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Discussion - Top 4 Performance

EDIT: Blake’s #’s - 1-866-436-5702 and 1-866-436-5706. Text votes to 5702 ONLY. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

Discuss Blake’s top 4 performances here!

Tonight’s theme is the music of the Bee Gee’s with Barry Gibb providing mentoring for the remaining contestants. There will be 2 performances from each contestant, and according to this USA Today article, the performances will be 2 minutes each - longer than the normal 1:30. WARNING: This article also contains information on the contestants’ song choices, so if you don’t want to know, don’t click. :)

Tonight’s voting is SUPER important. All indications are that we are back to the normal 2 hour voting window, and if trends follow past seasons, there will be 3 lines per contestant. We’ll get Blake’s phone numbers posted for you ASAP once the show begins it’s east coast broadcast and we know the order of the performers.

Remember that the most efficient way to vote, especially when the competition gets down to the wire like this, is text voting. If you have a Cingular or AT&T phone with a text plan, or have the disposable income to buy a Cingular Go Phone, text your votes as much as possible. My personal voting strategy tonight is to text for at least the first hour, and if the phone lines clear up then, I’ll switch to phone voting at that point. If they haven’t, I’ll keep going with the texts.

If you are unable to text, my suggestion is to utilize the 2nd or 3rd phone line that is provided for Blake. The “rest of America” will likely be using that first line. So don’t forget about those other 2 lines - you’re more likely to get less busy signals that way, and you should be able to get in more votes for Blake!

Don’t forget to re-read our handy dandy voting strategies and tips here, which were provided last week by the Blaker Girls, and used by the Soul Patrol last year.

We can do this! Blake should be in the top 3! Save the Beatboxer. Save the World!

GO BLAKE and GOOD LUCK!

USA Today Spoils Us!

USA Today has gifted us with spoilers for tomorrow night’s Bee Gees-themed performance episode. Yay! Read up on how the final four prepare for Tuesday and find out Blake’s song selections here. What do you think?

Preview Blake’s lesser-known choice…

In other exciting news, the new Entertainment Weekly Power List is out, and  guess who they rank at number one? Woot!

Random Tidbits

Computer-gate? EW.com seems to be trying to instigate a scandal over Blake’s use of Ableton Live software. They even asked Idol Musical Director Michael Orland about it:

I was surprised when he admitted that he used a computer to arrange it. Is that all kosher to you?
Yes, because while it’s a computer program, he comes up with the drum beats and manually puts them in. It’s his own creativity doing it. I love that he said that. Even during Diana Ross week, I remember he was playing beats in the background with her to hear what it would sound like
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Glad to see Mr. Orland stick up for our home skillet! He called Blake’s arrangement “genius.”

Numbers: Kirsten at MJ’s reports that Blake has two songs currently charting on Mediabase’s rolling 7-day charts.
“Imagine”: 206 Pop
“You Give Love a Bad Name”: 82 HAC, 87 Rock, 109 Pop, 112 AC

Bee Gees: This week the kids tackle two songs each from the Bee Gees catalog with Barry Gibb as the guest mentor. Before you think we’re doomed for an all-disco extravaganza, check out this list of tunes. Any suggestions or guesses?

Songwriting Competition: Cast your vote for the coronation song yet? You can listen and vote for the 20 competing songs here.

Search trends: Forget yahoo buzz. Don’t most peeps search with Google? Here’s a google trend report comparison of the top four (and Sanjaya for fun). Note the disclaimer.

Mark Hughes, author of Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff, blogged about Blake at Amazon. He seems to think that Blake could teach some Fortune 500 execs a thing or two about innovation being the key to competition, whether in the business world or on American Idol.

National Anthem: If Blake makes it to top three, he’s tentatively scheduled to sing the National Anthem at a Seattle Mariners game during his hometown visit.

And finally, Team Plaid got a shout out here. Go Team Plaid!



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