America Idol

Like many, I watced the first episode without Simon Cowell last night. It was pretty good.

While Cowell had become famous through American Idol, J-Lo and Steven Tyler have literally been idols to many of the contestants, and it showed.

J-Lo managed to become the nice one, but without being annoying like Paula Abdul, and resisted telling crap singers they are not crap.

Tyler seemed to join in half the acts, which was probably equally terrifying and awesome to the prospects. He makes some very off the wall comments.

They didn’t show as many “bad” auditions in the first episode. There were a few, but most of the show was on a few memorable auditions – memorable for the personalities more than the singing to a degree.

I suspect ratings for Season 10 will be as high as the other seasons. How did others find the first show of Season 10? Any favourite performers?