TicketsNow Entertainment Index for May:
/PRNewswire/ -- TicketsNow.com, a leading online resale marketplace for event tickets, saw "Idol" fans out-purchase all other concert fans as well as fans of baseball's most storied franchises. American Idols LIVE! is the top-selling event on the TicketsNow Entertainment Index for May.The American Idols Live! Tour 2011, which kicks off July 6 in Salt Lake City, has more than 40 dates on the calendar and is already seeing premium tickets at some venues command more than $2,500.
Baseball fans continued to flock to the ballparks in May as all top five sellers in the Sports category were baseball teams. The New York Yankees , San Francisco Giants , Atlanta Braves , Chicago Cubs , and Boston Red Sox captured the top spots.
Wicked continues to reign as the leader in Theater ticket sales; although the wildly popular, and 2011 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, The Book of Mormon, is steadily closing the gap.
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American Idol should be a professional environment. Nobody should be subjected to that kind of hateful terminology, and while the show has a reputation for putting down bad artists, they never do it in truly hate-filled ways, with hate-filled words.
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Simon Cowell, the reality series judge we love to hate, will be hosting the famous talent show X Factor coming to the Fox network this fall. Simon got his rise to fame here in America through one of the most talked about reality series American Idol.
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Confession: Tuesday’s performances were all interchangeable to me. Every single one! Whether Scotty or Lauren was gone like a freight train or checkin’ yes or no — I can’t remember. They’re all the same! Every performance was quaint, quirky, aw-shucksy, and twang-a-lang-a-ding-dongity. Which is fine, but god , I missed Haley Reinhart — but you knew that already. Let’s rank all six of last night’s performances and gear ourselves up for the soul-puncturing finale with an additional ranking of the season’s 10 best performances. Team Naima (Nai-Teama) unite!
6. Scotty McCreery, “Check Yes or No” George Strait. Thanks for everything, cad. Thanks for choosing your dopey-ass puppy love jam for Scotty. This is precisely the type of cutesy country song that isn’t viable in 2011; popular country music today is about Lady Antebellum drinkin’ singalongs, girly Miranda Lambert ballads, and roughneck dude jams. None of your po-faced kindergartener anthems will do, Geroge. As such, Scotty sang it serviceably, but at what cost to his reputation as a budding grownup? It’s too early to tell.
And then this song — a preteen ballad with preschooler lyrics — happened at us. “I Love You This Big” is so juvenile that it becomes a parody once the chorus jumps in (“This biiiiiiiiig”), and McTeary didn’t help matters by outstretching his arms like Hip Denim-Wearin’ Christ. It’s a forgettable yarn with a psuedo-memorable, mostly repetitive chorus. We should hold a fundraiser so it never happens to another soul again. Or at least a trial — because I still believe Scotty is (for one last time on Movieline, y’all!) a backwoods murderer with a shovel for a conscience and blood-red vengeance for a soul! I’ll miss identifying you as a cold-blooded killer, Scotty! And so will the family of Miss Emma Jane Twitty, who you bludgeoned in the tall grass with your mean old grandpa’s rifle. May you see justice served someday, you homicidal whippersnapper!
Call me crazy, but tearful treks into the audience to hug your weeping, same-age mother strike me as contrived. After rumors swirled that Lauren Alaina almost had to drop out of the competition thanks to a scorched vocal cord, a wave of sympathy rushed the Idol drome, and I don’t love that it may have swung the final vote in Lauren’s favor — especially since the hug choreography of “Like My Mother Does” tried to corral that sympathy wave and turn it into votes. The one-time Kristy Lee Cook song felt right for Lauren’s voice, but does it feel right for the charts in 2011? Lauren is so Womack-y that I fret it’s a no.
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