Interviews for Listen Up! Release

[john]

Young Hollywood
http://www.younghollywood.com/videos/yhs...-soul.html

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A video interview from Hitfix

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-beat-goe...e-and-more

Quote:
“American Idol” season 10 contestant Haley Reinhart thrilled fans with her jazzy, smoky vocals. On her new album, “Listen Up,” out Tuesday, May 22, she recalls sultry vocalists such as Amy Winehouse and Dusty Springfield, both of whom she considers major influences: “I come from a lot of ‘60s, ‘70s classic stuff and that’s definitely the sound I want to have,” she tells Hitfix in this video interview taped at her management company’s office in West Hollywood.

But it was another influence, Britney Spears, that inspired the 21-year old's performance in her video for first single “Free,” during which she gets a boy all hot and bothered at a diner. “I grew up with my generation looking at people like Britney Spears. She oozed sex appeal so effortlessly.”

As the video shows, Reinhart has acting chops and she admits she has some aspirations in that area: “I’d love to make it a big part of my career...there’s already opportunities coming up.”

Reinhart talks about duetting with her season 10 pal, Casey Abrams, HERE.

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Beatweek magazine interview:

Quote:
Haley Reinhart interview: American Idol star talks Listen Up, Free, Lollapalooza
May 21, 2012 by Bill Palmer

by Bill Palmer

“There was so much boldness from people,” Haley Reinhart says of the old Motown era in which her debut album finds its roots. As such she’s called the record ‘Listen Up!’ complete with an exclamation point, and that’s precisely what audiences have been doing since she first took the American Idol stage last year. Her run on the show earned her public support Adam Lambert to Led Zeppelin. It’s since taken her a full year to craft the album, which surfaces this month, but that’s because she took the time to involve herself in the writing process of nearly every song on it....
http://www.beatweek.com/music/musicianin...um=twitter

[Flask Man]

Brittany Spears? Really, Haley? Ugghghh...

[buzzenator]

YoungHollywood.com interview via Interscope:

http://www.interscope.com/artist/news/de...9&aid=1231

Looks like the top she was wearing on the street in LA with the paparazzi.

Same interview via OMG! from Yahoo:

http://omg.yahoo.com/video/younghollywoo...65308.html

[Miguel]

Pop Star

http://www.popstaronline.com/exclusive-h...new-album/

What can we expect in the future for Haley Reinhart after this album?

After this album, hopefully a Grammy. I really do hope something great comes out of it and that people connect with the music and they feel like they can connect to it and feel good about it like I feel. The sky’s the limit!

Shh! Haley, keep your hopes on the down low -- people love to knock others down.

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**Blinded by Sound**

"I told them, 'I want to wait ‘til after the tour to write part of my first album. You guys are giving me the experience of a lifetime, the opportunity of a lifetime. So I want to make the very most out of that, and be able to be a part of it all.'"

With the blessing of Idol mentor and Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine—asked in jest if the notoriously mercurial mogul has driven her to a nervous breakdown yet, Reinhart slyly quips, "Not even close," without missing a beat—Reinhart got her wish.

And the album was worth the wait. Sounding, she aptly describes, as "retro yet very modern at the same time," Listen Up! boasts a bunch of funky-fun, irresistible grooves.

"I’ve grown up with good music. I don't take it lightly," says Reinhart, whose parents frequently had classic rock and soul records spinning on the family turntable during her childhood. "It sticks with me and I’m influenced by it."

..."A lot of people nowadays, they like to be pointed in a certain direction. They like to be told which moves to make when," Reinhart insists. "As for me, I know exactly where I want to go."

http://blindedbysound.com/post/viewPost/...762a0610a1

[john]

Haley Reinhart of "American Idol" fame wants you to "Listen Up!"
By Lauren Moraski Topics Music
Haley Reinhart, 2012 (Credit: Harper Smith)
(CBS News)


(CBS News) As Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips get ready for tonight's "American Idol" finals, fellow contender Joshua Ledet, eliminated Thursday, is settling into third place.

Haley Reinhart, for one, knows third place very well. The season 10 finalist landed in that very spot just last year....

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57...listen-up/

[Miguel]

Teen Vogue

Do you have any tips for people who are thinking about auditioning for a singing competition show?

"Be yourself as much as possible. You have to be able to bring out the authenticity and be the real you, or else you won't get as far. If you get far not being you, what is that going to say about your character? Your career may not have the longevity that you hope for."

http://www.teenvogue.com/industry/celebr...z1vctXmafp

It's a slideshow you have to page through to see all the Q & A. Not much new.

But I thought the quote above was interesting. The comment about character answers the question that Casey recently asked. And could be viewed as words of warning to Stefano.

[Miguel]

Inquiring minds want to know.....

Want to know what I meant? I don't think Stefano was being true to himself with "On a Roll."

[Miguel]

and what question did Casey ask and of whom? please.......thankyou!.

http://haleyfans.com/showthread.php?tid=...51#pid7051

[Miguel]

Uncut video interview with a "river valley" tv station on the Idol grounds:

http://rivervalleyhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=2352

[john]

Clevver News. Good interview.