UPDATE:Â Confirmation that each of the 5 remaining contestants will only sing one song tonight comes from the americaidol.com site:
Top 5 Results 9/8c: After five performances and millions of votes, somebody goes home tonight.
That’s from the site’s calendar page. I’m guessing the producers figured out they’d never be able to squeeze 10 performances into one hour. The result was probably a scramble to find a last-minute mentor, and the kids told, “Sorry, ditch one of the songs you’ve been practicing.” AI.com was previously promoting a 10-song episode.
GRRR. I want LESS judge babble and MORE performances please. Ditch the 4th judge next year. It’s obviously not working.
thanks mad mike
Paula Abdul told Tommy and Brook from Star 105.7 in an interview yesterday that singer/actor/comedian Jamie Foxx will be this week’s “surprise mentor” for Rat Pack week.
When asked who she thinks will be in the Top 2, she says Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey initially. But, probably in an effort not to offend the Grand Rapids MI audience–it’s Matt Giraud country after all–she adds that really any of the remaining contestants could be in the final with Adam.
Now, it’s not at all clear whether the contestants will be singing two songs tonight or not… Need to do a little more digging around to confirm that one way or another.
Listen to the interview, in two parts:
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That sucks big time if they are only singing one freaking song. That just ruined the whole tradition of the top 5 singing two songs. I hate the new producers in charge, they should be fired. Kara needs to go with them. Bring Nigel back already!!!!!!!!!! All these changes this year has really screwed up the whole idol experience, lol. They would of had better girls if they would of stuck with last years format. What is up with Jamie Foxx mentoring, yeah he is a likeable guy but he shouldn’t be the first one to call on to mentor standards night. I would of loved to see Buble or Cullum mentor. If time was the issue they should of made the show two hours so they didn’t have to rush. Top 5 is a big deal and they should treat the show that way. A two hour show would give them plenty of time to do everything. I am soooooooooo disappointed, they better not do this next week with 4 contestants. I could careless what Kara has to say. She talks tooooooo much. Randy is at least concise. It’s going to suck tonight unless by some miracle they change it back to having two songs and extending the show to two hours or even 1.5 hours. I was so looking forward to tonight.
So is Obama making a speech tomorrow night? I read something about that in he paper a few days ago.
I just got off the phone with my mother and she said something that I never thought about…
She said ” why is it that AI will pay money for 2hrs time slot for stupid auditions, but yet when the real show start they go to 1hr?…what they should do is have only 1hr shows for the auditions, 1 1/2 hr for Hollywood week, then 2hrs for the Top 12 shows”.
She also said: “AI makes the most money for FOX that they should schedule the other shows around AI time slots. That AI produces and judges keep telling us that its a signing contest, yet its more talking and BS than singing…they need to give the contestant more time to sing, since thats what they signed up for”
I totally agree with her. Last week the performances all seemed so short…especially Adams. They need to get rid of Kara, get Nigel back, and cut out the long winded intro from Ryan (even though I like it and like him as well).
He does have a good voice. I actually have his song from a few years ago, “Slow Jams”, on my ipod. Miley? Oh hell no.
He’s as good of an actor as most movie stars today.
I just don’t want his appearance to interfere with Adam singing 2 songs…it’s fine for me all of the others sing 1- yeah fuck it! I am all about the Adam.
Man Foxx is being dissed for dissing Miley Cryus?
He is a comedian folks, that is what comedians do, they insult people and we laugh because they are saying what we are thinking and wish we could say but haven’t got the guts to say. Well those of us who aren’t in line for sainthood.
Besides Miley is hardly someone who never makes a faux pas. Has she apologized to the Asian community yet?
I’m not one to defend TPTB from american Idol, but I am almost positive that they were never planning on singing 2 songs. I am friends with a contestant and heard last week that one of them had picked only 1 song. I don’t know how long ago they planned this mentor, but if that is the reason they went to 1 song it was not last second, they knew they were only doing 1 song last week.
My guess is that this has more to do with the judges talking to long than a guest mentor. I agree that at this point it should be a 2 hours show, or at least an hour and a half.
I could care less about Jamie Foxx – I was looking forward to two songs per Idol. It’s a challenge, and it always helps seperate the Idols who are ready to challenge for the title from those who aren’t. Like, in the real world, you might be expected to sing more than one song during a concert?
It’s entertaining. It’s a tradition. I’m bummed.
They really can’t fit ten 90 second performances into an hour show? Pffft.
Very simple reason why no Buble – he doesn’t have a new album to promote.
Mentor = album to sell.
Webber had the Vegas production of Phantom to promote, Quentin, did he have a movie out, I can’t remember.
Now I see someone mentioned Mrs. Elvis Costello, Mr. Costello would be a cool mentor.
I feel bad that the gang prepared 2 songs and had this happen but hey happens in RL all the time. Get used to it when Letterman and Leno run overtime with some guest like Jamie Foxx.
I actually hate 90 second songs – so many songs you cannot do justice to in 90 seconds and I want to know if a person can actually deliver the full length of a song.
BTW – mandalay – Obama is scheduled to give a press conference tomorrow at 8 pm. But Fox has announced that they will be the only major network NOT to carry the conference. Fox will show their regularly scheduled program at 8, whatever that is. So there will be no chance of an overrun into Idol’s 9pm slot.
As for the wisdom of the Fox decision, no comment…..
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I’ve been reading this stuff today, and I am amazed and quite frankly stunned. We’ve had an old guy that almost nobody knew but those over 40, Frankie whatever his name was. We’ve had Flo-rida, we’ve had QT, who I know does not sing. At least that would be a link as Jamie is a musical artist. Certainly this isn’t about Miley because we have been lambasting that poor child and her BFF Tayllor Swift for months. Hell Miley has less of a link to the show than Jamie. I don’t get it.
Hey Jamie Foxx was in Dreamgirls with Jennifer Hudson – he’d be good for a six degrees of separation game only using Idol rather than Kevin Bacon.
I can hardly believe the mess this show is this season. I’ve seen better production/direction on community access cable shows. And did it just occur to them yesterday that 10 songs would be required this week? Was this a surprise?
So the best solution to the time crunch that they could come up with is to dump five songs and add a “mentor” who’s tenuous connection is that he played a singer in a movie a couple years ago? That’s the BEST they could do? I’ve got an idea: How about making the show LONGER?
What ever happened to the “This is a singing competition” party line? Or is this my naivete showing through?
Thank you for allowing me to rant, MJ. Loved the articles by and about you.
Any chance the kids will get a few more seconds of performance time?
Fox is making a very wise decision.
They are going to get their regular viewers and all the other viewers who are pissed off Obama is preempting their usual Tuesday programming.
It is not like it is his first press conference and it is not like there is anything new beyond swine flu to talk about that you can’t just tune into CNN after Idol and hear discussed to death for 3 hours.
Hmm… I think we should get EIGHT performances
3 By Adam
2 By Allison
2 By Kris
1 By Matt
None by gokey (i want him GONE!!!!)
Here’s how they get 10 perf’s in one hour
10 Minute intro
Perf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5– 7 1/2 minutes
Comments for 1st 5 (plus a psychic bit from paula)- 5 minutes
Next Five Perf’s– 7 1/2 minutes, next five comments- 5 minutes
Advertisments: 20 minutes
Video Packaging: 5 minutes
Total: 60 minutes
YAY!
Oh great….now everyone has griped about Jamie Foxx so much that his new song is showing up in the ads at the top. That was counter-productive!! :laugh_tb:
LOL Spencer – I TOTALLY agree with you!
This means this group will sing 3 fewer songs than most previous seasons. That will make What Not To Sing stats kind of worthless for this group from a comparison standpoint. Especially since the pressure of singing 2 songs is when folks really start to crack. Which I kind of enjoy.
I am glad that Jamie is going to be on the show. I think that he is going to be a good mentor. He is a great pianist, and I do like his singing voice. I think that it’s going to be interesting to see him mentor Matt, especially since Matt is a pianist as well.
I think we should just fire Randy instead of Kara. She makes useful comments that are DIFFERENT each week!! Meanwhile, Randy, he takes 2 freaking minutes to say the same comments each week, you can’t understand a word he says DAWG!!! RUFF RUFF!!
GIVE ME 2 ALLISON SONGS!!!!
LMAO! ironic, no?
This is why they ditched the 2 performances, not Jamie, not the judges, not time. Hokey’s vocal strain is palpable already and they want him in the final so bad they’re willing to alter the entire historical format.
How’s that for a knoll theory, eh? ;-P