Miss Wilhelmina

It’s Inspiration Week and the Idol contestants are singing inspirational songs in line with the Idol Gives Back event tomorrow night. First up on the stage was Michael Johns, who sang “Dream On“, then Syesha Mercado, who sang Fantasia’s “I Believe“.

Jason Castro sat down and played a ukelele with “Somewhere Over the Rainbow“. I love the song and the way he sang it just made me melt. Hehe. Sue me, like a lot of girls out there don’t like him.

Kristy Lee Cook, who looked absolutely adorable tonight sang Martina McBride‘s “Anyway“. I can still remember Martina McBride sing this song last season. How would I forget? That was the night Chris Richardson wore the green “Respect Your Mother” shirt. Everybody on The Richness is still fussing over it, and a number of fans bought themselves an identical shirt.

David Cook was up next. I loved this man’s performance. I had goosebumps. So the performance was a little all over the place and needed some cleaning up, but I can totally imagine his performances on the same line. Oh and he did “Innocent“.

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Last year, American Idol organized an event called Idol Gives Back. This event became the biggest hit on television overnight, garnering over $75M in a very short period of time. Tomorrow, April 9, 2008, Wednesday at 7:30-10:00 in the evening, ET/PT, Idol Gives Back airs once again, raising awareness and more funds to the six charities that they will be benefiting. The following charities are as follows: U.S. Programs and the Children’s Health Fund, Save the Children, Malaria No More, Children’s Defense Fund, Make It Right, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

This year, the event will be more star-studded than that of last year’s, among those that will be making new appearances are Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Dane Cook, Vanessa Hudgens, Jennifer Connolly, Fantasia, Celine Dion, Billy Crystal, Kiefer Sutherland, Ashley Tisdale, Elliott Yamin and Amy Adams. Bono, Reese Witherspoon, Brad Pitt, Mariah Carey, Eli Manning, Miley Cyrus, Peyton Manning, Chris Daughtry, Fergie, Annie Lennox, Carrie Underwood, John Legend, Maroon 5, Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan and Heart will also make the show.

During the event, donations will be accepted via toll-free lines as well as the Internet.

I am not such a fan of Yahoo! for it spoiling everything about tonight’s show on American Idol. Don’t they know how many people have them as their homepage? Never mind me, I’m just a nobody. Looks like Yahoo! would like some traffic too. As if being homepage of millions and millions of people online isn’t enough.

Some radio stations have been wondering why none of the Idol contestants covered Dolly Parton‘s “9 to 5“. It was supposedly Chikezie Eze‘s song choice, but seeing that he is off the show now, and that everyone was pretty much contented with their song choices, nobody took the song. And now we see why. “9 to 5” was tonight’s group song.

Michael Johns, David Archuleta, and Carly Smithson were then called safe.

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