Very rough article on Kara DioGuardi by Joanna Weiss of the Boston Globe, which says
So there were high hopes for Kara DioGuardi, with her songwriting
talents, her music industry experience, her gruff sensibility. Yet so
far, she's accomplished only one thing: making Paula look smarter.
Very rough, but maybe not wrong. Weiss does a good job of backing up her point...
Now, keep in mind, we're not talking
Mensa smart here. We're talking Paula smart. She still gushes about
pierced hearts and inner beauty, and she still has the syntax of Sarah
Palin on a caffeine high. But somewhere hidden in all of those words,
she usually has a point. And more often than not, her observations are
sharper, more vivid, and more useful than anything Kara has to say.
Consider, for example, their dueling comments last week about R&B singer Lil Rounds:
Kara:
"So I think tonight we got a glimpse of what we saw in the beginning,
which is this singer who can just let it out and wow us. And I think we
need to see more of that. But Lil, you back in the Rounds."
Paula: "I don't want to see an adult contemporary Lil Rounds."
Or about energetic crooner Adam Lambert:
Paula:
"There are artists who have longevity in this business because of their
unique and riveting performances. I'll name a few. Mick Jagger, Steven
Tyler, and Adam Lambert."
Kara: "It was like Studio 57 up in here tonight!"
Advantage
Paula, who, over and over again this season, has managed to emit little
nuggets of wisdom. While the numerically challenged Kara tends to
ramble and repeat stock phrases - "Who are you as an artist?" "What
we're looking for is artistry. . ." - Paula finds an apt analogy or
suggests a useful bit of stagecraft. She told since-departed Megan Joy
Corkrey, who danced like one of those plastic Hawaiian hula dolls, that
she should sit on a stool beneath a spotlight. She told blind pianist
Scott MacIntyre that he was boring us by sitting behind a piano every
week. And while Simon poked fun at her in both cases, Paula happened to
be right.
All of this leads to obvious questions: Idol's ratings are down this year, and the 4 judge format, and Kara DioGuardi in particular, have not generally been well received - so is DioGuardi coming back next year? Will she be replaced? Or will Idol go back to three judges? What do you guys think should happen, and will happen?
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