Is it Time for American Idol All-Stars?
My hope would be to bring back the American Idol Winners and runner-ups. Since there have been 7 seasons that would be 14 contestants consisting of Season 1, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Season 2, Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Season 3, Fantasia Barrino, Diana DeGarmo, Season 4 Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Season 5, Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Season 6, Jordin Sparks, Blake Lewis and Season 7, David Cook and David Archuleta.
Now I know getting all these great, talented people back on the show is not likely to happen as they are very busy with their careers it would still be great to have them back on and it would be massive ratings as all fan bases would be tuning in to see their favorite and just to see all the great talent back on TV again. Also the all-stars CD would sell phenomenally well. Also another plus at least in my opinion is that the 3 Bama boys Ruben, Bo and Taylor would be on again and at the same time.
But even if all the winners and runner ups couldn't come back there could still be an American Idol All-Stars that would consist of great and popular talent just by getting back some of the above list and some of the other past top 12 of each season. I think American Idol would be smart to set something like this up. Other reality shows have done the All-Star route and found it was received extremely well by viewers. An American Idol All-Stars would bring in fans from each person and would make for an astounding amount of viewers and votes.
So what do you think? Would you like to see an American Idol All-Stars? Who would you like to see come back? Who do you think could still take the American Idol Crown? Please leave your thoughts and opinions maybe with any luck we can get American Idol to give us an All- Stars show that we will all love and enjoy.
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Post a CommentI believe this is the greatest idea. However the new season of idol starts tonight, not sure how many lambert wannabes will show up.Back to the idea of american idol all-stars, i think that they would be up for it because american idol gave the start to most of their careers, plus seeing everyone being at a high calibre of musical talent could make for very interesting arrangements of songs. I was thinking that a top 5 could include 3 winners and 2 runners up, Adam Lambert, David Cook, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, and Clay Aiken. What does everyone else think?
I agree there needs to be an all-star show, but why give the current idol all-stars more recognition, including non-winners. Your proposed idol all-star idea would be a more novel concept if it included former contestants who never made it big, basically notable alumni who never sold so much as a gold album and now walk around with d-list status. Perhaps include Constantine Maroulis, Nikki McGibbin, Jessica Sierra, Jasmine Trias, Scott Savol, George Huff,Frenchie Davis, Charles Grigsby, Kristy Lee Cook,RJ Helton,etc, basically, lower tier former idols. Make it like a second-chance type thing. Perhaps even include a few people like Marque Lynch, who never made the top 12, but were close.
I think this would be a great idea, and I think there are 2 ways you could go about producing an All-Stars season. As much of a ratings draw it would be to have Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Ruben, Fantasia, and other winners competing against each other, I think the chances of this actually happening are quite slim (remember World Idol? Even Simon Cowell hated it, saying there was no point making 10 winners losers), and do you think Clarkson really wants to risk losing a potential All-Star Winner title?
A more practical and probable casting solution would be to include the most popular NON-winners competing for the title they never got, despite popularity and success outside of the show: Winner of American Idol. The lineup? The top selling (non winning) alumni: Chris Daughtry, Clay Aiken, Kellie Pickler, Josh Gracin, Bo Bice, Elliott Yamin, Katharine McPhee, Bucky Covington, Blake Lewis, Kimberley Locke, season 7 runner-up David Archuleta, and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson.
Maybe for a charity show? Doubt most would agree. The runner-ups may agree, but good luck getting Kelly to do it, lol.
Great work thanks for sharing~!
I have no idea who would win because I don't keep up with such things, but I do like your article.