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RE: American Idol 2016 - The end is nigh!
Here is Michael Slezaks (with Melinda Doolitle) hollywood week "reality check"
Rumor has it that the judges will have much more say in who gets to the finals and possibly a bigger role further down the line.
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Another thing (tom's thing, not ms's)
Interesting to me is that at this point, there are 2 former The Voice contestants remaining. Also one contestant from the X-Factor, AND two singers who Auditioned on TV for the Voice
They haven't mentioned that they were on The Voice, (which I of course wouldn't expect them to do) which further confirms to me that it wasn't some odd political ploy.
I looked briefly at these 5's twitter and you-tube accounts and they didn't have huge numbers of followers - a lot for an individual certainly but in the 10k range and less -- not enough to make even shift the needle noticeably in a show still getting 3 million viewer.
What it says to me is that even with 340 million people in this country, it is really indeed a rare rare person who can sing and sing under pressure on camera.
I believe there are perhaps 10's of thousands of men and women with very good voices - singing in wedding bands, singing in their high school plays, etc..... but Idol must see them missing something to go fishing in The Voice contestants that didn't make it too far.
I really think that the ability to be on camera comfortably(and appear well on camera - which is different that classic good looks but still dependent some natural things - eye movements, posture etc, have a mic in your face comfortably, be in front of huge crowd comfortably etc is more rare than good enough voices to reach the notes and remember the score etc ...but having the two circles intersect must be rare indeed.
Long and short -- I wonder if the shows have sort of "over-mined" the pool of people that would shine on the big stage? (of course every year they're will be another crop getting old enough - but maybe not quickly enough to put 50 on camera in early stages on each show?
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