I won’t be recap­ping this season’s show as I prob­a­bly won’t be watch­ing it pass the audi­tions. I just find that there is some­thing sadis­tic in the way the show exploits people’s pain when they are rejected. Don’t you just love the way that they pick a few of them to share their sto­ries of how far they’ve come and then they ask them who they sound like? They make them­selves vul­ner­a­ble, cry and then are really excited to show Paula, Randy and Simon their tal­ent and then we hear what they really sound like? And it’s just plain awful and funny that they sound absolutely noth­ing like what they said.

This show is rigged, obvi­ously. Out of thou­sands that audi­tion, why are the bad ones sent through unless the shows appeal is to exploit them? Make fools of them. It seems each sea­son, the good ones are show less and less and the bad ones are on cam­era more. As I was watch­ing this past sea­son two hour pre­mière, there just wasn’t enthu­si­asm any­more for this show. I just hate how they exploit peo­ple who dream is to sing and then they are harshly rejected on cam­era. What was once a funny thing to watch just has become tire­some, I guess.