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Published by Sarah July 2nd, 2007 in Blake Lewis, Recaps, Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks, Sanjaya Malakar, Chris Richardson, Phil Stacey, Haley Scarnato, Lakisha Jones, Chris Sligh, Tour and Gina Glocksen. 28 Comments

As most of you know, the American Idols Live tour finally kicks off this Friday, July 6, in Sunrise, FL. For the next 2 1/2 months, the top 10 contestants will travel around the country in one of the summer’s biggest tours, and five of your very own readers, posters, and/or admins will be there firsthand at the second stop of the tour in Tampa, FL this Saturday night. Yes, we are just slightly excited. In addition to those of us going on Saturday night, all of the admins here at Team Plaid are going to at least one tour stop, and we’ll do our best to report on all the details from the stops that we attend.

However, we obviously cannot cover 50+ tour stops alone, so here’s where you come in. We want your recaps!!! We know that there are lots of you out there who are going to a stop of the tour this summer, and we want to hear how your concert went! We know that you are fabulous writers, photographers, and videographers, and we’d love to put up the details of your Disney on Ice AI tour experience. We will open a blog post for each concert, so please feel free to post your recaps there. Or, simply email us at teamplaid@gmail.com with pics, links to photobucket accounts, and… recaps! Sure, the songs at each concert will be the same, but there are always fun little details that differ from city to city, and we love to know this stuff! And we especially want to know if you were lucky enough to score Meet and Greets and got to meet the Idols, or if you were just patient enough to wait by the busses for a quick hug, picture, and autograph!

Please use this space to find others who are going to your same tour stop. Feel free to post which city you plan to go to, but please DO NOT post detailed information about where you are sitting or eating beforehand, etc. If you would like to contact someone about meeting up at a specific concert, and you do not already have their contact info, please email us at teamplaid@gmail.com, and we’ll be happy to get y’all hooked up. But please, for your own safety, do not post your email address or any detailed information here.

Thanks to you all! Here’s to a summer of fun tour info!!

Discussion - Finale Results

Published by pj May 23rd, 2007 in Blake Lewis, American Idol, Results, Chris Richardson, Phil Stacey and Chris Sligh. 67 Comments

This is it y’all. Tonight is the last night we’ll see Blake perform on the American Idol stage. What a long strange trip it’s been from “Somewhere Only We Know” to the “This is My Now.” I’ve rewatched last night’s performances and what strikes me every time is Blake’s obvious joy at being on stage. When his eyes scan the audience and look into the balconies of cheering fans, my tear ducts go into overdrive. It doesn’t help when I see Chris R, Phil and Sligh cheering him on with such pride and passion on their faces.

I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t crazy about Blake’s audition, but he won me over week after week as he effortlessly oozed charisma, originality, style, charm and talent just by being himself. I looked forward to his performances every Tuesday, learning not to fret over his song choices or his ability to handle a particular genre or theme. I recognized him not only as a musician who understands himself as an artist, but also as a kick ass producer.

Will Blake Lewis win American Idol? I don’t know, but we’ll find out tonight. I do know this: Blake Lewis has won me as a fan and I‘m greedily anticipating an album of original music. Win or lose this competition, Blake’s future is so bright he better wear shades.

Blake is SAFE! And Videos!

Published by LB2 April 26th, 2007 in Blake Lewis, American Idol, Performances, Results, Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks, Chris Richardson, Phil Stacey, Lakisha Jones, Idol Gives Back and Bono. 29 Comments

So is everyone else! See for yourself!

Here are the groups songs from last night:

“Time to Care” - Quincy Jones”

“American Prayer” - Bono and Dave Stewart:

And finally, here is Blake’s version of “Imagine” (without judges’ comments):

The Blake Effect

Published by pj April 20th, 2007 in Blake Lewis, American Idol, Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks, Sanjaya Malakar, Chris Richardson, Phil Stacey, Lakisha Jones and Ryan Adams. 32 Comments

Bean99 mentioned yesterday that Tim McGraw’s version of “When The Stars Go Blue” had climbed to number 30 on iTunes Top 100 song list. I decided to do some comparison shopping. Here’s how the songs the Idols sang on country night stack up on the iTunes Top 100 today.

In order of appearance:

Phil Stacey - “Where the Blacktop Ends” by Keith Urban - not charting on the iTunes Top 100.

Jordin Sparks- “A Broken Wing” by Martina McBride - charting at 66 on the iTunes Top 100.

Sanjaya Malakar- “Something to Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt - not charting on the iTunes Top 100.

Lakisha Jones- “Jesus Take the Wheel” by Carrie Underwood - charting at 84 on the iTunes Top 100.

Chris Richardson- “Mayberry” by Rascal Flatts - not charting on the iTunes Top 100.

Melinda Doolittle - “Trouble is a Woman” by Julie Reeves - not charting on the iTunes Top 100.

Blake Lewis - “When the Stars Go Blue” by Tim McGraw - charting at 22 on the iTunes Top 100.

Go Blake! Too bad the original version by Ryan Adams wasn’t mentioned on AI. I’d prefer it to receive the boost in sales from Blake’s performance Tuesday night. If you don’t have it, rush on over to iTunes and download it now.

Oh, and don’t forget to buy Blake’s studio version from the official AI site. It is love.

Note: I didn’t check the iTunes Country 100. Could be that some of these songs are charting there.

Discussion - Top 7 Results

Published by pj April 18th, 2007 in Blake Lewis, American Idol, Results and Phil Stacey. 19 Comments

Gah! DialIdol is one hot mess. Blake is second to the bottom on the DialIdol score and third to the bottom by busy percentages.  Like I mentioned last week,  DialIdol is better at predicting the safe ones than the potential bootees.  This week, Phil Stacey is the only safe contestant according to their stats.

I think AI opened more phone lines this year to thwart DialIdol.   Last year at this point, I voted non-stop to save Ace and barely got through. I’m not saying that Ace didn’t get the least amount of votes, but I am saying that it seems like there are fewer busies across the board.  I also noted that I got WAY more busies with the cell phone than the vonage phone last night.  I think the busies might reflect the local carrier rather than AI’s open lines.  IF that’s the case, it really renders DialIdol useless.  But who knows?

I felt confident last week going into the results show. Tonight, I will be more than a little nervous.  Will they break them into two groups and force some poor sap to pick the top three?  Who will be that poor sap?  How will he/she handle it?  Will it be scripted? Will Blake be in the bottom three? Would a trip to the bottom three energize Blake’s fanbase?

I’m guessing Phil will be that poor sap.  That’s my only prediction.

Stay tuned.

UK Edits

Published by pj April 17th, 2007 in Blake Lewis, American Idol, Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks, Sanjaya Malakar, Chris Richardson, Phil Stacey, Haley Scarnato, Lakisha Jones and Cat Deeley. 7 Comments

The UK broadcast of American Idol features some slightly different content.  Check out Blake’s backstage interview with Cat Deeley from last week.

The Top 8 Idols also discussed the biggest misconceptions written about them in the press.  Check out Blake’s response at the end of the video. Flirty Blake!!!

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