Oh, How They Fall

Remember American Idol finalist Trenyce? She's the Memphis girl who nearly made it last year. Come this year, though, and it's a different story. On the one hand, she's got a starring role in a musical at the Orpheum, "Not A Day Goes By", though it's one of those moralistic comedy roadshows that draws almost exclusively from black audiences.

On the other hand, she's also doing radio ads for a rapid tax refund business here in town. She endorses them. Not a good thing to do for an up-and-coming artitiste. Rapid refund is just so...low class.

Which, to believe the talk you hear around town, is Trenyce. I heard from several acquaintances and friends that she was too much the Memphis Skank in appearance and demeanor. That's a woman who is a hard-edged, mean-mouthed, gold-digging, flashy, trashy ho. Her past seems to support that. And if you read her American Idol interview web page, you'll see she twice mentions "doing hair" as an occupation or fallback career. How skank!

Later this year? Opening a hair salon near you.