American Idol Judges Got It Wrong

There is a ton of talk today about “America Getting It Wrong” on American Idol last night.  Twitter was on fire, many faceboook posts about how awful it was that Pia Toscano was let go, I’ve heard Randy’s comments several times on the radio already and I’m sure they’ll be played ad nauseum all day long. In my opinion, the judges are the ones that got it wrong. All wrong.

First of all, my initial reaction was not to Pia being let go, because frankly, I wasn’t that surprised. My heat was for the judges (whom I love, but ) who behaved abominably. Weather or not you like Pia, what did their reaction say to the people who were safe through to next week?  Obviously they thought someone else should have gone home – so how must the winners have felt? “Is it me that they thought should be going home?” If my name is Stefano, I sure would have felt that way…and what about Jacob and the others?

The second thing that really bothered me about the judges’ reaction was on behalf of America. I don’t know how they could be so surprised that Pia got kicked off – I wasn’t surprised at all. I honestly believe that here is where the show misses Simon Cowell. A. Lot. Weeks ago while all of the judges were kissing her butt for how well she sings, and then as an aside telling her that she’s boring by only singing ballads and not moving at all on stage, (read performing), Simon would have told her straight up that she was boring and not going to last long if she didn’t step it up. He would have been right. And guess what judges? We heard you even if she didn’t and she was BORING!  Yes, she has a beautiful voice and some day might be a great performer, but she’s not yet and it was long passed time for her to go home. The rest of the boring performers will soon follow, not to worry.

Yes, there are people still on the show who don’t sing as well as she does and there are boring performers, and eventually they will all go too. The one left standing will be the one with an amazing voice who entertains America. We won’t get it wrong, I promise.