I think Jose's comments about the charts hits at the heart of what's so wrong about tonight's AI. Once again we have the uneducated imitating the imitators, not the originators, so were getting second, third, fifth generation bland pablum masquerading as Big Band that when compared to the original is really so far removed from it, it's but a wisp of a shadow of Big Band.
Woody, I agree this batch of singers on this year's American Idol, even the competent ones, are pretty much a real "who cares"? Nothing special! It either says something about the judges and producers' winnowing process or it says something about the bland state of today's pop singing...I expect both.