Brooke Barrettsmith. For those of you who have a life and don't memorize every single Idol contestant, Brooke was on during the 5th season. We saw her
audition and saw her sing in Hollywood as well. She was around long enough that she had a thread in Sucks and some people here who wanted her to make the
semis. It didn't happen. Brooke did make it all the way to the (first?) "chair" episode, then got cut. To place how far she got into perspective,
the next week on the show the top 24 sang and the first women cut were Becky O'Donohue and Stevie Scott (the 5th season had a wonderful group of finalists,
but the semifinalists who got cut mostly weren't anything special. For once the voters did a pretty good job, aside from letting Kevin Covais through).
Brooke is the 11th (!) 5th season Idol alumni to release a CD. Two semifinalists have released CDs (Celena Rae Batchelor and Brooke's fellow 5th season contestant Ayla Brown), and some people who never got past their auditions have released CDs (William Hung of course, as well as various people we never saw like Colbie Caillat). But to the best of my knowledge. she is the first person cut in Hollywood that we saw who has released a CD. I was wondering how long it would take before at least one of these people would get somewhere.
As for the CD itself, which I happened upon in a store, from the company and some song titles it appears to be a "Christian rock" (if that's not an oxymoron) CD. I'm not particularly into gospel, so I didn't buy it and have not heard it. I did like her on the show, but I'm not buying it without hearing something first. If anybody know more, here's the thread for it.
Brooke is the 11th (!) 5th season Idol alumni to release a CD. Two semifinalists have released CDs (Celena Rae Batchelor and Brooke's fellow 5th season contestant Ayla Brown), and some people who never got past their auditions have released CDs (William Hung of course, as well as various people we never saw like Colbie Caillat). But to the best of my knowledge. she is the first person cut in Hollywood that we saw who has released a CD. I was wondering how long it would take before at least one of these people would get somewhere.
As for the CD itself, which I happened upon in a store, from the company and some song titles it appears to be a "Christian rock" (if that's not an oxymoron) CD. I'm not particularly into gospel, so I didn't buy it and have not heard it. I did like her on the show, but I'm not buying it without hearing something first. If anybody know more, here's the thread for it.
