8.24.12 Adam on Sunrise TV Recap, more news

I believe the Keith Urban rumor. Yesterday, when I heard Keith's answer when he was asked about Idol in a recent interview his response made me think it's likely he'll be joining the panel. I don't have any experience reading Keith, like I do reading Adam after three years of following him, but Keith hedged in much the same way Adam does. It sounded to me like he truly enjoyed and appreciated his Australian The Voice experience and didn't want to make it seem like he's in a hurry to jump ship, especially when he was talking with a New Zealand radio station. But he said he'd "know within the next week or so" whether he would be doing The Voice or not. What will change between now and another week that he'll suddenly know whether things will work out for him to do The Voice, other than Idol judges will be announced? He'd be in a better position for releasing his upcoming album if he's seen on TV twice a week in a much larger market than he would if he stayed with The Voice in Australia. If he turned down the Idol offer, or it didn't work out, and he's now only trying to determine whether The Voice would fit in his recording schedule, why wouldn't he have just said so? And the comments by the Pepsi spokesperson and the fact that Nicki's canceled concerts and cleared her calendar tells me she's a done deal.

I think Idol's just trying to keep the pot stirred and maintain interest leading up to the announcement by throwing out names like Kanye. Or having Mariah suggest Lenny Kravitz. I think Mariah and Nicki are friendly, and that Nicki must have been signed shortly after Mariah. I don't think Mariah was unaware. I think Idol's just trying to create drama, and it might be easier to do between people who know it's not real and won't have true hurt feelings. But I personally think it would be way more interesting to see two women--who people might think have little in common--getting along and having fun on the panel, and dealing with real honest differences of opinions, than watching a manufactured catfight.

But, anyway, like I said the other day, I don't much care who all is on the panel with Adam, I'm just anxious for them to make the announcement already!

Also, the first time I saw the pro-shot Take 40 video I felt the same as those who prefer the first fan video. To me, the fan vid has a warmer, richer vocal tone and conveys so much joy.

Totally agree, Misha!! I had taken Urban's quotes the other day as backpedaling, but after running it through Twitteranalysis, I'm loving the Urban idea. Since I don't follow country music, I didn't realize how long he had been gone for his vocal issues. That in itself is good motivation for him to want to do something like this to get back into the thick of things.

Also, since I know he lives in both Australia and I think Tennessee, I thought why would he want to uproot his life like that? But his comeback after vocal problems answers that question for me.

Because his wife is a gazillionaire, I can see him not haggling about a few million dollars and seeing the benefit for his career.

(IF any of this is true, btw ... I've become highly dubious of ALL Idol-leak articles.)

Also, he's reputed to be very cool – not racist or homophobic in any way, so yay for that.

Call Me Maybe also makes me cringe and for the life of me, I don't understand why it is so popular. Had the same feeling about Hey, Soul Sister and to a lesser degree Payphone, that John Mayer song, and A Thousand Years.

I know some people think Runnin' would not make a good single, but I put it in the same category as as Goyte's Somebody That I Used to Love and Fun's We are Young. Not that I am particularly fans of those two songs, but they were so different (kinda hard to peg what genre) that they made people take notice. I think I've only heard of one person who didn't like Runnin'.