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Friday, February 8, 2008
2/9: Fantasia’s new haircut, Kat marriage photos, Daughtry Q&A
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Have a great weekend everybody! Here are a few tidbits for you to chew on before you get ready to party!
Wireimage caught some photos of Fantasia with a rather unusual haircut. Check it out here.. She’s gone partially blond.
And People got the exclusive wedding shots of Katharine McPhee’s wedding with 43-year-old music producer Nick Cokas. As usual, Kat looks gorgeous. (When does she not look gorgeous?) Credit for photo on the right to people.com and Joe Buissink. Check out more here..
Ahead of the Grammys, TV Guide got to talk to Daughtry.. Like Carrie, he’s someone I probably won’t get a chance to talk to for a long time:
TV Guide: You covered Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” on Idol — and now you’re competing against them for a Grammy. How does that feel?
Daughtry: [Laughs] It’s an honor to be in a class of people that you couldn’t get away from on the radio growing up. Those guys are still in the game and it’s an encouragement to us, in that maybe we can be that act people are listening to 20 years from now.
TV Guide: You’re opening for them on their American tour. Any chance you and Jon will perform “Dead or Alive” together?
Daughtry: [Laughs] Oh, you bet your a* we will!*
Oh, and he sympathizes with Taylor Hicks, saying he should go the indie route, that he’s simply not the type of sound for a major label.
Plus this:
TV Guide: What do you think about the guy who won your season, Taylor Hicks, getting dropped by his label? Daughtry: I think major labels are not for everybody. For some [art ists], their vision of how they are creatively doesn’t quite fit the commercial aspect of the music. Hope fully Taylor will get an independent deal where he’s able to be who he is. Because the stuff I heard from his solo projects didn’t quite sound like the stuff that he put out on the major label.
*TV Guide: This season, Idol is allowing contestants to play instru ments. Is that something you would have done on the show? *
Daughtry: Absolutely. I think [contestants] should be forced to write a song on the show and perform it. That’d bring some new life to the show. Audiences would take it more seriously if it’s not about find ing people who suck and making fun of that. We’ve already seen all the people who can’t sing. It’s the same thing every year. They should be finding peo ple who are artists and trying to develop that.
And here’s the funniest press release of the day. It somehow makes leggy but bland Haley Scarnato sound like a superstar!
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Two rising stars will come together at this year’s Los Angeles International Boat Show, February 9-17, as American Idol Top-10 finalist Haley Scarnato joins the new Performance Boats Magazine editorial team to celebrate the print and website’s debut.
Scarnato, who as an Idol favorite electrified television’s most popular show with her rousing vocals and scorching wardrobe, will showcase her stunning camera presence as she provides color commentary during daily internet coverage of the show at performanceBoats.com.
