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Here’s a little glimpse of the new audition room backdrop for the upcoming season of American Idol, featuring Season 7 winner, David Cook. Ohh, David is right next to golden girl Carrie Underwood–Cook must be on TPTB’s good side. For now.
More Season 8 stuff: In this interview with Extra, Simon Cowell says that new Judge Kara DioGuardi never lets him get a word in edgewise. He says, “She never shuts up.” Simon says Kara and Paula Abdul are getting along fine–considering that “girls in general don’t like working with other girls.” Hm.
In case you were wondering, the seating order at the judges table will go: Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell. During the audition rounds, Simon Cowell will serve as tie breaker as he did during Seasons 4 and 6 when audition episodes featured guest judges.
ETA: I found a video that pans the entire back drop of the Season 8 audition room. I’ve posted it after the jump. Here’s the order of the Idols on the backdrop: From the far left–Taylor Hicks, Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Jordin Sparks, The Idol Logo, David Cook, Carrie Underwood, Fantasia Barrino. Taylor Hicks, Idol’s red-headed step-child, has the tiniest picture on the far left, while Jordin, David and Carrie have prime positions. Kelly’s last record My December bombed, so she’s relegated off to the corner next to Taylor. Heh.
Video after the JUMP…
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Heh. I have this vision of a 19 minion wandering into the background of the auditions to change the pictures, because that day’s soundscan numbers indicated that Idol X was now outperforming Idol Y.
tell me about it, those darn rascals!….I’m not giving up though….xo
The X-factor top 12 was leaked a few days ago when it wasnt supposed to be announced for a week or 2. Apparently Simon got super pissed (even more so because people were saying that one of his fav female contestants leaked the info)- so im sure that will be even more incentive to keep the AI8 on super-lockdown…but i have confidence in our spoilers!!!
Looks like they went with a boy-girl-boy-girl-boy lineup to me, until you get to Carrie Fantasia then it’s girl-girl.
Aww man David and Carrie look good together there. They would make such a purty couple. Ah well.
I predict next year, Taylor will be gone. Pretty close to it this year, if you ask me.
The size/positioning of the heads is directly proportional to the amount of money the idol has provided to 19E .