Amid a grainy picture of a private jet and two people supposedly taken sometime in the last few days on Bora Bora, we had a confirmation from Mr. Urban that he and the wife were in Tahiti. Not a surprise, as our good pal Lainey said in her column recently that a trip was in order for Kidman.
So take a trip Keith. Why the need to brag about it? Do you think the audience can relate to how hard you have it that you had to take a trip to an island that few people in your audience can ever afford to go to? Of course we had to have pictures, but none from where they stayed - a luxury yacht.
Oh yeah, a boat folks, but not just any boat! Only the 5th largest private yacht in the world. Three levels, luxury, privacy, just what the world’s happiest couple wants. Of course it is. Because out on the water no one can see the tension. No one can see how much time they actually spent together on that boat. If the deplaning is any indication, these two are about as together as some other celebrity couples like Brit and KFed, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger and Pamela Anderson and Keith's old swimming buddy Kid Rock. These two happy-to-be-parents aren't happy at all, and it’s more and more obvious, and they can't hide from it. That will play out in time and we will be there to watch it, so all we can do right now is point out the obvious.
Which brings us back to the subject at hand. I wonder how many people in that audience had to give up something to afford those tickets to the show, as well as parking and concessions (and of course a plastic t-shirt)? I wonder if that will be their only concert this year? How many in your audience, Keith, will also be going to Bora Bora this year? Sorry, but what a dork you are turning into. Who cares that you were in Tahiti? How is that making your concert enjoyable? I do wonder if you have any choice about what you say on stage. Were you told to mention it because there are rumors that you really weren't there? That the pictures were actually older and grainy on purpose so that the "bump" wasn't noticeable? Did you get your tan elsewhere Keith? If you got one on the boat wouldn't a photographer see you sunning yourself on the top deck? It makes a skeptical person wonder. Why would Keith brag about a trip? He never has before; not a trip with her that is. Instead of bragging about your four day trip on the same day you are asking the average Jane and Joe to contribute to Idol Gives Back, why not contribute the money spent on your "vacation" to some worthy cause? Sorry, I forgot the farm boy from Caboolture has the first coin he ever earned, so he isn't going to part with any coins. That's why he entered into the contractual agreement in the first place.
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It seems, Urban Myths, that this Tahiti trip was a quid pro quo... just read the "Tahiti Vacations" blog hyping of the ship they were on. Urban seems to be announcing their "vacation"... on a Tahiti oceanliner in "Bright and Sunny Tahiti, Y'ALL! And on a telethon effort... how tacky... It looks like kidman has decided to start subsidizing her more outlandlish and epic photo ops... make a deal with Tahiti resorts... damn...why not just slap a Tahiti resorts sticker on her forehead... next a sticker shilling for Dom Pérignon on her bump to pay for the baby shower photo ops... oh wait...not enough room... so just slap it on her forenead next to Tahiti resorts... more than enough room with the receding hairline. But when your feeling the heat of failed careers... you just simply buy, or deal for a sunset boulevard billboard... "will work for publicity....
.... oh yes... so it's urban country chart action update time. Well it seems one day after urban returns to underwood's stage... his g-hits cd has fallen 4 spots from #20 to #24...( any one want to argue that the orb is not just simply touring to get away from the grandma?) Meanwhile, underwoods C ride cd fell only 1 spot from 4 to 5...while some hearts also only falls 1 spot from #10 to #11... urbans record label must really be noticing how the more urban performs, it hurts his cd sales... Capitol Nashville memo to urban..." Keithy.... take a permanent vacation..."
thanks for the updates, maclen
great blog.....why can't he just keep his yap shut? i posted a link to a pic of the hoity toity yacht on the last blog, not knowing this one was going up.
how gauche can you get bragging about your tahiti vacation and yapping about donations on american idol.
the man just gets more disappointing by the hour.
and i don't even want to talk about how SELFISH kidman is....keith made people.com so i guess mission accomplished again. more yapping about the "extraordinary" employer wife. yeah......he really looked like he thought she was extraordinary in the last photos..
lying comes easy to him now...maybe it always did
You have truly sunk to a new low Mr. Kidman! So how much did this little cruise in Tahiti set you back - $100K or so? If it did cost that much, I hope you got your big checkbook out and wrote a check equally as big to AI. How do you live with yourself - suntanning on the 5th biggest yacht in the world one day, and begging your average American to empty out their pockets and give to charity? I don't think this is how your Mum raised you.
If Carrie had any brains, she would start demanding that she be the headliner of the show. Her performance, including her sales of albums, is out-beating this schmuck!
Umyths, the color green doesnt look so good on you. But if you insist on wearing it...
Yet another well-thought out, eloquent post, RC.
Yet another well-thought out, eloquent post, RC.
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exactly what i was thinking UM
that all ya got?
So, the news talking points for this week seem to be the orb raving over fatherhood at underwoods gigs... it seems kidman fed him the new talking points in lew of her photo ops. So whats up, the sudden "vacation" on a oceanliner with only pics of them leaving their private jet... but it did just happen to get in the news cycle before it happened...obvious tahiti resort and/or resort oceanliner plugging... new brentwood "property" purchase still loitering the news searches...but that has been denied... but the other story of a "property" purchase in Nashville also litters the news cycles... you would think that the inept team kidman could keep up with these dubious stories... considering they put them out there. Well, it's like I once said... just throw everything, anything up there and see what sticks.
Jesus, do you people ever quit? We can all read between the lines and know exactly what you're vile minds want to convey - jealousy! There's nothing wrong with Keith these days. I just got back from one of his shows and he played for 2 1/2 hours, ran out to the audience and I mean all the way to the back of the arena, climbed over the rails, signed autographs, took pictures with fans and connected with the audience just as he's always done in the past. It was an awesome site to see. Whoever said he's changed and just going through the motions is a complete MORON! As for Carrie headlinging the tour - please, there is no way she could handle it. Her hour long show was mediocre at best!
doublewide said...
" thanks for the updates, maclen"
You're welcome doublewide...well just a quick glance of cd sales at wiki, it seems underwood has already sold about as many cds with only her first two cds as urban has his entire 9 year recording career. There is no doubt underwood is wiping the floor with urban on this one sided tour... underwood's side... her cd sales remain strong, while urban's is sinking faster than the Titanic he's become. Who is still looking forward to his next cd..... "Dirty dishes, Dirty diapers...and the whole henpecked thing".
Umyths, the color green doesnt look so good on you. But if you insist on wearing it...
"Yet another well-thought out, eloquent post, RC.
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exactly what i was thinking UM
that all ya got?"
Thats all that needs to be said *wink*
"You're welcome doublewide...well just a quick glance of cd sales at wiki, it seems underwood has already sold about as many cds with only her first two cds as urban has his entire 9 year recording career. There is no doubt underwood is wiping the floor with urban on this one sided tour... underwood's side... her cd sales remain strong, while urban's is sinking faster than the Titanic he's become. Who is still looking forward to his next cd..... "Dirty dishes, Dirty diapers...and the whole henpecked thing"."
Lord, have you actually been to a show on this year's tour? I'm doubting that. If you did, then I feel sorry for you since you must be deaf and blind, as well as dumb for what you just said!
Well good for him. I'm certainly happy that he has his priorities straight. It warms my heart to know that he drops huge wads of cash on frivolous vacations, while expecting people to shell out hard earned money for tickets, gasoline or airfare, accommodations, etc... just to see him sing for a couple of hours and ask the audience to donate to charity.
How about HE donate to MY charity? Would he like to pay for some private schooling for my autistic son? Because God knows I can't. I'm so done with his selfish arse.
Feck you, Keith Urban.
If he is impressing SO many people with this current tour, why haven't his album sales drastically increased? I mean, that is the reason for going out and touring, right? Artists tour to sell their albums, right? Why aren't sales going up for the Painful album and his GH? By the way, his GH album was a pathetic excuse of a GH album. Everybody has those tracks on the original CDs. He didn't re-record them or make a live album because he didn't want to take the time for his fans.
Artists tour to make money. They rarely make their living off of album sales. Regardless of how well albums and singles do, touring is whats going to give an artist longevity in a career. Having #1's is all well and good. But when the fans love the live shows they will come back year after year even when your not at the king of the castle.
How many people after seeing Carrie think to themselves thats a performer I would travel to see. Thats a performer i would listen to sing the phone book. Thats a performer i want to see 20 years down the road.
Has anybody seen "The Best of the CMT Awards"? At last year's show, Sugarland debuted "Stay", and to think a year later "Stay" is still in CMT's Top Video Countdown. Let's see, I believe Mr. Kidman performed "Stupid Boy" from Sydney. Hmm, why isn't "Stupid Boy" still in the video charts, or any charts for that matter? Even after a year of that single hitting the airwaves, it still wasn't on CMT's Countdown! I would say Mr. Kidman is losing his popularity!
There's no doubt that Keith isn't where he was in 2005.
He is a great performer, and his live shows will always impress people. He has that ability to charm and make the audience feel like they're part of the show. He also makes an effort to include the whole arena, when he performs. He is a very showy guitarist, which always impresses people. However, there isn't much variety, which tells me he doesn't put much time into planning the show. It's set up and he doesn't want to invest the time in changing things up, as that would mean rehearsals and working with the various techies to make the lights / sound / video etc. changes. He is happy to coast right now.
But at least there is some spontenaity ... the times he brings someone up on stage, jumps down into the crowd and gives away a guitar (although not new, it is spontaneous, in that it's a new person every night).
But sadly, he has lost that momentum and now seems to be disinterested in his career. He still loves to perform, but it ends when he gets off the stage.
People will say he's trying to balance his "private" life with his career. To me, there is no balance. He is all about his "private" life and the career is now more of a hobby.
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Well good for him. I'm certainly happy that he has his priorities straight. It warms my heart to know that he drops huge wads of cash on frivolous vacations, while expecting people to shell out hard earned money for tickets, gasoline or airfare, accommodations, etc... just to see him sing for a couple of hours and ask the audience to donate to charity.
How about HE donate to MY charity? Would he like to pay for some private schooling for my autistic son? Because God knows I can't. I'm so done with his selfish arse.
Feck you, Keith Urban.
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now THAT'S a well thought out post....you have my sympathy whatever, quite a challenge. i'm pretty much done with the pompous ass myself.
when are you non skeptics gonna see that his career IS tanking. He desperately needs some new music. don't you see his concerts are just his ego fix???? there are no spontaneous guitar solos, no ad lib anything......like there used to be. he just tours when his inflated self wants a fix. he never varies from the script anymore like he used to do all of the time. talk about deaf, dumb and blind!
maybe he goes into the crowd, maybe he signs of autographs, big deal. i just hope he's busy writing some decent stuff.
You gals are talking about the music being the same thing in every concert, but you are also forgetting something else - he says the same thing over and over again in his concerts. He can't even come up with a fresh conversation night after night with the different crowds.
When I saw him with Gary, Gary said somethings that touched me - his comments were personal to the venue. I asked a huge Gary fan if that was something he says at all his concerts, and she said no, he has never said that before. I don't get it - he is in a whole new city each night - research a little bit on the cities you are performing in. The crowd shows interest in you - it's about time you return the favor Mr. Kidman.
Yeah, you are all basically correct... despite what the ridiculous urban apologists try to proclaim, there is a relative correlation to urban's drop in popularity and poor cd sales and his decision to basically sell his soul for whatever it was he was expecting to get... higher profile into the mainstream? Kidman was mainsteam only to the media pundits and movie critics, not the movie goers. Better cds sales because he would be in a Hollywood high profile couple... well I guess hes learning that hollywood is not Nashville...so good luck with that "maybe or maybe not" move to Brentwood...or perhaps he was eager to join the ranks of brangelina... or tomcat...bennifer 1 or bennifer2... except it turns out they are not popular or interesting enough or personality-less to deserve one. It seems urban was fortunate enough to be involved with other celebs without it effecting his music and career... but it now so evident that only 4 months after selling his soul he wound up in rehab and his cd came out and sold poorly... and a g-hits cd sold even poorer... and he's now forced to piggy back on more popular county stars tours because I'd wager it isnt worth it for him to tour on his own anymore. These are all definatly signs of a faltering career.
...meanwhile back to the truly mundane... the first two most recent news pieces of a google news search on kidman... posted only 10 and 13 hours ago... are stories...still... of how kidman has bought a home in Brentwood and plans on moving there to"welcome" the new addition to the family. So is this simply a case of kidman's inept hacks denying another pretty obvious lamebrain team kidman leaked story... as in the initial denial of her pregnancy, then quick confirmation? As is also so conspicuously absent is another kidman in a "loose fitting, wind blowable, bunchable, unnoticable bump enhancing and optical illusionary" dress photo op... except for those long range and grainy photos of them leaving their jet after the tahiti trip, which I'm certain was just a business promotional for the resort location... there hasnt been a photo op from kidman in the last 11 days. If I wasnt such a anti kidman cynic, even I would begin to believe that something was up. Is it that kidman has become gun shy in the face of all the negative press as a result of her phony photo ops...the hideous work out photos... the paps beating... or is it the suspicious rumors and snide comments about the size of her "6 month" barely noticable bump that has her seemingly hiding out now? It does make it suspicious when she's made it her new career to be in the news and pose for routine photo ops for the past 3 months... only to now seeming to be "hiding out".
yeah, maclen, where is she? hopefully she's not gonna show up at the CMT awards.....i think a couple of bloggers say they have spotted her there. one in a yoga class, and one said she was shopping for maternity clothes in some (high end, i'm sure) store.
as far as i know, no pics of these events.
Well, doublewide, her showing at the CMT's may depend on whether she got a hold on another see through dress. As for those reported sightings... they sound like past kidman official photo ops... may just be residual talk. So unless she's just hiding out and planning phase two of her PR blitz, something could be up.
Well, doublewide, her showing at the CMT's may depend on whether she got a hold on another see through dress.
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hee, good one, maclen
and may i add blechhhhhhhhhhh, especially with a small bump in tow
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