{"id":338597,"date":"2010-02-19T05:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T10:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93721"},"modified":"2010-02-19T05:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T10:42:35","slug":"simon-wants-lady-gaga-as-mentor-on-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-season-9-hopes-for-taylor-swift-esque-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338597","title":{"rendered":"Simon Wants Lady Gaga As Mentor On \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Season 9; Hopes For Taylor Swift-Esque Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Idol<\/em> just finished selecting the Top 24 &#8212; and Simon Cowell is already talking about what he&#8217;d like to see during his final season on the TV talent show.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think we should have Lady Gaga,\u201d<\/em> Cowell told reporters on a Thursday afternoon conference call. <em>\u201cShe is the most relevant pop artist in the world at the moment\u2026 and I\u2019ve met her and she\u2019s very smart. I like her.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Simon-Cowell-Talks-Final-Season-Of-American-Idol-500x434.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Simon Cowell Talks Final Season Of American Idol\" width=\"500\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-93722\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The judge also revealed that he thinks one of the 12 female semifinalists should surge to the top in his final season with the show<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a few years of guys winning the show and I would say there is definitely a better chance of a girl winning the show this year, certainly than last year. I would love to find a Taylor Swift. Somebody who\u2019s relevant rather than a contest winner.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Simon will leave Idol at the end of the current season to concentrate on creating an American version of his UK hit, <em>The X Factor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8VWk6LuGwianYOCxoe58OGyEOsU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8VWk6LuGwianYOCxoe58OGyEOsU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8VWk6LuGwianYOCxoe58OGyEOsU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8VWk6LuGwianYOCxoe58OGyEOsU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Idol just finished selecting the Top 24 &#8212; and Simon Cowell is already talking about what he&#8217;d like to see during his final season on the TV talent show. \u201cI think we should have Lady Gaga,\u201d Cowell told reporters on a Thursday afternoon conference call. \u201cShe is the most relevant pop artist in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}