I thought it was very telling that all of the judges performed live...
Except her.
I do not see how one gets a job judging live singing when one cannot sing live.
She, like many of today’s top 40 ‘stars’ is a purely studio creation.
Some of the musician/production sites I participate on have a few of her engineers etc discussing what is needed to do up one of her songs. It’s a lot.
But image is what sells. Not talent.
They lost their viewership because of the blatant manipulation of the show this year. They stacked the deck against any male advancing into the top 5 and eliminated eye candy for the younger viewers.
If Candice was such a great singer, why did it take her 3 years of auditioning for Idol to make the top 10? its because she fit the Idol mold for who they wanted to win this year. They really wanted Amber, but she fell apart on them, so they started pimping Candice big time.
The largest viewership was in 2006? That was the year Taylor Hicks won and they threw him under the bus after his win in favor of who they really wanted to win - Chris Daughtery. He got the winner’s treatment after his elimination and they are actually treating Angie the same way - releasing her single, signing her to a deal, etc. even though she came in 3rd place. The viewership would not have risen if she had been in the finale. She was voted out in 3rd place - her fan base couldn’t pull her into the top 2.
At least when Simon Cowell, who also couldn’t sing, was a judge the vierwship was up. But, it was evident the last 2 years on the show that he was bored. Randy Jackson also can’t sing a lick,but did fairly good at choosing talent for the show.
They need to spend the money getting better songs for the contestants and not pay the worthless female divas so much money to sit there and look pretty and say stupid things. Nicki isn’t in this category - she was rude and childish, as well as stupid, but she did make some good points.