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05/16/2007 6:23 PM Alert 
Thanks to Kat Pack15 at IDF for finding this news article
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great article....I think this article says a lot about how Kat feels about her debut album...can't wait for the 2nd one...I'm sure she'll have a lot more control icecream.gif

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music...music-headlines

'Idol's' McPhee to perform pop balads at Z100's music bash

When Katharine McPhee's debut came out early this year, "American Idol" regulars were shocked. THIS was the 22-year-old with the shimmering smile, long gowns and show-stopping renditions of "Over the Rainbow"? On the cover of the self-titled CD, McPhee affects a come-hither Mariah Carey pose, with shiny, black, thigh-high boots and a sweater pulled down between her legs. Inside there's nary an "Over the Rainbow" -- just whooping foot-stompers like "Love Story" and "Open Toes."

But McPhee, who performs Friday at Z100's Utopia at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, was not shocked. She may have built a reputation of a Celine Dion-style balladeer on "American Idol," but the decision was strategic. "I was more comfortable doing the pop ballad, but it doesn't mean that's the only kind of music I like," she says. "On 'Idol,' it's a little bit harder with a minute and 30 seconds to pick an up-tempo song that really shows your singing and performance abilities. That was not really what I was comfortable with.

"The up-tempos can be great, but they have to suit you," McPhee, continues, by phone interview from her Los Angeles home, where her 3-pound chihuahua, Nena, keeps threatening to follow her out the door to a vocal lesson. "You can feel like an idiot, dancing around, if it doesn't suit you."

McPhee's strategy, as millions of "Idol" viewers know, proved shrewd -- she finished as runner-up to Taylor Hicks during the 2006 season of the Fox TV smash. As a result, she became a sort of America's underdog, talking of her struggles to overcome bulimia to sing on the show.

But the strategy made things a little more difficult when it came time to put out and market a CD. McPhee didn't want to sing just pop ballads, although "Each Other" and "Ordinary World" show up on her album. "Chris [Daughtry, who lost to McPhee and Hicks last year] just always picked the rock songs. You knew you were going to get a rock record," she says. "That's great, but I had so many different genres I listened to."

Carrie Underwood notwithstanding, "American Idol" debut albums tend not to be masterpieces, and "Katharine McPhee" has the feel of a young singer who isn't quite sure where she wants to go. While it's nice that she avoids "Idol"-style over-singing on "Ordinary World" and other ballads, she doesn't quite make them her own. Which she acknowledges. "It's my first record. Everything you do the first time, it's not exactly the way you want it to be," says McPhee, now 23. "You try to not step on any toes or anything. I was like, 'I guess this is how it goes. The producer tells you how to sing it, and if I don't like it, this is how I have to sing it.' When [the CD] comes out, you feel like, 'I could have said, "No. This is not how I want to sing it."' Your name is on it. . . . This is 'in control.'"
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05/16/2007 9:10 PM Alert 
Great article.  Thanks for posting, Lin.  After "Me" and "Mary Jane", and then reading stuff like this it makes me aniticipate her second album so much more.  I can't wait!
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Posted By Bigshady on 05/16/2007 9:10 PM
Great article.  Thanks for posting, Lin.  After "Me" and "Mary Jane", and then reading stuff like this it makes me aniticipate her second album so much more.  I can't wait!


Yeah...I definitely thing she's giving us some clues where she wants to go next by choosing those types of songs to sing seemingly out of the blue.  I cannot wait for a Katharine album made on a normal time schedule.  When they have time to work the songs out...get what SHE wants...and get everything right.  Doesn't mean a few mistakes won't still be made but at least they'll have the time to get the exact sound right and hopefully a more cohesive one it'll be.
"I saw Katharine McPhee when there were about 12 contestants left on American Idol. She blew me away. I loved her grace, her style, her poise, her voice and her hair! I wanted her to be the face of Sexy Hair because she represented everything that I had in my head for the brand: youth, beauty, talent, class, a young sophistication, and sexiness." -- Jim Morrison, CEO of Sexy Hair Products.
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