Just wanted to bump this thread to talk about last night's show, since I remembered some talking about similar things on the thread.
Did anyone see last night's show? And what happened with 13 year old dancer Arcadian Broad? He did a dance to some High School Musical song and the Piers was not especially thrilled. After the judges spoke, Arcadian asked if he could say something and say that "it was not his choice to do High School Musical but the producers -" and then the judges cut him off very quickly. As they were going to commercial after his act Nick Cannon said something like, "Give it up for Arcadian Broad. The contestants do have the final choice over their act. We'll be right back."
The fact that producers pressure the acts to do something specific does not surprise me at all. How they handled that did. Having Nick say something (he wears something in his ear at all times) was so petty and ridiculous and had I watched the show not on DVR it would have made me immediately vote for Arcadian. It's not about his dancing, it's about how the producers of this show act. I am completely appalled.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife