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1/27: Songwriting contest online

By: Rodney Ho | January 26, 2007, 5:02PM EST

You and I will be able to vote on the song the ultimate Idol winner will sing. Naturally, a panel of judges will narrow it down to 10 songs first from whatever submissions they get from aspiring songwriters. Here’s the story

Once the top 10 songs submitted by songwriters are chosen, “Idol” viewers will get to decide which is performed by the singers on the show in its final round, said executive producer Nigel Lythgoe.

“It’s going to be offered to America to decide what should be the ‘Idol’ song this year,” Mr. Lythgoe said in an interview with TelevisionWeek Publisher Chuck Ross for TVWeek.com’s Backlot Talk podcast feature.

This is a great added feature. We’ll definitely have fun with this one!

And as usual, here are the insights of exex producer Nigel Lythgoe in TVWeek as Chuck Ross talks to him about various contestants from this week’s auditions. It’s a fun read for you true addicts out there.

(17) Comments

Posted by: Deirdre on January 27, 2007 9:38AM EST

Hey Rodney...I'm just testing to see if the blog works on the weekend. I know most of the regulars around here blog from work so they probably don't care one way or the other.

On the songwriting contest.....NOTHING can be as bad as the songs the pros are writing for the contestants. Maybe something good will come from this!

Posted by: linnykat on January 27, 2007 6:58PM EST

agreed, D, agreed! and i love this, now we can blog anytime instead of having it turned off at midnight and on weekends

and i apologize to everyone i for some reason keep thinking of lythgoe as neil and not nigel.... eh...similar letters in the name, and same first and last, right? it was nigel that had the run in on dance with queenie ian, right?

anyway... looking forward to what b'ham has to offer this week.

Posted by: Diane1 on January 28, 2007 7:10AM EST

huh?

Posted by: Diane1 on January 28, 2007 7:12AM EST

i liked the song for season 2-4. They all did very well with the songs chosen for them. Last year just really stunk like the KKK guy who commented.

Posted by: Diane1 on January 28, 2007 7:15AM EST

thE disapperaing comments are really started to bother me. you never know if you will see 0 comments or 300.

Posted by: Deirdre on January 28, 2007 9:12AM EST

Hey, Diane...I have no idea what you mean by disappearing comments. Can you explain.

Posted by: Diane1 on January 28, 2007 6:42PM EST

Sure, i can only blog evenings, nights and week-ends. From time to time i will come to the blog which will have many or a few comments. When i respond and try to come back later like this morning, it will show 0 comments or far less than the actual number. I have encountered this on several occasions. Some times it beleive it happens when Rodney is updating his article comments like he did during Wednesday night's show. That is just a guess but it just gets frustrating when you go to read the comments and they are gone. But they always reappear later.

Posted by: Rodney Ho on January 28, 2007 8:47PM EST

Diane--->>> We are using new software so there are still a few bugs they're trying to fix. I don't quite understand why comments come and go either.

Posted by: Deirdre on January 29, 2007 7:35AM EST

Morning...I have noticed on a couple of occasions, that comments get moved from one blog to another. I just go searching for them. It is frustrating but, being the parent of 2 computer smart a**es, I've seen that stuff before and am pretty sure they'll have it fixed eventually.

Posted by: linnykat on January 29, 2007 9:23AM EST

I think more than them being "moved" it's when Rodney is starting a new column, and it gets pasted in on an old "frame" that includes the old comments...there were comments duplicated in whole a couple of times.

i think the "disappearing" problem is more a refresh/update problem in the program, but that's a semi-educated guess :) it's happened to me a couple of times, i just hit refresh a couple of times and it seems to get the whole kit and kaboodle.

:-)

Posted by: Stan Robison on March 3, 2007 4:46PM EST

where or when do you submit the songs. I can not find out any thing sense they stated it. Please email me and let me know where to send the songs.
check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_YJHN0F5c

Posted by: Barry Niccolls on March 19, 2007 6:31PM EST

Please advise as to the criteria, requirments, form and submissions deadline for the American Idol Song writing contest. Thank You very much. Love the idea.

Posted by: Mystic Nation on March 22, 2007 8:39PM EST

Has the songwriting contest been dropped?

Posted by: BEcky Mitchell on March 23, 2007 10:14PM EST

I want to join, get me some info.

Posted by: patricia velez on April 2, 2007 3:51PM EST

please let me know if there are anymore contest left! thamk you!

Posted by: Raymond Lee Peltier on April 8, 2007 2:00AM EST

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

I would like more information regarding your songwriting contest.

Thank You!

Raymond

Posted by: iris on June 25, 2007 9:33PM EST

How do I enter the song writing contest? Who do I subnit the song to? I can srite music and lynrics is that O.K.?

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