Brian Mansfield, of Idol Chatter (USA Today), published something akin to a puff piece to promote it.
Quote: Lauren Alaina ready to grow with 'Wildflower'
Singing in those Nashville honky-tonks as a little girl helped her, too. "Nashville crowds are tough sometimes," she says. "They're not always paying attention." For a girl used to lots of encouragement from friends and family during hometown karaoke nights, that was a startling revelation. "I learned that those people are the ones I want to like me the most, you know, the people that I have to win over. So I would like sing to them to the point where they would have to listen. That helped as far as being on (the Idols Live) tour. Everyone on this tour wasn't a Lauren Alaina fan. There were Haley Reinhart fans, there were Pia Toscano fans, all kinds of fans."
Pia's album delayed?
Quote:...during a radio interview on WCBS FM this week, the former “American Idol” star said that her debut album with Interscope is going to be released at some point early next year. This certainly dashes the hopes of anyone who expected to hear the disc this year, but it also means that she is going to have more time to perfect the songs. Considering that Pia started work on the album while the show was still airing, she has had more time to prepare for her debut than any other season 10 alum. (She is still likely to get her album out before Haley Reinhart, mainly because we haven’t heard much of anything about when this will be released.
http://cartermatt.com/9093/pia-toscanos-...il-summer/
