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...people are the most talented, promising karmic justice in a pop world of Ashlee Simpsons and Paris Hiltons. "There are a lot of people who are not great singers who are selling a lot of records," Jackson puts it diplomatically. And voters will take points off for arrogance. Justin Guarini was Season 1's early favorite but lost steam when he started to seem as if he believed he was as good as everyone else said...
...mediocre mug. "You have the voice of an angel and the face of a Hobbit," the Australian judge told Nilsen. "If they had Middle-earth Idol, you'd be it." Still, Nilsen beat out American Idol's Kelly Clarkson and nine others. We assume American Idol washout Justin Guarini and the potent Scandinavian voting bloc hit the phone lines hard...
...show, RCA was going to sign Aiken. (In a deal struck with the show's creator, Simon Fuller, RCA has the right of first refusal for all American Idol finalists. So far, the label has signed inaugural winner Kelly Clarkson, her runner-up Justin Guarini and Aiken; Studdard was signed by sister label J Records.) Sanders made his name as a music executive by signing Moby. He won't say whether he's a fan of Aiken's music--"But I'm a disciple of the phenomenon," he offers, flashing a wry smile. "There is no Ed Sullivan Show anymore...
Aiken had been forewarned by Clarkson and Guarini that if he was happy with 50% of his completed album, he'd be "doing real good." The problem, they told him, was that there were too many people wrestling for control of their music. "Simon Fuller did not create American Idol to be in the television business," says Tom Ennis of Fuller's production company, 19 Entertainment. "He created American Idol as a new way to find talent to manage and nurture." 19 is the idols' official record label--RCA is the American distributor--and Fuller, who managed Annie Lennox before...
...image to sell clothes, but 205 (it's the area code for Birmingham, Ala., Studdard's hometown) promptly dialed it up a notch, claiming that it paid Studdard to wear its clothes on TV--a violation of Idol rules. It's almost enough to make you miss Justin Guarini. Almost...