Goodbye, Brooke White

After getting the boot from "American Idol," losing contestants sometimes do conference calls with TV journalists. I got invited to the Brooke White one, but it was so boring that I fell asleep halfway through it.

I should have known, really. The best question anyone asked was about her husband, who had pledged not to cut his hair until she was off the show. "When is he planning on cutting his hair, and are you going to do it?" The answer: She'll cut his hair for him when they get a chance, but they've been busy. I'm just glad that we all got to find out about the haircut of the husband of the fifth-place finisher on the seventh season of "American Idol."

Brooke also spoke about her emotional (i.e. melodramatic) departure: She'd thought she'd be strong enough not to cry, but she wasn't. "It was just a lot of feelings that I was feeling."

That's a real insight, there. I'm feeling a lot of feelings right now, too. Only they're mostly nausea-related.

Brooke seems like a nice enough girl, and she's got a good voice, and I'm sure she'll have a career of some sort. But I find it almost impossible to care about what happens to her. She's going to need a lot of luck and a lot of optimism and a lot of those feelings. Music is a cruel, unforgiving business, and hardworking people like me are out there trying to make it more cruel and less forgiving  every day.

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[bela]

Ah Aaron, your ever entertaining little bit of oh so kind insight! What will I do without a dose of it every day?!