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American Idol - The Best & Worst of American Idol ( Limited Edition )
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Features the best and worst performances from the 1st four seasons of the pop cultural phenomena American Idol. Worst: Includes outrageous performances from William Hung and a collection of some of the most unreal performers. Best: Features the hottest talent to come out of the show: Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Fantasia (single "I Believe" hit #1 on the charts), Diana Degarmo (single "Dreams" hit #2 on the Billboard charts), Constantine, Clay Aiken (first single was #1 with 400,000 sold first week), Ruben Studdard (platinum artist whose album was in the Top 10 for 6 weeks), and Kelly Clarkson (double platinum).

American Idol Season 5 Encores
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American Idol: Season 5 Encores features the top 12 finalists singing their best performances from this season. Rocker Chris Daughtry offers his take on Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive." Kellie Pickler contributes her special version of Patsy Cline's "Walkin' After Midnight." And, Taylor Hicks sings the classic Doobie Brothers hit "Takin' It to the Streets."

American Idol Greatest Moments
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Glorified karaoke
Well, why do I sometimes waste my time criticizing? Is it cuz I have a hair trigger patience? I'm bored and have nothing better to do with my time? Well being frank, somethings are not great in my eyes yet I see people just going ga-ga over some tripe.

Well today I present the biggest abomination of them all, and it's name is American Idol. There are some reasons why I'm not much of a fan of the show and the reasons are as follows.

1-No credible musical acts.
What can I say about a show that criticizes people of being fat, ugly, untalented, and having mental or physical problems, then making fun of them behind their backs. It maybe funny, but these are people in their 40's and are only really interested in a "product" that they can market and sell in magazines, TV, and album covers and many times they are bias because they want to invest in looks that could be sold to the masses.

2- No real artistic choices.
Don't kid yourselves, these kids can't really sing, write a song or play an instrument. Once you sign on to the show the show, label own you for years or until they toss you out like garbage. the singers technically sign away all the write leave everything on the bigwigs hands, from hiring people to write songs, pay royalties when the first rapid produced song and album appears and the record has to be saturated with other people's records and having to have other write songs only because these songs are "hot" and could move the product to the public.

3-People vote, but does it really matter?
Welcome to the cookie cutter show. The producers of the show have an interests who wins because they are dibbing up the cash and want someone that really is eye candy, not really a voice. Notice, how sometimes they say that you sing good but you might want to lose ten pounds or we might turn on you and next week have you kicked out of the show, or you will not sell albums looking like that.
Another one is is you don't change your musical style you will lose, especially on the ones remotely rock sounding. Pop music princess or country really is not my liking of music yet it is what according to them sells.

In conclusion, this is just a popularity contest, the pretty one who can remotely sing wins and takes all. My type of IDOL? NO!!!

New Release (featuring "The Time Of My Life") (2008)
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American Idol Season 4 - The Showstoppers
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Few would risk making guarantees when it comes to a hodgepodge of a disc like Showstoppers, but one thing is for sure: it's bound to become the only CD in your collection you bought knowing full well you would have to hold your nose through certain tracks. That, of course, is the fun of the American Idol franchise: You may love Carrie Underwood's rootin'-tootin' version of Martina McBride's "Independence Day" but loathe Anthony Federov's syrup-soaked rendition of the '80s chestnut "Everytime You Go Away"; you may swoon over Bo Bice's Grass Roots-style vocal on the Gavin DeGraw hit "I Don't Want to Be" but find yourself making the gag-me gesture when Mikalah Gordon steps up to the mike for a Streisand-aping take on "God Bless the Child." Call it a lowbrow musical twist on the famous theatrical formula "You will laugh! You will cry!", but instead of laughing and crying you will love and hate (then again, laughter and tears could enter into the equation after a close listen to Constantine Maroulis's "My Funny Valentine"). The final cut, an ensemble number, puts this amateurs' jumble into perspective: given the right producer, anybody can sing, even those Simon Cowell would sooner see at a cut-rate karaoke bar. --Tammy La Gorce

American Idol Season 2: All Time Classic American Love Songs
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Interested in visiting your favorite contestants from the second season of American Idol? Then this is the album for you, but be forewarned that something is lost in the translation from the small screen to the compact disc. Simon Cowell's scathing comments and Paula Abdul's head tossing add to the human drama; without those visual embellishments, the recorded version falls flat. Sure this is a talented bunch, but the material is mundane, with few of the finalists straying from the traditional arrangements. But when they do, it's sometimes worse. Ruben Stoddard's rendition of the Carpenters hit "Superstar" reeks of misplaced sincerity. The best cut on the disc is Kimberly Caldwell's throaty cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song," which gives the song some well-needed grit. And while Julia Demato's voice is no match for Etta James's full-bodied version of "At Last," Demato gives the classic a fetching kittenish spin. --Jaan Uhelszki

American Idol - The Best of Seasons 1 - 4
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Features the best performances from the 1st four seasons of the pop cultural phenomena American Idol.

Nothin' Like the Summer
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Solid offering - Something special about it
I enjoyed Carmen on American Idol so long ago, but I was quite suspicions of all the 5-star ratings here. Clearly Carmen Rasmusen fans had invaded and left their mark.

The good news:
- This is a solid offering with a couple gems. "Nothin' Like The Summer" has a "When the Star Go Blue" (Corrs version) like chorus and I just can't get enough of that. "Keep Me Forever Falling" is simple and beautiful.
- No yodeling or modulation that plagued the American Idol performances. Yea!

The bad news:
- Not edgy or inventive if that's what you're looking for.

I listen to a lot of music, and I like to find albums that are good overall. Albums that I can pop in and enjoy through the entire disc or on shuffle without getting any bad song bombs. Albums where I don't feel like I paid for one or two song. They are actually pretty rare and this is one of them.

There is no way I can give this album 5 stars. That's reserved for albums that are true masterpieces. It's a solid 4 stars and far better than most of the Idol albums I've heard.

American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics
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2 Artists Shine on This Album
Those 2 artists are: Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson, they are just amazing. Latoya London is good, but more than slightly boring. Diana Degarmo is alright, but makes up for it with personality-plus. The rest of the group are DUDS, sorry. Get Fantasia's album, and wait for Jennifer's to come out, which I'm sure will be soon.

American Idol - The Worst of Seasons 1-4
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Features the worst performances from the 1st four seasons of the pop cultural phenomena American Idol.

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{Originally published on Baby On Bored} Let me just start by saying if you have an ultrasound picture of your baby stuck on your refrigerator with a magnet, you?re not someone I want to be friends with. And if you have someone else?s baby?s ultrasound picture up there, well, that?s just a cry for help. I?m never sure what I?m supposed to say when confronted with this. ?Wow, that?s one sexy fetus?? I got pictures from my ultrasound too but I didn?t wallpaper the house with them. Isn?t it bad en • Idol Radec Spring 2009
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In a recent interview, I Love New York star, Tiffany Pollard, speaks out about David Otunga?s recent engagement to Jennifer Hudson. I guess there is no love lost between New York and her former co-star ?Punk.? In fact, she thinks her former flame may be a gold digger on the down low. Us Weekly Reports: ?He?s [...] • Simon Cowell: Cowell & Paula Abdul?s salaries
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Break out the Jesus Juice! Paula Abdul is ready to hit the roof after learning that fellow American Idol judge Simon Cowell is clocking $36 million a year to her ?meager? $5-$8 million salary. ?Paula knew that Simon was getting paid more, but she never imagined it was this much more,? an Abdul insider spilled to MSNBC this week. ?This could really put her in a bad way.? ?She has a lot of concerns with feeling appreciated. First, they bring in another judge (Kara DioGuardi) and now it?s

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