AMERICAN IDOL Season 10 Audition Cities Announced, Seacrest Reveals ‘Big Change’ To Come
June 21, 2010 by Marisa Roffman
America, warm up those vocal chords.
We may have crowned the season 9 winner of AMERICAN IDOL less than a month ago, but host Ryan Seacrest just tweeted that the audition cities for the tenth season have been finalized.
On the short list? Nashville, TN; Milwaukee, WI; New Orleans, LA; East Rutherford, NJ; Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA.
Seacrest also teased that a “big change” will be announced on Monday (June 21).
Any guesses on what that could be? We’re wondering if it’s contestant-related… maybe changing the age limit? Or, perhaps, a new judge will be announced.
We’d love to hear your theories in the comments…
UPDATE 9:35 A.M. ET: As suspected, seems producers have decided to lower the qualifying age from 16 to 15… so, thoughts?
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The big change is just lowering the age limit by one year? Yawn. The super young singers don’t tend to be the best on this show…they usually seem like they could have benefited by a few more years of practice before hitting the AI stage. There are so many other changes this show could make (going back to 3 judges, getting different judges, raising the age limit, etc.) this announcement is disappointing…
If producers were committed to changing things up, they would eliminate the casting of white males with acoustic guitars 🙂 It’s been disappointing to watch the “inevitability” factor play in to Kris Allen & Lee Dewyze’s victories over the past two seasons.
Here’s an idea: since Seacrest will NEVER be able to announce new, “record” vote totals with viewership falling, how about changing the voting system to a hybrid of the judges and the audience? It keeps things suspenseful on DWTS, and prevents sites like Dial Idol from spoiling the results.