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Why the Time Might Be Right for ‘American Idol’s Return By

It feels like just yesterday that a white-clad choir comprising 60 American Idol alumni stood onstage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre and bid an emotional farewell to arguably the most game-changing,...

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40 Years Ago, ‘What’s Happening!!’ Preached Evils of Bootlegging, Joys of Racial Harmony By

Forty years ago, on Jan. 28, 1978, an entire generation was educated about the evils of concert bootlegging in a two-part Very Special Episode of What’s Happening!! guest-starring the Doobie...

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‘Idol’ Star Phillip Phillips on Lawsuit, Recording Hiatus: ‘I Was in a Weird Place’ By

Five years ago, Phillip Phillips became the last major success story spawned by the American Idol franchise, when his Season 11 coronation song “Home” became the biggest single by any...

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‘Voice’ Winner Chloe Kohanski Explains Why She Lowered Her Voice to Be Heard By

Chloe Kohanski, who was crowned the newest Voice winner Tuesday night, stood out through Season 13 thanks to her gritty rock ’n’ roll style and, especially, her gritty rock ’n’...

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Todrick Hall Songs About Harassment, Guns Take on New Relevance in 2017 By

In June 2016, when YouTube/Broadway star Todrick Hall released his ambitious, semiautobiographical, Wizard of Oz-inspired visual album, Straight Outta Oz, one of the standout songs and scenes was “Papi,” which...

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Fantasia on Christmas: ‘Let Families Come Back Together, Because They’re Breaking Up’ By

American Idol Season 3 champion Fantasia’s life struggles have been well documented — in her memoir and accompanying TV biopic Life Is Not a Fairytale, for starters, as well as...

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Gwen Stefani Talks Faith, Christmas, and the ‘Spiritual Intervention’ that Led Her to Blake Shelton By

Two and half years ago, in August 2015, Gwen Stefani was in a dark place, as her 13-year marriage to the father of her three children, Gavin Rossdale, whom she’d...

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Haley Reinhart on Women in Entertainment: ‘I’m Glad We’re Not Being Silenced’ By

Haley Reinhart was only 19 years old when she competed on American Idol in 2011, but viewers could tell right away that she was an old soul. Having been raised...

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Sharon Needles Blasts Katy Perry, Pop Industry: ‘They Use Drag Queens as Puppets’ By

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 winner Sharon Needles, the queen of darkness, is sitting at Yahoo Music in the glorious Joan Crawford drag from her buzzy new video for “Battle...

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Get Back to Me: The Totally New Wave Legacy of ‘Square Pegs’ By

Square Pegs may be best remembered for launching the acting careers of Sarah Jessica Parker and Jami Gertz, who respectively played brainy misfit Patty Greene and social-climbing prepster Muffy Tepperman....

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