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The Top 13 American idol finalists composed of of Alexis Grace, Michael Sarver, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert, Lil Rounds, Scott MacIntyre, Jorge Nunez, Jasmine Murray, Megan Joy Corkrey, Anoop Desai, and Matt Giraud — all sang songs from the catalog of Michael Jackson for the performance show. In honor of Michael Jackson’s death, Fox announced it will pay tribute to Michael Jackson by airing an encore broadcast of this year’s American Idol eighth-season performance episode that featured songs from the “King of Pop.”

Source: Top 13 Michael Jackson Show, Re airing on FOX Monday

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Adam Twitter’s account is at twitter.com/adamlambert, now with over 75,000 followers.

*edit- it used to be therealglambert.

That’s a lot of followers!

In this entry, you will see photos of our top 12 Idol contestants goofing off in between Saturday’s tour rehearsals. These pictures are actually from Anoop Desai, Danny Gokey, and Michael Sarver, who posted them on their Twitter accounts. In fact, Danny says that they did a full run-through of the show and that everyone could really sing their lungs out.

Unfortunately, Adam Lambert and Scott MacIntyre don’t make an appearance in the photos but everyone else is here. Check out the jump for two more photos, including one where Allison Iraheta is being a total cutie. She’s so adorable, I swear! The American Idol tour begins at July 5. in Portland, Oregon.

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Adam Lambert may have revealed everything about his sexuality, but he’s very poker-faced when it comes to his professional debut. Well it turns out he’s working with Swedish-Morrocan producer RedOne, the man behind the pop phenomenon Lady Gaga and the person often credited for the recent comeback of glam rock. Lady Gaga is theatrical for sure but glam rock – maybe not?

In any case, E! News says that Adam Glambert spent last weekend holed up with RedOne in an LA recording studio. According to the busy producer in an interview with the LA Times, Adam Lambert will be taking a dance/pop direction with heavy rock influences.

“I want to go rock — David Bowie and Queen, but make it more easy for people to get,” the producer said of his vision for Lambert. “It has to be rock, but with an interesting dance angle to it, you know? You’ll like it.”

RedOne said he hopes to record at least six songs with Lambert, but that doesn’t guarantee that they’ll all make Lambert’s RCA debut (a Lambert representative was unable to be reached prior to posting). An “Idol” finalist comes equipped with a built-in fan base, and RedOne said he’s eager to play with people’s expectations.

“You know what I like about him? He’s fresh,” said RedOne. “You can go almost whatever direction with him. People know him from being on ‘American Idol,’ singing other people’s songs, but you can take him in a new direction, and this will be the first time you hear Adam Lambert with his signature. My goal is to get his signature out from him to the world.”

I’m so excited to hear what Adam’s post-Idol sound will be like!

The American Idol Season 8 Tour is going to kick off real soon and so far, we’ve already got a bunch of song spoilers. The first one is really obvious: since every Idol winner performs the winning Idol song, it’s probably safe to assume that Kris Allen will be singing “No Boundaries”. Here are the rest of our guesses:

So Adam Lambert did make it to the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine! I read the interview and I was pretty surprised at how candid and frank he was about his experiences and sexuality. Yes, he talks about his sexuality in this article, and for those of you who stubbornly refuse to believe that Adam Lambert is gay, there’s no better way to find out than from the horse’s mouth. Besides his sexuality, Adam said some things that will probably shock some of those who voted for him on the show, and I hope Adam wins more fans beyond his Idol core base, cos after the interview I’m not sure all of them will be sticking around. Here are a couple of quotes from the interview:

About discussing his sexuality, “Right after the finale, I almost started talking about it to the reporters, but I thought, ‘I’m going to wait for Rolling Stone, that will be cooler,’…I didn’t want the Clay Aiken thing and the celebrity-magazine bullshit. I need to be able to explain myself in context.”

On attention from women, “I loved it this season when the girls went crazy for me…As far as I’m concerned, it’s all hot…Just because I’m not sticking it in there doesn’t mean that I don’t find it beautiful”

Kris Allen is his type, “They put me with the cute guy. Distracting! He’s the one guy I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100% straight.”

On the Burning Man kissing photos, “Wasn’t ready for that,” he says. (See photos of Adam Lambert kissing boys.)

On getting caught with gay porn, Adam’s father Eber caught his 13-year-old son looking at gay pornography on the family computer, and turned to his wife and said ‘It’s official.’ Later, Lambert’s mother asked if he had a girlfriend. He said no. She asked if he had a boyfriend. He said no. Then she asked if he wanted a boyfriend, to which Lambert replied “Yes, that would be nice.”

Experimenting with drugs, He tried drugs for the first time at 21, during his six-month European tour of Hair. That was when he dyed his hair black. In Germany, he started smoking pot and tried Ecstasy. But he does have limits. Among his dislikes: cocaine.

Does not do drag, “I’ve only dressed in drag three or four times. … I don’t tuck and wear breasts, that’s not me.”

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The media really needs to stop making a big deal out of Adam Lambert and his boyfriend Drake Lambry, but I really like how both of them handle the media frenzy with such class, managing to stay tight-lipped about their personal lives and Adam’s career while remaining friendly.

TMZ was stalking the pair and managed to catch up with them as Adam was headed to bring Drake to the airport, who was going to catch a flight to Louisiana. Yep, Drake’s leaving town, which means you can all stop stalking them now! Both of them just laughed it off when the TMZ reporter repeatedly tried to get them to kiss for the camera while they walked.