Quote Originally Posted by Maxx Power
The one thing that annoyed me most on Idol were her "diplomatic answers", in that she very rarely said anything directly constructive about the act. If they were bad, she'd usually counter with something like "but you're great, you're a great person", when really you just wanted her to quit with the whole middle-ground nonsense and just give criticism.
Thank you! I'm glad to find one person who feels the same way about her responses. They always go on about how safe a performance is, but if appealing to the audience for some cheap, rabid cheers for some two-bit, off-key singer (even when the performance sucked) isn't the very defintion of safeness, I don't know what smurfing is!