'Idol' contestant Phil Stacey gets coaching from Diana Ross
Phil Stacey survived LeAnn Rimes, now it's on to Diana Ross.
The early rounds of American Idol seemed to go easily for the Jacksonville-based sailor. Last Tuesday night, though, Stacey struggled a bit on Rimes' I Need You and all three judges questioned his song choice. Yahoo.com called it "clearly the worst vocal of the night" and predicted his departure.
But he survived to be a finalist.
With Idol down to the chosen 12, the show is back to twice a week. The finalists perform from 8-10 tonight, and on Wednesday, one of them will be voted off during the half-hour results show at 9 p.m.
For this week's songs, the finalists have been working with Diana Ross, and they'll all do a song of hers or the Supremes'.
While they get ready, Stacey and the other finalists are off limits to much of the world. The show rarely allows him to talk to the media, and then only with officials listening in, interrupting him if he starts talking about something he shouldn't talk about.
Officials didn't allow his family to talk to the media at all.
"And it's very unlike us not to talk," Stacey said in the only interview the Times-Union has been able to get with him.
A Fox spokeswoman said that the show wants the contestants to focus on nothing but each week's upcoming performance. Eventually, she said, Fox will allow family members to talk. And it will arrange the occasional interview with the contestants.
A month ago, Stacey said he could live with it.
"It's very much a loose control," he said. "I can do whatever I want, but if I want to stay here, I have to do what they want."
Roger Bull/The Times-Union
The early rounds of American Idol seemed to go easily for the Jacksonville-based sailor. Last Tuesday night, though, Stacey struggled a bit on Rimes' I Need You and all three judges questioned his song choice. Yahoo.com called it "clearly the worst vocal of the night" and predicted his departure.
But he survived to be a finalist.
With Idol down to the chosen 12, the show is back to twice a week. The finalists perform from 8-10 tonight, and on Wednesday, one of them will be voted off during the half-hour results show at 9 p.m.
For this week's songs, the finalists have been working with Diana Ross, and they'll all do a song of hers or the Supremes'.
While they get ready, Stacey and the other finalists are off limits to much of the world. The show rarely allows him to talk to the media, and then only with officials listening in, interrupting him if he starts talking about something he shouldn't talk about.
Officials didn't allow his family to talk to the media at all.
"And it's very unlike us not to talk," Stacey said in the only interview the Times-Union has been able to get with him.
A Fox spokeswoman said that the show wants the contestants to focus on nothing but each week's upcoming performance. Eventually, she said, Fox will allow family members to talk. And it will arrange the occasional interview with the contestants.
A month ago, Stacey said he could live with it.
"It's very much a loose control," he said. "I can do whatever I want, but if I want to stay here, I have to do what they want."
Roger Bull/The Times-Union
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