As part of the big Best Year Ever special that you should spend the whole weekend watching over and over, we sent BWE panelist and #1 Jordin Sparks super-fan Chuck Nice on a mini-vacation/fact-finding mission to sunny Baltimore, Maryland for a live concert performance by last season’s American Idol finalists. The line of screaming teenage fans in homemade “Blake” t-shirts outside of the event center wasn’t exactly the “gritty Baltimore street culture” I was expecting from all those episodes of The Wire, but Chuck conducts a fearless investigation of the AI live experience with all the ruthless tenacity of a hard-drinking detective who’s married to his work. Watch the video to see what happens when Chuck comes face-to-face with his Idols (hey-o!), and as a bonus, what’s happening with Sanjaya’s hair these days! (SPOILER ALERT: not a whole lot)
