I detect a little bit of jealousy here. The only female judge that Paula felt totally at ease with was Olivia Newton-John. We shall see..

I thought having a fourth judge would be great. But after hearing how much she repeated herself in the short AI.com interview IÂ ´m not so excited anymore.

I listened the interview with Ryan and I ´m excited again. She sounded self-confident but didn ´t take herself too seriously and she was quite witty. She seems to like all the other judges but probably isn ´t afraid to disagree with them.
The judging panel definitely needed a change. The chemistry between Randy, Paula and Simon had died and when it visited from beyond it was a slow zombi.

If you watch AI Rewind, more often than not, the judges made sense and actually made useful criticisms. Randy was capable of more than “dawg” and “pitchy”; Paula could manage a declarative sentence or even two; and Simon actually put some thought behind his put-downs. If we could return to that level, and they could make me believe they were actually listening to what was going on in front of them again, I’d be a much happier fan .

To me, Randy is the most useless. At least Pauler provides some water-cooler talk and entertainment value. Not much, but a tad. Randy is jut annoying as hell and I want him off my teevee, dawg.

Well, PJ already read my mind and stole my comment. United in our Molten Hot Lava Randy Hate!

I’m okay with a 4th judge for now, even though I have no idea who this woman is. No one can make less sense than Paula, and no one could possibly be more wind-up-toy one-note than Randy. So, this has to be an improvement, right?

He did Sarah. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll have to dig the article upà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦It was in the Headlines thread.

Oh, I was confident that he did. I just was curious where. Since I can’t read here from work, I miss a lot of stuff if it’s not BIG news. If you remember approximately when, I’ll go find the article so you don’t have to. I actually am curious to read it. That wasn’t sarcasm, promise.

Where was this? I must have missed that article.

He did Sarah. I’ll have to dig the article up…It was in the Headlines thread.

Let’s keep it cool, babies. And on topic. Thank you.

Nigel admitted Cook was his favorite and he voted for him.

Where was this? I must have missed that article.

Anyway, this is off-topic in the Kara DioGuardi thread, so I’ll shut up now.

I think Randy probably has the best “ear” of all the judges even though he doesn’t have much vocabulary. He seems to really understand who will make a great recording artist. No I don’t think Johns, Jason or Carly or anyone else belonged on the finale stage instead of either David.

Even with the “clueless” judging last season, the final 2 were the correct choices. So it’s not like the judges were pimping losers.

I hate the way all 3 of them joke and poke while the performances are on – the poor idols work their butts off and the judges don’t look like they are paying attention. I guess since their comments seem to be prewritten from dress rehearsals, they don’t think they even need to seem interested.

Paula at least tries to point out the strong points of the performances.

I saw part of Nashville Star this year and it seemed like the judges were more mentoring than the Idol judges.

Momster – I thought of Janice Dickinson (I kinda like her actually) too when I saw the clip of Kara – but I agree that bitchy may be a good thing. At least it isn’t indifference.

As much as I despise all the hypocrisy of Randy (i.e. to Blake – “you should always keep beatboxing a part of your thing.” and then a few weeks later “dude, you don’t have to beatbox on every song.”) and the way he seems to be such a puppet for TPTB (see Jordin and Archie examples above), I do like that he IS a musician, even if his taste and style is not so much revelant anymore. I’m hoping that Kara will help up his game to where he actually provides constructive musical criticism – which he COULD do.

I actually don’t think any of them should go right now. The judging panel needs a shot in the arm, but I don’t know that getting rid of a judge would be the way to do it. At this point, they are just so identifiable with the show. As long as the same length of performance time is still afforded the contestants and the new judge adds to the camaraderie of the panel, I think adding a 4th judge was the best way to shake the judging panel up a bit.