Idol Producer: No Major Changes For Brand New Season

First Released: November 24, 2011 3:27 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Nigel Lythgoe chats with Access in a BritWeek event in La on April 26, 2011NY, N.Y. -- The American Idol Show executive producer Nigel Lythgoe states dont expect any major changes once the hit Fox Television show returns in The month of january after going through a comprehensive transformation last season. Lythgoe, who assisted transform Britains Pop Idol in to the American TV juggernaut in2002, came back as executive producer last season to usher within the publish-Simon Cowell era. That ended a 2-year hiatus that permitted him to pay attention to Which Means You Think You Are Able To Dance, that they produces helping judge. For that tenth The American Idol Show season, Lythgoe introduced new idol judges, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, to become listed on holdover Randy Jackson. Veteran music producer Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M, was introduced in being an in-house mentor for that participants. All are back for Season 11, Lythgoe stated. I believe we made lots of tweaks this past year, Lythgoe stated. I am not certain you want to make a lot of more tweaks this season. Lythgoe stated the most important change introduced this past year had nothing related to the idol judges: It had been a choice to prevent individuals seafood-out-of-water moments that forced very gifted performers to sing in styles that didnt suit them. The greatest change we made this past year ended up being to say, OK, if you are a rustic singer you are able to sing these genres inside your country style, Lythgoe stated. Weren't likely to pressure you to definitely do rock or whatever you no longer can do. You are able to have a Michael Jackson song and transform it country. That led to performers for example Casey Abrams and Haley Reinhart evolving much much deeper in to the competition compared to what they may have in the past years. The 2 teenage runners up, Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina, were country performers. McCreery, the very first pure country Idol champion since Barbara Underwood in 2005, saw his October release, Obvious As Day, lead him to the very first country act to debut at No. 1 using its first studio album around the Billboard 200 chart. And also at 18, he grew to become the youngest guy to spread out towards the top of the chart together with his debut release. Younger crowd was the very first Idol champion to begin his publish-Idol career having a No. 1 album since Ruben Studdard in 2003. Lythgoe stated this past year the show found some incredible talent, also it am diverse. We've got this excellent jazz singer in Casey, we've got a soft jazz singer in Haley, and also the two country kids (within the finals) most likely in the past years wouldnt happen to be as effective simply because they could have been requested to sing within the variations that people i did so then, he stated a week ago. Lythgoe needs similar leads to Season 11. The children which have auditioned this season that would be taking to Hollywood in December are again really gifted and extremely diverse, he stated. Hopefully theyll cope with among the most difficult auditions, the Hollywood week, and obtain themselves in to the top 20. Lythgoe stated he thinks Idol ought to be totally concerning the talent and also the recent changes promote that. For me personally, he stated, its really showing the talent that's here and never attempting to take somebody whos gifted, beat them round the bucket and turn them out. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.