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Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban join American Idol
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freenudemacusers
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who?
Impeccable
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Well, we know there will be another new cast next year then.
Metroid Hunter
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Nicki Minaj? Judge people on musical talent? Hahahahaha.
SouSouRocket
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She sings I guess, but she's not that good at it... :/ But then again Paula Abdul never had that strong of a voice either and we all gave her a free pass.
Deadly Cyclone
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You know, Google is right there.
Anyways, not sure on Nicki. I like some of her stuff but she doesn't really sing. Then again, Stephen Tyler wasn't really a "singer" in the terms of what they are looking for now.
SouSouRocket
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Yo dawg, for me, for you, I wasn't feeling' that one dawg.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Saying someone can't judge singing because they can't sing is like saying a football commentator can't judge a game because they don't play.
freenudemacusers
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my shade was too vague, should have added 'are these flops'
Coldnoodle
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....Are they switching judges every year now?
Souldriver
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Going by all these shows and judge picks, I think only The Voice got it right, as I presume at least all of the judges on that show have musical talent. Unlike the famous faces on X factor and American Idol.
Ninja Scooter
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If Britney Spears can judge people's singing ability than Minaj isn't too far off.
It's not like Simon Cowell or Randy Jackson can sing (or Paula Abdul for that matter). Hell it's not like any of the talent scouts and record execs at major labels necessarily have any musical talent. You don't have to be able to sing to judge if someone else can.
To land someone like Mariah Carey, who's a hire that couldn't possibly make more sense for a singing competition, and then counter that with someone like Nicki Minaj - seems to trivialize what exactly they're trying to do with the show. Not that Jennifer Lopez was much better. Then again, it's not really about the competition for the first few weeks, so these celeb hires are nothing more than ratings chasers until something sticks.
Levine can't sing. At all. Cee Lo...not so much either.
he's Karl Urban's brother.
Dreams-Visions
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SouthernDragon
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How deep does the barrel go?
freenudemacusers
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what does this mean? xtina is nearby?
Dead Prince
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best singing show still.
Metroid Hunter
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PopGAF is coming closer.
I guess this means Pop-GAF are coming. Time to bail out before the freakshow arrives.
Technosteve
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nicki minaj officially white.
computers putin'
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I have nothing against Nicki, but she may very well be the least talented superstar in music right now. If you don't even have a decent singing voice at least, you shouldn't judge anybody else, it's insulting.
Dead Prince
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There's exclusion.
Majmun
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Yes, she probably has the worst wig/weave collection of the music industry
And the worst makeup artist too
Baconsammy
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So they went from 3 useless judges to 3 useless judges. Between this and X Factor, they're hurrying along the death of the singing reality show genre.
bort
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four judges now
Nemesis_
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People that can't sing still have ears you know, the only people that shouldn't judge would be the deaf.
So Gaga fans?
heliosRAzi
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Nemesis_
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You're so clever
There's more to judging vocals then just hearing if they reach the right notes. Minaj probably can't even properly do that.
Not true. A trained ear can hear nuances that the average person might not be aware of. I'm sure there's a lot of folks out there who think Katy Perry is a great singer.
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