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Donut
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07-31-2001

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Donut a private message Print Post    
It seemed like we only have either news or specific show threads so hope its ok to put a thread in for more general idol chitchat. For example, the songwriting contest..Is anyone here entering it?? I am mad because I waited and waited for the announcement, figured they dropped the idea and then they do it and give practically no time to do it! I had written some lyrics but there's no time to get a melody together, find a singer or sing in my lousy voice and try to find a way to make an MP3 tape on my lousy computer, and they time it to coinide with tax prep! Anyways, just curious if anyone from here is trying for it... I have some lyrics, if anyone here has a good way with music and the means to make a tape and wants to cowrite, let me know! Hate to waste my nice cliched insipid lyrics!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 5:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Just curious... why did you wait for the announcement? You knew it was coming, yes?

Donut
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07-31-2001

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Donut a private message Print Post    
Is anyone watching all the other million Idol shows. It's unbelievable how many they have now! I found them when I missed the show this week and was trying to find other ways to see the singing..So far I think that on TVGuide channel, there is Idol Chat and Idol Tonite, or something like that. Justin Guarini and other past idols get to host and interview. They catch the person voted out and their families right after the vote and do other interviews. Also on Reality TV channel they have Idol Extra which does pretty good interviews with various people. On one of the shows they do pop up facts and interview the contestants on various subjects. This time it was what they like for a romantic evening. Chris was actually funny .. he liked the sounds of the ocean and christmas music..Jingle Bells gets him going! Sanjaya liked Barry White and Al Green (like he really ever did anything to that music besides grooving in his diaper). The really strange answer was Melinda who said that she wouldnt know because she has never had a romantic nite! Does anyone else find it really strange that she is 29 and has never ever felt even one romantic moment in her entire life???

Donut
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07-31-2001

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Donut a private message Print Post    
hi costacat,
because it's very time consuming and a lot of work and energy and it seemed like rumor and it never got mentioned so I figured it wasnt going to happen. I dont really have the extra time to do it and didnt want to spend all the time when i should be doing other things to do something that wasnt going to exist! I would have had to get some equipment and put out some $ too so i stupidly waited for their stupid announcement! I emailed them too with questions like whether you have to go to CA and who sings the song for the online vote(your own voice on the demo or their own version) etc but never heard back

Chy
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07-19-2003

Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 9:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Donut, I found some Idol Extra on a channel which isn't even listed non my local tv listing. I could never figure out where the Reality Channel is either, don't want to bother the TW operator too often in such a small town... . Don't need everyone to know what the music minister's addiction is.. .. :-)

Donut, I've been know to fit music to Psalm verses on my feet - you know, rather than chanting on one or two notes, some cantors prefer melodic settings. But I really don't know if I'd got what the Idol people want.

You could always wait for next year. Looks like the production co. is trying to get more going, they'd probably still ask for it next year. This AI is not going to fold any time soon. Not even Sanjaya could kill it. :-)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I'm always over at the OS forum listening to the contest submissions. I think I have heard about 50 so far...Today I found my favorite one so far of the ones people are sharing. Scroll down and it's called "I won't forget".

http://www.betarecords.com/openframeset.php?content=/patrick.hurd

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
btw, in order to even vote on which song you would like to win, you have to pre-register. It's a separate registration than their forum registration.

http://songwriter.americanidol.com/Registration.aspx?type=voter

Chy
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07-19-2003

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Naja, that has to be a good song since it reminds me a bit of many other songs.... :-)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Which other songs, Chy?

Chy
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07-19-2003

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Naja, I don't keep up with the trendy sounds. But that song reminds me of many other songs I'd heard in my years. From the vamp, motif, chord progression all the way to the going in and out of the chorus. (Well, the vamp and orchestration could easiely be changed/juiced.)

To my ears, it's one of those run of the mill pop songs that's stacked with cliche. But that's not a bad thing. It's good this day and age. Unless you'd have a big name or big money pushing behind you, the general public would probably eat up this kind of sound much better than something too new which might translate to alien to them.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Did you guys go vote on the top 20 yet? I thought it was going to be fun, but it wasn't fun at all. I could never be one of those people in the industry whose job it is to listen to all the tapes and cds of new songs people toss at them. I still haven't shaken off my headache :-( Luckily, there were 2 songs on the list I thought were worth a decent grade.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
So, did you vote? Once you recovered from the agony of it?

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, May 04, 2007 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Yes, I voted. Well, you don't really vote. You rate them from 1 to 10 stars.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
<sg>

Did anybody go do the voting for the songs yet besides me? You have to register first. Believe me, it's not a fun task.

It's one thing listening to a song or two as people post them on the board and you just listen once and don't have to judge, it's another thing listening to 20 songs at once when 18 are horrendous, and you have to rate them.