin the bottle with Simon and a group of friends. Awww, sweet. Sounds like some good pre-teen lovin' or a night at Miley's house.

The lady's name is Tara McDonald-Smith and is a 46-year-old married mother of three living in California. Wanna see her and read more of the story, check it out here.

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We say good bye to our little deer

So last night's American Idol seen the end of our little doe Brooke White. I'm actually sort of glad because she was far too innocent and sweet, I think fame and the music biz would have eaten her alive. I'm sure we'll be seeing her around now that her AI run is over, but maybe she will be able to perform music her way rather than the Idol way.

Ryan also apologized to Paula for all the gossip going around which just made me laugh. After years of watching her look high, whether on prescription pills or whatever she's drinking in her red Coke cup, and then her screw up on Tuesday's show I think she deserves the gossip. Besides, it's all in good fun, we just like to make fun of the rich and famous people.

Simon's first crush/first kiss called into the show which was sweet because I think that he was genuinely surprised and he actually appeared to blush. Nice to see a sweeter side to him.

Lastly, was my husband the only one to notice that Natasha Bedingfield's nipples were very clearly visible through her shirt? Does the woman have no handlers to let her know these things before she goes on national TV? Maybe they weren't nipples but oddly placed pieces of the shirt, but to me and definitely to my hubby they looked like a good old fashion nipple slip. Anyway, check it out for yourself and see what you think....

Simon loves me, now he can love you too

Carly Smithson held this shirt up this last week on Idol before she realized Simon loved her but America not so much. Love this t-shirt? Get your own here for $19.95.

YEP, HE'S A STAGE DAD FROM HELL

David Archuleta wants to be a star, but apparently his dad wants it worse.

Lots of stories have been going around about how horrible Jeff Archuleta, David's dad, is. Apparently he has a knack for making little kids cry and picking bad songs. Simon has even taken apparent pop shots at him on national T.V., but now country sweetie Naomi Judd is putting her 2 cents in.

The senior Archuleta got a verbal smack down from a country Naomi on Friday's Today Show. The country crooner was a judge on Star Search back when David was 12. She said "The minute I saw him (David) I went: 'Five stars -- he's going to be huge.'"But I want to give a shout out to his dad: leave him alone!"His dad is like the worst stage dad," she said."They had to put him in the security guard's little box!"

The security guard's little box? Harsh. I wonder if American Idol has a little box, maybe that's where all the fun backstage antics take place.