In her second nationally televised performance of the day, Jordin Sparks last night give it her all on stage at NBC's late night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Unsurprisingly, Jordin sang a rousing rendition of "Battlefield," and the audience members overlooking Jordin and her band most likely would agree. Watch the performance below:
Earlier this morning, Jordin was interviewed by Kathie Lee Gifford and Tori Spelling on The Today Show about her tour with the Jonas Brothers and her new album Battlefield. Watch the segment below:
In addition to discussing her vocal hemorrhage scare last year, Jordin was asked if she has any crushes on the JoBros, to which she replied "No, oh my goodness no. They're great people but no."
The following are Idol-related odds and ends that happened this week:
>Diana DeGarmo's Australian cyber-stalker of three years, Tanya Maree Quattrocchi, has finally been sentenced to prison for 26 months after she ignored her probation and returned to hacking the Season 3 runner-up's MySpace in addition to exhibiting other stalking behaviors. This is the second time Quattrocchi has been convicted of harassing Diana since 2006.
>David Cook visited NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Monday to perform his latest single "Come Back to Me." Watch the performance below:
Following his performance, Cook briefly spoke with Fallon and one of his guests for the episode, The Amazing Kreskin, who said he could have told Cook he was going to win last year.
>Michael D. Ayers of Billboardwrote a preview article of Michael Johns' upcoming album Hold Back My Heart, due out June 23 courtesy of TRP Records. The article said the material on Michael's album will sound "more like the neo-soul of Ray LaMontagne and James Blunt than the polished mega-pop that "Idol" tends to be associated with."
>Josh Gracin posted a new vlog he did from his tour on his official music MySpace page, which he is currently in the midst of. The vlog documents what Josh and the guys in his band do before a show starts. Find out the answer below:
Pre-show activities include Josh doing a little batting practice and two of his band members fiddling with their iPhone.
>Phil Stacey posted three new songs that will be on his forthcoming release on Reunion Records, Into the Light, which is due out Aug. 25. The new tracks are called "Inside Out," "You're Not Shaken" and "With All My Life." Phil addressed the musical direction of his upcoming album in a press release on his old Lyric Street Records Web site:
"There are songs on the project that will encourage and others that will challenge. Some that I’ve written and others that I heard and just had to record, including one by one of my favorite artists, Rich Mullins, called 'Hard to Get'," adds Stacey.
Brown Bannister, who previously produced Chris Sligh's debut solo album, is helming the Into the Light project.
Kris Allen last night visited Jimmy Fallon at his late night program, where he chatted about a host of topics following his big Idol win last Wednesday. Watch the interview segment on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon below:
The first issue Kris had to deal with was "textgate," which he claimed to know nothing about. Fallon suggested Kris call his debut album by the name of the controversy. Kris also said the first time he thought he really would be leaving was after performing Don Henley's "All She Wants to Do Is Dance."
Kris also showed more humor when he told Fallon that Arkansas music scene is "absolutely not" big, and got to demonstrate his guitar skills with an "impromptu" acoustic performance of "Heartless," which received much applause.
The talk show circuit was hot with Idol judges yesterday, as Simon Cowell's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired in addition to appearances by Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson on late night programs. Kara stopped by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live where she talked about a misconception that she shaves her nose and what it was like to write a song for Paris Hilton. Watch the segment below:
She again said that it's still undecided whether or not she will be back next season, despite Simon already confirming that there would be four judges on Season 9. She also dodged the question that everyone always asks: who she thought was going to win, as Kimmel did not even go there in the interview.
Not to be outdone, Randy was on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to chat with the show's host. Watch it below (begins at 28:40):
Randy said it will come down to Adam and Danny and defended Adam against Fallon's "broadway" comment.
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