# Is it just me or has American Idol lost its mass appeal?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-american-idol-lost-its-mass-appeal/490590 "2009-03-24T15:25:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-american-idol-lost-its-mass-appeal/490590/21 "2009-03-25T19:28:36Z")

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Personally, I am starting to lose interest.  
I think I am fed up with the sob stories, and those “theme” weeks where everyone has to sing Country or Motown or whatever - pretty lame. Even worse is some over-the-hill singer coming on and giving their two cents.

Perhaps is it all just becoming too - too predictable?  
There used to be excitement and you heard a few really great singers mixed in with some real crap. Now they all sort of sound equally good/bad and, at least to me, this year there is nobody who really stands out. In other words, don’t really care who wins, or loses for that matter.

I still watch it if nothing else is on, but often am doing something in the kitchen or cleaning the house or whatever…more like background music. Maybe that is the problem - American Idol has turned into background music.

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