{"id":1960,"date":"2012-06-01T03:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2012-06-01T03:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:27:53","slug":"and-the-new-american-idol-isnot-jessica-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"And the New American Idol is\u2026not Jessica Sanchez!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four months and a record-setting 132 million votes, it&#8217;s official: Phillip Phillips is the 11th American Idol. It&#8217;s hardly the most surprising finale result in &#8220;Idol&#8221; history \u2014 since many pundits had him pegged as the winner the moment he entered the audition room \u2014 but it&#8217;s not one without controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Filipinos watched Jessica Sanchez, 16, compete against eventual winner Phillip Phillips in the live broadcast on cable television, virtually bringing the karaoke-crazy country to a stand-still.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Filipinos at home and in the United States have closely followed the Californian&#8217;s path to the finals of the top-rated show, with hundreds of fan pages on Facebook devoted to her.<\/p>\n<p>But the finale ended with guitar-strumming Phillip Phillips beating Sanchez Wednesday after viewers cast a record 132 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>Upset Filipinos vented their anger on Twitter and Facebook, with many saying the loss did not reflect ethnic diversity in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Phillips may have won \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d over Jessica Sanchez, but the Mexican\/Filipino singer is already in talks to work on her new album with Tommy Mottola.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sony Music Entertainment executive, who now co-owns Casablanca Records in a joint venture with the Universal Music Group, is ready to launch Jessica&#8217;s music career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four months and a record-setting 132 million votes, it&#8217;s official: Phillip Phillips is the 11th American Idol. It&#8217;s hardly the most surprising finale result in &#8220;Idol&#8221; history \u2014 since many pundits had him pegged as the winner the moment he entered the audition room \u2014 but it&#8217;s not one without controversy. Millions of Filipinos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}