In the press line after yesterday’s So You Think You Can Dance finale, American Idol producer, Nigel Lythgoe continued to deny there was a “feud” between new judges, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. No cat fight here!
“Why would there be? It’s not about them. They know that. It’s about the kids that come out there. It really has already become very constructive to the point of we’ll say, ‘Oh for Christ’s sake, shut up. Let’s move on.’ If they’re saying ‘no,’ they’ve got to tell them for half an hour why they’re saying ‘no’ and how they can improve and come back.”
Nigel’s creative way to describe the relationship between BFFs, Nicki and Mariah:
“We’re calling it, ‘Mariah and Nicki have collided,” but collided in a good way, in a creative way,” he said. “Nicki is very deferential to Mariah in the sense that [she’ll tell auditioners], ‘You do realize you’re auditioning in front of this incredible singer here. Why would you choose her song to sing?'”
So where does the “colliding” part come in? Obviously there are some disagreements, no? I wish you would elaborate, Nigel!
“The kids that come in are either super-fans of Nicki and go, “Ooh wow, Nicki, I love you!’ We’ve had a couple people sing ‘Super Bass,'” he said. “Or they’re fans of Mariah and they’ve been to Camp Mariah. Then there’s the Keith Urban fans. So Randy [Jackson]’s sort of left [out], looking around.“
Ah ha ha…Poor Randy.
“It was certainly the best first day of auditions I’ve ever had,” he said. “That includes Randy, Paula [Abdul] and Simon [Cowell],
and then Jennifer [Lopez],
Best American Idol Judges Panel EVAH! They’re IN IT TO WIN IT YO.
Via FOX News
