iOS app Android app More  Ken Levine   American Idol: Is This
the End of Jennifer?  Posted: 02/24/11 09:57 AM ET  How hard is
it to be a writer for American Idol? Just lift the narration
from The Sorrow and the Pity, begin every sentence with "Coming
up..." and change "death camp" to "singing competition". But the
rest is all there -- the ultimate challenges, the heartbreak,
the tears, the uncertainty. C'mon, Idol writers, they're just
singing friggin' Beatles medleys!  This brings me back to my
biggest Idol complaint. Stop trying to artificially manufacture
suspense and drama when the real money of the show is watching
the PERFORMANCES. This year in particular. Every season they
boast that "this is the most talented group of kids we've ever
had", but this season they might actually be right.  Despite the
horrifying fact that some of the kids had never even heard of
the Beatles, the snippets we saw of them performing Beatles
songs were terrific. Why not hear more? Why not see all the
groups (the kids were spl