American Idol Blog

American Idol this week featured the music of Motown. I thought it was an interesting choice and one I was looking forward to – to see how each contestant could make music from such a specific era relevant today and perform with their own unique spin. We started with Casey Abrams singing Marvin Gaye’s “I [...]

Each week predictions for American Idol get more fun as contestants begin to shine. Who is your favorite? If you didn’t catch performances tonight, here is a recap. Tonight the theme was songs from the year the contestant was born. Kicking off the show was: Naima Adedapo – from 1984 singing “What’s Love Got to [...]

It seems that this season of American Idol is all about the judges so far… what will Steven Tyler say that gets bleeped? Will he flirt or be suggestive with female contestants? Will JLo act like a Diva? She hasn’t so far but the rumors behind the scenes are that she’s not happy with Steven [...]

Image via Wikipedia I am the first to admit that I was very skeptical that I would enjoy this season of American Idol. Without Simon around, I wondered if there would be any judge whom I would agree with most of the time, or who would make the show fun to watch – waiting to [...]

Fox chairman, Peter Rice announced today that Kara DioGuardi is not returning to American Idol this season as a judge. Along with the resignation of Ellen DeGeneres – that leaves us with Randy Jackson as a judge and Nigel Lythgoe returning as a producer. Image via Wikipedia Rice refused to confirm any speculation about replacements [...]

With the 2010 season of American Idol having so many ups and downs, and even losing in the ratings to “Dancing with the Stars” – it brings up the question – will American Idol survive another season? — Especially without Simon Cowell? I think the announcement of who will be replacing Simon will either make [...]

Shania Twain mentored this week on American Idol and each of the top 6 performed one of Shania’s songs. Lee DeWyze began the evening by performing “You’re Still the One”. I thought the performance was pretty good but a bit pitchy in places – however the crowd seemed to love it, along with most of [...]

After watching American Idol tonight I wondered if anyone else was uncomfortable with a few of the comments made by Ryan Seacrest to contestants. In past weeks many inappropriate comments have been made by Kara DioGuardi about contestant Casey James – and Ryan has made those comments worse and even more awkward. I thought we [...]

Did America get it right taking the contestants down to the top 11 this season in American Idol? (Spoiler alert…. do not continue reading if you haven’t seen who was eliminated…) Lacey Brown is no longer going to grace audiences with her abilities this season… Actually was anyone surprised about the elimination? The only thing [...]

What do you think of American Idol’s Top 12 this year? 2010… I just had a comment on a previous post that the contestants seem to lack diversity. As they introduced the contestants… actually it was a bit skewed to 9 white contestants, 2 black contestants, and 1 Latino. I did think that the talent [...]