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Ayla Brown is releasing some live videos from her new Ayla Brown Live! album, so we're posting the one for "Respect" here. There's a new video coming out each Tuesday, so check out the YouTube account to see more.

Ayla Brown is getting set to release her new live album, Ayla Brown Live!, this Tuesday, November 10. Ayla's been a guest on our radio show and is a good friend of the site, so we want to make sure everyone knows about the upcoming album and its release on iTunes and other digital retailers. Ayla's voice sounds great on the live tracks, and the brand new track "Come Together" is extremely catchy, so you should definitely pick up the album. You can also stream the album live on Ayla's Facebook and iLike pages starting on Monday. Help support an artist who's selling albums on her own and who actually sounds great singing live. It's a no-lose situation.

Ayla Brown, who is a friend of VFTW, has an upcoming live album due in November and a studio album set to drop in April 2010. Check out the video and we wish Ayla good luck with the new music, which we'll of course post about here when it's available.

An ABC News article on Paula's dismissal and Ju'Noy Joyner's comments about Idol (listen to his VFTW Radio appearance), also had a very interesting passage by former Idol contestant Ayla Brown. Ayla was also a really interesting guest on VFTW Radio, and she mentioned a lot of this to us back then as well.

"Season five contestant Ayla Brown told ABCNews.com that behind-the-scenes judgment can sometimes influence a singer's fate more than on-air evaluations or audience votes.

"The way they portrayed me on the show was that I'm the daughter of a state senator and a news reporter and I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I came off as this stuck up northeastern b***h," Brown said.

That changed when executive producers Warwick and Nigel Lythgoe actually listened to Brown sing.

"A few weeks in, when I was rehearsing, Ken and Nigel came in and said, 'You know, we knew you were pretty but we really didn't know you could sing this well,'" Brown said. "It made me think that I was on the show, and some people are put on the show, just to get ratings."

Ayla's right. She was portrayed on the show as a snob who made it on the show because of connections, but she probably surprised the producers when she sang really well and survived a few rounds of cuts due to her good performances. Turns out Ayla is a well spoken and interesting girl who worked hard for what she has going for her.

We love the Idols coming out of the woodwork to agree with Ju'Not. What do you think?

Sounding great, Ayla! Look at that huge crowd. The other Idols who are playing small bars and kicking out bands who make posters of them are probably very jealous. Great performance!

VFTW Radio welcomes Ayla Brown, season 5 semifinalist, to the VFTW Radio Show. She was supposed to be on last week, but it didn't work out due to technical issues. So now we'll have her on this week! Since her time on the show, Ayla has been up to a lot, including promoting her own CD, Forward. We'll be talking to Ayla about topics such as what it's like to go the indie route and promote her CD without the help many contestants get, how she balances two promising careers, and how the character that Idol tried to create for Ayla may not be an accurate representation. So listen at 10:00 PM Eastern, 9:00 PM Central to hear about those topics and plenty more. If you want to talk live to Ayla, you can do so by calling 218-486-1300 and putting in the code 556833 during the show. Check back in this post an hour before the show for a "listen live" link that you can click on to listen to us on the All Digital Radio Network.