So I've been doing a bit of reading online, and this morning on Ryan Seacrest's morning show here in L.A. he had one of the Idol producers on, and there was talk about the twist to be revealed tonight.
The producer says that the change was made to solve a "problem that has been occuring ever since season one". He also said that they tried this new rule out on a foreign version of Idol and it worked, so now they are bringing it to American Idol.
Some research shows that on the French version of Idol, they started a rule that the judges have "veto power". One time (and one time only) during the season, if the judges unanimously agree, they can veto America's voting and keep an eliminated contestant on the show. This would solve shocking boots from year's past like Tamyra Gray, Jennifer Hudson and Chris Daughtry. Supposedly if they keep the contestant around, then the next week the group would start with the same number of contestants, and then the next week would be a double elimination.
I do have to say after reading this that I am MUCH happier with this option than the "sing for survival" option that everyone was speculating across the Internet. It gives the judges some power, but not too much power.
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I thought it was hilarious that Ryan asked the judges if they were going to use it last week. I mean, no matter how good the two contestants were, they weren't going to use it the first week... they just weren't!!!
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