By now, you’ve probably seen the photo of me with Harry
Connick Jr. that I have been shamelessly posting (see what I mean about my
photo skills?) But just in case you missed it ; )
It was a huge moment for the Idol Tweethearts when Harry
walked into our American Idol
behind-the-scenes tour. He had already opened our eyes when we saw a sneak peek
of the Jan 15 Idol premiere. Now he
grabbed our hearts as he went around the room and individually greeted us all.
He took the time to pose for selfies, answer our questions, pose for a group
shot and hand us individually autographed CDs. Babbling ensued. You can’t tell
from this shot, but I awkwardly contorted my arm around him and my fellow
tweetheart so I could touch his back, part of Pinky on the Pulse, literally.
Harry Connick Jr. epitomizes the Idol slogan #thisisreal. Under those Clark Kent specs lies a family
man – an extremely talented, charming, funny, good-looking,
not-like-anyone-I-know – family man. His comments come from a place of caring
and knowing the real ropes of the music business.
And Idol is all
about bringing back a family show this season. There’s no coincidence that most
of the Idol Tweethearts are moms. They wanted us to get the message out that
you can watch Idol with your family
again.
While I’m not a fan of bickering and confrontation, there’s
a different reason that I always return to American
Idol. I watch in search of the perfect TV moment: when an unknown, yet
wildly talented singer nails it, when they make me want to rewind and watch
their performance over, sometimes just to listen to a single note.
My top AI moments:
Carrie Underwood sings “Alone” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMBSDpB3WB8
Jessica Sanchez sings “I Will Always Love You”
David Cook sings “Hello”
Chills, right?
Idol used to be the
show we talked about at work the next day (pre-Facebook.) We would have private
polls about who would go home. My friend Stephanie would write the most
hilarious “Around the Idol Cooler”recaps that I couldn’t wait to read. I
worked at Fox during S8 and would enter the weekly contest in the Fox Studio
Store to guess who would be going home. I had a four-week winning streak until
I was wrong about Anoop.
I’ve been a fan since the days when I had to strategically
set my VCR because I could only watch one show and record another. For Idol I
would watch and record. I would fall
asleep hitting redial to vote for my favs.
Now we have limitless choices of how many shows we can watch, when we want to watch them. I was fortunate enough to work at NBC during their “Must-See-TV” Thursday night domination. Now “must see” TV has a different meaning as less viewers actually watch shows on their TV as they initially air. Some shows are bringing the concept of “must-see” back though. Ironically, you have to completely unplug from any other devices if you haven’t seen a show and want to avoid social spoiler alerts.
Now we have limitless choices of how many shows we can watch, when we want to watch them. I was fortunate enough to work at NBC during their “Must-See-TV” Thursday night domination. Now “must see” TV has a different meaning as less viewers actually watch shows on their TV as they initially air. Some shows are bringing the concept of “must-see” back though. Ironically, you have to completely unplug from any other devices if you haven’t seen a show and want to avoid social spoiler alerts.
Let’s try a new trend and “Experience TV.” Join me on
Twitter @pinkypulse and #idoltweethearts
to watch American Idol together. Note
to East Coast friends: Don’t tell me who goes home!
#AmericanIdol #IdolTweethearts #HarryConnickJr #Must-SeeTV
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