I feel so bad for Jordin Sparks. I was reading online the other day that she has been struck with a career-threatening throat injury. The reports say that she’s suffering from an acute vocal cord hemorrhage and that it’s forced her to cancel several dates as the opening act on Alicia Keys’ tour. They said that if she doesn’t take the time out now to rest her vocal cords and let things heal that she will be risking permanent vocal cord damage. Ugh. I know that must be killing her. Not only because she’s a singer and that’s her gift, but it’s also her livelihood. I pray that she makes a speedy recovery and gets to join AK on tour soon!!

Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown - No Air

A couple of weeks ago Jordin Sparks released an album that in my opinion was not up to par. It definitely was not something that I expected. After hearing Leona Lewis’ album I had high hopes for Jordin. I pretty much knew Jordin’s album would bomb because Tattoo is a good song, but I didn’t really see that as a first single. And as you well know, the best single is usually the first single. After listening to Jordin’s album I see why they released Tattoo as the first single… it is the best song on the album. Sad.

The other thing that lead me to believe that Jordin’s project would fail is the fact that they didn’t release a video for Tattoo until the last minute. The song was pretty much out of rotation when they released the video. In my opinion, the American Idol people screwed Jordin. They gave Jordin songs like God Love Ugly (WTF) while giving Leona several potential hit singles. It’s bad when an album and Idol that isn’t even released in this Country gets more attention and praise than the Idol who is.

This week, American Idol’s most recent winner Jordin Sparks is set to release her brand new single “Tattoo”. The song will make its debut on AOL’s PopEater on Friday and will hit radio on Monday. I’m really looking forward to hearing her new single as well as her album. Judging by the success of past American Idol winners Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry and Carrie Underwood, Jordin has a lot to live up to. In normal Jordin Sparks fashion, she’s taking things in stride. About her upcoming project, she had this to say “They’ve risen the bar so high and I’m like, ‘I hope I can reach it,’”…. “I’m trying to reach it! I just really hope that when my CD comes out it’ll be great and maybe as good as theirs. And hopefully it’ll sell well and people will like it.” I don’t know about that, because Jordin’s American Idol single bombed on the charts. But hopefully her first official single will be better.

I always knew that Corey Clark (of American Idol fame) was a bad seed. I mean yeah, he’s kind of cute, or at least he used to be. But when he sold Paula Abdul out I knew he was very flawed. Now I’m reading online today that he’s been arrested again. He was already wanted in Arizona for missing court in a prior case, but now he’s been arrested for possession of a controlled substance, as well as drug paraphernalia in Arkansas. WTF. This dude just can’t do right. I don’t know what it is about him. I guess he realizes that his homie Ne-Yo’s career has taken off, he’s sold Paula out and he still can’t win. Why can’t being the bag boy at the local Stop & Shop be good enough for some people!!!!