Favorite Links
We'd love to claim that we're the best American Idol research and analysis site on the web, but the competition for that honor is stiff. Here's a list of sites that we enjoy and recommend. If you'd like to propose a "link exchange" with your Idol site, drop us a line at .
Essential Reference Sites...
You know about these already, we hope.
Idol Forums...
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...USA Today's music editor Ken Barnes probably has written more words on Idol than any other major-media journalist. His blog and fan forum are a must-read.
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...One of the better Idol forums on the Web, featuring a foursome of beat writers who produce some of the finest, most in-depth, and side-splittingly funniest analysis each week.
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...Its reputation for the most intelligent, insightful, merciless, and hilarious commentary on the Web is well deserved.
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...Is it a blog or a forum? It's one of the most popular on the web regardless, and worth a daily visit for the well-collected news items, videos, spoilers, announcements, and plenty of fan commentary.
Blogs...
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...Leo of FansOfRealityTV.com has his own digs now with an archive of all his analyses. No Idol week is complete until TIG checks in.
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..."A minivan-driving mom of three muses on American Idol"...and she always does an interesting job of it too.
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..."Idol thoughts and other rants and raves." Good commentary.
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..."One afternoon of talk TV should be enough to convince you that we're very near the end of time. We might as well enjoy the ride." A new live Idol blog.
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..."The Smart Idol Recap Blog," and it lives up to its billing. Intelligent commentary, but the best part are the clever photos, graphics and PhotoChops throughout.
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...Good Idol reviews and commentary from "an ER nurse and a Daddy."
Online Communities and Other Sites...
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...A large Idol fan community; always plenty of action here.
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...A new site, featuring news, recaps, and commentary about Idol