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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:24 PM PDT

'The X Factor' Episode 4: Kiss These Grits!
"The X Factor" headed to Britney Spears's homeland, the beautiful South, on Thursday night. And while only three Greensboro, North Carolina contestants actually made it through during the hour-long episode, they all laid the Southern charm on thick--as thick as the grits Simon Cowell was forced by "X Factor" producers to eat in the episode's [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:33 PM PDT

Casey Abrams's "Simple Life" Video Is Simply Adorable
Season 10 "American Idol" alum Casey Abrams has just released his first music video, for "Simple Life," and it is, for lack of a better adjective, adorably Abrams-esque. The video features the scruffy sixth-place jazzbo jamming in a park, partying in the woods with friends, hanging out with hippies, and playing at least three different [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 05:08 PM PDT

Steven Tyler On Why He Joined — And Quit — 'American Idol'
Additional reporting by Chris Willman Steven Tyler kept the Fox censors working overtime during his profanity-laden "American Idol" tenure, but now that he is--quite happily, it would seem--off the show, he's really letting it rip. New "Idol" judge Nicki Minaj ain't got nothin' on Steven Tyler the Toxic Twin. Speaking to Yahoo! Music during a [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 04:02 PM PDT

The X Factor, The Day After: Season 2, Episode 3 Dish
Last night, "The X Factor" Season 2 continued, and it was pure Panda-monium. And today, my "The Day After" co-host Matt Whitfield and I are totally hopping on the Panda express. What I'm trying to say is, Panda Ross's audition was all sorts of awesome, and she's already one of our early "X Factor" favorites. [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

'The X Factor' Episode 3: Has Simon Cowell Been Replaced?
This week brought the news that Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban have joined "American Idol," and that Usher and Shakira will replace Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green on the next season of "The Voice." And in this competitive and cutthroat world of reality singing shows, "The X Factor" of course had to get in [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Week Ending Sept. 16, 2012. Songs: Novelty Hit Of The Year
"Gangnam Style," the loopy novelty hit by Korean pop star Psy, vaults from #64 to #11 in its second week on the Hot 100. The song, which The Village Voice called "an inspired piece of silliness," is shaping up to be this year's "Macarena" or "Rock Me Amadeus." That's no small feat: Los Del Rio's [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Nigel Lythgoe Talks 'Idol' Feuds, Twitter Feuds, And The 'SYTYCD' Finale
Speaking backstage to Yahoo!'s Reality Rocks at this week's "So You Think You Can Dance" finale, show producer/judge Nigel Lythgoe was quick to admit that he frequently caught flak this season from "SYTYCD" fans on Twitter--sometimes for supporting untrained finalist Cyrus Spencer, and then later for openly championing eventual winner Chehon Wespi-Tschopp instead. But the [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Lady Gaga Debuts Yet Another 'Meat Garment'
Ready to meet Lady Gaga's meat, yet again? The superstar singer is continuing on a seemingly endless quest to offend vegetarians with yet another version of her infamous "meat dress"--this time, in a showy corset version much more form-fitting than the original. (Er, as form-fitting as a garment made of meat can be, that is.) [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

The Voice, The Day After: Season 3, Episode 5 Dish
Ahoy, "Voice"-viewing mateys! Today is National Talk Like A Pirate Day, in case you didn't know--so what better occasion for me and my "The Day After" co-captain, Matt Whitfield, to talk about a program that features Cee Lo Green's shoulder-dwelling parrot? Besides, talking in scurvy-riddled voices will make our discussion of last night's "Voice" show a [...]

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Game, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa And Tyga's 'Celebration' Remakes Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's '1st Of Tha Month'
Game is joined by Chris Brown, Tyga, Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa for an All-Star remake of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1995 classic "1st Of Tha Month." Produced by Cool and Dre protégé SAP, "Celebration"'s track revives the original as each of the featured MCs puts on display his best rapid-fire flow. Tyga scores the standout lyric [...]