Originally Posted by TheLegacy

Interviewing and actually making it your life's work I feel are two different things. If it's a musical talent search then why do we need someone to talk about the fans perspective when clearly the voting structure is in place to give that result. I still feel that you do need technical and music industry people judging the contest since they are the one's who know what works and doesn't or if the person has the right character and stage presence.

Being a judge isn't as much about giving a different perspective as much as judging the merits as to whether the person IS an actual future player in the music industry and even they get it wrong sometimes - remember the Beatles were turned away when they first auditioned for a record company.