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Not sure if this has been posted or not. - - - - -Didn't like the singles that Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee sang on the Idol finale? Next year, you get to have a say. Plus, Air Bud learns to talk and an Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton classic finds its way to DVD.
Television'Idol' fans will help select the songs the finalists sing
When Fox TV's American Idol returns in 2007, viewers are likely to get a say in the first singles performed by the two finalists.
Aspiring songwriters, paralleling the vocal hopefuls now auditioning across the country, would submit songs via the Internet, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe says, with roughly 20 top selections culled from those offerings. "Then hopefully — it's not finalized yet — we will bring back past Idol contestants and winners and have them sing the songs, then let America choose which song the Idol is going to sing."
Viewer votes would winnow the field, but Lythgoe isn't detailing how the final selections will be made, although Idol creator Simon Fuller likely would be involved in the decision.
Lythgoe would like to schedule two or three specials for song performances by previous Idol singers. "We'd like to bring back the Tamyra Grays and LaToya Londons. Carrie Underwood would be nice if there's a great country song."
A competition could stem the criticism that has greeted some previous Idol finalist singles, which viewers and the judges don't hear until near the end of the competition. "Then maybe we won't have (judge) Randy Jackson saying, 'I don't like that song,' " Lythgoe says.
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