Ugh.. American karayoke...who cares? The show has an ever dwindling talent pool that they mostly ingnore in favor of leaving characters that will be talked about around the office the following day. It preaches that it is more important to be discovered than to put in the hard work and dedication to succeed, and panders to those who buy into the current American Ideology of I-deserve-to-be-rich-so-give-it-to-me-now.

Yet the only ones making any real money off of it are the show's creators (Simons Fuller and Cowell) and Fox in the ad revenues department.

This show is all that is wrong with television. It is a sad testament indeed that the previous American Idol had more votes cast in its finale than our last presidential election.