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Friends, This is my first direct communication to
you since I set up the fan club newsletter.
Right now I am really busy with work and other
projects not to mention my anniversary with my
wonderful wife of seven years is today and we
are going away together for the weekend. We
have worked hard to build this site and we were just
sure all of our wonderful visitors and us would be
celebrating together at the end of the season.
I am not exactly sure what the future for Chris is
but we want this site to be a place for his fans
that won't forget him to unite. I took some
time at lunch to put together the stuff below for
you along with my thoughts about what we should do
next.
1. Chris to Join Fuel?
2. Should We Boycott American Idol
3. Petitions (Do They Matter)
4. What Went Wrong?
5. A Real Forum For Real Fans
6. 55,000 People Came to Our Site
1. Chris to Join Fuel - This
is not big new at this point the band extended the
invitation quite soon after the elimination I think
the bigger thing for Chris fans is should he?
Here are my thoughts on the negatives and positives
of each. Positives - The bands sound and
choice of music is a perfect fit. When Chris
did Hemorrhage his popularity hit the highest it
ever. He is a writer and Fuel I am sure would
be open to his writing and development. He
would allow them to market to a much broader
audience and could utilize their established
distribution and production channels. Chris is
new to fame and having a core group of industry
veterans around him would be helpful in protecting
him from some of the industries less then ethical
producers and record company execs (there are NO
SHORTAGE of those). Negatives - He would
hence forth be known as Chris Daughtry the Lead
Singer of Fuel not just Chris Daughtry. Not
that big of a deal some of the best and most famous
artists are part of a "group". The
only other negative I can see is he would not have
100% full creative control but I think with his
personality and leadership he would have plenty.
My Final Thoughts - I would support
either decision, I think the real benefit for fans
with Fuel is an album and a tour would happen
faster. Either way Chris is going to be a
wonderful success.
2. Should We Boycott Idol - I know
many of you feel we should and I have not personally
decided yet. I do think something is amiss
about the phone lines but there may be real reasons
out of Idol's control as to why Chris lost (see what
went wrong below). I know it seems so unfair
to us that Chris was at the bottom but you have to
wonder what would Idol get out of doing something
shady and getting rid of a person that had such a
huge fan base and drove ratings for the show. You
see for American Idol Chris was good for
business. Only reason I can think of would be
he is such a non conformist and did not
"fit" the Idol model. If that is the
case then we could really tick off Idol by all
voting for Tailor Hicks who indeed also fails to
conform. If there is a conspiracy (and that is
a big if) I would have to believe Eliot would be the
one Idol would want to mold with his backstreet boy
look and feel. You will also see he is clearly
the least popular again in "what went
wrong" later on. I don't know what to endorse
right now after I have really thought about all this
I will let you know and of course you can all make
your own choices. I will definitely
watch the final if for no other reason because Chris
will be on it.
3. Petitions, Do They Matter? -
Personally I think even if 3 million people signed a petition
it would still never make Idol back track on the
issue unless they find out there really was a
technical issue at play. If so it would be a
real mess and if Chris then won it might hurt him
too. That said it is a way to be heard and
that is what America is all about so why not sign
this petition - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/541145038
it certainly won't cause any harm but just don't
expect it to cause a recount.
4. What Went Wrong - Everyone
is crying foul right now certain that phone line
problems (accidental or intentional) caused Chris to
loose. I am about to show you some evidence
that will show you why that may be true and then to
be fair and balanced explain how it could simply
just be that the best man lost fair and
square. To not see both sides is not really
the right stance so here we go. There is a tool
that you can use online, people like me that build
websites use it and it shows the total number of
searches done the month prior on Yahoo for any
term. One could state that which ever AI contestant
got the most searches was most popular and who ever
got the least was the least popular. To try it
yourself you can go to http://www.inventory.overture.com
and see how it works. When I ran the final
four though this tool I was shocked to see Chris in
third place! With Taylor Hicks getting more
then twice as many searches. Here were the
numbers in the order of who got the most to the last
in March 2006....
- Taylor Hicks - 169,546
- Katharine McPhee - 93,880
- Chris Daughtry - 56,153
- Elliott Yamin - 13,091
Now I know some of you may be upset by these
numbers but they are 100% democratic and from a
system that is accurate and they don't count as
votes all we can see is that Chris was searched for
a lot less then Kat and Taylor. Yet the real
tale is Eliot who was in the top and most think
should have gone long ago only getting 13,000
searches. It would seem compared to the others
Elliott has the least amount of interest and if
there is any case to be made for rigging anything
the numbers here would indicated Elliott lasting
this long would be the biggest indicator.
Now let me state exactly how this could all be
meaningless. 95% of the traffic to this site
comes from Google! Most Chris fans seem to be
Google people not Yahoo people and 56,000 is still a
lot of searches. Still these numbers do make
you stop and think.
The other side perhaps Chris simply lost because
of two main reasons. One everyone thought he
would sail through and many of his fans were apathetic
and did not vote or voted once because they were not
worried. Two, the Chris fans who were only
moderate in their support loved Rocker Chris and
each time he was forced into some genre of music
that did not work for him
Consider that the other time Chris was at the
bottom was when he did Louis Armstrong song (again
forced into a stupid niche by American Idols
themes). Chris is not the type of person who
should be doing Elvis songs. In the end the
less loyal fans who wanted Hemorrhage, Higher Ground
and Wanted Dead or Alive may be the ones who failed
to vote or voted for someone else.
If that is the case then the real crime is still
doing "theme weeks" when we are down to
the final four! Going back to conspiracy
theories that alone could be the conspiracy! I
have to admit that I did not follow past seasons as
good as this, but was Bo Bice still being forced to
sing "Song of Love" or "Songs of
Elvis" at the time they were down to the final
four?
I personally despise the themes anyway and the
crap about having them "show their range"
is a weak argument. Fuel won't be doing a
remake of Shameless by Garth Brooks any time soon,
now will Sheryl Crow be doing a version of any of
Creeds work. Real world artists do what they
do best and let the public decide if they like
it. Idol should do the same.
5. A Real Forum For Real
Fans - Right now all we have is our guest
book and it is very active but we did have a
real forum that crashed a few weeks ago. We
will be rebuilding this forum this Sunday so you can
run polls and have discussions on specific areas not
to mention we can better control the spammers and
jerks who post nasty things. As soon as it is
up I will let yall know.
6. 55,000 Visitors To Our
Site - In a statement of love for Chris on May
11th 55,000 unique visitors came to this website, a
simple creation by a fan who wanted to do an online
tribute to a guy who I believed would change
American Idol forever. One thing is certain
Chris has fans that love him and the numbers prove
it!
That's all I have time for today. I thank
you for your support of my site and your support for
Chris, in my next edition I will tell you my plan
for fixing the problems with American Idol.
~ Jack Spirko
Webmaster
ChrisDaughtryFans.com
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