I usually don’t do interviews with the eliminated contestants, but I felt an exception had to be made. Especially because Dwight was one of my favorites this season and yes, my pick to make the Final 2. This interview was hilarious because before I called Dwight back, he left a funny voicemail and joked that I foretold his demise before they changed the theme to Standars Week. It was hilarious. This interview will definitely open some eyes. Check it out.
Dwight d’Eon: Hey buddy
MJ: Hey what’s up?
DD: Not too much. How you doing?
MJ: It’s been a long time since I have like cried during an episode of Canadian Idol.
DD: That’s okay man. At top 4, there’s no losers at this point really. We were all on equal footing and somebody’s going to go home week after week and that’s just how it is.
MJ: I was looking at your reaction last night and you kind of looked like you knew.
DD: Oh yeah, I did. I knew. After taking everything into consideration, I just knew that my hometown support crashed on Monday night. The few thousand people back home that would vote incessantly night after night, couldn’t get in more than five/10/20 votes apiece.
MJ: Isn’t that a good thing? Wouldn’t that mean that your line was busy?
DD: What it means is that the circuits are so full that no calls are getting through. Everybody back home is off the hook. Nobody’s getting through, you know? So what it did was it crippled me in that sense, so if I had a bad week (which this week, obviously I did), that safety net that might possibly have kept me there wasn’t there to hold me up. The rest of Canada let me fall and that’s cool, I am totally fine with it.
MJ: Were you satisfied with your performance on Monday?
DD: I didn’t watch it back. I was… upset’s the wrong. I was too eh about the whole thing. I knew I didn’t perform that great. Just by the judges’ comments, I knew it was pretty nasty so I didn’t even want to be reminded of it. I said whatever happens, happens and we’ll just keep moving forward. We’ll leave that part of the show out of my memory anyway.
MJ: Do you think it’s fair that you got eliminated on Standards Week?
DD: Yes and no. I don’t think it’s fair that we should be judged on something like Standards. It’s such a throwback to the 30’s and it has really no relevance to what’s happening today in music. We should be getting judged when we are at our best. At the same time, it’s fair because that’s what the show is. Either you roll with the punches or you don’t. Honesty though, the thing with me was that my heart was not in Monday night. I just wanted to get it over with really. I went about it the wrong way and some things happened pre-show that kind of psyched me out a little bit too. I just had some things with Bird (the vocal coach) just bringing up some things to me at the last-minute that I should be working on. And it’s like ‘what, I am not ready to go?’ You know? That kind of thing. So it kind of psyched me out a little bit. I am not a good guy to be telling things to because I will overthink it to death. (Laughs).
MJ: One of the things that I noticed on Monday was when Jake said to you ‘I don’t know if you will be here next week.’ I actually looked and that and I said that might get your people to vote more.
DD: They were trying to vote, they just wouldn’t because they couldn’t get through.
MJ: We talked last week and I told you that you should totally shave off the beard for Standards Week. Play up to the camera.
DD: I decided not to.
MJ: Why? Because you wanted to stay true to who you are?
DD: Yeah, like I mean what’s the point? It’s not the beard either, it’s just one of those things where I don’t feel like I should have to do everything so overboard for Standards week. If I go there with a white suit, and my piercings out and I am clean-shaven? It would have just been like this guy is trying waaaaaaay too hard.
MJ: Yeah and I was going to say that people would have already had the “Sell-Out” headline written.
DD: Yeah, exactly. I wasn’t even going to go there. I said ‘I’ll wear the clothes and that kind of thing and do my thing’ but I am not going to do too much more than that. I am just going to kind of keep it real for who I am and what I am.
MJ: Now, one half of my final two prediction is out so I know that I am totally pulling for Carly Rae. Are you?
DD: Yes. I am pulling for her and Brian.
MJ: Yeah, I think that’s the people’s finale.
DD: I just love Carly Rae to death and I think she is fantastic, but I am just looking at the grand scheme of things. Not just who deserves to win but more who would survive the longest outside of this once they win kind of thing, and I think Brian’s the guy who would have the most sustained ability and really settling himself into a real career.
MJ: What’s next for you?
DD: Going back to my band Never. I don’t know. I am not sure yet name-wise. Will I change it to my name or something, just for the sake of familiarity? I don’t know. I haven’t decided yet. I am going to talk to the guys about it and just see what we should be doing. If people across the country knew that I played in a band called Never, then wouldn’t question it but now it’s like I have this newfound notoriety of being on this show and if I go back to a band that nobody’s heard of, then when I advertise the band, nobody is going to know who the hell we are.
MJ: I definitely think that it’s appropriate in the sense that ‘Will Dwight d’Eon ever sing The Standards again? NEVER!’ (Laughs).
DD: Never! (Laughs). That’s a good one! That’s brilliant. So I am going to pull back the band and we’re going to get right back to work. I am going to finish writing up the songs that I have been working on for awhile and get some new stuff going. Get back to the studio and hopefully if we don’t get it out before the end of the year, it will be early into 2008. But I am hoping to have some product out and ready by December. And then hopefully after that comes out, doing the whole shebang and then we’ll go out there and tour all across Canada.
MJ: You’ll be back for the finale right, are you ready to party like a rockstar with Murtz?
DD: Oh yeah. Absolutely. You know it buddy.
MJ: That’s awesome! Thanks.
DD: Alright Murtz, we’ll see you around.
MJ: We’ll see you at the finale.
DD: Sounds good. Take it easy.
