With all the news Jessica Sierra has made recently - from multiple arrests to a soon-to-be released sex tape - it's easy to forget that this former American Idol finalist can carry a tune.
Here's a clip of her from the show:
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Here are a couple excerpts from an interview Blake Lewis recently conducted with our friends at BuddyTV:
We know you collaborate with your fellow Idol Chris Richardson a lot. How much involvement did he have in the album?
We wrote one song together called âWhat'cha Got 2 Lose,â and then we co-wrote another song with Sam and Frodo out of New York called âI'm Just Human,â which will be a bonus on iTunes. With âWhat'cha Got 2 Loseâ I got co-production on that song as well with JR Rotem. It's just great, a rollercoaster ride.
âWhat'cha Got 2 Loseâ is kind of along the lines of âBreak Anotha,â but definitely funkier. It's Prince meets James Brown meets The Zapp Band, rollercoaster into Michael Jackson âThrillerâ in the breakdown with me scratching over it. It was definitely the ADD track of Audio Day Dream.
Are there any guests on the album that you'd like to talk about?
There's just one guest, and that's Lupe Fiasco. He blessed the track âKnow My Name,â which I wrote with Ryan Tedder and Josh Hodges. It's just a funky soul Nikka Costa meets Robin Thicke inspired track, with an a capella breakdown, just vocals, beatboxing.
When Lupe comes in it's all vocals, there's no break with a drum set on it. The track came out amazing and his verse is sick, so I'm very honored and fortunate to have him on this album.
Read the full interview here.
More bad news for Jordin Sparks:
Her self-titled album dropped 57% in its second week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It fell from number-10 to number-18 on the Billboard chart.
Given that holiday season tends to soften a lot of second-week sales declines - and that Jordin didn't sell all that much in her first week - this is far from encouraging. The American Idol champ sold 52,000 copies; her two-week total is 171,000.
Elliott Yamin recently spoke with Buddy TV about the role he plays in a critical national campaign. Here's an excerpt of the interview with the American Idol finalist:
So I know you've gotten involved in this Inspired By Diabetes campaign. Can you tell us a little bit about what that's all about and how you got involved?
Absolutely. Inspired By Diabetes is a creative expression competition sponsored by Eli Lilly, and they came to me and asked me if I wanted to help endorse it and also be a judge of some of the entries. I said of course, because it kind of hits close to home.
Of course A) I'm a type one diabetic, and B) It's kind of a creative competition. I jumped at the chance to be a part of it, and I'm glad I am. It's really great, because it's really making a direct impact and difference in children's lives, and the quality of their lives at the same time. What it is is a creative competition where contestants can enter the competition through song, through art, through drawings, through words or an essay.
Basically we're looking for people to share their stories about diabetes or their connection to diabetes in any which way. Like I said, through words, through pictures, or art, or music of course.
There's all these great, great prizes for the winners, and all the information regarding the contest can be found at their website inspiredbydiabetes.com. But the really cool thing that drew me in is the fact that for every entry the contest gets, Eli Lilly is going to donate money to a program called Life For A Child. Basically what that program is, it's basically to benefit children in 13 different countries around the world.
Most of these are developing countries, or some might be third world. Kids in these countries have no access to insulin, and they have no access to proper medical care. What Eli Lilly is doing is for every entry donating money to that charity, and I'm also donating money by sales of t-shirts and pins at my concerts to the charity as well. We just want to make sure that kids who need insulin to live don't go without.
Blake Lewis recently sat down with his hometown newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Here are highlights from the interview:
Q: "Audio Day Dream" seems to be loaded with potential hits, from ballads to hip-hop songs. Are your expectations high?
Lewis: I got to make the album I've always wanted. That's huge. I set high goals for myself. I don't tell anyone what they are. I'll tell them once I've reached them. I've done that my whole entire life. I put myself out in the universe, I put myself out there in a positive way.
Q: After "Break Anotha," how will you decide which songs to release as singles?
Lewis: I definitely want singles that best represent me. I'm not going to say which one, but there's a song that I didn't necessarily want on the record. But I know the label people love it, and you have to deal with the corporate stuff at a major label.
Q: Fellow American Idol Kelly Clarkson ran into trouble last summer when she refused label head Davis' offer of $10 million to delete five tracks and replace them with songs he would handpick. Did Davis ask for any changes on your album?
Lewis: On one song, he said, 'You should change this bridge because it doesn't sound like you.' He was right on a lot of things. And we compromised on a couple of things, but that's about it. He really didn't touch the record. He was just so into it. Which is huge because my whole dream was to be signed by Clive Davis, so I wasn't going to mess that up.
Q: What's your perspective on American Idol now that it's behind you?
Lewis: American Idol' was great. I was scared in the beginning because I had never seen it before, and I was afraid it would take my artistic integrity out of the mix. But it did the opposite. I was forced to do other people's music, but I didn't mind because I just made it my own, arranged it myself and I had a lot of fun with it. I didn't take it seriously because I'm not a competitive person.
I'm down to create. It launched my career out into the universe. What I want to do now is create music that I'm passionate about.
