american idol 2011
The 10th season of "American Idol" kicked off Wednesday night, but new judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez didn't quite shake it up as promised.While the Aerosmith front man was playful and flirty during two days of New Jersey auditions, J.Lo spent most of the time struggling with two letters, N and O.
As promised, no members of the three-strong panel - that includes returning judge Randy Jackson - pulled the Simon Cowell card. Instead, Tyler, who was pegged to take his place, was refreshingly sweet even to the contestants who were terrible."You sang beautiful," he told one with his gruff voice, "but I just wasn't feeling that pizzazz."
While he drummed and squealed along with the contestants, J.Lo sat firmly in her seat, appearing to take her new job seriously. Unfortunately, while Tyler mostly commented on their tunes (with a few comments about the women's hotness thrown in), Lopez seemed to have an eye primarily for assembly-line pop princesses like her predecessors."You guys are crazy - she's beautiful, she's only 15 and she's giving us some energy," she said of Kenzie Palmer, a pretty teenager from Philadelphia with a generic voice that failed to ignite Tyler or Jackson.
She and Jackson later subtly slammed the dress sense of perfectly attractive, clear front-runner Devyn Rush, a 20-year-old bluesy singing waitress from Pennsylvania who works in Times Square.
As promised, no members of the three-strong panel - that includes returning judge Randy Jackson - pulled the Simon Cowell card. Instead, Tyler, who was pegged to take his place, was refreshingly sweet even to the contestants who were terrible."You sang beautiful," he told one with his gruff voice, "but I just wasn't feeling that pizzazz."
While he drummed and squealed along with the contestants, J.Lo sat firmly in her seat, appearing to take her new job seriously. Unfortunately, while Tyler mostly commented on their tunes (with a few comments about the women's hotness thrown in), Lopez seemed to have an eye primarily for assembly-line pop princesses like her predecessors."You guys are crazy - she's beautiful, she's only 15 and she's giving us some energy," she said of Kenzie Palmer, a pretty teenager from Philadelphia with a generic voice that failed to ignite Tyler or Jackson.
She and Jackson later subtly slammed the dress sense of perfectly attractive, clear front-runner Devyn Rush, a 20-year-old bluesy singing waitress from Pennsylvania who works in Times Square.
