Shoving His Tail Between His Legs
That was quick!
Chris Daughtry is doing damage control over his harsh criticism of American Idol.
The singer just posted the following on his official blog:
" I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm…..Just being honest!
Sorry
It's so sad that when you're asked something and you answer honestly….you're made out to be the bad guy. Yes, I'm referring to the Rolling Stone post. The funny thing is, if you heard the whole conversation you would've heard all the good things I said about the show as well. Like for instance: How it's an amazing platform to launch a career….."If you take it seriously!!!!" Let's not forget I was a struggling artist for 11 years that never got any respect or notoriety so know that I'm eternally grateful for the opportunity that Idol gave me. And that's where my comments came from. It all started when the interviewer (who was great by the way) asked me where the "Idol stigma everyone talks about" comes from. Ya know….the reason people never take anyone from the show serious in the real world and why people say "oh they came from AI, they're not real artists." So, I answered that I don't feel that enough "artists" try out for the show because of how many people they focus on that are obviously there for comedic and entertainment value. And when you focus enough on people that aren't serious about it then it's hard for the audience to take you as an artist serious. And it's also hard as a potential contestant to think it's a good way to get seen because you're afraid of being made a joke of. I also said I think it's AWESOME that they are letting the contestants play their own instruments and that I feel that will show something in the contestants that people (the audience) never get to see….but that wasn't printed. My long winded point is this….I was never trying to "DISS" the show or "BITE THE HAND THAT FED ME" so to speak. I was simply giving my input on what I think would spice the show up a bit.
Sorry for being honest. God bless!-Chris"
[Image via WENN.]
Over Already!
Still Pregnant
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Sucks to be him
Well, what he said was true. Idol is going down the tubes, faaast.
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damage control… wow and that was fast! I like him though, and agree with him
Take some of Paulas Med's and take a Vay Cay!
peanuts!!!
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he's so over-rated
he looks like the angry black guy from Real World New Orleans
don't sweat it Chris, it's all true.
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thats not tail between legs that is setting the record straight…. he didnt say what was ripped out of context. As much as I do love my gossip, making it up and taking it out of context is a no no.
i love bald heads
boringgg chris sucks!
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AI sucks balls.. whoever watches that shit needs to get a life
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i am first.
oh Danny! Oh Chris! Oh Chris! Oh Danny!
First Bitches!
what a tool.
I don't really care about Chris but what he said happens to all artists who give interviews. Even mags like Rolling Stone pick and choose what they print from the interview and they print things out of context to make it perposely sound worse then what the artist said. They also never print when an artist is saying something as a joke. They print it as being serious then everyone goes, "oh what a cocky bastard or bitch" even though they were joking. This world is going to hell in a handbasket.
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OOP!
HE'S RUDE!!
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Chris Daughtry is the best!!! People always take what you say & turn it against you.
Wow. That was sudden. Why don't people ever stick by what they said?
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love him & his bald head!
quit your whinning daughtry
WHO CARES???
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he better apolgize 2 idol that bitch
WELL……SPEAKiN UR MiND IS NEVER A CRiME!!!!!!!!!
WHO CARES??????????? WHO IS THIS GUY BY THE WAY?
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I don't forgive you.
paybacks ARE a bitch!lol
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who cares
I like him. A lot.
I take that ALL BACK! I hate American Idol.
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Step 1: Open Mouth
Step 2: Insert Foot
Oh, yeah… FIRST BITCHEZ!!!
of course he has to do damage control. Leave it to a magazine to take something out of context.
I dont like Daughtry.. but im inclined to believe him..
Re: nana – He's only the most successful rocker of Idol and our TIME! His debut album sold more copies in the 1st week than ELVIS… FUCKIN ELVIS!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
Man, Chris Daughtry ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so elequent and sincere. Not to mention uber Talented.
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thats not tail between legs that is setting the record straight…. he didnt say what was ripped out of context. As much as I do love my gossip, making it up and taking it out of context is a no no.
———– I totally agree!
Haha! You don't bite the hand that made you famous! Simon must have called him!
shut your goddamn mouths, you'll never be first. you're always like, 60. leave it alone.
i met this prick in lax.
wish all the success he has could of gone to someone who was a lil less of an asshole.
There is a "spin" put on most celebrity interviews to make them interesting. I think he's completely valid here and doesn't seem to be doing much "back-peddling." If he denied saying that stuff, then I'd say he doing damage control, but I think that was just to clarify his statements. Besides, the dude is making tons of money and has some career going. He's so versatile and mainstream that his kind of music can last. Look a Nickelback….same kind of genre AND the dudes in that band are not even good looking (and face it, Daughtry is HOT). He was just being honest in the interview…he's not worrying about American Idol anymore.
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This guy doesn't deserve credibility tbh, his band is a carbon copy. I'm sure he has a great voice but he's lacking in originality, which is why he struggled for so long.
Sigh. I hate American Idol.
I've never said that the winning or runner up artists from American Idol weren't artists.. but I would have to agree. I was in the music business for 7 years and I got burnt out on the fact that no one wants the real life artist. They want the shimmery, glitzy singer all wrapped up in happy fun candy. They don't want YOU to write the music, just deliver it. It's pure bullshit. The REAL ARTISTS write their OWN stuff and present it. When a real person (not a little piece of shit teenybopper or nobody) who appreciates the real music looks at you and sees that you write and perform your own material, they will stick with you 100%. The show is just an easy way to launch you wherever you want to go, but that's so lame!! Get off your asses and do it the hard way, because THAT'S when it means the most. These losers that have won the show are just presenting extremely lame songs with no meaning to these little kids who know NOTHING about the music business itself. It really, really pisses me off. BE CREATIVE you stupid poptarts.. and Carrie.. STAY IN COUNTRY. Quit crossing over into pop and joining the two, you stupid bitch.
aw, i love him.
they're mean!
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Oh I would SO hit it.
eat that crow bitch !!! by the way you fucking suck !!!
He's right.
I would love to have Chris put my legs over his shoulders while I'm laying down on the bed and slide his big dong deep into my hole and pound me for hours. I'd love to feel his hairy balls banging against my asscheeks while he sweats all over me. Finally, when he's had enough and my hole can't take much more he will shoot his huge load deep inside of me and lay his sweaty, muscular body on top of me while his hard cock goes limp.
Re: RaYcheL – calm down. in a few years no one will even know who this tool is. go back to your tiger beat magazine
Who cares. I'd still do him! : P
Re: Ryan Z – ewwwwww
What a douche.
~THIS WAS A BIG NO-NO!! CHRIS IS A GOOD … DOWN TO EARTH GUY .. NO NEED TO GO BASHING GOOD PEOPLE PEREZ~
Now that is one ugly dude. Can you say Damage Control?
What a idiot.
Re: Madge – Agreed. If Carrie was to just stay in country WHRER SHE BELONGS!!!!!! then she wouldnt have been as successful. yeah i guess its good on her part to cross over but to the country fans and the pop fans alone it sucks. Pop doesnt want twangy music mixed in with their pop and the country fans dont want the teenybopping bubblegum pop mixed in with their music. If she was to have stayed in just country alone, she would just be another Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Faith Hill.. She doesnt offer much if you take away the shine and success. A lot of girls have huge voices but not enough recognition, or a paved way into their career, like Carrie had with Idol. End of story.
Re: Ryan Z – Nah. I bet he shaves dude.
soooooooo………..Daughtry says he was a struggling artist for 11 years and he was on Idol when he was what, 26? That would make him a struggling artist at 15. Oooookaay.
Also this comment, “After going for so long, who else is out there that still wants to get on the show?”
How stupid is he? There are thousands of young people who try out every year and thousands upon thousands more who didn't have a chance for one reason or another but who will try out in the future. Does he think he's one of the last few talented people in America? This isn't the first time we've seen how dumb this guy is!
I predict a rocker will be allowed into the top 24 this year - unlike last year when they wouldn't let one in because of all the $$$ being spent on Daughtry. Good thing too, we're sick of him!
He's just telling it like it is. AND how he told it to Rolling Stone ORIGINALLY. And of course he's right. There's a reason why the record labels of most Idol contestants have dropped them.
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No Perez, you were just too quick to point out how you THOUGHT he was dissing the show on a massive lvl when he in fact was not. You're so quick to bag American Idol you'll jump on any oppurtunity to do so and it's pretty pathetic actually.
I enjoy your website very much, but I think you need to show some sort restraint sometimes.
Anyways… blahblahblah…. I didn't see what was said before as so bad. Not like Jennifer Hudson's ungrateful piece of crap ass who really did bite the hand that fed her.
I WANNA DO HIM AND SHOVE HIS HAIRY CHIN IN PLACES NOT TO BE NAMED..
His comment wasn't terrible, and besides, he was just being honest. People take things way out of context.
He has earned the right to say whatever the fuck he wants. He is an incredible artist and he consistently performed amazingly on AI. He definitely was robbed when he came in 4th place.
Re: huh? – too funny!
He's actually making a good point. If American Idol was a real competition through and through then there wouldn't be an arugment about it's authenticity. When the media and the show itself focuses on how it "transforms" its contestants into stars then of course you think there's a wizard behind the curtain molding everything into it's proper shape. Allowing contestants to play their own instruments would definitely help redefine the show as a place where people with substantial talent go.
I see what Chirs was trying to say but you would think these dumbass Idol winners would know by now just to act like a robot and say how forever greatful they are to Idol and how Idol is the best show on tv blah blah blah….you know anything else will be misinterpreted and make you sould like in ungrateful brat. Gosh they are soooo dumb!!
What he said and how he said it was pretty classy. I don't think he was completely retreating from his original statement, just amending it.
Last year, I was really turned off after the Seattle auditions. Bush Baby and the other guy that Simon just brutalized were clearly developmentally disabled. It made the show look bad, not the contestants.
well he is telling the truth, about 3 years ago I read a blog a former contestant had,,
she wrote, they pass of hundreds of people that can "really sing" to put on folks like william chung, think that was his name, so we can laugh…
b4 the singers even get to Paula, Randi and Simon, they have to sing in front of other judges before they are passed on..
If they were serious these folks would never get thru to Simon, Paula and Randy..
I always kinda thought it was done, after I read her blog I knew I was right, and that is all Chris is tryin to say..
How unsurprisingly craven of him. What a turd.
Chris is a very talented guy. He wrote almost every song on the bands CD. He is a nice, polite, down to earth guy. I say that all of these people with negativity need to get off it!
He is also very good looking!
Well I don't blame him for trying to set the record straight. I've been misquoted by the press before. it's soo irritating to have what you're saying taken out of context or just totally re-hashed to the point where you don't recall having said it. He's correct in what he said though. AI does need to pay more attention to the artist side of things.
Re: Brandee – yeah, he's good looking, just like my dog's turds!
Re: huh? –
He was an artist at the age of 15 struggling to make it. Believe it or not some people start young.
Also where did he say "who else is out there?" I can't find it in any of his comments.