As I said in another post, I really think some of the bad singers are plants - they are sooo bad they couldn't really honestly thing they're good. And while the stunts where Simon sends a really bad singer to the mall or a bar and they'll win money if people don't walk out are cute, they're so set up and unspontaneous. It's funny the way they hardly show the good singers who did make it to the next stage, there's so many really bad ones. LOL they must know that's what we really want to see, not the good singers because just about every episode of Australian Idol where the final 12 were singing, they showed a montage of bad singers - top 10 worst singers, worst dancers, most weird voice, etc
Still, I watched Australian Idol and I'll probably watch American Idol that they're showing now unless there's something better on
. Although I wonder how well it'll rate in Australia considering we won't be able to vote which takes the whole interactive element out of it.