Please. There’s nothing overly sophisticated about Katherine McPhee. She’s a beautiful girl who sings pop standards. She’s sure fun to look at and she’s a talented vocalist, but so what?
Well, I sure can’t argue with that. What’s next? Beck playing second fiddle to the Pussycat Dolls? Fatboy Slim spinning records for Jennifer Lopez?
Out of curiosity, does Patty Griffin count as country, or what? Because she has quite a few awesome songs that this crop of contestants could do well with. Some of them (I am thinking here of the album “Flaming Red”) are quite thrashy, actually.
I’d love to hear Chris do a version of “Til I can’t take it anymore” by Charlie Rich. I’ve been waiting for him to get his hands on a ballad.
Oh, I hope no one does Faith Hill. Cross over songs are too safe.
IANAL, but I believe that technically, they can sing whatever they want to. An artist can’t generally force you to not record or perform a song that already been released once.
However, if you perform or record a song without the show coming to some sort of agreement with the copyright holder ahead of time, the royalties the show must pay are at a higher “compulsory license” rate.
I would guess that there’s no shortage of music publicists trying to get their artists’ songs on Idol, so I would guess that there are few compulsory licenses paid.
I suppose their could be some sort of exclusive agreement between Idol’s producers and certain music publishers, but that would be the only real hindrance to song choice.
You know what would suck? Katharine doing “Man, I Feel Like a Woman”.
Or anyone doing it for that matter.
I expect to hear a lot of LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill and Garth Brooks. Maybe some k.d. Lang if we’re lucky. Probably some more Patsy Kline. Perhaps Chris will skate with some Southern rock. The Altman Brothers or Lynryd Skynyrd.
If the Pickler does “Politically Uncorrect” the stars will have aligned for Armageddon.
On the other hand, a quality rendition of “Always on My Mind” is most welcome.
Next week could be good. Johnny Cash, Tom T Hall, Buck Owens, Willie Nelson…there are plenty of old-school country artists that don’t do that horrible feline throat yodeling method singing.
But to quote Randy, “It’s the song choice dude, a’ight?”
Which matters not. You’re gonna hear New Country crap.
That’s what I was thinking originally. You now have Idol contestants singing the same things others have done (or Underwood last year who sang a bunch of songs twice). They’d have to be bit less ‘follow the herd’ than that, if they could sing anything, right (I hope so at any rate!)?!
Um, PapSett, we can fabricate for you an Ace poster.
If we guys have to give up looking at, e.g., Kinnik, Melissa, Lisa, & I had to give up looking at Nadia Turner last year; you can lose Mr. Bad Intonation.
You know what would bring me entirely back into Chris’s corner? If he did a straightforward, non-grunge-drag cover of “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other.”
I think this may be the first season that I’ve watched (I missed most of season 1) that I’ll quit watching before it ends because I simply despise the singing style and/or quality of all of the people who will most likely be in the top 3.
The order I’d like to see them eliminated:
Ace
Chris (poseur should get the boot to give him a much needed cocky attitude adjustment)
Kellie
Bucky
Mandisa
Paris
Katharine
Taylor
Elliott
The order I have a sick feeling they’ll actually go out in:
Ace
Katharine
Bucky
Elliott
Taylor
Paris
Mandisa
Kellie
Chris
Bah!
Doesn’t Willie Nelson have a deal with “Nashville Star,” though?
That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day. Listen up, Chris, you need the points! 
I thought Pansy Division did it first, but this article attributes the writing to Ned Sublette. Does lissener or anyone know who recorded it first?
It’s a singing contest, not a beauty pageant!
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I’ve been a (rather sheepish) Ace advocate to date, but there’s NO WAY I’d forgive him for bumping Katharine out of the competition. Lisa, okay, but if Ryan had said Kat’s name I would have advocated full-scale riots. So good thing for public safety at large that Lisa got the boot.
…it’s not as if there’s anything else in the world worth getting angry about… :rolleyes:
Last time I checked, I found only the Pansy Divisioni recording. Sublette may have written it for them, or something.
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[li]What does any of that mean?[/li][li]Are we sure she’s the only Katharine Mcphee (note capitalization) out there?[/li][/list]
Nationwide there are at least a dozen and a half listings for McPhee with the first initial ‘K’, and one Katherine McPhee (note the different spelling of Katharine) in Colorado. That’s just who’s listed. Odds aren’t great that there are other Katharines with that spelling, but I would never have thought there were other people with my full (maiden) name out there, either, and Google returns 5 pages of references (with several duplicates, of course). Anything’s possible.