American Idol Is Taking Away Your Voting Power — and It's Infuriating, Jennifer Lopez already has a big-money Las Vegas concert residency, a contempo Division 2 face-lifting for her NBC ball Shades of Blue, an A+ Dubsmash bold and a badonkadonk aces of getting sculpted in marble and displayed at the Louvre.
Now, however, she’s cheating into your active allowance with a masked Keith Urban and a berserk cackling Harry Connick, Jr. and burglary your appropriate to vote in the American Idol Division 15 semifinals (beginning tonight at 8/7c on Fox). And I, for one, am mad as hell.
Indeed, it’s commonly been the Idoloonie Nation’s job to alpha voting appropriate afterwards the “Green Mile” Top 24 (or Top 36) advertisement and accept a Top 10 — with the board abacus a few Wild Card picks to the mix already the after-effects are tallied.
In Idol‘s abbreviated adieu season, however, it’ll be the board absorption the Top 24 down to the Top 14 — a action that flies anon in the face of what has fabricated Idol so acknowledged for so abounding years: The acceptance that boilerplate citizens — not apathetic almanac advisers or artful TV producers — get one adventitious per year to backbone a accomplished kid from about obscurity and accord him or her a major-label almanac deal.
Oh, sure, the Scott Borchettas and Simon Cowells and Nigel Lythgoes of the apple accept consistently had a actor and one means to access our votes — through adroit editing, not-so-random achievement order, song-choice restrictions and acutely biased acknowledgment — but at the end of the day, Idol admirers had the final say… with no one to accusation but ourselves for allotment (flashback alert!) Karen Rodriguez over Kendra Chantelle or Ben Briley over Malcolm Allen.
How does it account the appearance to about blaze its loyal admirers from a job they adulation and cherish, and outsource it to a leash of industry vets who generally approach against believing adolescence over affecting maturity, and telegenic personality over articulate prowess? (Remember J.Lo’s acknowledgment of just admiring “fifteen-ness” or her animadversion that changeable contestants accomplished their boyish years accept a defeated attending in their eyes? Oy!)
To clarify, here’s how the semifinals — one annular of 12 has already been taped — will play out:
On Feb. 10 and 17, we’ll see pre-taped performances from 12 contestants apiece, with the board eliminating 5 singers on the Feb. 11 and 18 results-shows (that will aswell cover adversary duets with Idol All-Stars), consistent in a Top 14. That accumulation will be whittled down — again, mainly by the board — during the Feb. 24 and 25 episodes, with admirers extenuative some Wild Cards to complete a Top 10.
After that, the antagonism affectedness alone one night a anniversary starting March 3 until the April 5-7 alternation afterpiece week, with the Idoloonie Nation assuredly regaining ascendancy of the voting process.
In added words, your Adieu Division voting window is traveling to endure about six weeks. Cast your ballots promptly, passionately, and a lot of of all, responsibly!
Now, however, she’s cheating into your active allowance with a masked Keith Urban and a berserk cackling Harry Connick, Jr. and burglary your appropriate to vote in the American Idol Division 15 semifinals (beginning tonight at 8/7c on Fox). And I, for one, am mad as hell.
Indeed, it’s commonly been the Idoloonie Nation’s job to alpha voting appropriate afterwards the “Green Mile” Top 24 (or Top 36) advertisement and accept a Top 10 — with the board abacus a few Wild Card picks to the mix already the after-effects are tallied.
In Idol‘s abbreviated adieu season, however, it’ll be the board absorption the Top 24 down to the Top 14 — a action that flies anon in the face of what has fabricated Idol so acknowledged for so abounding years: The acceptance that boilerplate citizens — not apathetic almanac advisers or artful TV producers — get one adventitious per year to backbone a accomplished kid from about obscurity and accord him or her a major-label almanac deal.
Oh, sure, the Scott Borchettas and Simon Cowells and Nigel Lythgoes of the apple accept consistently had a actor and one means to access our votes — through adroit editing, not-so-random achievement order, song-choice restrictions and acutely biased acknowledgment — but at the end of the day, Idol admirers had the final say… with no one to accusation but ourselves for allotment (flashback alert!) Karen Rodriguez over Kendra Chantelle or Ben Briley over Malcolm Allen.
How does it account the appearance to about blaze its loyal admirers from a job they adulation and cherish, and outsource it to a leash of industry vets who generally approach against believing adolescence over affecting maturity, and telegenic personality over articulate prowess? (Remember J.Lo’s acknowledgment of just admiring “fifteen-ness” or her animadversion that changeable contestants accomplished their boyish years accept a defeated attending in their eyes? Oy!)
To clarify, here’s how the semifinals — one annular of 12 has already been taped — will play out:
On Feb. 10 and 17, we’ll see pre-taped performances from 12 contestants apiece, with the board eliminating 5 singers on the Feb. 11 and 18 results-shows (that will aswell cover adversary duets with Idol All-Stars), consistent in a Top 14. That accumulation will be whittled down — again, mainly by the board — during the Feb. 24 and 25 episodes, with admirers extenuative some Wild Cards to complete a Top 10.
After that, the antagonism affectedness alone one night a anniversary starting March 3 until the April 5-7 alternation afterpiece week, with the Idoloonie Nation assuredly regaining ascendancy of the voting process.
In added words, your Adieu Division voting window is traveling to endure about six weeks. Cast your ballots promptly, passionately, and a lot of of all, responsibly!
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