American Idol Season 7 is expected to be so much better than last season. The show aims to place more focus on the contestants and providing longer and probe on the the contestants’ backgrounds and families. Changes have also been made. Around the 200 or so contestants who made it past the initial auditions and into the Hollywood round were allowed to play an instrument to accompany their singing if they desired.
Now that is something new.
“For some of them it worked very well,” Mr. Lythgoe said. “For others it was an abject failure.” He cited one man who played drums while singing “Hooked on a Feeling,” the song made famous in 1969 by B. J. Thomas. “It’s very difficult to sing in tune and play drums at the same time. It sounded like a complete nightmare. Even Karen Carpenter wasn’t that good at doing that.”
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