A Fil-Am Top 3 contender from American Idol Season 3 gives an interview and advise to fellow Fil-Am Thia Megia on American Idol
OMG: Thia Megia is doing well in AI. What advice can you give her?
JT: I'm really happy to see another Fil-Am doing well on American Idol! I take great pride in my Filipino heritage, and think there is some incredible Filipino vocal talent out there, which should be showcased. I think Thia has been doing great, and is handling the pressures of the show well. I can relate with how she must be feeling, having gone through the American Idol experience at a very similar age.
My memories of the show are kind of a blur as everything was happening so quickly. There were so many life changing moments and experiences, that it was hard to take it all in at such a young age.
The best advice I can give Thia would be to enjoy every moment, and really try to savor the experience. Of course, be focused and work hard, but try not to get too stressed out. Have fun! Other than that, I think song choice is always a key ingredient to anyone's success on the show. Thia has a beautiful vocal tone, so hopefully they can find songs that best showcase this for her, and give her the greatest possible chance in the competition. That said, there's so much talent in the Finals this year, that she should already be extremely proud of herself for reaching this stage of the competition, regardless of what happens.
Thia made good on her promise to show her "loose" side as she belted out Heatwave and had the whole American Idol Audience up and rockin including the 3 judges.
USA today have put out thier Idol Meter and Ranks the American Idol finalist according to a certain criteria.
It turns out its pretty accurate! This is not based on any polling or voting but an abstract set of "standards" established from prior American Idol seasons.
Currently, Thia is ranked #9 ahead of the now booted Karen Rodriguez, Naima, and Haley Reinhart.
Lately there has been an increasing amount of screen caps that the American Idol cameras inadvertently captured of Thia and Scott's adoring looks towards each other.
This one is from the recently concluded American Idol results night last Thursday
Did you see how scotty looked at Thia as she stood up?
Is American Idol propagating this?
Here is some screenshots of Scotty and Thia at close quarters captured by the american Idol cameras:
Well maybe its just some wishful thinking from some of their fans.
Like her friend Charice, Thia Megia is set to appear as guest performer for the Annual Muhammad Ali Celebrity Fight Night in Arizona along with the rest of the American Idol Top 11 tonight.
Besides the cast of American Idol season 10 the event will also have American Idol Alumni Kelly Clarkson, American Idol guest judge David Foster and more.
I really enjoyed the Group performance of Born to be Wild/ Born This way Mash up on Idol last Thursday. I mean look at Thia on her full Pocahontas look opening the lead for Lady Gaga's born this way. Its Priceless!!!
Top 10 American Idol finalist Thia Megia is the object of a new government resolution honoring her in the hometown of his parents, Angeles City Pamapanga Philippines.
Sometimes you need to spice things up to put yourself above the competition. This is the message across the board from the American Idol judges to Thia when they delivered the harshest critique on our 16 year old Princess.
As you can see Thia is now responding actively to these harsh critques about her performance of Colors in the Wind by Vannesa Williams.
She offered some more the next day during the results night, in which all 3 judges can be seen nodding in approval.
Hold on to your horses, cause next week might be a suprise to all as she demonstrates what she is hiding beneath those quiet confidence of hers on stage
Top 11 Theme for next week is Motown! More Mj's for Thia? Maybe this is the time to have her sing Music and Me? or is it time for Upbeat songs from Donna Summers, Gladys Knight or Diana Ross?
My personal favorite is I second that emotion by the supremes!
After a confusing judges comments on Thia's beautiful rendition of Colors of the Wind, American Idol results nights was sure to be one of the most nerve wracking experience for such a youngster as Thia.
In a video she expressed her gratefulness to all those who supported her from the beginning:
If you haven't heard her recording of Colors in the Wind you are really missing out.
With the absence of spoilers that wrecked havoc last week before the Telecast of American Idol, this week have been quiet in the spoiler blogsites (Thank God!! Thanks to a stricter policy during live rehearsals)
However, there are still hints among the netizens as to what thia might be singing tonight on the telecast:
Rock Mafia retweeted a tweet from one ThomasSturgess on March 11:
To those uninitiated the line is from the hit Movie pochantas Color of the Wind by Vannessa Williams.
The line seems really nonchalant, until you realize that Rock Mafia one of the music producers that is assigned to each contestant each week has worked with Thia Megia this week, she even tweeted of the duo after thier session.
Needless to say Thia is not the only one who worked with RockMafia this week, Stephano and Haley also had thier session. However, Thia is the only one born in the 1995 when Colors of the Wind became a hit song!
Mountain House Little League Opening Ceremony last Saturday was filmed by 2 companies and had been delivered to 19 entertainment for a possible broadcast in American Idol where Thia Megia is a finalist.
American Idol finalists will be having a Press Conference at the Paley Center and will be answering Questions from both the audience and Anchor Dave Karger of Entertainment Weekly.
Well some math afficionado have created a bar graph of the Top 12 American Idol celebrity of Season 10 and Thia ranks 5th and 3rd among the girls who are the most popular.
If you want to read on how he cruched this numbers you can follow his blog HERE
Right before her old Myspace page was taken down when she entered American Idol Top 24, Thia shared her AGT experience and how it affected her and made her stronger.
American Idol just tweeted the above picture of Thia busy recording her piece for next weeks's theme "Songs when you were born". Wonder what song from the year 1995 she choose?
We also found out she's working with the Rock Mafia producers through thier own Twitter account:
According to Reality TV, American Idol Album compilation performances of which Thia Megia's Smile rendition is included notched Top 9 in Bestseller Albums in Itunes.
Our Princess now has her very own Imdb page. As a fledging musical artist inclusion on the Internet Movie Database is surely a sign that her star is fast rising among netizens around the world.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com
The government council of Mountain House, California are now planning a homecoming event in Honor of Thia Megia, its most recognizable national celebrity.
According to Tracy Press, plans are now on the Mountain House board and will be discussed April 13.
As much as I hate to say this, but Thank God she got a stylist now! Her perfect rendition of her top 24 audition piece On my Own by Irene Cara was impeccable. Although I'm sure that the audience gets reminded everytime the camera goes to a long shot, that this is being sung by a freshly minted 16 year old.
However, that is not the case the following week when she rendered Michael Jackson's Smile (composed by Charlie Chaplin)in a stunning Betsy Johnson gown.
We are not alone as Stylist.com also were astounded by the transformation:
Thia Megia: Wore a Betsey Johnson, ombre, strapless maxi-dress to sing Michael Jackson's version of "Smile." At 15, the soft, ethereal details, including her delicate jewelry, seemed spot-on to An.
She's definetely being mentored by one of the best in the business while competing in American Idol. Listen to her recording of Smile produced by Interscope Records available in Itunes.
Eventhough the Idol producer gave a tiny bit of screen time to our angel(Even the Eliminated Ashton have more screen time), she made use of it leading the opening vocals to Rock my world.
American Idol Season 10 1st Elimination was held yesterday, and to all of those naysayers (Yes we are looking at a Hollywood Celeb Bloggers) Thia is not even on the Bottom 3. So keep on writing all those negative comments about her, She is just laughing at you all.
The Theme on the upcoming Idol week is "Songs from The year they were born".
Thialorei Lising Megia was born on January 1, 1995, a year where a multitude of music genre ruled the airwaves from Freestyle Hiphop to Disney Soundtracks and such artists as TLC, Hootie and the Blowfish, Michele Branch, Vannessa Williams and yes even Thia's Idol Michael Jackson posted #1 charting songs all throughout the year.
However, we won't bore you listing all the top 100 tunes during that year, since we already have a feeling she already picked her song for next week and is busy recording and perfecting it for Next weeks program.
As a longtime supporter of Thia through Youtube, I know that Thia is not a one sided singer like a lot of these Anti-Thia sites are saying. She is as versitile as you can get for a young 15 - 16 year old youngster in musical genre she chooses to sing and perform.
So I was wondering if, it is time for her to challenge Pia Toscano with her powerful voice such as we saw in AGT:
Show her Dance/pop Side like when she did Tina Turner a couple of years back:
Or show her RNB ala Christina Aguilera?
Whatever she decides for the next following weeks while she is in American Idol, I'm sure she continues to grow and relishing all of the new experiences brought on by her new found Fame. So back off haters!!!
Well we knew there was a reason not to believe the Spoilers coming out the woodwork's from the LIVE taping of American Idol. That episode just aired today and gloomsayers are all wrong about Thia's rendition of MJ's cover of Nat king Cole's SMILE.
Granted that Thia did not receive critiques that are high flying as last week, her rendition is something that takes you from the classy suburban of heaven to the jassyfinesse of eternity. The transition is the most troublesome for her, and that's just the take of the producer not the singer.
She will definetely sail through this one, though not as high as her prior performance.
Thia Megia was compared to Michael Jackson's tone last week by Randy, obviously Thia would have sung a song that's from Michael Jackson but not this soon!!!
Thia Megia got only so-so comments from the judges regarding her performance of “Smile” by Michael Jackson. Randy Jackson thought the beginning was great, but that the end was a bit pitchy while Jennifer Lopez liked the way she moved on stage and said she hopes to see more.
To those who have followed Thia over the years, she can deliver MJ songs with authority like in this video with David Foster:
She had also expressed covering MJ song Music and Me, but in all the years that we have been following her in Youtube, she has never covered Smile.
What could have possibly went wrong with the Song choice? Unavailability of those 2 songs mentioned above for American Idol broadcast?
Before her stint in American Idol, Thia was fortunate enough to have met Charice Pempengco in one of her concert.
Her friendship with the International pop artist, has grown since that fateful day in Vancouver and Thia shared her experience and various tidbits about charice that only a close friend can relate during an interview May 14, 2010
Right before the American Idol Top 13 results announcement, Thia Megia's mom was taken via ambulance to the hospital for fainting.
Remember this scene?
A lot have been written about her choice of garment that results night but it turns out that she is wearing her mom's sweater who was just taken to the hospital hours before the live taping.