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Re: American Idol - Season 8
It is more about the content of the audition episodes, many are tired of the "contestants" just trying to get air time by being a joke of a contestant, but audition episodes featuring viable and interesting contestants are fine. People are tired of sifting through the auditions to get a few worthy audition nuggets. People want a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
They don't need to ADD a fourth judge; they just need to replace Randy and Paula. They're tired and add nothing to the show at this point.
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
Basically they should just separate the auditions to please everybody. On Tuesday night they have the good auditions and on Wednesday night they have the bad auditions.
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
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I know some will be disappointed, but I couldn't be happier about that item. While there's some minor value in showing people who are delusional about their singing ability (hopefully to keep them from trying out and/or thinking they can be singers), I watch the show for
good performances, not bad ones.
Unfortunately, there's no change in the other thing I didn't like about last season -- themes before moving to the big stage. My favorite part of the show during seasons 4-6 were when the selected contestants got to sing their favorites on the intimate stage. The sound was great, and there's nothing like hearing good singers sing a favorite song/rendition picked from any song Idol has the rights to. I can see the value in exploring the versatility of the singers by pushing them out of their genres, but the goosebump moments for me come when watching, say, Daughtry singing Rock (not Stevie Wonder), or Melinda Doolittle doing R&B (not Queen songs). All I ask is for a few weeks of that, like they did in S4-S6.
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
Add me to the list of people who are happy to have less of the auditions.
Most of the bad ones are people who are willing to do anything to get on camera, and the producers let them. This just gives fewer good singers a chance. Plus, it is never good to reward bad behavior.
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
Too bad about Idol Gives Back, but the other changes are minor and are OK by me.
I'm just pissed that they cancelled Next Great American Band. (Judging from the time slot and lack of promotion, I think they never really intended to let it survive.)
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
Yeah, it's much better to force people who are interested in a talent competition to sit through disgusting tripe. Now not only do we want to see worst of auditions, we want to make sure people who aren't interested in it can't avoid it. Unfortunately, the producers agree with you. They don't want to lose any viewer, so they try to make sure you don't know what you're getting when, forcing you to sit through (and view) it all. That also applies to people only interested in the worst of additions. They don't know when they're going to see them, so they have to sit through the "good" (I doubt those people really think they're good) ones.
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Re: American Idol - Season 8
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Originally Posted by Mikah Cerucco
Yeah, it's much better to force people who are interested in a talent competition to sit through disgusting tripe. Now not only do we want to see worst of auditions, we want to make sure people who aren't interested in it can't avoid it. Unfortunately, the producers agree with you. They don't want to lose any viewer, so they try to make sure you don't know what you're getting when, forcing you to sit through (and view) it all. That also applies to people only interested in the worst of additions. They don't know when they're going to see them, so they have to sit through the "good" (I doubt those people really think they're good) ones.
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That's why I don't bother with watching AI until they get down to the Top 12.
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