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I didn’t think Josiah Leming was a viable American Idol candidate (though he could have won me over in time, I guess), but I was hoping he would stick around long enough to be able to live somewhere other than his car. A new interview with People Magazine catches up with Josiah and what he’s up to these days.

The 18-year-old Idol reject says he’s received calls from record labels and sold 1,000 copies of his album on his MySpace page and is back at home with his parents.

At one point contestants were asked to play with a band, but you dismissed them. Do you think that move turned the judges on you?
[The band and I] didn’t get along. When I wanted to play the piano, the band didn’t think it was a good idea. From day one, me and the band started off wrong, and I’m kind of hard to work with, I suppose, when it comes to musical things because I’m a musical person. So I had a lot of input – and they didn’t really like that. I think that was my chance to show [the judges] what I could do if I was to make it to the Top 24 – and I failed to do it.

Which of the three judges do you think were really supporting you?
I think all the judges were in my corner … The producers were the ones who
didn’t want me on the show. … [Producers] like to put [contestants] in whatever genre they choose [and]
I’m a very genre-specific singer. I have my style already and I write my own
music, and they prefer somebody that’s a bit more versatile. They want to
mold [you] and have creative control. And I think they could tell from the
get-go that I wasn’t going to be that person.

Sounds like he lost out because he was a little full of himself, dontcha think?

Photo Source: People Magazine

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