What’s Cooking with the new “Idol”
After a quick jaunt to his hometown of Blue Springs, Mo., last weekend, David Cook has returned to Los Angeles to start work on his first post-”American Idol” album. He still hopes to have the album out in the fall, but a producer hasn’t been picked, according to a story in the Kansas City Star.
Cook, who was pursuing his musical dreams in Tulsa before trying out for and winning the huge reality TV contest, recently did an interview with his hometown newspaper. You can read the Q&A by clicking here.
The story offers some pretty interesting tidbits. In it, Cook talks about why he moved to Tulsa (“I’d been in the Kansas City scene for a long time. I just thought maybe a change of scenery would spike some inspiration.”); his reaction when he learned he would be playing with ZZ Top on the “Idol” finale (“Glee, really.”); and his favorite song to arrange on “Idol” (Surprisingly, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Music of the Night”).
The “Idol” Season Seven winner and the Star reporter also chatted about how everything Cook says and does is now scrutinized, from his comments on wanting to get a dog to the necklace he wears.
Speaking of scrutiny, celebrity gossip site E! Online has been all over this story, which has been picked up by several other entertainment sites: Apparently, Cook took Kimberly Caldwell, an “Idol” Season Two contestant, on another date! He and Caldwell attended a baseball game together Tuesday at Dodger Stadium; she sang the National Anthem at the game. WOW!
Later, one of the ubiquitous eyewitnesses who can’t wait to gush to the tabloids said Cook and Caldwell, who met through “Idol,” were “all cute and cuddly” “in an exclusive dugout seat out of sight of the big-screen cameras.” Heaven forbid that famous adults who are on a date cuddle, and worse that they cuddle out of the view of all the enquiring minds who want to dissect their each and every move. How dare they. Shocked and appalled I am.
That “eyewitness” went on to say: “They definitely looked like a couple. But they were acting like they wanted to keep it low-key.” Yeah, thanks for helping them out with that, pal.
If you have the stomach for unnamed sources and intrusive gossip, you can click here to read the story. Personally, I don’t recommend it.
I mean, if a famous person tells me in an interview that they’re dating another famous person, or even a nonceleb, I’m probably going to report it. After all, I blogged it here when Cook mentioned in a TV interview that he had gone on his first date with Caldwell.
But I’m not going to track every sighting and stage in their relationship for the rest of their earthly existence. It’s just all too much, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, society’s obsessive insistence on over-analyzing every aspect of celebrities’ lives is probably the greatest downside of winning something like “Idol.” Wherever his love life or musical career takes him – and I wish him all the best in both – I hope Cook is ready to handle the scrutiny.
Here’s some real actual news about the other “Idol” David: Like Cook, Season Seven runner-up David Archuleta has signed with 19 Records/Jive, Billboard reports. The trade magazine reports that if Archie follows the pattern “Idol” has set, the 17-year-old crooner also should have an album out in fall or winter.
Billboard also reports that Archie is getting into songwriting and might pen some of the songs on his first album himself. Click here to read the full story from Billboard.
-BAM
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Do people really have nothing better to do with their lives than to attach their hopes and dreams to whatever flash-in-the-pan celeb is doing at every moment of the day.
The guy is a singer, so lets care about his singing, not about who he’s ‘dating’ or what he ate for breakfast or what time he walks his dog!