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November 28, 2006 -- 'AMERICAN Idol" winner Taylor Hicks is biting the hand that made him a star.
The gray-haired pop-star says he won't watch the Fox show anymore - and just wanted to use the exposure he got from winning "Idol" to further his career.
" 'American Idol' for me is fizzling out," he tells the latest edition of Relix magazine, a publication formerly devoted to following the Grateful Dead.
"I want to take that opportunity and exposure: you either come see me, buy my album or you don't. I'm not trying to meet expectations. If you can say you're a working musician, then you're doing something good.
"I'm just glad to be a working musician because that's what I've always been."
Hicks won "Idol" last season over Katharine McPhee.
Seems to me he is just talking about the TV show? "Rant" hardly applies. Seems like a couple of sentences taken out of context, we've seen that happen to Katharine enough.
Maybe the question was " Will you be watching American Idol this season"? In which case his response is fair enough.
N.Y. Post? 'nuff said.
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt as I so often wished people had given Katharine in the past - we know how she is always shooting her mouth off!
"and just wanted to use the exposure he got from winning "Idol" to further his career. " Well! There is a shock! How dare he! Sorry, but this applies to every single person who auditions for the show.
People should know by now from politics that anything anyone says can be spun into anything else. If you believe the spinners rather than listening to what was actually said, then you are going to be mislead.
I might dis Taylor sometimes myself, but when it comes to the evil mass media creating a negative story about any of them out of thin air, I'm going to support the contestant, not a rag like the N.Y. Post.
I saw that quote on the top of that magazine when I was looking for the Blender with Katharine in it. I didn't look at the mag. I did see "I don't watch American Idol either!" -- Taylor Hicks. Or I think that's what it said. But as we know...this kind of stuff can be taken so out of context. I think Taylor realizes that American Idol has provided him with the platform to have all these fans he has. As nice as it is to say "I'm just a working musician, etc, etc." well the working musician's life is a little easier when he's got a fancy tour bus and the best equipment, etc, etc, etc...and big venues and everything that being a star gets you.
He knows that nobody would know who he is right now without Idol. Just a quote taken out of context. Nothing more, nothing less.