(02-04-2012, 07:21 AM)My Alter Ego Wrote: (02-04-2012, 05:24 AM)john Wrote: JACOB LUSK -- JIMMY IOVINE GOT ME BOOTED!!!
"American Idol" reject Jacob Lusk is telling friends he's not to blame for the TERRIBLE song choices that led to his elimination this week ... insisting he got BAD advice from Jimmy Iovine.
TMZ spoke with a source extremely close to Lusk ... who tells us Jacob never wanted to perform the Jordin Sparks /Chris Brown duet, "No Air" on Wednesday's show ... but Iovine pressured him into it.
We're told Lusk really wanted to perform the Gnarls Barkley hit, "Crazy" -- but Iovine was so insistent on "No Air" that he basically "beat it into his brain" until Lusk finally gave in and agreed to perform the song.
During the show, Randy Jackson told Lusk, "I don’t think that’s the direction for you ... I don't think anybody on this stage should be doing duet songs."
Sources connected to the production tell us ... Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe has told every contestant the decision on final song choice is made by the singer ... and NOT the mentor.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/06/american-i...y0VEcVSTFI
Axl not to blame for Chinese Democracy dramas
Stinson says legendary delay was down to label execs… most of the album was 10 years old by release date
Screwed: Tommy Stinson
Guns n’Roses bassist Tommy Stinson says Axl Rose is not to blame for the dramas which saw the band’s Chinese Democracy album take 14 years to appear.
The record has become notorious for the re-records, squabbles, lineup changes and confusing public statements surrounding its production and final release at the end of 2008, exactly 15 years after the band’s previous album.
It’s often been assumed Rose was responsible for the difficulties, with his attempts to pursue recording perfection leading to long episodes of reworking.
But Stinson, who joined the band in 1998 and has been present for most of the album’s troubled history, says Rose was not to blame – and reveals the majority of the final work was completed a decade earlier.
The bassist tells AV Club: “My summation is that Interscope, when they took over Geffen, led Axl to believe the chairman Jimmy Iovine would be involved, would help get the record done and make it happen.
http://www.avclub.com/twincities/article...son,56282/
“But basically what he did was late it completely fall apart.
“At first we were in the studio a lot, working on the writing aspect of it, but it just kept going on. We had Jimmy intervening in a not-so-productive way, and other guys coming and going with nutty ideas.
“Jimmy had this great idea to bring in producer Roy Thomas Baker to make it sound better – but all he did was re-record everything three or four different times, trying to make it sound like something it didn’t need to sound like. And he spent $10million in the process.
“All the talking heads were saying, ‘Make ‘em sound better, make ‘em ...
http://rocknewsdesk.com/world-news/axl-n...amas/1937/
Hmmm -- so John, are you suggesting that "in Jimmy, we shouldn't trust"?
Haley has said that some of the song picks on which she received the nastiest critiques ("Call Me" and "You and I" spring to mind) were not her first choices.
However, given that Jacob doesn't come across as someone adept at facing himself in the mirror (he can only preach that message, not live it), I don't place much, if any, stock in his comment.
Be mindful that we are seeing one side of the coin here. In Jimmy's defense, I've never been a GnR fan, but I remember reading how they were trying to make a change to a more mainstream sound. Perhaps Jimmy thought they needed help making the transition and brought in producers he felt could make it happen.
As for Randy's comment that none of them should be singing duets... If he said that and meant it, we would have missed out on Moanin, I Feel the Earth Move, and Gunpowder & Lead... Three fantastically entertaining performances. And, if he really believes that , then he is definitely showing his ignorance for how the entertainment industry works. Duets are an an extremely important tactic used by singers to expose their sound to new fans. It's an absolute MUST DO. In fact, G&L may have won Haley some country music fans.
