I Want This Shirt

I wish I had this shirt. Someone go make it for me.

If only the movie was as good as this...

Happy Birthday, Mariah!

For the record, she's 39 this year, not 40. The magazines should really put more effort into finding out how old someone is before publishing it for the world to see. They claim it's only 1 year of difference, but anyone who's turned 40 could tell you it makes a world of difference.

To commemorate her 39th birthday, here's a list of the 39 things (I know, it scares me too) I love about Mariah:

1. Her whistle note, of course
2. Her melismatic way of singing
3. Her Guinness World Records
4. The fact that she co-wrote or wrote every song she's ever sung, with the exception of covers
5. Her 18 Billboard number 1s
6. She's Artist of the Millennium
7. Her amazing New York apartment
8. Jack, her Jack-Russel terrier. Very original name, I know.
9. Her festiveness
10. Her widespread influence
11. Her racial ambiguity ("Is she black? Is she white?")
12. Her amazing duets
13. How conservative and traditional she is
14. Her acting abilities
15. Her bad taste in men (Mottola, Cannon, Miguel...)
16. She's Artist of the Decade (the craziest acceptance speech I've ever seen)
17. 'Hero'
18. Her very dramatic performances
19. How she refuses to let old sluts like Madonna get the best of her
20. Her symbolic and meaningful music videos
21. All of her 11 albums
22. Her strength in overcoming the devil that is Mottola
23. Her refusal to give up acting even after this
24. Her dancing abilities
25. Her magnanimity
26. Her inspirational songs
27. She endorses Obama
28. Her belting
29. She has an evil alter ego
30. She has a hidden talent
31. She dresses up as the weirdest things for Halloween (bride, firefighter, cookie, mermaid..)
32. Her elaborate tours
33. Her weird laughter
34. She has insane fans
35. She can poke fun at herself
36. She sings 'Happy Birthday' too
37. She does great charity work
38. She's nice enough to sing background for her background singer
39. And finally, because she's Mariah Carey

Happy birthday, Mariah!

Some commercials are banned for a reason...

Ignorance Is Bliss

The Homeless and the Homey

Superstar

Bum

David Archuleta and weird alien both posted on their video blogs that they're gonna have a concert together in Manila. Don't you find it interesting that although they're both finalists of American Idol, Cook looks like a homeless bum while Archie looks like a glamorous superstar? Looks like age is catching up to somebody... Life of an American Idol winner not treating you well, Cook? Well living the life of someone else is never kind, dah-ling.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Archie fans start boo-ing Cook during the concert. But you gotta appauld Cook for his bravery for daring to appear on the same stage as the obvious true winner of American Idol. Either that or he's really stupid for furthur emphasizing the point that he's a little too not good enough.

Hope Archie has a tour in Singapore! And Cook, I promise never to say something bad about you again if you don't tag along.

Apparantly, I've Been Kidnapped

1pm - Mom receives a phone call.

Mom: Hello?
Boy: (Sobbing) Mom, something's happened!
Mom: What?! What happened?
Boy: Some people beat me up... I'm held at this place...
Mom: What's your name?
Boy: I'm Jian Yi (my Chinese name)
Mom: (sensing something's wrong) What's your full name? Where were you born?
Boy: I'm your child!
Mom: Where were you born? Which city?

Click... The line goes dead...


My mom tried calling me, but I was in Econs lesson, so I rejected the call. She then called my sis to text me, which she did, and I returned the call. So my sis told me about how they tried to con Mom into thinking that I was kidnapped. The sheer cheek of these people. Hello.. anyone who knows me would know I'm hardly the conventional kidnapping victim. I would get a back ache from the 'anonymous white van' that kidnappers seem to enjoy so much.

Luckily, this scam wasn't the first time it happened close to me. Another friend of ours had something similiar happen to them, and so Mom was more vigilant after that. But how could they have found out my Chinese name? I barely use it, and only in Chinese class when the teacher calls me. Maybe it's someone from my class... Or the Chinese teacher... Hmm...

Mom told me that even the voice of that person sounds like me. She should have asked him to sing Vision of Love or something. Lowlife scam accomplices shouldn't know that song.

I pity those scam-ers. Worked so hard to find out my info and do such believable voice acting only to be foiled by my mom. Those silly goose. My dad already set in place a series of security questions for such purposes. Only if 'I' manage to answer them all would they believe. Better luck next time, people.

David. Archuleta. Is. Coming. To. Singapore.

It's true!!!! Oh my goodness I can't believe it!!! Finally someone I want to see comes to Singapore!!! And He's singing autographs for CDs! And I have His CD! And I don't know why but I'm writing Him with the capital letter! Like God! But not!

Okay, getting a bit too excited there. But seriously, can anyone get too excited over Archuleta? The amazing boy I saw last year on TV all through American Idol and who's CD I've waited for so anxiously is coming to Singapore!! And I can see him!! And get Him to sign my CD! Okay, it's starting again.

Alright. I've calmed down enough to give you the deets.


7TH APRIL 2009
7 PM
ILUMA SHOPPING CENTRE (Opposite Bugis Junction)
AUTOGRAPH SESSION + SHORT PERFORMANCE

The most important day of my life (okay maybe I'll rethink this if Mariah comes to SG or I get married or have a baby or something, but 'till now it'll suffice)! In less than 3 weeks! I can hardly wait!

Inspiring

This was 16 years ago. Obviously no one took her very seriously cause these problems are only getting worse. But it was good while it lasted.

Shocking elimination...!

The American Idol producers must be smarter than we give them credit for. The minute news got out that they've chosen Alexis Grace as one of the top 4, her fate was sealed. Out of the 4 they have chosen, Alexis was obviously the weakest singer, and on tonight's elimination show, she was given the boot.

AI Producer: Heheh.. Let's see how they explain that one of the supposed top 4 has been eliminated. This has got to bring back our credibility.

AI Worker: Umm, boss? We never had any credibility to begin with.

AI Producer: (Looks at him sadly) I'm sorry to tell you, but your Idol journey has come to an end.

And the remaining contestants:

Country Night

The theme today for American Idol is 'Country'. I just bet Carrie's gonna come back tomorrow to perform. How can they have country without Carrie? It's like Danny without the wife. Well, actually, he is without the wife. Okay, that's just mean.

This week they have some Randy Travis guy to mentor. I keep thinking they're talking about Randy Jackson when they say Randy. I wonder why they didn't invite Michael Jackson last week to mentor them. Could be preempt measures, but I don't see any young boys around, unless they count Kris Allen.

Michael Sarver is up first, and he's attempting some sort of a tongue twister. Randy (Travis) says that if he misses even one word, it's gonna be completely over for him cause it's impossible to jump back. He has some harmonica player sit on the stage to play (play the harmonica, of course. Not play games.), and manages every single word of that song. Randy (Jackson. See? I told you it was confusing) thought it was good.But according to Simon, he might as well been singing in Norwegian 'cause he couldn't understand a single word. Sarver said that if they were perfect then they wouldn't need the show. Exactly, Michael! That's what eliminations are for. Looking forward to seeing you and your imperfections there!

Kris and Allison should seriously stop touch each other. They're always doing some sort of pre-commercial skit that involves touching each other. C'mon, Kris. You're a married 23 year old and she's a 16 year old high school student. How's your wife gonna feel about that, huh?

Allison kept doing the 2 finger up sign that Brits seem to hate so much during her performance. A very shouty one again, and she's doing some weird moves. I wonder how Simon feels about her 'flipping' him off like that. Kris performed without his guitar (I know! Outrageous!) but did it very very well. Randy called him a tender-dawg and Simon called him a puppy. Not sure if it's meant to be taken as a compliment. But it was a really charming performance he gave. Simon also said it was terrific, which I assume is a compliment, unless he was saying that it was terrific that he was a puppy.

The weirdest thing today was Paula. The suddenly seems like the grand matriatch of the judges, the most serene and confident one. Randy and Kara were like fidgeting, going here and there with their comments about Lil (no, Simon. It's not short for Little), but Paula just came in, slapper her hand on the table and went "All right. Look! I don't care about pitch problems (anyone who's heard her sing would know that for a fact). You look great." She was so confident about her delivery that the other judges just went silent and looked at her as she delivered her lines of wisdom.

Adam did something a lil weird today. Country mixed with middle eastern flaver tinged with a little bit of goth, with some Adam-patented yelling thrown in here and there. Kara was completely confused and finds it weird, but said it made her happy(Made you happy where, Kara?). Paula says Adam is true to himself, and did a Led Zeppelin "Kashmir,". Simon calls it indulgent rubbish. Uh-oh, Simon. You used that line before when dealing with Von Smith! I know it's your own line you're quoting from but please be original now..

And then we have, of course, Danny Gokey, who's decided to GoCarrie this week. He's singing the princess of country's (you may have never heard anyone refer to Carrie like that before, cause I just came up with it. Trust me, it'll catch on) Jesus take the wheel. Finally there's no mention of his wife this week. Unless the woman mentioned in the lyrics ("She saw both their lives flash before her eyes / She didn't even have time to cry") was her. In that case, he was more brutal than I thought. Singing about your wife losing her life? Please, Gokey. There's more honorable ways to win. Anyhow, Paula loves it (silly woman), Simon hates what he's wearing, and Kara and Randy thought the vocals were weak. Finally someone sees the light!

Best Dressed:

Of Dreams and Tea Leaves

He walked tentatively towards the shop-house, heart pounding ever slightly faster every time he took another step that brought him closer to the dinghy old shop. He hadn't wanted to come. In fact, he never thought he would ever be caught dead in a shop that advertises crystal balls, tarot cards and 'Wiccan' supplies. He didn't even know what 'Wiccan' meant. He was about to turn around and leave when Drew's voice rang clearly in his head again.

"You're obviously bothered by these dreams you're having. Go to her. I'm serious. It might just shed some light on why you can't have a good night's rest. My sister goes all the time and swears that she got answers."

He a deep breath and reached out a trembling hand to push the door open. It said 'Closed' on the sign hanging outside the door, but according to Drew's sister, 'Closed' was when the real good stuff happens.

He thought it was dark enough outside, but it was much worse inside. The only source of illumination was a single flickering candle at the far end of the room. The room smelt strongly of herbs and wood, a scent he found to be not entirely unpleasant. "Hello?" He whispered into the room.

"Gaaah!!" Someone had reached out a hand from behind and touched his shoulder. His heart gave a painful jolt as he shouted out in surprise.

"Gee, relax! I swear, guys are getting worse by the day." He whirled around to see where the voice had came from, and he yelped again when he saw a disembodied glowing head. Immediately he chided himself for behind stupid. It was a woman holding a candle to her face, and the darkness made it seem like she only had a head. It was only when he started feeling slightly faint did he realize that he had forgotten to breathe in all his excitement.

"I need to see Madame.. umm.. Rivi?" he inquired, inwardly praying that this attractive woman before him was her, and that he hadn't pronounced her name, Reve, wrongly.

"I'm her daughter" Damn. "Reh-vee saw that it was going to rain today, so she went home early to keep the laundry." Damn again. Wait, she saw it was going to rain? The forecast said it was gonna be a dry week!

"I guess I'll come back another day?" Askmetostayaskmetostayaskmetostay.

"Depends on if I'm able to help you. What do you need?" Yes!

"I've been having some weird dreams lately, and my friend's sister said that this was the place to go, so..." He looked at her to see if she kne what to do, while praying that she did. Now it he saw that it was a pretty twenty something year old helping him, he was much more eager to stay.

She gave a tinkering laugh. "Oh that. I can easily help you. Grow up with my mother and you'll know why. Tell her you dreamt of a crow and she'll tell you a relative is gonna die. Made it a little hard to tell her anything."

"And did a relative die?"

"Well, an uncle of her's had a heart attack but I'm sure it's just a coincidence." She caught the look on his face and burst out laughing again. "Sorry, I'm just kidding. Being a helper in such a store isn't the most exciting place to work."

He breathed out slowly. What am I getting myself into?

"Okay, so it's like this. I keep dreaming that I'm on a ship.."

"Wait. Sorry to interupt. A big one or just a boat?" She held up a hand as she inquired.

"A big one. One of those huge steel ships. My whole family was with me, and a few others I never saw before. There was also a tyrant. It's sort of like we were under his rule. My parents weren't, they were doing their own stuff, but a few of those others and I were."

"The sea. Was it choppy or calm?"

"Very very rough. At times it was like I was going to be thrown overboard."

"Hmm.. Okay. So this is my analysis. Generally, bodies of water represent your unconscious, your emotions and your accumulated soul experiences. The ship in your dream could represent you and the manner you navigate through your emotions. Am I making sense to you? Okay. Probably you have some issues that are unresolved? Also, usually we say that if the voyage is calm, you should go forward with your plans. However, if it is a very stormy voyage, get ready for an emotional upset or challenge. So if you have something planned for the future, be prepared to face up to many obstacles.

"What about the tyrant? Where does he fit into this?"

"The dream may be saying that you are being forced to do something against your will. The tyrant may represent the person or situation that is restricting your personal freedom. So by putting it together, I would say that you are going through a situation that you didn't necessarily want, and that you are worried about the outcome. Also, you might meet some obstacles along the way. By the way you are nodding, I assume I'm getting it right."

He gave a small laugh and nodded again. Drew's sister was right. It does yield results.

"That's all I have to ask, thank you." I hope it's not gonna cost a bomb.

"My pleasure. That would be fifty five dollars." Damn it.

Outside, the heavens parted as a heavy rain pounded down upon the sleeping city.
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Insider reveals that American Idol Top 4 Has Already Been Chosen By Producers

Can you honestly say that you're surprised? After all, it's already not a very big secret that the AI producers rigged the whole show. It's TV, after all. They gotta do what they gotta do to keep ratings up.

According to a female employee of American Idol (nope, it's not a drunk Paula Abdul), the producers already have their sights set on Adam Lambert (yay!), Lil Rounds (yay again!), Alexis Grace (whatever) and Danny Gokey (pui!). Not the least bit unexpected, I'd say. So expect these four to go all the way to the end. I'd take a wild guess and say that Alexis would be kicked out as third runner up, followed by Lil, then it's a match off between Adam and Danny. I really don't want Danny to win, but I think he just might, thanks to the blessings bestowed upon him by his dead wife. If he wins, the least he could do is to give the title to his wife, since she's the one who won, effectively.

The insider also revealed that Adam and Lil might not go far, 'cause the producers think they're similiar to past contestants. They say that Adam's like Daughtry. Like, so not! Adam's hair is so cool and alive, while Daughtry doesn't even have hair. Lil is compared to Fantasia. A fair comparison, but Lil's voice is so much better than Fantasia's squawking.

But hello?! Dont' they see the similiarity between Danny and David 'I'm an alien' Cook? Cook just won and they're forgotten about him already? (Not that I blame them. Arch is cooking up a much bigger storm than Cook). They even look similiar and have that same annoying face that makes me want to puke everytime they attempt a big song and think they can pull it off and they give that smug ass look when the judges so blindly agree with the brainless pruducers and commend them on their efforts.

Forgive me, I'm rambling.

Today is country week.. Like, can the smart ass producers spell 'DISAPPOINTING'? From Michael Jackson week to country? I don't hate country, but it's like watching a Miley Cyrus concert after a Celine Dion extravaganza at the Colosseum. Only difference is, I do hate Miley. But I digress. According to my super secret sources (fine! It's Wikipedia! Stop torturing me already!), Adam is gonna go another huge song, this time by Johnny Cash. They better not put him near the end again, or I'll have to endure another two hours of 'Gokey Lovin' before we come to the real singers.

Watch American Idol tonight at 6 on Starworld. Support Adam and hate Gokey! Go Hell, Gokey!

Arch in Hawaii

David Archuleta singing the national anthem at the Pro Bowl stadium. It's so good, and he didn't lip sync. So many people lip the Star Spangled Banner, cause they're afraid they'll forget the words or screw up or something. Love the lei!



Then he sings 'A Little Too Not Over You'. Not sure why he did that.. Don't people usually just sing Star Spangled Banner?

My Stroke of Insight

Oprah's guest today: a brain surgeon who suffered from a stroke that left her without the use of her brain's left hemisphere, leaving her without her memories and her language.


On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. As the damaged left side of her brain--the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side--swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized Jill was having a stroke, and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.

Jill was in a world where emotional baggage doesn't exist. Where there is no such thing as loss, for she has never known to have. The only thing she feels is the present, and for her, her present is a very happy one. She has no worries about what has happened and what will happen, and is simply contented with what she has at present. It's such a wonderful thing, to be able to be content just for that moment. People are always worrying, fussing over what has gone and what will come. We all know that worrying about things doesn't make it less painful or less horrible when it does come, but we still can't help but to stress over it. We can make a conscious effort to just be happy for 'now'. When you're in the 'present', then there's no need to worry about the past and the future.

Also, when she was only capable of using her right brain, she was extremely intuitive. She was unable to understand what people were saying, so her thoughts were not clouded by their words. She was able to feel a person's 'energy' just through seeing how they moved or responded to her. When a nurse comes into the ward, she was able to tell if a nurse was really caring or not, depending on if a nurse looked her in the eye, or just through a bit of contact. Jill said that when emotions are all that you are capable of experiencing, then small stuff like that really does help a lot. It is important, not just for nurses, but for anyone to make an effort to make others feel more welcome and valuable. It's difficult enough that they have to go through though times, it makes it much worse if they had to go through it alone.

So what should you do when someone is having a stroke? Well the guest doctor on Oprah (well, not on the person, obviously) said that you should ask a person to smile and raise up both his hands (no, don't give him a high-five. Please! It's hardly the time!). Well the rationale behind it is that the brain controlling your smile and your hands are through different channels, so if he is capable of doing both, it means that most of the brain is still intact (I know, that doesn't sound as reassuring as it's supposed to).

Also, a stroke is definitely an emergency! If someone is having a stroke, dial the emergency number for an ambulance immediately, cause every second counts when the poor guy's brain is bleeding on the inside. Would knowing that make you run a bit faster to the phone? Good.

Today, Jill is convinced that the stroke was the best thing that could have happened to her. It has taught her that the feeling of nirvana is never more than a mere thought away. So, people, step into your right brains today!

Purchace a copy of Jill's book, My Stroke of Insight here.

American Idol: Who's Staying, Who's Out and Who's On The Way

Two have been eliminated so far from American Idol. Jorge the weird eye guy and Jasmine Murray. Both correct predictions on my part. Boy, am I getting good at this! I should be an AI producer. I'll make the show much more interesting. We can include Japanese game show styled games and make them dodge eggs while running on a treadmill while singing. Naked. Now that's a show I'll watch.

As it turns out, the big secret Ryan was talking about turns out to be some kind of 'Judge's Save'. The judges can choose to save a person if he or she as been eliminated, but they can only use it once in the entire competition. The whole point of them doing this even though the voting is not real is to make the eliminated people still try their darnest even though their fates have already been sealed. Ryan will go 'And now, Jasmine will try to convince the judges to keep her' or something like that. The sad thing is, the judges probably already know who's gonna be in the final 4. I'm guessing something 'totally unexpected' will happen. Probably Danny will be voted off (I wish) and they'll save him and he'll go far and they'll be all "Thank god we included that rule! O the genius of me!"

Needless to say, the save wasn't wasted on Jorge and Jasmine. Now, the judges are the one who has to tell them if they've decided to save them. It's like it's the judges' fault now for not saving them. At least now the contestants have a chance to give the 'fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou' look to the judges. In the past, the judges can just pretend that it's the voting that kicked the contestants out, and they can all give the 'we wish we could save you but we can't' look. Ha! Try doing that now, Simon!

And the checkboard:

How I'm itching to put the sign on that smug face of Gokey...

Tyra Banks gets bitten by Edward Cullen

Britney's New Music Video!

Britney's brand new single, If You Seek Amy

American Idol's Top 13 Performs!

Finally, we've moved on to the more glamorous stages of American Idol. Gone are the mediocre and tedious performances of those hit and misses. Today we finally get to see the creme of the crop, this season's top 13.

Ooh.. someone's job is in trouble.. Ryan was sooo persistent in telling us to be extra careful when voting, cause, as it turns out, the number for contestant 13 links to a phone sex line. So They told people to call the number for contestant 36 instead. The lame ass reason they gave was that there used to be a top 36. Yeah. That totally makes sense.

It's Michael Jackson night! Looks like the producers are feeling evil lately. Thankfully, no one decided to attempt 'Thriller'.

Lil Rounds starts of the show with 'The Way You Make Me Feel'. Absolutely fantastic! She's looking more and more like Mary J Blige every week. Totally changed the song to suit her personality. Wouldn't be surprised if she sails all the way through to the finals.

I love how Simon's finally back at his game. The mean comments just keep coming on and on this week, even though Kara was the one who promised she would be harsher. Simon even managed to piss off Kris Allen's wife. He said that Kris should keep her hidden longer, and not bring her out so early. Rationale being; if girls think Kris is still single and available, they'll want to vote for him more. But don't people all think being unavailable makes someone even more desirable..? Anyhow, his comments made his lovely wife look so displeased. As if she caught Kris cheating on her or something. Randy then said that he loves the wife, which was an even more inappriate thing to say.

As expected, there was great hype about Danny 'I Miss My Dead Wife So Much' Gokey. Enough with all that nonsense already! Even Danny's learned to move on after his wife died. Seems like the ones who can't get over it are the producers and the judges (and the thousands of idiots who jabbed their phones frantically, thinking the voting line works). Danny's an average singer and a below average dancer. In fact, I found his entire performance verging on spastic. What with the jerking about and waving his arms around. Funny how Kara calls him full of joy ("There's just so much joy when you come on stage!") when he should be mourning the death of his wife.

Adam Lambert, as usual, was completely amazingly mindblowing. He chose one of the biggest MJ songs to sing, 'Black or White'. Paula went into this whole drunken-stupor-monologue about how he's so fantastic.

"ADAM! TAKE IT! TAKE IT ALL IN! WOW! HUH! Okay, alright, Adam. I’m gonna say this and this, this is my opinion. Never in the history of “American Idol,” all 7 seasons leading up to now have we ever, and I believe this truthfully, ever seen somebody so co- [choking for air and grasping her throat] comfortable, seasoned on that stage, I don’t even notice the stage because my eyes are transfixed on you! [Does the eye and the finger thing] Your innate ability to know who you are as an artist and marry fashion and music as we do that, you got the whole package going on. ANNND I believe with all my heart that we’ll be seeing you running [does a running hand gesture with her fingers] all the way to the finals.”

Even Simon was blown away by Adam. According to him, it was in a totally different league from all the other contestants. All this praise is well deserved, of course, unlike Danny.

Then, there are the low notes. Which, for a sadist like me, are the highlights of the show. Anoop, whom I never like that much cause he looks arrogant, make the perfect mistake of choosing a song too big for him. Hello.. If you're not Adam Lambert, avoid the big songs at all costs! Didn't Cook and 'Always Be My Baby' teach them anything? Anoop Dawg (which I think is a very degrading nickname) sang 'Beat It', and was ruthlessly beaten down by the judges. Paula completely hated it. If even Paula thinks you're bad, then seriously, dawg, it's time for some self reflection. Simon says he regrets putting Anoop into the top 13. Oooh.. Harsh..

Scott the blind guy finally was able to bring out the piano, and Paula was glad that he had his instrument at his fingertips. I bet Simon struggled not to burst out laughing. I didn't think it was too great, but the judges weren't harsh on him at all. They're always like walking on eggshells with this one. It's a level playing field, people! Just being blind doesn't make it a fantastic singer. (Kara: "Wow! Did you learn that this week?!") Okay, obvious much? He's a mediocre singer, and they better realize that before they get rid of some of the better ones in order to not hurt his feelings.

The other one I didn't like was Jorge, cause he has a weird eye thing going on. Maybe it's his eyebrows, I don't know. I didn't want to look at his face too long to find out. He did some tuneless song and was criticized to the death by the judges.

Two will be eliminated tomorrow, which is kind of stupid. It totally defeats the purpose of having a Top 13. Simon says there will be some big change revealed tomorrow, and it's all about the judges. My guess is that they would pick the loser from the group of bottom 3, like 'So You Think You Can Dance'. At least they're not trying to pretend that it's still authentic.

And the prediction for elimination: Jorge and Jasmine.

All I Ever Wanted

Got Kelly Clarkson's new album today! Today's the release date of her fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted. Kind of an ironic title, since the world knows that this is not the kind of music she wants to record. But a singer's gotta do what she's gotta do to survive in this industry, and sad to say, our music industry is ruled by cutesy pop. It's such a harmless and adorable album that the cover art is pink, purple and orange. I see it as Kelly blatantly proclaiming "You want pop? I'LL GIVE YOU POP!!" (Coincidentally, Pink, Orange and Purple's abbreviation spells out POP!)

Even though it's not Kelly's most honest work, it's still a pop force to be reckoned with. Kelly's vocals are still fantastic, as she yells and screams all her fury towards Clive Davis into the song. Her first single, 'My Life Would Suck Without You', has broken Britney Spears' record fo the biggest jump to number 1.

True to Kelly's style, most of the pictures on the album booklet looks nothing like her. Not to say that they don't look great, just that it doesn't look like her. However, one of them looks like a young version of Bette Midler, which was not so great.

What the critics are saying:

"An album unabashedly stuffed with second-generation "Since U Been Gone" rewrites - each one more brilliant than the next."

"The album is a determined effort to put Clarkson back into everyone’s iPod. It appears already to have succeeded spectacularly: the first single – “My Life Would Suck Without You” – has leaped into the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart and sold more than 290,000 downloads in a week."

"Not much beats the feeling of having a Kelly Clarkson album live up to your expectations. In fact, the ridiculously talented artist offers up this time around a well-rounded pop effort that just brings it!"

Well, all that pop-ness is great, but the thing is, Kelly does have a great aw-shucks quality and a great personality that wasn't reflected in the album. After her not very sucessful attempt at shedding the typical cookie cutter 'Idol' image, she seems to have been completely reined back and kept under close supervision by Clive. At least she has Kara's contribution on the album. I would die if everything was with that mean bully Ryan Tedder (bully cause when he sung with Arch he tried to do all those high falsettos. What a bastard.)


Kelly performing 'Cry' from her new album!

Chinese Version of Breaking Free

I don't know why, but I find this hysterically funny. I almost died in laughter when I tried to sing along.

Surprise! 13 Is The New 12!

Ooh how unexpected and mind blowing! American Idol has changed their top 12 to top 13! Wow now everyone should watch the show cause they have one more potential target to reject. Simply amazing!

Yup.. So that's the big surprise American Idol has planned. Seriously, people.. Just watch the damn show and save them the trouble of having to think up so many desperate harebrained schemes to increase viewership. It's starting to get very painful and sad. And here I was, thinking that including Tatiana in the wildcard round was their last attempt at increasing viewership, but surprise! They played a very cruel prank on Anoop (he sang Britney's My Perogative) by announcing that he's not in the Top 12, but in the Top 13. Should he feel honored or insulted? They made it sound like he barely made it through, and only through the grace of the very benevolent judges.

The others who joined him include Jasmine Murray (who sang a very strangled version of Christina's Reflection), Megan Corkey (she sang Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, acompanied by spastic but mesmerizing dancing) and Matt Giraud (sang some unknown song. He's bound to be kicked out soon anyways).

The final 13:

-Anoop Desai
-Lil Rounds
-Kris Allen
-Matt Giraud
-Adam Lambert
-Jorge weird eye guy
-Scott the blind guy
-Danny the dead wife guy
-Alexis Grace
-Michael Sarver
-Allison Iraheta
-Jasmine Murray
-Megan Corkey

Hilary's Fucking Obama

He's Just Not That Into You

Just watched another amazing Jen An movie. This woman is incredible! So many movies in so little time. This one is called 'He's Just Not That Into You' (hence the title, silly!), and is about the love and life of a group of people. The interesting thing about this movie is that it does not just focus on one or two leads, and make the rest extras. It's an ensemble cast, meaning everyone is equally important to the development of the story. Kind of like Friends. Definitely not like Romeo and Juliet.

The movie also focuses on different aspects of a relationship. Jen An and Ben Affleck is in one of those where Guy is super caring and good towards Girl, but Guy does not believe in marriage while Girl does. Girl wants to get married, and hence leaves Guy. In the end, they get back together, of course. Who could do such a terrible thing to Jennifer Aniston?

Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper is a married couple who's lives are shattered when Bradley has an affiar with yoga instructor (and aspiring singer) Scarlett Johansson. I realize she's always playing the role of the slut. In 'Match Point', she's the one who left the husband for an affair with another guy. Anyhow, the marriage gets ruined after he admits he had an affiar and the three of them ended up with nobody. And kids, that's why you should never admit to having an affair.

The other kind of relationship explored is the cyber kind. Drew Barrymore very accurately pointed out how difficult dating can be in the modern world, what with all the funky and cool but utterly unessential new gadgets.

"I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting."

Here's a hilarious video of the male stars of the movie explaining the 10 Chick Flick cliches you will NOT see in 'He's Just Not That Into You'. Enjoy!