So it was a good run, but it seems this competition was 'rigged' to have a match up between Taylor Swift vs Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, who's new Hot video was schduled to debut an hour after the voting for the next round but an hour before their single got played on the radio... thing is Haley, Deep Water and Haliens spoiled their little Swift v Mendes/Cabello show down... so we at least have that
If you think about it, this was a microcosm of Haley's Idol Jouney,
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Either way, it was nice to hear Deep Water on the radio on consecutive nights, maybe it got Haley some new fans who will check her music out.
As an independent artist, it's important to celebrate the small victories. At the beginning of this, I'd guess most of us thought going against Taylor was going to be tough, but we won that one going away. Iheart radio was setting this up to premiere Mendes/Cabello's new single/video and making an event out of it to pit them up against Swift....
We done good
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