Why doesn American Idol promote more contemporary music?
They choose music from the past decades and such to show the range of the singer’s voices instead of hearing the same thing stuff that is currently out on the air waves. They also do it to see if the singer can make it more their own song and modernize it a bit, versus just doing a cheap karaoke version of the older song. I think it is good in a way to pick songs that not many people have heard of because the contestant won’t be constantly compared to the original singer like they always do when someone picks a Whitney or Mariah song.. If they singer is good, then viewers won’t worry about never hearing the song before and just focus on how well the singer/contestant sounded. Oh and the guy who writes the musicals is Andrew Lloyd Webber..a musical genius.
