American Idol Fan

Okay, American Idol fans!  The Season 8 date for the popular show has been released!  American Idol will return to Fox on January 13th.  For “House” fans, that popular show will be moved to another night.  I’m a huge “House” fan as well so that’s another show I don’t want to miss.  “House”, which has been airing at 8 p.m. EST on Mondays will move to Monday nights at 8 p.m. beginning January 19th.

American Idol executives are trying to keep things fresh and they have added a fourth judge to hopefully make things more interesting this year.  Joining Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Cowell will be singer and songwriter Kara DioGuardi. Why another judge is needed I’ll never figure out but we’ll see what happens.

Word on the street is that Jason Castro’s little brother, Michael, auditioned for Season 8 of American Idol.  Dreadhead fans and Castro fans everywhere will be waiting impatiently until January to find out if Jason’s little brother made it to Hollywood.  According to Jason, his little brother is the real talent in the family so we’ll have to wait and see if he really is better than his brother. 

Michael and Jason look nothing alike.  While Jason has all of that hair, his little brother has very little in comparison.  You can watch the video at the link below where Jason talks about his brother and his talent.

Click HERE to watch the video.

I ran across the TV Guide channel today and saw that former American Idol contestants (like Brandon Rogers) were interviewing people who are trying out at the auditions for Season 8 of the popular television show.  Of course, they don’t give too much away for those who did make it and they didn’t have them sing any.  The ones that didn’t make it would sing out a few notes and like always, it didn’t take too long to see why they didn’t make it.

One woman who didn’t make it to Hollywood said that she had been sleeping outside the audition building for 4 days waiting to try out.  Even though she didn’t make it, she said she was on her way to the next audition spot and would try to get in front of the judges again. 

I hope when the show airs in January we don’t have to sit through all of those auditions again.  Ugh.

According to current media reports, a new judge will be added to the line up for Season 8 of American Idol.  Kara DioGuardi, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, will be added to the current mix of judges we have been so used to all of these years.  How will adding another judge be helpful?  To me I think it will just create even more chaos and confusion among the judges and we will hear more meaningless “critiques”, if that is what you call them!

Don’t get me wrong…I like my American Idol, but I do get annoyed with Randy Jackson’s “dawgs”; Paula Abdul’s incoherent ramblings and Simon Cowell’s rudeness.  Now we have to listen to one more person who says that she is going to speak to Simon the way she does everybody.  I smell more drama!  Kara also told reporters today:

“I’m just gonna have my opinion, be honest and I don’t foresee any problems. I’m really excited about this, and up for the challenge.”

DioGuardi has written songs for superstars like Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Christina Aguilera, and Kelly Clarkson.

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