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mjsbigblog found this 5/9/2008 on blogs.villagevoice.com [flag]
Week Eleven: Saying Goodbye to Jason Castro Posted by Tom Breihan at 3:02 PM, May 8, 2008 jason-castro.jpg He hopes you like jammin' too I'm going to miss Jason Castro. I'm not going to miss him because he was a particularly great American Idol contestant or anything; in retrospect, he was a pretty terrible fit for the show's ballad-hawking chops-intensive blueprint. In terms of pure vocal ... [link]

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Idol Headlines for 5/9/08
Published 5/9/2008 by mj at mjsbigblog
... the stage whenever he wasn’t parked on a stool. And he showed no real acumen for the show’s PR-hustle element, famously telling Entertainment Weekly that he didn’t especially care how long he lasted on the show. But that last point is actually what made Castro a fascinating figure in an otherwise near-unwatchable season. I can’t think of a single other contestant in American Idol history who so visibly disdained the whole structure of the show. Village Voice With Jason Castro Gone, Idol Can Get Back to Being ...

Idol Talk: Results are Cooked?
Published 5/13/2008 at Yahoo! Buzz Log
... his lines, or was he undone by unwillingness to knuckle under the "Idol" machinery? And, seriously, how has Syesha Mercado managed to survive and ...

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