Oh, SNAP!!!! Scott Brown's daughter was an Idol in Season 5

Remember the high school basketball player Idol finalist? She was talk and lanky and pretty, and could sing aiiright too. And her dad was a politician? Well, Ayla Brown is the college student daughter of the newly elected to Ted Kennedy's old seat, Scott Brown. Small world isn't it?

Here's an excerpt of the USA today article:
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If Ayla Brown keeps a to-do list, this week's might look something like this:

-- Sort through date offers after dad told a national television audience I was "available."

-- Release album.

-- Beat Clemson.

The American Idol Season 5 semifinalist is back in the spotlight, thanks to father Scott Brown's election to the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat vacated by Teddy Kennedy's death -- a victory that will end the Democratic supermajority in the Senate.

But Ayla had plenty going on already. The 6'0" Boston College senior plays guard for the women's basketball team (the Lady Eagles are currently 11-9). She has a new 5-song EP, Circles, available digitally today.

Ayla initially had planned to release Circles in the spring, after the end of basketball season. But when her father emerged as a star on the national political scene, Ayla's label, Double Deal Records, suddenly decided to release the EP sooner, in order to capitalize on the family's sudden notoriety.

"The record company came to me Wednesday and said, 'We're going to put out this album, because of all the excitement that's happening,'" says the Massachusetts native. "I was like, 'I thought we were going to wait till April!'"

Circles contains five songs -- a cover of Vanessa Amorosi's 1999 European hit Absolutely Everybody; one called Pick It Up, co-written by fellow Season 5 contestant Will Makar; and three that Ayla co-wrote, including No More, which she performed today on the CBS Early Show.