American Idol Season 14 Official Thread
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LMAO! Let's blame typing from my phone. Dang autocorrect
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....I can go with that....
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Thank you!
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From the most general consensus the boys tend to be the stronger favorites this season. I personally love Clark Beckham
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....I. like. Jax. Joey Cook [hey, how could you go wrong with a last name like that? 
], Quentin, and Trevor....
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], Quentin, and Trevor....AI1416_01_underthebus.gif
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More details for the live rounds!!!
Limit of 20 votes per contestant per method per window (down 60%)
Voting will begin at the start of the episode and end 2 hours after episode...facebook/google extended time
For semifinals and top 2, voting will extend overnight into the following day at 9 am Pacific time
for finals voting extends through the weekend and beyond (Tuesday 9 am)
Elimination will be at the end of the episode then the end
More details for the live rounds!!!
Limit of 20 votes per contestant per method per window (down 60%)
Voting will begin at the start of the episode and end 2 hours after episode...facebook/google extended time
For semifinals and top 2, voting will extend overnight into the following day at 9 am Pacific time
for finals voting extends through the weekend and beyond (Tuesday 9 am)
Elimination will be at the end of the episode then the end
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Welcome! Doing what I can to keep yall up to date. Not much else to do right now.
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New episode tonight, get the voting fingers ready!
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Here we go!
Robin and Kimmar
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What did you learn from your first year of producing the show?
Last year I think we made a great foundation of different changes. We decided to keep most of them. The thing that didn't really work last year, I think, was the hangar that we tried, which was a shocking start of Hollywood Week where all the kids, as you remember, came to the hangar and were divided into two buses. But other than that, I think we kept most of it, and we added two rounds -- the sit-down with the judges and also the House of Blues round.
Will you still have kids who make the semifinals come and then not perform?
No. That was last year.
With the show going to one hour, will there be time for guest mentors and performers?
There will be guest mentors, as always. We try to invite former Idols to come back and also people that have something to do with the theme, but Scott's going to be the mentor, in general. He also needs to [have a] say in who we're going to invite and all that so it doesn't interfere with his thoughts and wishes.
How will the guest performances work?
We start with a tight show. ... Let's say then after a few weeks we are down to six contestants and we still have a two-hour show to fill, that's the time where we can bring in extra guest stars.
Do you have any thoughts about why the past two winners haven't made as much of a splash as the "Idol" winners before them?
First of all, we don't know what these last winners [will do] -- for instance, Caleb [Johnson], he can be man of the year next year. We never know. These things can happen overnight. But America decides who's winning, he or she releases a record. If they don't want to make him or her a star, that's not something the show can do about it. We just gave them the platform and tried to help them along the way. ... Not everyone can be a superstar.
How will you improve the theme weeks?
Last year when we met here at the TCAs, we talked about the music themes and it was a lot of critique about the kids having to sing Burt Bacharach and what have you, old songs that they couldn't relate to. So what we did last year was actually give more power to the kids: "What songs do you want to sing?" And sometimes the songs were great and sometimes the songs weren't that great because the audience hadn't heard them as much as the other songs. This year, I think we're going to find a middle-of-the-road version where we're going to stay within the themes and still be a little more current.
What is Scott's role?
What he's done just so far is just observe the kids in Hollywood Week, and now the mentoring starts. We're down to the Top 24, and he's going to talk to each kid individually about what he thinks are strengths and things they should work on. So he's an on-camera mentor and he's an off-camera mentor. He will be working with the kids for many hours. Not necessarily all of that will be shown on TV, but he'll also get a piece on TV where he gets to say everything. As we've said before, because we don't have a results show anymore, it's difficult now to say how exactly that will play out in the Wednesday show. But there will be no question for the viewers that Scott is our mentor this year.
Could Randy Jackson return?
I'm sure we will run into each other. We'll talk about it and then see what happens but right now, no plans.
http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/america...ks_results_shows_and_no_randy_jackson-2015-02
I left a few of the questions out.
Last year I think we made a great foundation of different changes. We decided to keep most of them. The thing that didn't really work last year, I think, was the hangar that we tried, which was a shocking start of Hollywood Week where all the kids, as you remember, came to the hangar and were divided into two buses. But other than that, I think we kept most of it, and we added two rounds -- the sit-down with the judges and also the House of Blues round.
Will you still have kids who make the semifinals come and then not perform?
No. That was last year.
With the show going to one hour, will there be time for guest mentors and performers?
There will be guest mentors, as always. We try to invite former Idols to come back and also people that have something to do with the theme, but Scott's going to be the mentor, in general. He also needs to [have a] say in who we're going to invite and all that so it doesn't interfere with his thoughts and wishes.
How will the guest performances work?
We start with a tight show. ... Let's say then after a few weeks we are down to six contestants and we still have a two-hour show to fill, that's the time where we can bring in extra guest stars.
Do you have any thoughts about why the past two winners haven't made as much of a splash as the "Idol" winners before them?
First of all, we don't know what these last winners [will do] -- for instance, Caleb [Johnson], he can be man of the year next year. We never know. These things can happen overnight. But America decides who's winning, he or she releases a record. If they don't want to make him or her a star, that's not something the show can do about it. We just gave them the platform and tried to help them along the way. ... Not everyone can be a superstar.
How will you improve the theme weeks?
Last year when we met here at the TCAs, we talked about the music themes and it was a lot of critique about the kids having to sing Burt Bacharach and what have you, old songs that they couldn't relate to. So what we did last year was actually give more power to the kids: "What songs do you want to sing?" And sometimes the songs were great and sometimes the songs weren't that great because the audience hadn't heard them as much as the other songs. This year, I think we're going to find a middle-of-the-road version where we're going to stay within the themes and still be a little more current.
What is Scott's role?
What he's done just so far is just observe the kids in Hollywood Week, and now the mentoring starts. We're down to the Top 24, and he's going to talk to each kid individually about what he thinks are strengths and things they should work on. So he's an on-camera mentor and he's an off-camera mentor. He will be working with the kids for many hours. Not necessarily all of that will be shown on TV, but he'll also get a piece on TV where he gets to say everything. As we've said before, because we don't have a results show anymore, it's difficult now to say how exactly that will play out in the Wednesday show. But there will be no question for the viewers that Scott is our mentor this year.
Could Randy Jackson return?
I'm sure we will run into each other. We'll talk about it and then see what happens but right now, no plans.
http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/america...ks_results_shows_and_no_randy_jackson-2015-02
I left a few of the questions out.
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