Apr. 30, 2007 | 06:30 PM EDT

Chris Sligh: I Want to Write Songs for Phil Stacey

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While American Idol is first and foremost a competition, ousted contestant – and prolific blogger – Chris Sligh talks about some of the lasting Idol alliances he's formed on his personal blog. In a recent post called "Friends are friends forever. . .," the 28-year-old singer writes about wanting to make beautiful music with pal Phil Stacey: "I hope to write songs for him and with him as he moves into what I think will be a very successful career – especially if makes a country record." In fact, Sligh calls Stacey, "my closest friend on the show," explaining that they bonded during their Memphis auditions. Writes Sligh: "Then I showed up in Hollywood and he was my roommate. Really weird, right?"

    In the post (which, we're guessing, might have been written while Sligh was listening to Dionne Warwick's "That's What Friends Are For"), the Greenville, S.C., native also dishes on Idol pal Blake Lewis, whom he describes as "smooth." "The way you see him on TV is exactly how he is in real life," he writes. Sligh, who seems to subscribe to the Paula Abdul school of nice, also praises Chris Richardson: "There is not a pretentious bone in his body" – as a person and a musician, it seems. "There were a couple of times when we would have a bunch of people in our room and the songwriters would pass a guitar around and sing our songs," Sligh blogs. "Chris sang like 3 that will be HUGE hits when they come out."

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