Hollie Cavanagh Post-Idol Media Thread, Videos, news, interviews, etc. Options

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

Hollie is going to do a lot of press soon, so I thought we all could contribute and post articles and videos here.

[Jess]

Can this also be for talking about when the appearances are? I was going to start an all-encompassing thread for post-Idol appearances but then I saw this.

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

Can this also be for talking about when the appearances are? I was going to start an all-encompassing thread for post-Idol appearances but then I saw this.

[Jess]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-wors...y-iovine-323203

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684925/a...-cavanagh.jhtml

May 11 2012 9:02 AM EDT
Hollie Cavanagh Will 'Keep Going' After 'American Idol'
After her elimination, Cavanagh tells MTV News, 'It doesn't mean that my music career is over. It's just beginning.'
By Kelly Marino

After weeks of finding herself in the bottom three, the inevitable happened Thursday night: Hollie Cavanagh was voted off "American Idol" after failing to make America love her.

Cavanagh's voice always had incredible range but it was her lack of emotional connection to songs that was the judges' main concern. While the 18-year-old finally seemed to be coming out of her shell, she backtracked Wednesday night when covering Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me." But Hollie insists her nerves never got in the way.

"I didn't really feel nervous singing that song," Cavanagh told MTV News after the show. "I really did love that song, and I definitely felt it, but I've said this every time. It's one thing for me to feel it, but if nobody else does, then that's not how a song should be performed.

"I definitely understood when Jennifer's like, 'You should have sang that to America,' but I think the way I've always been singing that song was just to a boy perspective. So that was my mindset. I love that song, and I don't regret that song at all, but maybe it just wasn't the right song for this kind of competition."

It's anyone's guess how the Southern belle with a peculiar accent managed to stay in the game for so long, but with only two weeks left until the finale, it's fair to say she put up one heck of a fight. However, she suspected her bullet-dodging streak was over this week, despite judge Randy Jackson's recent claims she was "peaking at the right time."

"I definitely woke up a bit nervous this morning — definitely a different feeling then I usually have every Thursday," the British-born Texan admitted. "But I felt like if I get through, that's great, but if I don't, I can't have any regrets. I can't think, 'Oh, I should have done this, I should have done that' 'cause if I do, I'll just drive myself crazy. So, I'm just thankful I have made it this far.

"I'm going to take the whole 'I'm peaking at the right time' just to keep going. Just because I am out of the competition doesn't mean I'm not going to grow. It doesn't mean that my music career is over. It's just beginning. This is just a door opening, so I'm just really excited to see how much more I grow and what happens in the future."

Moving forward, Holliepops, her nickname on the show, said she would love to make music people can connect to the way she connects with some of her favorite artists. And who might be one of her favorites?

"I love Mariah Carey," the pint-sized blonde said with a smile. "Her lyrics are just so powerful, and those are the songs you go to when you are going through something. I want people to feel that with my music. I just want to make hits. I want people to love my music, and I want people to feel what I feel when I am signing them. So, I'm just excited to just start singing for the love of it."

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

[.DJ.]

i think this is a great idea. especially helpful for fans that dont live in the US and cant see alot of the appearances anyway. thanks for this.

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

Anyone else notice that Hollie is trending on Yahoo! right now?

[stooch]

lol reading all these Hollie interviews today, why is it when I read what she says, I hear it with a British accent in my head Hollie is very impressive, such a display of class and grace

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

‘Idol’ Fighter Hollie Cavanagh Is Proud That She Proved She’s “Good Enough”

Hollie Cavanagh totally bucked the odds this season on "American Idol": Despite multiple showings in the bottom three and some especially harsh critiques from the judges, she kept improving week to week, and she eventually made it all the way to fourth place, before being eliminated this Thursday. Speaking to Yahoo!'s Reality Rocks backstage after this week's results show, Hollie seemed to be in good spirits, and proud to have proven so many naysayers wrong.

"I've definitely been fighting through this competition, and I think that's my main thing. I'm blessed to be at this point because people have thought, 'She's not good enough, she's not going to be here,' but I've been getting through each week, and that's something I'm really proud of. I'm proud to be a fighter in this competition," she declared.

Many past "Idol" contestants who've had such a rough time on the show let it get to them and lost some of their will to fight, but Hollie explained that such setbacks had the opposite effect on her. "I think it just pushed me harder. I really didn't see being in the bottom three as a negative thing. I took it as a positive, because if you take it as a negative thing, it's going to affect your performances," she reasoned.

However, Hollie did say she was grateful that the judges were hard enough on her to cut her in Hollywood Week in Season 10, when she auditioned for "Idol" the first time, because she would not have been able to handle the pressure back then. "If I was to get through last year, I don't think I would have even made it to the top 10. I'm glad that they did what they did last year, because it gave me a year to experience things and get onstage and get stronger. People don't understand how tough you have to be to be in this competition."

As for the judges' frequent criticism about her "overthinking" her performances, Hollie agreed: "I was just overthinking what everybody wanted, and I wasn't really thinking about what I wanted to do in my performances. I was trying to be a people-pleaser, I think--trying to make Steven happy, Jennifer happy, and Randy happy, when even they were saying, 'Just forget what we say, and do what you want.'"

But eventually, Hollie found her way. "I think when I did 'Rolling In The Deep' and 'Son Of A Preacher Man,' that was my turning point," she said, "because I think that was the time when I just let go and I realized I can't think about what other people are doing. I can only worry about myself and what I have to do at this moment. And now that I know that, and now that I've felt what that feels like, I just have to do it in all my performances."

And we'll be seeing her do that this summer, on the Idols Live concert tour. Congratulations, Hollie.

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/reality-rocks...-133418347.html

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

mjsbigblog has lots of articles compiled here:

http://www.mjsbigblog.com/hollie-cavanagh-...dia-roundup.htm

[Jess]

Anyone else notice that Hollie is trending on Yahoo! right now?

Well dammit, how is she supposed to beat flesh-eating bacteria?!

At least she's ahead of breastfeeding.

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

Well dammit, how is she supposed to beat flesh-eating bacteria?!

At least she's ahead of breastfeeding.

She was actually #1 earlier, but fell to #6 by the time I took a screen capture.

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

[Ottawa1946]

AmericanIdol

Watch @CavanaghAI11 with @JayLeno tonight! Go Hollie!

Wow, that was fast.

[Carrie&BlakeFan]

Yup, Hollie's on the Tonight Show right now.

[differentlife]

Here's some audio and video!


2012-5-11 Tonight Show

Audio clips
River Deep, Mountain High, Rolling in the Deep, Son of a Preacher Man

MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xw6nf9kz8n5e5aw
M4A: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wytv9nym6yqlct1

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Video
HD 1080p (6000kbps AVC/AAC), 139MB
http://rapidgator.net/file/14560341/120511...00kbps.mp4.html

If your computer has problems with skipping on the 1080p version...
HD 720p (6000kbps), 139MB
http://rapidgator.net/file/14383308/120511...000kbps.mp4.htm

If your computer has problems with skipping on the 720p version...
Smaller HQ: 720x400 (2000kbps), 50MB
http://rapidgator.net/file/14379471/120511...00kbps.mp4.html

[.DJ.]

ah thanks very much. i have been looking for this all day. i even asked on tumblr but no one replied with the actual video.

[after731]

thanks differentlife

I wish she'd go to Ellen and do a full performance or somethin

[.DJ.]

this is a great interview. someone on tumblr posted the video. i'm quickly adding this so dont have time to embed it

http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/good_day_la/ame...augh-2012-05-11

[tennisfan2808]

Thanks for the link. So is Hollie dating anyone???