Sean Judges "Idol," Gawks at McGhee
Today, tomorrow and Friday, I'll be one of four judges taking part in Tampa Bay Idol, FOX 13's contest to send one singer to Miami on Aug. 22 to (potentially) perform in front of Simon, Paula and Randy for a spot on the real deal.
Last year's champ, Jordin Sparks, was a FOX "golden ticket" winner out of Arizona. If you win, you get an automatic audition in front of the show's top producers -- no waiting in line with the desperates.
Anyway, at the Tampa studio, FOX reporter Charley Belcher, former Idol Top 12er Melissa McGhee (left), WQYK jock Chad Brock and I will be listening to hundreds of audition tapes, ditching some, keeping others, whittling down to 10.
Then on Friday at noon, we'll be heading to Westfield Brandon mall for a "live" battle between the final 10. The winner gets the big prize -- the losers get to threaten me in front of the Sbarro kiosk then key my car.
I'll write a column about it next Tuesday -- plus I'll no doubt blog now and then about the tsunami of no-talents I've been forced to hear. Should be fun...hopefully.
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
Sean,
Please post some video of you judging this contest, for us who don't live in Florida. That would be hilarious.
One question: are you the Simon of the group?
Posted by: Al | August 14, 2007 at 05:28 PM
Sean is totally paula, but on a good day, natch
Posted by: cris | August 14, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Oh well, at least I'm not Randy.
By the way, I believe Friday's "Tampa Bay Idol" is being broadcast live at noon on:
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/
Posted by: Sean Daly | August 15, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Cool, thanks Sean. Hopefully you don't go too Chef Ramsay on the contestants!
Posted by: Al | August 15, 2007 at 09:53 PM