Earlier this season on American Idol, they announced that the next theme was “Teen Idols”…. but when the show finally aired, it was “Billboard Number 1s”. Finally, the truth comes out, thanks to Siobhan Magnus:
Siobhan also revealed what happened with the ill-fated “teen Idols” episode. It turned out the list of optional songs were so poor, she said, that too many Idols were picking too similar songs by the same artists. “There was too many duplications of everything,” Siobhan explained. “Two people wanted Jackson 5, two wanted Michael Jackson, two wanted to do the Monkees,” and executive producer Ken Warwick “got really mad. He was, like, ‘Never have I had so many people want the same thing!’ So after we’d been rehearsing all day, everything got halted everything, and we had to wait for a few hours while they made a new list of songs. It had never been done before, but the theme was changed to Billboard No. 1 hits.” As for what Siobhan had picked out? Surprisingly, it wasn’t her favorite band, Hanson, but rather Lulu’s 1967 classic “To Sir With Love.”
That makes me laugh for some reason.
