‘American Idol’ notes: Carrie Underwood and Kris Allen announcements

Carrie Underwood’s new video – What happens when you combine two of the biggest names in country music? You have a video for a song entitled “Somethin’ Bad” that is exactly what you would expect from Carrie with Miranda Lambert. The latter is old-school country in the right way, and we see this as the sort of track that will dominate country awards shows for so many months to come.

Carrie hasn’t released a new album since “Blown Away” in 2012, and you have to imagine that we’re going to be getting a storm of music from her. She and Kelly Clarkson are constantly debated about as the most-successful alum from the show, and they’re both good enough to share the honor.

Kris Allen’s new album – For those eagerly awaiting the word on new music from Kris, he announced today that his third post-show release, entitled “Horizons,” will be out on August 12. He has been working hard in the studio and getting into the songwriting process for a long time, choosing to make this album independently after being dropped from his former label.

There is consistently potential anywhere when it comes to a Kris Allen record, given that his last release “Thank You Camellia” was extremely underrated by most. Hopefully, we’ll have more of this a little later this summer to discuss.

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