Not only were three of the four judges black, but the show seems to have a real bias against white, heterosexual male contestants now. Viewers had made it clear they preferred straight, white male winners, (six out of the last seven winners having been that.) Yet last season, every male contestant in the top ten seemed gay, and I think there was only one white among them. One of the male contestants actually sang in Spanish most of the time. (On “American” Idol!) And the males were all such weak singers, they got eliminated one after another until the final five were all female. The producers were bound and determined to have a female winner, preferably a nonwhite, and the judges’ comments and critiques reflected that. It was extremely obvious. They got what they wanted when Candice Glover won, but her sales have been weaker than any previous winner.
So to say that the show is “racist” is ridiculous. I used to enjoy American Idol, but I think I’m through with it now. It’s turned into “Gay, Immigrant and Nonwhite Idol.”
Great observations. I didn’t see much of last season, it just got too hard to watch. But from what I did see, it mattered not how terrible a performance a black contestant gave Randy would go on and on about how good it was and the other judges would chime in with much of the same. They put in as little effort into hiding their racial bias as I did in tolerating it. The wife and I had watched the show since season one but no more.
Correct. It was SO incredibly obvious AI wanted a girl to win the past season.
Not only weak males, but even a tranny got put through.
> Not only were three of the four judges black, but the show seems to have a real bias against white, heterosexual male contestants now.
This season they appeared to push more obviously gay contestants up to the front of the line on the show and I think it was intentional in keeping with the current adminstration’s of promoting the gay caliphate. I bet more than half of the finalists were gay this year. If you look at the huge number of conestants that tried out for AI that just doesn’t make any sense percentage wise unless there was a push to promote the gay lifestyle. It makes you wonder who’s pushing those levers - the show’s producers or external forces...