Is there anything Scott can tell us about tonight (March 12) that we can look forward to? “One of the things that we’ve been talking about this week with production is in this media world, we never talk about which songs we’re going to be performing prior to the show. Something that we started yesterday is having the contestants tweet out to the artists or to a hashtag and say ‘Hey, I’m doing this song tonight, if I get through.'” [It’s] just to get that awareness and get that buzz out there. All of the contestants will be tweeting today about what song they’re going to do tonight. I think that’s a great way to build excitement for what’s going to happen that night. We have our Top 12. Tonight we will have 11 perform and the last one standing goes home. There’s no more results show. Every performance show counts, there’s no fat in this, and it’s game on.”
Can he tease any upcoming musical guests? “Watch my twitter today, because we’re going to give away something tonight. We’re going to make a really cool announcement tonight. That’s all I can say.”
How does he think going to one single combined results show is going to impact how well viewers get to know the contestants? “I think we’ve got to do a great job on sending everybody to Americanidol.com, because we have so much content, so much more than we could ever put on television. You can really learn a lot more about [the contestants] by just a couple of clicks. I think that’s the message for our Idol fans and watchers, is to make sure you’re going to AmericanIdol.com. There’s so much cool stuff online, and that’s just the way of the world now.”