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Carly Smithson Performing at State Games of America

Jeanne — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:59:26 +0000

American Idol Season 7 finalist, Carly Smithson, has been tapped to perform during the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 State Games of America on July 30 at the Colorado Springs World Arena.

“This will be something special for the athletes and the fans,” said Colorado Springs Sports Corporation President/CEO Tom Osborne. “Carly Smithson is one of America’s most popular performers, recognized by millions of young fans everywhere. We are grateful to our Opening Ceremony sponsor, AT&T, for its support and huge role in helping us bring Carly Smithson to the event.”

Uhhh, I love Carly Smithson and she was a real sweetheart in person (very energetic!) but I don’t know if I’d say that she was recognizable to millions just yet (although, she might quickly rise to fame as part of the new group We Are the Fallen).

I have to admit that I had never heard of this Olympic-style event so I looked it up. It seems pretty cool. There are a wide variety of sports to take in from archery to diving and soccer. For more information, check out www.stategames.org!

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Carly Smithson in “We Are The Fallen” – What Do You Think?

Jeanne — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:47:17 +0000

I wanted to write about this earlier but between technical issues and a hugely busy schedule, it just didn’t happen. As I wrote earlier, Carly Smithson has joined up with some former members of Evanescence to create a new band called “We Are the Fallen” (it was originally “The Fallen” but they had to change it because some other band claims to have had first dibs on the name).

Have you had a chance to listen to their first single “Bury Me Alive”? If not, you can go and listen to it on their MySpace page (or listen to a live performance below). Before I go any further, I’d like to say that I am happy for Carly and she does fit this genre and style of music. However, this song sounds too much like something Evanescence would release and, as a result, I feel that Carly is going to have to endure endless comparisons to Amy Lee who, I believe, is an incredible singer. It’s not even just the song, it’s the band’s image too. I just don’t know how I feel about this yet. I like Carly so, if it was anyone but her and I heard this on the radio, I’d say something like “what is this Evanescence rip-off.”

Anyway, I’m going to try to keep an open mind but I’d love to hear what you have to say about it. Leave me a comment.

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Carly Smithson Working With Evanescence

Jeanne — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:35:29 +0000

American Idol season 7 finalist, Carly Smithson, is reportedly working with Grammy Award-winning group, Evanescence on a new album called The Fallen. The band’s guitarist, Ben Moody, told Idol Tracker: “We began looking for our soulmate, which we were scared was going to take a long, long time.”

Carly seems very happy with the offer to work with the group and said: “I’m excited to be able to completely jump out of the box. The Idol thing, you know, was very PG, it was for a family audience … I’ve never been more happy than being in this band.”

I know some people have compared Carly to Amy Lee (lead singer of Evanescence) but I’m not sure I always agree with that. I think I would need to see what they come up with together before I could make a real judgment about whether this works but Amy is notoriously picky so there must be something to it. I think that both women have powerful voices so it could be amazing to hear them harmonizing and working off of each other’s vocals.

Tell me what you think about this and give me some ideas about what you think they might do together (if you have any).

*UPDATE* I misread the original report. Carly will be working with former members of Evanescence to create the new group “The Fallen.” Sorry about any confusion. I think this makes more sense and could be really awesome.

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Michael Johns and Carly Smithson - “The Letter” on American Idol

Jeanne — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:48:30 +0000

Did you catch Carly Smithson and Michael Johns performing “The Letter” on the results show tonight on American Idol. They are both good singers (and actually really nice in person) but I wasn’t fond of this performance. Did you like it?

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