Anthony Reyes is also the author of the review at Singorama
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American Idol: More Than Just a Singing Competition
Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009 in David Archuleta
American Idol is perhaps the biggest singing competition in America these days, and it’s really not hard to see why. Broadcasted over Fox Network in the United States, it is aired internationally in more than 100 countries outside the United States such as; Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and India. And with viewer ratings ranging from 9.9 million viewers during the first season up to 37.7 million in the sixth season, this singing competition, which has also been dubbed as a reality show, is undoubtedly one of the most phenomenal programs to be broadcast on television.
In fact, American Idol has come to be regarded by many as an authoritative television executive, a force to be reckoned with, such that even rival television networks have come to rearrange their program schedules around American Idol in order to diminish their losses. Fox has even accordingly used American Idol to publicize and promote its other programs during its airing. Needless to say, American Idol is a major advertising hotspot for some of the biggest companies and products in the United States.
American Idol was created by British show business mogul, Simon Fuller, in 2002 and the main thrust of the show is to search for the best singer in the United States through a succession of singing contests. Contestants are filtered from literally hundreds of aspiring American Idol hopefuls across the United States. During the initial auditions, contestants are screened and chosen by four judges; recording producer Randy Jackson, Grammy award-winning pop songstress, Emmy award-winning choreographer and dancer Paula Abdul, music manager and mogul Simon Cowell. Recently added, was the multi-Grammy nominated songstress and composer Kara DioGuardi.
Judges decide the top 24 contestants who then face off in a series of weekly competitions, each with different themes. Examples of themes that have been used include disco, big band, Motown, Billboard hits, and even featured singing artists like Dolly Parton, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Queen, Barry Manilow, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, The BeeGees, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Rod Stewart, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Sadaka. It is during this later stage of the show when the public vote is used to decide the top 12, eventually narrowing it down to the top 2 by voting a contestant out every week.
American Idol is hosted by Ryan Seacrest who used to host game shows for children. In the first season, he co-hosted the show with funnyman Brian Dunkleman.
First aired with little fanfare as a summer stand-in television show in 2002, American Idol has since developed and grown an immense fan base all through to its eighth season this year. Needless to say, the show has produced award-winning and popular singing artists, starting off with the winners of the first seven seasons, namely Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia Barrino, Ruben Studdard, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, Carrie Underwood, and David Cook. Noteworthy are also the runners-up of the first seven seasons, who are Justin Guarini, Blake Lewis, Clay Aiken, Diana DeGarmo, Katharine McPhee, Bo Bice, and David Archuleta.
Nov 14
Learn More About the Stars of Hollywood
Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 in David Archuleta
Megan Fox was voted the Sexiest Woman in the World by avid readers of FHM Magazine through an online poll. She was in no. 68 slot in 2006 and no. 65 in 2007. She surely worked her way up.
Following her are Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel. She beat lots of big name beautiful and sexy actresses including Elisha Cuthbert and even Angelina Jolie, who they say she resembles the most.
She has started her career in modeling and acting but Fox’s got her big break when she landed the lead female role in the blockbuster movie Transformers. She already posed for big name magazine’s like FHM, GQ and Maxim.
Drew Barrymore is one of the Hollywood’s well loved actresses.
Her career started at the age of 7 in the movie E.T. Although she went into a rebellious stage in her teen years she was able to bounce back to become a one of Hollywood’s most recognized child actresses and producer as well.
She mostly stars in romantic comedy films like: The wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, Never Been Kissed etc. She has her own production company, the Flower Films which produced some of her movies.
After failed marriages and relationships, she is still enjoying her single life as well as becoming the World’s Most Beautiful in 2007.
On the 61st annual Cannes Festival held in France, the red carpet makes way for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
On the Kung Fu Panda’s press conference, some secrets between the movie’s main cast were spilled. First, Jack Black told the media that Bradgelina are expecting twins due this summer. Secondly, Dustin Hoffman is also claiming that there was a time when Angelina Jolie had to choose between him and Brad Pitt. Well. It’s clearly visible now whom Angelina choose.
The couple is expecting their twins to come due on August 19 this year. Yet she’s still hadn’t make-up her mind where to give birth but considering that France is a good place to conceive.
Since their adopted children (Maddox and Sahara) are now having French Lesson and additional Cultural Lesson so that they can learn about the family’s original culture. How cool can that be? The couple must be having their excitement double-up with the twins to add up to their family and Angelina Jolie is now very exhilarated.
There are also reports that the couple is considering to have more children after their twins. I just hope that they’re going to the knot pretty soon and not to be bounded by their responsibility to raise-up her children with Brad Pitt.
The 7th season of American idol is now coming to its climax this 3rd week of May. We all know that the show has produced many singing sensations of this generation. The people of America and viewers from all over the world are agitated to know who’s gonna reign in this season of American Idol. It’s a neck to neck showdown between David Archuleta and David Cook on this final week of American Idol. The two have been battling their voices out from the start of this show’s season. At such a very young age, David Archuleta has impressed the viewers, especially the judges with his very outstanding voice.
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://thehollywoodlife.net
