Frankly, again another American Icon bites the dust. American Idol was supposed to be an amateur contest. Now you have contestants that are "back up singers" with a vocal coach and a fashion coach rather than a Mom and Dad and Karaoke machine. The girls with the Karaoke machines are getting so dissed by the judges that you can almost feel the commercialism, the dollar signs swimming in their heads. I'll even bet that Melinda, who is an awesome singer, probably rode to the first audition in a limo. I'm not interested in watching professionals compete against teenagers. You have to wonder why they even let Haley and Antonella in the top 24 if they were so bad. Certainly, there must have been some other professionals among the thousands that were real singers. I smell something here. I really wish they would do away with these obnoxious judges and really let America decide.