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Archive for May 23rd, 2007
Judge reduces assault charge against Stapp
Posted in Celebs, Music, News, Song on the May 23, 2007
A charge against former Creed front man Scott Stapp stemming from an apparent confrontation with his wife was reduced to a misdemeanor Monday.
Stapp had been charged with aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony after he was arrested at his home Sunday. No one was injured, Palm Beach County sheriff’s officials said.
Judge Cory J. Ciklin reduced the charge “because the allegation is that Stapp threw a bottle of Orangina at his wife, at her head, and missed and the bottle broke,” sheriff’s spokesman Paul Miller said.
“Based on the circumstances, the defense attorney argued that was not a deadly weapon”, Miller said.
Stapp attorney Robert Gershman said, “The facts against him are weak. The judge saw that.”
The 33-year-old singer was back at his studio in his home, Gershman said.
He will be subject to random drug and alcohol testing, Miller said.
Stapp and Jaclyn Nesheiwat, Miss New York USA 2004, were married in Miami in February 2006. They have a baby daughter, Milan Hayat Stapp.
“This is a private matter between the members of the Stapp family and we would hope that their privacy is respected. Scott and Jaclyn are both well, and any further relevant information will be forthcoming at the appropriate time,” said a statement from Stapp’s record company, Wind-up Records.
Stapp’s former band, Creed, sold more than 25 million records in the United States. He has since launched a solo career.
Stapp won a Grammy Award in 2001 for best rock song for Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open.”
American Idol: Top 2 power rankings
Posted in American Idol, Music, TV Show on the May 23, 2007
He table is set. Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis are our two, quasi-unlikely finalists and their face-off tonight will play a part in deciding the American Idol champion. The conclusion, however, may very well be foregone (barring, of course, a monumental choke by one of the two singers on live television tonight.) There probably isn’t a significant population of undecided voters still out there, and the two performers are going to have a difficult time swaying viewers to their side at this late juncture. Blake and Jordin are so vastly different in their styles that it doesn’t really make sense to compare and contrast the two. If you’re a Jordin fan, no matter what Blake does tonight, your sensibilities will still lie in the Jordin camp, and vice versa.
For all the uproar over Melinda Doolittle’s elimination from the show, this final two is the right final two. They are both viable commercial entities. If this sounds cynical, it isn’t meant to. Melinda was a great singer, but not much else. She was a little boring, but everyone liked her, so people fooled themselves into believing that she might actually win this thing. Melinda didn’t stand a chance.
There are hundreds of great singers in this country of Melinda’s ilk. There are not hundreds of 17 year olds like Jordin Sparks. There are not hundreds of people that can do what Blake Lewis does. Blake Lewis has creative potential. Melinda was only a singer. Jordin Sparks is young enough to improve, be molded into the product that America/the record companies want. Melinda had peaked as a singer.
So what do you think, who is going to win on Wednesday.
