Usually, singing shows are not quite as transparent as what “American Idol” is doing on Wednesday night’s new episode. Basically, this is a desperate move by the show to cling to the same sort of idea that “The Voice” has popularized with great vigor the past couple of seasons to boost social-media traffic. As explained […]
The era with the Save on “American Idol” is over, and that means one thing for the rest of the season: We’re going to get to see America completely in control again of who to save and who to go. That to us is a relief; we’re not sure that we always trust the judges, […]
Sooner or later, we knew that in-house “American Idol XIV” mentor Scott Borchetta would be bringing some names from the Big Machine label onto the show, and we’re therefore not too surprised at all to hear the latest news: Florida Georgia Line is going to both be mentoring and performing on the April 8 show. Not […]
Next week, it is fair to say that we are going to have a most event episode of “American Idol XIV.” Why is that? Let’s just say that we are going to have the return of the first winner of the entire competition in Kelly Clarkson. Not only will she mentor the remaining nine contestants, […]
The moment that Daniel Seavey was declared safe at the start of Wednesday night’s “American Idol XIV” episode, we know that there were many out there shaking in their boots. After all, what did this possibly mean? We also assumed that Qaasim Middleton would not be eliminated, mostly because it is an extremely rare occurrence […]
Tonight, “American Idol XIV” is going back in time to when there was big hair, big personalities, and the radio still ruled supreme: The 1980s. Unfortunately, this also meant having to hear a ton of the same songs that we’ve heard on this show time and time again, which is not always fun. What was […]
“American Idol XIV” is currently having itself a heck of a wild season. Seriously, there is not a consistent favorite to win the whole thing at this point. There are contestants who are getting better, but at the same time there are also singers who get better for a week, slide back, and then get […]
We’re still not entirely sure what to make of this bizarre relationship between “American Idol” and NASCAR. After all, what do the two really have in common, if anything at all? The only thing really is that they both air on Fox. Still, we saw an appearance by Jeff Gordon on the singing show Thursday, […]
What is going on with “Scandal” this spring? It was not that long ago we were discussing the series as one of the biggest commercial success stories possible. Now, we are instead seeing it settle down to a level that is pretty close to “NCIS,” “Survivor,” and not that far away from “Grey’s Anatomy” in […]
As with every other episode of “American Idol,” tonight’s episode was intense when we got to the final fifteen minutes. After all, we had two singers remaining who really had no business being there: Jax and Qaasim Middleton. While they’ve both had some struggles over the past few weeks, Daniel Seavey is the obvious person […]
