Sabrina and Sundance Making Music Together? Huh?

Are you ready for this one?

Sabrina Sloan has signed a contract with Universal Motown. Her first project will be a CD of duets with Sundance Head.

Huh?

Sabrina told EW.com that she and Sundance will hit the studio in August so they can release the CD in late November. She describes the songs as “kind of Al Green meets OutKast.”

Huh?

Sabrina also said that the partnership will not be a long-term one, because they both consider themselves as solo artists.

Help me out, dear readers. What is going on here? Did anyone see this coming?

Is Bo Bice Coming to Huntington?

My sources tell me that Bo Bice is coming to Huntington in early September.

I honestly have no idea how hush-hush this is, so that's all I'll say until further details become available...

Kellie talks about album regrets...

Remember how I got trashed for not liking Kellie Pickler’s CD? It turns out that I’m not the only one who had a problem with the CD. Turns out Kellie’s not completely happy with it either…

In an interview with “Entertainment Weekly,” Kelly said she wished she had taken a few more chances with her song choices. “You can’t go through life expecting to please everyone, because you’re gonna be let down. You have to ultimately be happy with what you see in the mirror. Yes, the fans are the ones that keep us employed. They voted me to where I am today, and I give them so much credit. But when I had songs pitched to me, I was so worried about certain lyrics in particular songs—like, ‘How is this mom gonna feel about her 5-year-old listening to this song?’ There’s a lot of songs that I really liked and didn’t put on the record, because I was so worried about what other people were gonna think, and I regret it.”

“You think about that kind of stuff, and you don’t want to upset anyone. But I do have some regrets about some songs I didn’t put on there. Maybe as I grow and make more records, my fans will grow with me and give me the chance to show certain sides of me that ‘Idol’ didn’t. Everything on this record is honest, every song on there I relate to, even if I didn’t write it. But I do want this next one to be a complete spin around, like ‘Wow, I didn’t know this about her.’ I want people to leave in shock—to think, really? I’m all about that. I like controversy.”

The “EW” article also mentioned that according to “The National Enquirer,” Kellie’s long-estranged mother is looking to reunite with her. Kellie’s hit, “I Wonder,” is about her mother abandoning her as a child…

Bravo Bails on "Paula"

When Bravo gives up on a show, they don’t just pull it like the broadcast networks do. They move it to a worse timeslot.

And that’s exactly what they’ve done to “Hey Paula.”

Last week’s episode was originally scheduled to air at 9:30 p.m. before the premiere of “Welcome to the Parker.” But the episode was bumped by an encore of the season finale of “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.” The new “Paula” episode aired at 8:30 p.m. after a re-run of “Paula”.

Ouch!…

I have to say I can’t really blame them. “Paula” is the most boring reality show I’ve ever seen. We see Paula yelling at people on the phone and having breakdowns, but we never get to see the cause of those breakdowns or hear who’s on the phone. I guess no one told Paula that when you do a reality show you’re supposed to show your reality. All of it…

And I guess no one told Paula that a reality show could in fact make her look like a huge not-so-nice person…

In last week’s episode, Paula, who was in her I-don’t-care-anything-about-time dimension, didn’t bother to meet with the decorator of her rental home; but when she saw the finished house she called and yelled at the decorator to tell her she hated it and wanted it all changed.

See what I mean?

The episode ended with one of Paula’s assistants casually telling the cameras that Paula decided not to rent a house after all. Why do I think we missed a whole lot of drama there?

The season finale of “Hey Paula” airs Thursday at 8:30 p.m. on Bravo…

Kelly Goes Top 10 Country...

Kelly Clarkson has now added a top 10 country hit to her resume…

“Because of You,” Kelly’s duet with Reba McEntire moves to #10 this week on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart…

On the same chart, Kellie Pickler stays at #14 with “I Wonder”…

Phil's Album: "It'll be interesting..."

Last week in an interview with “TV Guide,” Phil Stacey talked about his plans for an album…

Phil said he has things in the works but he hasn’t signed a deal yet. He’s currently writing a lot of country music, but he’s also influenced by gospel music. And he admits that some of his songs are edgy and “rock-influenced.” “It’ll be interesting to see what the label ends up wanting to put on the record.”

If it’s a label run by Clive Davis, Phil, the answer to that will be none of them…

Phil said that while on the Idol tour, Chris Sligh has written him some songs and he’s also been writing songs with Chris Richardson. “[Chris R.] may end up with tracks on Jordin’s record and Blake’s record. Who knows, you know?”

I know that there’s no way Clive will allow Chris to write songs for Jordin…

Photo courtesy of TVGuide.com...

One Last Frank Kelly Interview

So I’ve already told you about the comments Kelly made in the August issue of “Blender” about her conversation with Clive, but the magazine also has some other frank (as usual) thoughts from Kelly…

“Everyone keeps saying how hard this record must be, because of all the crap surrounding it, but that last one [“Breakaway”] was really hard to make. I literally got told to my face that it wouldn’t sell more than 600,000 copies. And I got lied to. One reason I don’t like working with people at the label is that they lie. They told me, ‘We really want you to go to Sweden. These people really want to write with you.’ So I flew to Sweden with lyrics I’d written to this track I’d been sent, ‘Since U Been Gone.’ I get there, and the writers are like, ‘Oh, we already have lyrics. We just want you to sing it.’ It was really awkward. It was mean. That’s why there’s no relationship with them. Because I don’t like to be lied to.”

Clive sent three songs for Kelly to consider in place of three songs on “My December.” One of them was “Black Hole,” which Lindsay Lohan released on her second CD. But no one told Kelly that the song had already been released. “I’m young, I’m a rookie—I get that. But when you’re sending me Lindsay Lohan covers to sing, why would you think I’d want your opinion?”

When RCA refused to authorize a release date, RCA executives and Kelly’s manager Jeff Kwatinetz engaged in daily “screaming matches.” Craig Marks of “Blender” writes, “The relationship flatlined in late April, when Davis, at a Sony BMG worldwide conference in Las Vegas, hurriedly presented four songs from ‘My December’ to the gathering of international department heads, complete with overhead projection of the lyrics, an unusual tactic that some felt was meant to show up Clarkson and Kwatinetz and serve as a chance for the ego-driven Davis to effectively wash his hands of the project (The label says Davis was only trying to gather feedback for what would be a challenging record to market.).”

Clarkson told “Blender” that she is already working on her next album, which she calls “country-blues.” She names Patty Griffin, Ryan Adams and “Dead Flowers”-era Rolling Stones as reference points for the album…