Ellen DeGeneres tenure at American Idol turned out to be a short one. 

Apparently, the talk show host and comedienne never felt comfortable at Fox’s flagship karaoke contest and her rumoured feud with Simon Cowell (they hated each other) didn’t help.  Ellen and her reps supposedly went to the network brass and asked to be let out of her contract one year early, saying she wasn’t happy and “it’s not been fun”.  Yikes.

In a statement posted on her website, Ellen wrote, “A couple months ago, I let FOX and the “American Idol” producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me. I told them I wouldn’t leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next. It was a difficult decision to make, but my work schedule became more than I bargained for. I also realized this season that while I love discovering, supporting and nurturing young talent, it was hard for me to judge people and sometimes hurt their feelings. I loved the experience working on “Idol” and I am very grateful for the year I had. I am a huge fan of the show and will continue to be.”

There’s nothing wrong with hurting someone’s feelings if they hurt your ears first.  Just sayin’…

For their part, execs at Fox continue to be all smiles, saying how wonderful it was to work with Ellen, blah blah blah, “fortunate to work with”, blah blah, ”incredible spirit”, blah.

Meanwhile, Deadline Hollywood says that Jennifer Lopez has signed on to replace Ellen in a secret deal that was finalized earlier this week.  J-Lo could use the work and the money, seeing how her career hasn’t exactly been on an upwards trajectory lately.  So far this year, she’s been dropped by her record label and her latest movie, The Back-up Plan flopped.

No word if new producer Nigel Lythgoe plans on making “other” changes on American Idol (cough – Ryan Seacrest, Randy Jackson, Karla Diogardi – cough).  Rumour is that Nigel really wants Elton John to come in to replace Simon Cowell (whom he makes look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), but Elton supposedly wants too much money and has touring committments he can’t get out of.   Boo.

Stay tuned….

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Pure gold.

You knew given his narcissism and ego, it was only a matter of time before Kanye West, he of the ALL CAPS FORM OF WRITING joined Twitter.

Apparently, the stage rusher joined yesterday and it’s been one Tweet after another since.  Not sure if he’s hawking stuff on the social media network for money (although it wouldn’t surprise me).  Kanye’s new album drops this fall, so he’ll be using Twitter to help promote it.

Here are some instant Kanye classics.  May there be many more.

I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh

Dating models I had to learn to like small dogs and cigarettes

awwwww man this is addictive I might get in trouble on here!!!!

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Would be contestants of the upcoming X-Factor should take note.

An embittered cast off from Britain’s Got Talentwho’s rendition of “You Raise Me Up” was bad enough to make me take a screw driver and swirl it around in my ears until Simon Cowell thankfully pulled the plug on her, is suing the producer and the show over the way she was treated.

Ema Czikai says that Simon hurt her feelings and disregarded a letter she wrote in which she explained that she suffers from a medical condition that can impair her singing voice, adding “I haven’t got a horrible singing voice when I sing in a fair environment that meets the needs of my particular disabilities.”  Emma says she filed the $3.8 million dollar suit to retain her “self respect and dignity”.

Bitch, please. 

Emma says she plans to give any money she’s awarded to charity.  No doubt. She should invest it in singing lessons instead.  Take a look at the clip below and judge for yourself.

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Music is a very subjective art form and everyone’s taste differs.  However, a group of pigeons apparently really don’t care for the group Kings of Leon sound at all.

Word is the birds were pooping on the band members so badly during a concert Friday night in St Louis, they had to stop three songs into their set.  This sort of thing would never have phased Ozzy Osbourne back in the day.  Just sayin’…

Kings of Leon promised that they’ll reschedule the concert for another time, while the pigeons hopefully move on to a bigger and even more deserving target (this would make my life if it happened to Justin Bieber).

Concert goers were overheard saying they thought the whole thing was “sh*tty”. 

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Pretty Reckless, Taylor Momsen’s band of hired babysitters, released their new video for the single Miss Mothing.  You can tell they’re all edgy and hardcore becuase of the eyeliner everyone’s wearing.  How retro!  

Taylor’s being critizied for being too “sexy” for a sixteen year old girl in this video.  Sexy?  Really??  Trying too hard to be grownup with cringe worthy results is more like it.

What do you think?

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This is exactly why the argument that tweens have too much time on their hands during summer vacation has credence.

We’re a little over two weeks into the break in most parts of North America and apparently the 8 to 14 year olds spent most of that time pressing re-play on YouTube, watching Justin Bieber’s video for Baby, his hit single that uses the word some 18 times in the chorus.  Who says music aimed at the teeny-bopper set can’t have thoughtful and meaningful lyrics?

The Beib’s video has been played almost 247 MILLION times, making it the most watched video (so far) in the site’s history, just beating out Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance (I thought it would have been Telephone that would be up there) which sits at about 25 million.

Please watch Bad Romance a few times to help Gaga regain her place and restore order in an otherwise upside down world.

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Guess after hearing Lady Gaga’s Alejandro the group realized there was still a market for their particular sound and style of music.  

Did I just type that out loud?

The group (now with two new female singers) made it big back in the early 90′s with songs like All That She Wants, The Sign, and Don’t Turn Around.  By 1996, the members pretty much went their seperate ways before reuniting three years ago for a series of concerts in Europe.

The new song sounds like “classic” Ace of Base, but with some rap thrown in and the vocals aren’t quite as good as the original lineup.    

What do you think?

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Even rain won’t stop the show from going on.

Lady Gaga, in the midst of a massive North American tour, stoped by the Today Show earleir this morning, performing for over 20 000 fans, many of which had spent days in the scorching heat to see the singer perform.

Now that’s devotion.

The devotion was apparently sent back, as Lady Gaga had several thousand dollars worth of pizza delievered to them.  Imagine the person who was taking that order on the phone.  Heh.

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This is kind of cool. 

In the new video for Crossfire, the new song by The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, Charlizer Theron is his bad ass resucer from a bunch of Ninjas. 

No, I’m not making any of this up. 

The song is from Brandon’s upcoming solo album Flamingo, due out Sept 14th.

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Does the Beib even know what or where North Korea is for that matter?  

Apparently, the Beib’s official website had a contest for fans to vote where they wanted to send the pint sized singer on his upcoming ”My World” tour.

Jokers rigged voting for North Korea (guess Hell wasn’t an option), making it the number one location with over 659 000 votes when the polls closed.   Israel came in at number two, followed by Poland, Turkey, and Columbia.

The Bieb’s spokesminions have yet to respond about the hacking, or announce which location is the legitmate winner for the contest.

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