Late last July, a woman identified only as “Maria Saint” auditioned for American Idol 10 in New Orleans, and she has blogged the experience. It’s the most-detailed account of the audition process I’ve ever seen, and while most of it consists of specifics about things we’ve heard before, there are some fascinating revelations, from a …
If you want to add an extra layer of excitement to watching American Idol 10, or just know when you should care about someone, the top-40 semi-finalists have been identified, so you can follow along to see who makes it to Hollywood and then past that stage. However, the judges won’t select the show’s top …
Last night, American Idol 10 opened its Austin audition episode with an on-screen apology. It said, “American Idol would like to apologize for last week’s outrageous behavior by Steven Tyler. Mr. Tyler has been warned and assures us it will never happen again.” Then the show began with an auditioner named Jake Muck, who Steven …
American Idol lost 18 percent of its young viewers compared to last year’s debut, the first measurement about how viewers feel about the show now that Simon Cowell is gone and Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are judges. However, the Fox series was more popular than shows on all the other four broadcast networks–combined–and had …
Six months after the drama over its judges erupted, American Idol 10 debuted, and we got our first look at the revamped series and new judges. The short version is that, after one episode, it is nearly the same show it was last year, just without Simon Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres, and Kara DioGuardi, and with …
There’s a problem with American Idol 10‘s new judges, and not just that one of them makes sexual comments about teenagers. What are we going to call Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez? Steven? Jennifer? J Lo? Over the years, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson were known as Simon, Paula and Randy (later joined …
With all the conversations American Idol‘s changes for its 10 seasons, the big one seems to be that season 10 will focus on developing contestants as artists, not just as karaoke singers who are part of a money-making machine. Discussion of helping them grow as artists was the refrain repeated by many of the panel …
