#669 - American Idol S08

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Well, starting about one month ago, the newest season of American Idol has started. This week, we are left with the top 36 contestants (wow, new system. About this new system will be written on the next paragraph), 18 male and 18 female contestants. Well, just based on some episodes throughout the audition and Hollywood Weeks, I think probably this year the winner will be another male contestant. It's simply because I think there are more male singers who are better while there are only fewer female contestants who are great, hmmm... . But we will see, we can't never judge before they actually perform, haha

Anyway, about the system change this year, it's back to the old system where contestants are split into several groups, and the top vote-getters of each groups automatically enter the top 12. There are also three wildcard seats this year. All contestants are split into three groups of twelve. Each week, the male top vote-getter, female top vote-getter, and the next top vote-getter contestant regardless their gender of each groups will secure seats on the top 12. On the fourth week, the judges will pick three more contestants as wildcard to also be on the top 12.

Hmm, me persoally prefer the system they used throughout season 4 to season 7 where there were top 24 contestants (12 male and 12 female) and each week we eliminated 4 of them (all contestants performed every week). I dunno why but this way, I think it's kinda more fair for the contestants, hmmm... . Maybe they are back to the old system to save more budget??

Next week is gonnabe the first group week.

BAHASA INDONESIA

Hmm, mulai sekitar sebulan lalu, season baru dari American Idol udah mulai neh. Minggu ini, akhirnya didapatkan 36 besar kontestan (wah, sistem yang baru neh. Tentang sistem baru ni akan dibahas di paragraf selanjutnya), 18 laki2 dan 18 perempuan. Hmm, berdasar beberapa episodes selama minggu audisi dan minggu Hollywood, rasanya pemenang tahun ini akan laki2 lagi deh. Ya gampang aja, karena rasanya sih lebih banyak kontestan laki2 yang bagus daripada yang perempuan, hmmm... . Tapi nanti deh dilihat, kan gabisa men-judge sebelum mereka beneran tampil, haha

Ngomong2, tentang perubahan sistem tahun ini, sebenarnya ini balik lagi ke sistem lama dimana kontestan dibagi ke dalam beberapa grup, dan yang mendapat voting tertinggi dari tiap grup masuk ke 12 besar. Tahun ini juga ada tiga kursi wildcard. Semua kontestan dibagi ke dalam tiga grup, duabelas kontestan masing2. Setiap minggu, laki2 dengan voting tertinggi, perempuan dengan voting tertinggi, dan kontestan dengan suara tertinggi setelahnya (ga peduli laki2 atau perempuan), akan masuk ke top 12. Di minggu keempat, juri akan memilih tiga kontestan lagi untuk memenuhi sisa kursi di top 12.

Hmm, kalau aku pribadi koq malah lebih suka sama sistem yang dipake di season 4 sampe 7 ya dimana ada 24 besar (12 laki2 dan 12 perempuan) dan setiap minggu dieliminasi 4 orang (semua kontestan tampil tiap minggu). Gatau kenapa tapi kalo pake cara ini, rasanya lebih adil aja untuk kontestannya, hmmm... . Mungkin satu alasan kenapa koq sistemnya balik jadi yang lama lagi adalah untuk penghematan biaya??

Minggu depan adalah minggu grup pertama ne.