This took forever.  But you‘ve probably heard of this already.  Adam Lambert‘s first song since almost winning American Idol?  Goosebumpy.

They didn‘t have it last year, thinking it‘d be odd to ask people for donations in the middle of bad economic times.  This year, Idol Gives Back

Full disclosure: I am a huuuge Allison Iraheta fan.  It‘s obvious from the nickname I gave her in these parts (there‘s a reason why I call her Allie) and from the barely-known story of me almost welling up when she was eliminated from

I don‘t exactly want to call it a Kris vs Adam thing, but it‘s inevitable.  We‘ve seen it happen before: the American Idol winner slugging it out with the

The last we heard, Fox executives and American Idol producers are rumored to be planning to allow Simon Cowell to bring his singing talent show,

Now here‘s something we almost missed: Simon Cowell hasn‘t yet signed a new contract with Fox so he can continue being a judge on American Idol

You know how it goes.  There‘s always this long wait between the moment someone wins American Idol to the moment that someone releases a song that‘s not a studio version of a previous performance, or a previously-released obscurity, or a tour bootleg.  Same went with this year‘s final four, although that seems to have shrunk a bit: Kris Allen‘s got a new song.  And oddly, I haven‘t heard of it until it finally dropped.  So here goes another one of those roundups: two items, one about that song, and the other, well, the title should‘ve said it all.

I think I got distracted by all these fall premieres that I pushed this little show known as American Idol on the corner.  Well, before I kink out my schedule and get things back to order, a couple of items, one involving job security, and the other involving actual security.  You know, that serious sort.

Ruh-roh!  Yeah, bad Scooby Doo impression.But that was what I first thought when Nigel Lythgoe spoke up regarding American Idol snagging Ellen DeGeneres as a guest judge--of course, you know, after her guest stint on the 99th episode of

Because since Wednesday night all I‘ve heard is stuff about Ellen, Ellen and Ellen.  Well, there are still stuff about Ellen DeGeneres joining