by Christopher Coleman

Created on: March 11, 2008

Imagine you are at a friend's house. This friend is a self proclaimed Broadway singer. Suddenly, an epic moment occurs; "Big girls don't cry" a pop song from American singer Fergie, begins it's 900th rotation on the radio for today's playlist. Your friend begins to belt the tones from this song louder and more powerful then a Boeing 747 during takeoff. The dilemma: do you tell your friend you would rather listen to the 747 preparing to tote it's compartment full of eager tourists to whatever destination good money can pay for? Of course you don't, you would rather let Simon Cowell, a once failing high school drop out do it.

Every year, more contestants than can reasonably be counted line up to prove to America that they have talent. The problem is, the majority of contestants have as much talent in singing as I have in cooking. Just believe me on this topic, your pallet does not want to experience a mishap of Kraft Mac N' Cheese. The strongest difference is that I have come to terms with my horrific cooking while several of the contestants seem crushed when they are told they lack talent. Why do we continue to watch this train derail from the tracks? Good question.

If our favorable of the five senses can't barley stand to wait until the commercial break, why do we subject ourselves to such an event? This solution must exist in the stunning lineup of judges that appear on American Idol. Let's begin this analysis with Paula Abdul. Paula Abdul debuted the music scene in 1988 with the hit song "Straight Up". The 1990's, however, became very cruel to Abdul, as she went back to acting. I am willing to bet that the majority of television viewers had plain forgot Paula Abdul prior to American Idol. Furthermore, the majority of contestants on American Idol probably only associate Paula Abdul through the down times at home thumbing through their parent's vinyl and tape collection. Because of these two deductions, I can only speculate that approximately 1% of viewers tune in because of Paula Abdul's appearance. If not Abdul, then Randy Jackson? Wrong again. Randy Jackson has a distinguished music career. Jackson has worked on two major record labels and worked with several big name artists. This combination, however, means virtually nothing in pop culture seeing as he has not put out a record selling 1,000,000 copies by himself or acted in a hit movie. Although a valuable asset to the music community, Jackson probably brings in 0-1% of viewers by himself. Two judges are

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